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Dudley Dewitt Carroll

Dudley Dewitt Carroll was dean of the University of North Carolina's School of Commerce in Chapel Hill for thirty-one years from 1919, and Carroll Hall is named for him. He chaired the Orange County draft board and the county ABC board, directed the Orange County Building and Loan Association, and helped establish Chapel Hill's Friends Meeting House.

Source: NCpedia: Carroll, Dudley Dewitt

1885–1971 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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D. D. Carroll, Yackety Yack, 1946
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StorylineChapel Hill's town elections under Mayor Roberson, 1915–19271915–1927 · 8 events · From 1915 to 1925 Chapel Hill's town elections returned W. S. Roberson as mayor, usually with a citizens' ticket. He defeated W. H. Boger in 1915 and was elected again in 1917 and 1919. In 1923 he beat Carl Wiegand, a young lawyer, 314 to 76, in what the Weekly called the heaviest vote ever cast in the town. Under a 1925 charter amendment the town elected six aldermen instead of five, and only 76 voters came to re-elect Roberson. He refused to run again in 1927, and in a light vote Zeb P. Council of the University printery was elected mayor. The Weekly said none of the men elected had sought the office. StorylineABC stores and liquor by the drink in Orange County, 1938–19781938–1978 · 35 events · After Orange County voters turned down ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control) liquor stores in 1938, efforts to bring the question back failed for years; in 1955 the commissioners refused the Chapel Hill PTA's request for a countywide vote. In September 1958, on petitions with 1,049 names, the board set the county's first liquor vote since 1938. Despite a dry campaign through the churches, the county voted for the stores on February 3, 1959, carried by the Chapel Hill precincts and by Hillsboro. Stores opened in 1959 and 1961, and in 1964 the ABC board voted for a second Chapel Hill-area store over opposition from university officials, ministers and the Carrboro town board. The state board turned down the West Rosemary Street site chosen for it in January 1965. Orange County voted for liquor by the drink in a 1973 statewide referendum that failed, and when a 1978 state law allowed a local vote, the county approved mixed drinks; Chapel Hill restaurants began serving them that November.

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  1. 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 Carroll Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch 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. 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 Bell, Andrew Henry Patterson Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Nellie Roberson, Dudley CarrollSearch 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. 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. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Carroll, Dudley Dewitt
  4. The Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter reports on its public health nurse and elects Howard W. Odum chairman At its annual meeting in the Presbyterian church, the Chapel Hill chapter of the American Red Cross heard that it had helped provide a public health nurse for the schools and homes with the town, the school board and the Community Club, and that its 1921 roll call raised $966.83. It elected Howard W. Odum chairman, referred a memorial to Miss Roper, the nurse who served the students and town in the influenza epidemic, to a committee, and asked its executive committee to work out closer cooperation with the King's Daughters and the tuberculosis seal organization. People: Howard W. Odum, Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Alice Noble, Henry A. Whitfield Place: Presbyterian church, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), March 2, 1922, p. 1
  5. 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: W. S. Roberson, Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Henry A. Whitfield, Gustave M. Braune Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Carl Wiegand, J. M. Cheek, R. P. AndrewsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1923, p. 1
  6. 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. Place: 105 Ridge Lane, Gimghoul, Chapel Hill · Also named: Eleanor Elliott Carroll · Also mentions: GimghoulSearch the index · National Register: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District nomination (OR0709, 1993), section 7
  7. Chapel Hill aldermen pass a $2,400 bond ordinance to extend the sewers On a motion by Alderman D. D. Carroll, seconded by G. M. Braune, the aldermen unanimously passed an ordinance letting the town issue up to $2,400 in bonds to extend its sewer system, to take effect in thirty days unless a petition forced a vote. The town's statement put its assessed valuation at about $2,055,000 and its net debt at $33,451. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Gustave M. Braune, Henry A. Whitfield, Edward M. Knox Place: Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1924, p. 4
  8. R. D. W. Connor is elected a Chapel Hill alderman in place of D. D. Carroll The board of aldermen chose R. D. W. Connor, professor of history at the University, to fill the seat of D. D. Carroll, dean of the school of commerce, who resigned because he was leaving for a year's leave abroad. People: R. D. W. Connor, Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 21, 1924, p. 3
  9. New county tax supervisor names Chapel Hill Township's assessors T. W. Arrasmith, the new county tax supervisor, appointed D. D. Carroll and J. W. Bennett to fix property values in Chapel Hill Township for the 1927 revaluation, with S. W. Andrews as list taker. When Bennett fell ill, John T. Fowler took his place. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Samuel Weldon Andrews Place: Chapel Hill Township · Also named: T. W. Arrasmith, J. W. Bennett, John T. FowlerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 22, 1927, p. 1
