G. Paul Carr

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1951-1969 The county board elects G. Paul Carr superintendent of the Orange County schools Gabriel Paul Carr, principal of Angier High School, became the county's tenth school superintendent in 1951, succeeding Glenn T. Proffit, who left for the Harnett County superintendency. Carr served eighteen years, through the consolidation of schools and the desegregation of the system, and resigned effective June 30, 1969. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 131
2. 1952 The county builds the classroom building and cafeteria later used by A. L. Stanback School A classroom building and a cafeteria on the Hillsborough campus that became A. L. Stanback School, the grades 6-7 school by 1983, date from 1952 under Superintendent G. Paul Carr. People: G. Paul CarrDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 168
3. 1959 Cameron Park School in Hillsborough gets its first addition Three years after it opened, the county enlarged Cameron Park School with a second section of building, raised under Superintendent G. Paul Carr to plans by the architect Archie Royal Davis. People: Archie Royal Davis, G. Paul CarrSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 165
4. 1968 Stanford Junior High School is built near Hillsborough with two classroom buildings and a gymnasium Under Superintendent G. Paul Carr the county finished Stanford Junior High, a main classroom building for about 800 pupils, a second for about 225 and a gymnasium, on the 100-acre tract it shares with Orange High. People: G. Paul CarrDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 169
5. 1969-1977 George F. Williams becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools After G. Paul Carr resigned, the board called George F. Williams, superintendent of the Brunswick County schools, to lead the Orange County system in 1969. He served eight years as the county's eleventh superintendent. People: George F. Williams, G. Paul CarrSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 144
6. 1969-70 Orange County Schools regroup pupils by grade across the Hillsborough schools to complete integration For 1969-70 the county put all its pupils outside the Efland area into Hillsborough schools, each serving set grades: kindergarten at Central Elementary, grades 1-2 at Cameron Park, 3-4 at Central, 5-6 at the old Orange Junior High, 7-9 at a new Orange Junior High and 10-12 at Orange High. Efland-Cheeks took kindergarten through third grade and Efland Elementary grades 4-6, and Aycock, Cedar Grove and West Hillsborough dropped out as separate schools. People: G. Paul CarrDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 139
7. 1969 Superintendent Carr's final report recommends studying a merger of the county and Chapel Hill school units In his closing report to the State Superintendent in 1969, G. Paul Carr asked the board to have outside educators study combining the county and Chapel Hill units. He also urged a supplementary school tax, written board policies, kindergartens for all children, a return to six-grade elementary schools and special education at the high school. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 142