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G. Paul Carr

Gabriel Paul Carr (born 1907), a Duplin County native and UNC graduate, was superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1951 to 1969. He led the system through school consolidation and the integration of its pupils, which brought all county children outside the Efland area into the Hillsborough schools.

Source: DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), pp. 131-132

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  1. 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 Carr, Glenn T. ProffitSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 131
  2. 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. The county school superintendent's office moves into the old courthouse Superintendent G. P. Carr and his staff finished moving into the first floor of the 1845 courthouse, which had been renovated after the other county offices left for the new building in October. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, December 23, 1954, p. 1
  4. Work begins on the Cameron Park Elementary School in Hillsborough Excavation for the new Cameron Park Elementary School began after school officials signed about $235,000 in contracts, with Charles C. Haynes Construction Company as general contractor and Archie R. Davis as architect. The plan called for fourteen classrooms and a lunchroom in a building 350 feet long, set 100 feet back from St. Mary's Road. The school board had already trimmed the specifications and asked for $65,000 in state school building money for the job. People: Archie Royal Davis, G. Paul CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 20, 1955, p. 1
  5. Hillsboro High holds its first Career Day About 135 juniors and seniors of Hillsboro High spent the day at the First Baptist Church hearing local speakers on careers they had chosen, after an opening address by Roy Armstrong on planning for careers. The program was put on by the high school service committee of the Hillsboro PTA, and the students asked that it be held every year. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 17, 1955, p. 8
  6. The county school board puts off naming school committees while the legislature acts on segregation Reorganizing for a new two-year term, the Orange County Board of Education re-elected Charles W. Stanford chairman and G. Paul Carr superintendent. At the suggestion of State Superintendent Charles F. Carroll it delayed reappointing the committeemen for the county's schools because of segregation bills pending in the General Assembly. The board also took up a $2,123.99 bill for rock excavation at the new Cameron Park School then going up in Hillsboro. People: G. Paul CarrThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 7, 1955, p. 1
  7. Rep. Umstead introduces a bill to let the Chapel Hill school district vote its own school building bonds Rep. John W. Umstead introduced an enabling act under which the county commissioners would call a bond election for school buildings in the Chapel Hill school district whenever 15 per cent of the district's voters petitioned for one. He said a new census showed the district's schools would need more room if no money came from a state or countywide bond issue. County officials said they had not been consulted, and observers read it as a way for Chapel Hill to act if the rest of the county would not vote bonds. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 12, 1955, p. 1
  8. The county school board adopts the state's school bus rules as its own After the 1955 General Assembly handed control of school bus transportation to the counties, the Orange County Board of Education resolved to keep the laws, rules and interpretations the state had applied in 1954-55 and to ask the state's transportation division to settle disputes. Superintendent G. Paul Carr said the county would run its buses as before and that he had nothing in mind about integration when the resolution was drawn. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1955, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill schools agree to take about 425 county pupils for 1955-56 without tuition After a three-hour joint meeting of the county and Chapel Hill school boards on August 17 failed to settle who should pay for some 425 Carrboro and White Cross children attending Chapel Hill schools outside the special tax district, the Chapel Hill board agreed to take them for the coming year without tuition. The county board called a meeting of the two districts' committeemen to seek a vote of the people. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 25, 1955, p. 1
  10. Ground is broken for a new classroom at West Hillsboro School The superintendent reported that ground had been broken for a classroom at West Hillsboro School, and that the Cameron Park school under construction would be ready after the Christmas holidays. People: G. Paul CarrSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1955, p. 1
  11. Orange County schools open on a segregated basis without incident The county schools opened with crowded rolls and record numbers of visiting parents, and every pupil attended the school to which he or she had been assigned, with no incident over segregation. The board had already ruled that the county schools would run on a segregated basis for 1955-56. People: G. Paul CarrThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1955, p. 1
  12. 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
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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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

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