  10. County commissioners cut Chapel Hill Township assessments 10 percent Hearing complaints on the 1927 revaluation in Hillsboro, the commissioners settled the argument by a uniform 10 percent cut in Chapel Hill Township, taking about $300,000 off assessments in the town; Town Manager Knox figured it would save Chapel Hill about $4,000 in county taxes. The township assessors had aimed at 70 percent of market value, while list taker S. W. Andrews had urged a blanket cut. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Samuel Weldon Andrews Place: Court house, HillsboroSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 15, 1927, p. 1
  11. Commissioners rescind a special cut in C. L. Lindsay's tax assessment The board had cut C. L. Lindsay's Cameron Avenue valuation from $17,000 to $12,000 on July 12, the day after the general hearing, with no Chapel Hill assessor present. When assessors D. D. Carroll and John T. Fowler came back with rents and neighboring values, the board cancelled the cut without argument, leaving Lindsay the uniform 10 percent reduction to $15,300. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Court house, Hillsboro · Also named: C. L. Lindsay, John T. FowlerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 29, 1927, p. 1
  12. Chapel Hill dairymen and a citizens' committee agree on a lower milk price At a joint meeting with the mayor's citizens' committee, the dairymen agreed to sell milk at 17 1/2 cents a quart, 60 cents a gallon and 10 cents a pint for three months. The committee, which noted that a town ordinance kept residents from owning cows, also urged a dairymen's association and a permanent milk commission. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Carl T. Durham, S. A. Nathan Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 27, 1928, p. 1
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  1. 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: Harry Woodburn Chase, Howard W. Odum, Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Frank Porter Graham Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: David Clark, Frank 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
  2. 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. Braune Place: Chapel Hill school, West Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 28, 1928, p. 1
  3. Bingham Hall opens as home of the School of Commerce UNC's new classroom building at the south end of the campus below Murphey Hall opened at the start of the spring quarter, and D. D. Carroll's School of Commerce moved into it. The three-story building held 13 classrooms, laboratories, 20 conference rooms and a 250-seat auditorium and cost about $160,000; the school then enrolled 560. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Bingham Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Murphey HallSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1929, p. 8
  4. Chapel Hill's board of adjustment bars banners across Franklin Street On August 27, 1929, Chapel Hill's zoning board of adjustment refused permission for a banner across Franklin Street advertising a merchants' trade week and resolved unanimously against any banners across the street in future, for shows, reunions or any other occasion, as marring the look of the town. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Louis Graves, Clarence Pickard, Carl T. Durham Place: Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1929, p. 1
  5. Receivers auction five Franklin Street business buildings for $60,804 On September 5, 1929, the receivers of the Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company sold five Franklin Street business buildings for $60,804.67. Collier Cobb bought the two buildings holding the middle and eastern rooms of the University Cafeteria, and D. D. Carroll bought the block of three stores for $26,000; the sale of the rest of the Strowd farm land was put off. People: Collier Cobb, Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Milton E. Hogan Place: Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1929, p. 1
  6. Textile manufacturer Bernard M. Cone speaks at Chapel Hill against mill unions Bernard M. Cone, head of the Cone mills in Greensboro, told a full auditorium in Bingham Hall that mill earnings were too low to raise wages, that the trouble was too few hours rather than too many, and that he opposed the unionization of textile workers and a proposed survey of the industry. The School of Commerce had invited mill men of several points of view. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Bingham Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bernard M. ConeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 7, 1930, p. 4
  7. Mayor's milk committee recommends cheaper milk, and dairies cut the price A citizens' committee named by Mayor Zeb Council and chaired by D. D. Carroll heard the dairymen and recommended 12 1/2 cents a quart for raw and pasteurized milk. The aldermen thanked it but set no price, and the Durham Road Dairy and several smaller dairies cut their prices from February 1. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Zeb P. Council, Carl T. Durham Place: Town manager's office and board of aldermen, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 12, 1932, p. 1
  8. Textile editor David Clark charges radicalism among UNC professors in a Gerrard Hall talk Invited by the new student branch of the American Liberty League, David Clark of the Textile Bulletin told a large crowd in Gerrard Hall that a small group of professors promoted 'atheism, socialism, and communism', naming W. T. Couch and E. E. Ericson, who were present, and Paul Green. Couch and Ericson answered in statements the next day, and the Weekly defended the University's tradition of free speech. People: William T. Couch, Paul Green, Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Gerrard Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: David Clark, E. E. EricsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 17, 1935, p. 1
  9. 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. Place: Dudley Carroll House, 306 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill · Also named: Dudley CarrollSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District, National Register nomination (OR0303), p. 8
