Grady A. Brown

Life and Orange County connections

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1. by September 4, 1925 Hillsboro high school grades an athletic field and equips new science laboratories During the summer vacation the grounds of the Hillsboro high school were graded for an athletic field, so the school no longer had to use West End Park for football and baseball, and laboratories for physics, biology and general science were equipped. The schools opened September 8 with about a thousand pupils and 22 white teachers, against eight three years before. People: Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 4, 1925, p. 1
2. by November 4, 1927 Hillsboro and Efland school heads start a county school newspaper A four-page county school newspaper issued its first number in the week before November 4, under the direction of G. A. Brown, superintendent of the Hillsboro school, and E. B. Goodwin, principal of the Efland school. A second issue was promised within two or three weeks. People: Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 4, 1927, p. 4
3. March 9, 1928 The Orange County Civic Association looks into the cost of school buses Meeting at the Hillsboro court house, the civic association heard that hauling children to consolidated schools cost $2.40 a month a pupil in 1926-27 and that the county had paid $37,828 for buses since 1922. Members split between cutting bus service and improving roads that wrecked the buses. People: R. H. Claytor, Eugene Cunningham Branson, Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 16, 1928, p. 1
4. March 26, 1944 Hillsborough's new Civil Air Patrol squadron makes its first public parade Members and cadets of the Civil Air Patrol unit organized in Hillsborough that month marched through the town's main streets on Sunday, March 26, 1944, and out to Latta's Pond for supper, their first public appearance. The paper said Hillsborough might be the first town of its size in North Carolina to have a full squadron; Farris Jaber commanded it, and by April it was holding classes in first aid and navigation. People: Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 6, 1944, p. 3
5. August 11, 1944 Hillsborough's community cannery opens at the school for Black and white canners After a four-day trial run, the community cannery at the Hillsborough school opened officially on Friday, August 11, 1944, with E. P. Barnes as supervisor in place of agriculture teacher E. R. Dowdy, who had joined the Navy. The federal government supplied the equipment and the county the building, and the cannery was open to Black and white canners on Wednesdays and Fridays during the vegetable season, with meat canning by appointment in the fall. People: Grady A. Brown, Elmer R. DowdySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 17, 1944, p. 1
6. April 10, 1945 Hillsboro parents air complaints about the town's schools at a mass meeting After the regular PTA meeting, a citizens' mass meeting in Hillsboro aired complaints about the town's schools, from failing students to pupils idling on the streets in school hours. Principal G. A. Brown answered at length, blaming wartime losses of six men teachers and frequent janitor changes and saying only one of the last 25 graduates to go to college had failed; a motion to add two members to the school committee was withdrawn because the meeting was unofficial. People: Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 12, 1945, p. 1
7. May 12, 1947 The county school board stands by Glenn T. Proffit after a petition for R. H. Claytor Meeting until midnight at Proffit's request, the Orange County board of education reaffirmed its May 5 choice of Glenn T. Proffit as superintendent, with R. H. Claytor kept as adviser, after a teachers' petition to reinstate Claytor had circulated and 'Down with Proffit' posters had gone up on Hillsboro streets. Claytor asked the teachers not to present the petition, and the board published its own account disputing his statement about his 1946 resignation. People: R. H. Claytor, Grady A. Brown, James S. ComptonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 15, 1947, p. 1
8. by December 15, 1949 Hillsboro High School begins a driver training course with a dual-control car Hillsboro High School began teaching driver training under principal G. A. Brown and coach Glenn Auman, who had taken an instructors' course at Chapel Hill that summer. Eno Chevrolet Company lent a new dual-control 1949 Chevrolet, the county paid the insurance and running costs, and fifteen students enrolled. People: Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 15, 1949, p. 1
9. December 4, 1950 County commissioners clear the way to buy the Roulhac property for a new Hillsboro elementary school On the unanimous advice of the county school board and the Hillsboro school committees, the commissioners authorized the board of education to negotiate for the Roulhac property in Hillsboro, once the home place of Judge Thomas Ruffin, as the site of a new elementary school, using condemnation if no reasonable price could be had. The plan was to move the lower grades there and keep the high school and junior high in the old building, adding toilet towers to free basement space for classrooms. People: Glenn T. Proffit, Bonner D. Sawyer, Grady A. BrownThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 7, 1950, p. 1
10. December 18, 1950 County commissioners and the welfare board meet on the rising cost of welfare Meeting jointly, the county commissioners and the board of public welfare looked for ways to slow the growth of welfare costs, chiefly the lengthening old age assistance rolls and the support of children born out of wedlock or abandoned. They agreed to ask the county's legislators for laws making all able children help support aged parents, requiring sworn statements of the children's means, allowing liens to stop transfers of property, and strengthening support and abandonment laws. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Grady A. Brown, Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 21, 1950, p. 1
11. August 30, 1953 Hillsboro parents organize a Parent Traffic Safety Club after teenage traffic deaths About 100 people became charter members at a mass meeting in the Hillsboro school auditorium, called after a series of fatal accidents involving teenagers in the area, and elected G. Paul Carr president. The club adopted a card system for reporting dangerous driving and parent-child safety pledges, and endorsed Principal G. A. Brown's request that parents forbid students to drive to school. People: G. Paul Carr, John P. Ballard, Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 3, 1953, p. 1
12. March 1, 1954 A Hillsboro delegation asks the county boards for $65,000 in bonds to start Cameron Park School L. E. Beard, Sidney Green, Mrs. Beth Roberts and Principal G. A. Brown went before the county Board of Education and then the county commissioners to press for $65,000 in bonds so work could begin on the Cameron Park School, citing an urgent need for more classrooms in Hillsboro. People: Grady A. BrownSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough): Cameron Park School delegation, March 4, 1954, p. 1