Gustave M. Braune

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1. 1922 Gustave M. Braune becomes dean of the University's new School of Engineering Gustave M. Braune, who had come from the University of Cincinnati in 1921, was appointed dean in 1922 and organized the University's School of Engineering, adding a co-operative plan under which students spent part of their time working for companies.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 28, 1930, p. 5
2. May 8, 1923 Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor W. S. Roberson over Carl Wiegand In the biennial town election Chapel Hill re-elected W. S. Roberson mayor over Carl Wiegand, a young lawyer, by 314 votes to 76, in what the Weekly called the heaviest vote ever cast in the town. D. D. Carroll, G. M. Braune, J. M. Cheek, R. P. Andrews and H. A. Whitfield were elected aldermen, and most of the roughly 100 students who registered were ruled not to be bona fide residents. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Henry A. Whitfield, Gustave M. BrauneSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1923, p. 1
3. May 5, 1925 Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Roberson and chooses its first six-member board under a new charter Under a charter amendment passed by the 1925 legislature, Chapel Hill elected six aldermen instead of five, three for four years and three for two, on a printed official ballot. Only 76 voters came to the polls at the school on May 5, 1925; they re-elected W. S. Roberson mayor and chose Carl Durham, M. E. Hogan and Gustave M. Braune for four-year terms and R. D. W. Connor, C. L. Wills and B. S. Williams for two. People: W. S. Roberson, R. D. W. Connor, Gustave M. Braune, Milton E. Hogan, Carl T. DurhamSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 7, 1925, p. 1
4. April 12, 1926 Chapel Hill's aldermen approve a grass median for West Franklin Street and new sidewalks The aldermen approved a street program that put a 14-foot grass strip down the middle of West Franklin Street between two 20-foot roadways with curbs and gutters, paved sidewalks on the Franklin Street business block and on Columbia Street to the Carolina Inn, and curbs and gutters on three blocks of Rosemary Street. Each piece depended on petitions from the property owners, who paid two thirds of the cost; the state agreed to oil West Franklin as part of the Hillsborough highway. People: Gustave M. Braune, Milton E. HoganSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1926, p. 1
5. May 17, 1928 Chapel Hill aldermen pass the town's first zoning ordinance on first reading The board took up a zoning ordinance and zone map drafted over almost a year by its zoning commission, aldermen M. E. Hogan, G. M. Braune and P. L. Burch, and passed it on first reading. It was to be published for fifteen days before a public hearing; the board adopted it in June. People: Milton E. Hogan, Peter L. Burch, Edward M. KnoxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 18, 1928, p. 1
6. June 21, 1928 Aldermen choose John Foushee to succeed E. M. Knox as town manager After E. M. Knox, Chapel Hill's town manager since 1922, resigned to become city manager of High Point, the aldermen on June 21, 1928, approved their committee's choice of John Foushee, his engineering assistant for two years and a University engineering graduate. The Weekly credited Knox with paved streets, sewer extensions, a disposal plant, a health department and better fire protection, all without a higher tax rate. People: Brodie Thompson, Gustave M. Braune, Zeb P. Council, John M. Foushee, Edward M. KnoxSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 22, 1928, p. 1
7. June 26-29, 1928 The Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education meets in Chapel Hill More than 300 engineering educators from across the country met in Chapel Hill June 26-29, 1928, for the 36th annual meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, hosted by the University's engineering school. The Weekly called it perhaps the largest convention ever held in the village; guests overflowed the Carolina Inn into private homes, the Kenan Stadium field house and Durham. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Gustave M. Braune, Peter L. BurchSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 29, 1928, p. 1
8. September 26, 1928 Chapel Hill citizens agree to underwrite the teachers' back pay Meeting with the school board, a group of citizens resolved to have the bank lend about $7,500 on notes they would endorse, each endorser liable for no more than $100, so the teachers could be paid at once. The loan was to be repaid from a $16,500 school bond issue, which needed a special act of the legislature and a vote, and the University's business office was to keep the school's accounts. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Harry Woodburn Chase, N. W. Walker, L. B. Rogerson, Gustave M. BrauneSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 28, 1928, p. 1
9. January 28, 1929 Portrait of Major William Cain is presented to the University's school of engineering On January 28, 1929, before a crowd that filled the auditorium of Phillips Hall, William Steen's portrait of Major William Cain, who had taught engineering at the University since 1889, was unveiled and accepted for the school of engineering by T. F. Hickerson. People: Thomas Felix Hickerson, Gustave M. BrauneSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 1, 1929, p. 1
10. May 7, 1929 Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor Zeb Council and three aldermen With no opposing candidates, about 100 voters re-elected Zeb P. Council as mayor and G. M. Braune, Clyde Eubanks and M. E. Hogan as aldermen. Many citizens who had registered only for the 1928 general election were turned away because the town kept a separate list; the officers were sworn in May 13. People: Clyde Eubanks, Gustave M. Braune, Milton E. Hogan, Zeb P. CouncilSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1929, p. 1
11. 1930–1936 Herman G. Baity serves as dean of UNC's School of Engineering Baity, head of sanitary engineering since 1928, became acting dean of the School of Engineering after Dean Gustave M. Braune died in November 1930, and the trustees elected him dean on June 9, 1931. He held the deanship until 1936, when the sanitary engineering department moved to the School of Public Health, and chaired it there until 1955. People: Gustave M. BrauneSearch the index · NCpedia: Baity, Herman Glenn · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 13, 1931, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 12, 1931, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 28, 1930, p. 5
12. October 8, 1930 Aldermen make Franklin Street a through street with Stop signs and speed limits On a committee report by G. M. Braune and P. L. Burch, the Chapel Hill aldermen designated Franklin Street a through street, ordered Stop signs at the cross streets, and set a 20-mile limit in the business block and 30 miles elsewhere on the street. The plan copied one used in Greensboro. People: Gustave M. Braune, Peter L. BurchSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 17, 1930, p. 1