William Stanly Bernard

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1. 1900 William Stanly Bernard is appointed University librarian On graduating from the University in 1900, William Stanly Bernard was appointed University librarian. The next year he became an instructor in Greek under Eben Alexander. People: Eben AlexanderSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 13, 1938, p. 6
2. May 29, 1911 Alumni set up a General Assembly and plan an alumni monthly On May 29, 1911, the alumni adopted a plan for a General Assembly of delegates from local associations, a Council of fifteen, and a magazine to be called the University of North Carolina Alumni Monthly. W. H. Swift went out as field manager to organize local groups. People: Robert Bingham, William Stanly Bernard, James Yadkin JoynerSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 726
3. 1916 Professor W. S. Bernard rents the old Sam Phillips law office from the Kluttz family Professor William Stanley "Bully" Bernard rented the old Sam Phillips law office on East Franklin Street from the Kluttzes, remodeled the inside and made it his home. People: William Stanly BernardSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr.: Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 209
4. June 10, 1924 The Gimghouls vote to build a lodge at Dromgoole Rock Meeting at luncheon, members and alumni of the Order of Gimghouls agreed unanimously to build a lodge on the crest at Dromgoole Rock near Piney Prospect, paid for with money from their lot sales, and named T. F. Hickerson, A. H. Patterson and W. S. Bernard to carry it through. The Weekly put the likely cost at $35,000 to $45,000 and described plans for a stone and shingle building with a round ballroom, with at least 25 acres kept as the order's park. People: Thomas Felix Hickerson, Andrew Henry Patterson, William Stanly BernardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1924, p. 1
5. October 31, 1927 Chapel Hill women organize an art study club An art study club, with Mary Graves Rees as chairman, began its season on October 31 with W. S. Bernard's illustrated lecture on the Greek influence in modern art, which filled the Episcopal parish house. The club followed an outline of art history prepared for the state Federation of Women's Clubs, was proposed as a new department of the Community Club, and worked with the University's fine arts committee to bring an exhibition of paintings to Chapel Hill; sixty attended its meeting of November 28. People: William Stanly BernardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 4, 1927, p. 1
6. night of September 3, 1928 Fire damages the old Presbyterian manse in Chapel Hill A fire of unknown origin that began on the back porch drove Professor and Mrs. W. S. Bernard out of an upstairs window and down a firemen's ladder in the middle of the night. The volunteer fire company saved the house, but the rear extension and roof were damaged, a loss estimated at about $2,500. People: William Stanly BernardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 7, 1928, p. 1
7. May 19 to 21, 1930 Sculptor Lorado Taft lectures on art in Chapel Hill The Chicago sculptor Lorado Taft gave three illustrated lectures in the Methodist church, on classic, Renaissance and modern art. W. S. Bernard of the classics department introduced him and spoke of the art collection the University was building. People: William Stanly BernardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 23, 1930, p. 8
8. May 7, 1938 William S. Bernard, professor of Greek, dies in Chapel Hill William Stanley Bernard, professor of Greek, died of a heart attack at 70. He had been University librarian in 1900, taught Greek from 1901 and held the chair of Greek from 1920, and he was buried in the Chapel Hill cemetery after a funeral at the Episcopal church. People: William Stanly BernardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 13, 1938, p. 6