  10. 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. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · NCpedia: Carroll, Dudley Dewitt · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 31, 1936, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 25, 1936, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 4, 1938, p. 1
  11. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace gives the Weil lectures Henry A. Wallace delivered the annual Weil lectures in Memorial Hall on three evenings, beginning on April 1 with a talk on the impact of technology and going on to the corporate form of organization and the federal government as a conserver and stabilizer. The lectureship had been founded in 1915 by the families of Sol and Henry Weil of Goldsboro. People: Henry A. (Henry Agard) Wallace, Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Memorial Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry WeilSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 2, 1937, p. 1
  12. Orange County's new board of assessors organizes to review the tax lists Under a special act of the 1937 legislature allowing a review of the tax lists in place of the general revaluation then due, the county commissioners named D. D. Carroll, E. L. Lockhart and Ben F. Wilson as assessors. Meeting first at the courthouse in Hillsboro, they chose Carroll chairman and set a hearing in every township, at the White Cross Grange Hall, Efland, Cedar Grove, Little River, Hillsboro, Eno and Chapel Hill, between April 19 and May 6. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Ben F. Wilson Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: E. L. LockhartSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1937, p. 1
  13. Orange County's assessors report on their countywide review of real estate values The Board of Assessors, D. D. Carroll, E. L. Lockhart and B. F. Wilson, reported to the county commissioners, sitting as a board of equalization, that after hearing complaints in every township and looking at nearly every parcel they had raised assessments by an average of about 2 per cent, counting new buildings, and lowered some that were out of line. The board had begun in April in the White Cross neighborhood and put Chapel Hill property at 65 to 70 per cent of market value. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Ben F. Wilson Place: Orange County · Also named: E. L. LockhartSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 30, 1937, p. 3
  14. Chapel Hill aldermen keep the town tax rate at $1.65 At their monthly meeting the aldermen set the 1937 town rate at $1.65 per $100, the same as in 1936, after the board of assessors raised total assessments in the town to $3,255,000. The operating share of the rate fell 1 cent and the school levy rose 1 cent. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Ben F. Wilson Place: Town office, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1937, p. 1
  15. A cleaning-business owner buys the failed Carolina Cooperative Cleaners The student-backed Carolina Cooperative Cleaners went into receivership in November on the petition of D. D. Carroll, an owner of its building, and a plan backed by the Student Advisory Committee to keep it a cooperative failed when not enough $1 shares were sold. Nick Katsis bought it for $2,100 and reopened it in the old Co-op store as the Community Cleaners. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Old Co-op store near the post office, Chapel Hill · Also named: Nick KatsisSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 17, 1937, p. 6
  16. A Chapel Hill delegation asks the State Highway Commission for a new broad road to Durham by way of Duke Mayor Foushee for the town and D. D. Carroll for the University led a delegation to the State Highway Commission in Raleigh to ask for a new broad road from Chapel Hill to Durham by way of Duke University, on a route north of the existing road, perhaps near Mt. Moriah church and the old Patterson Mill site, entering town through the Bolin Creek valley and North Columbia Street by the new town hall. State Senator John W. Umstead Jr. of Chapel Hill had long pressed for it. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, John W. Umstead Jr., John M. Foushee Place: State Highway Commission, Raleigh · Also mentions: Bolin Creek, Chapel Hill to Durham, North Columbia StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 30, 1938, p. 1
  17. Chapel Hill and Durham men form a committee to push a four-lane highway between the towns After the State Highway Commission authorized a survey, asked for by commissioner S. M. Bason, of a divided four-lane highway between Chapel Hill and Durham, citizens of the two towns met at the Carolina Inn and named Judge R. H. Sykes of Durham to head a committee to take the proposal to the legislature and build public support. The committee included R. L. Flowers, R. M. Gantt and M. B. Fowler of Durham and John M. Foushee and D. D. Carroll of Chapel Hill; the cost was put at about three-quarters of a million dollars, and many expected the road to enter Chapel Hill by North Columbia Street once the fire engine house there came down. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, John M. Foushee Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: R. H. Sykes, S. M. Bason, R. L. Flowers · Also mentions: North Columbia StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 22, 1938, p. 1
  18. The Orange County Building and Loan Association cuts its loan rate to 5 per cent The Orange County Building and Loan Association lowered the interest on all its home loans, old and new, from 6 to 5 per cent under a motion its directors adopted in December after conferring with the state insurance commissioner. President D. D. Carroll said the cut was meant to win back home-builders who were borrowing from the government and insurance companies at lower rates. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, W. O. Sparrow Place: Bank of Chapel Hill, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 5, 1940, p. 1
