Dudley Dewitt Carroll

Life and Orange County connections

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1. January 1917 The faculty approves summer banking jobs for credit with National City Bank The faculty approved a plan Graham arranged with New York's National City Bank to hire rising juniors for summer jobs that taught banking, with university credit for the work. Graham meant it as a first step toward a school of commerce and began recruiting Dudley DeWitt Carroll at about the same time. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Dudley Dewitt CarrollSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 164
2. November 21, 1918 The Chapel Hill Red Cross elects A. H. Patterson chairman at its annual meeting At its annual meeting on Thursday, November 21, 1918, the chapter elected Dr. A. H. Patterson chairman, with Alice Noble vice-chairman, Nellie Roberson secretary and Dudley Carroll treasurer. Earlier that fall George Howe had resigned for his duties on the University's Student Army Training Corps committee, and J. M. Bell had taken his place. People: George Howe, Alice Noble, Dudley Dewitt Carroll, James Munsie BellSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 19
3. 1919–1950 Dudley D. Carroll leads UNC's School of Commerce Carroll came to UNC as professor of economics in 1918 and became dean of the School of Commerce, which he helped plan, holding the post for thirty-one years.Search the index · NCpedia: Carroll, Dudley Dewitt
4. 1924 Commerce dean Dudley D. Carroll and Eleanor Carroll build a house on Ridge Lane in Gimghoul Dudley DeWitt Carroll, dean of UNC's commerce school, and his wife Eleanor Elliott Carroll had a Chatham County contractor named Barber build a two-story Colonial Revival house with a garage on Ridge Lane, among the first houses in the new Gimghoul subdivision.Search the index · National Register: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District nomination (OR0709, 1993), section 7
5. March 1928 Chase's memorandum warns faculty against advocacy that embarrasses the university Under attack from textile editor David Clark, Chase sent Howard Odum, Dudley D. Carroll and Frank Graham a discussion memo on proper activities for social scientists. Faculty whose causes involved colleagues in general embarrassment should leave, he wrote; in North Carolina such causes included certain taxes, labor organizing, racial equality and socialism. People: Howard W. Odum, Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Frank Porter GrahamSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 381-383
6. about 1937 Dudley Carroll builds a red brick house on Country Club Road A red brick Colonial Revival house with an asymmetrical front and a fanlighted entry went up for Dudley Carroll in Rocky Ridge Farm's second building period.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District, National Register nomination (OR0303), p. 8
7. 1937–1950 Dudley D. Carroll chairs the Orange County Building and Loan Association Carroll was a director of the Orange County Building and Loan Association from 1920 to 1950 and chaired its board from 1937. He also chaired the county draft board and the county ABC board.Search the index · NCpedia: Carroll, Dudley Dewitt
8. May 21, 1944 Quakers organize the Chapel Hill Monthly Meeting of Friends The Chapel Hill Monthly Meeting was organized, the first Friends meeting in Orange County since the old Eno Meeting was laid down about a century earlier. It had no building and had bought a lot on Highway 54. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Richard Junius Mendenhall HobbsSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 292
9. about 1946 Commerce dean Dudley D. Carroll builds a small brick house on Laurel Hill Road for an in-law The one-story side-gabled house has a traditional form with a large transom and sidelights at the door. English professor Blyden Jackson later owned it. People: Blyden JacksonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomination (OR1748), p. 17
10. 1953 Carroll Hall is built and named for Dudley D. Carroll The university completed the main building of its business school in 1953 and named it Carroll Hall for the School of Commerce's first dean. It became home to the journalism school in 1999.Search the index · The Carolina Story: Dudley DeWitt Carroll (1885-1971) and Carroll Hall
11. 1960 The Chapel Hill Friends Meeting opens its meetinghouse Mildred Ringwalt, who joined the Chapel Hill Friends in 1959, was influential in building the Quaker meetinghouse that opened in 1960 and later raised money to enlarge it. A Carolina Friends School tribute says she sold most of her Oriental art to finance the building and anonymously gave the money to finish it. People: Dudley Dewitt CarrollSearch the index · Chapel Hill Friends Meeting: The Early Days of the Chapel Hill Friends Meeting, as told by Lois Ann Hobbs (April 14, 2019)
12. March 21, 1960 The Chapel Hill CORE Committee rejects a second truce and resumes picketing as 27 ministers back the protests After a week-long pause the students' 12-member executive committee, led by Harold Foster, declined the Human Relations Committee's request for a second truce and resumed afternoon picketing at Colonial Drug and Long Meadow Dairy. Twenty-seven Chapel Hill ministers issued a statement commending the peaceful, non-violent picketing. People: Harold Foster, Dudley Dewitt CarrollDigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 21, 1960, p. 1