  19. University service employees begin building their own houses in the Oakwood colony Under a cooperative plan of the Service Employees Corporation, carpenters, painters, plumbers and other men of the University's service departments were building houses in Oakwood, a 44-acre tract formerly owned by D. D. Carroll about a mile and a half out the Raleigh highway. The owners did the road building, clearing, grading and much of the finishing in their off hours, with FHA financing; 28 lots had been taken and 14 houses costing $3,200 to about $6,000 were expected by winter. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Oakwood, on a new road north of the Raleigh highway about 1.5 miles from Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1940, p. 3
  20. Black citizens' committee raises money to finish the Negro Community Center With W.P.A. stonework up to the first floor and about $9,000 still needed toward the $27,000 center, volunteers canvassed Chapel Hill for gifts from mid-April, and a committee of Bessie Edwards, Agnes Rankins, and Callie Strowd led a drive among Black residents, thanking donors in the Weekly and calling it very successful. A meeting for the center was held May 18 at the Rock Hill Baptist church on West Franklin Street. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Bessie Edwards, Agnes Rankins, Callie Strowd · Also mentions: Rock Hill Baptist churchThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 16, 1941, p. 8
  21. 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 Hobbs Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 292
  22. 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 Jackson Place: 102 Laurel Hill Road, Laurel Hill, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation, National Register nomination (OR1748), p. 17
  23. 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. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carroll HallSearch the index · The Carolina Story: Dudley DeWitt Carroll (1885-1971) and Carroll Hall
  24. An Orange County chapter of the American Association for the United Nations organizes The newly formed Orange County Chapter of the American Association for the United Nations, chaired by former UNC dean D. D. Carroll, set as its first project sending a teacher and a student from each of the county's five high schools, Chapel Hill, Lincoln, Central, Hillsboro and Aycock, to the United Nations after an essay and speaking contest. It also offered a speakers' list that included Paul Green and planned panel discussions and the annual UN Day observance. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Paul Green Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 24, 1957, p. 1
  25. County commissioners and school board name the Orange County ABC board Meeting jointly, the county commissioners and Board of Education named Dudley D. Carroll, 78, retired dean of the UNC commerce school, chairman of the new Alcoholic Beverage Control board, with Hillsboro furniture dealer Remus J. Smith Sr. and Cedar Grove merchant Giles M. Long, at $10 a meeting. With Carroll in the hospital, Smith became acting chairman, and the board picked a site on US 70 just east of NC 86 on Fred Cates's land for the first store, where grading began February 17. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Remus J. Smith Sr. Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Giles M. Long, Fred CatesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 19, 1959, p. 1
  26. 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: Mildred Ringwalt, Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Chapel Hill Friends Meeting: The Early Days of the Chapel Hill Friends Meeting, as told by Lois Ann Hobbs (April 14, 2019)
  27. Citizens groups press the Chapel Hill school board to adopt the Quaker plan In a two-hour public hearing, the Chapel Hill Friends, twenty ministers, the League of Women Voters, Community Church members and the board's own Citizens Advisory Committee urged the school board to assign first graders by geographic district rather than leave Black families to apply for transfer. The board sent the plan to its redistricting committee, and the News judged a change unlikely. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Chapel Hill school board, Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 4, 1960, p. 10
  28. 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 Carroll Place: Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 21, 1960, p. 1
  29. Four or five Chapel Hill eating places begin serving all patrons, the Human Relations Commission reports Reporting to the aldermen, Human Relations Commission chairman D. D. Carroll said the commission had failed to get every eating place to try equal service for 30 days, but four or five had since chosen on their own to serve all patrons. University students pressing for desegregation of the movie theaters had agreed to wait a month at the commission's request. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 14, 1960, p. 7
  30. Chapel Hill protesters end their picketing and hand out leaflets instead The end of picketing in the campaign for equal service in Chapel Hill businesses was reported to the town's Human Relations Commission on April 26, 1960. Pickets had been replaced by people handing out leaflets asking shoppers not to patronize stores that refused equal service to Black customers, and commission chairman D. D. Carroll praised the police for keeping order. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: Downtown Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 28, 1960, p. 5
  31. County ABC board votes for a second liquor store in the Chapel Hill area Over board member D. D. Carroll's bitter opposition, the Orange County ABC Board voted two to one to set up a second ABC store in the Chapel Hill area, without deciding on the proposed West Rosemary Street site behind Fowler's Food Store. University officials, five ministers, the Carrboro town board and petitions with 754 signatures opposed a store near the campus and schools. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Remus J. Smith Sr. Place: Hillsborough (for a store in Chapel Hill) · Also mentions: Fowler's Food Store, West Rosemary StreetThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 10, 1964, p. 9
  32. The county ABC board picks a West Rosemary Street site for Chapel Hill's second liquor store The Orange County ABC Board voted 2 to 1 to put Chapel Hill's second ABC store at 325 West Rosemary Street, behind Fowler's Food Store and three blocks from the campus, subject to State ABC Board approval. Dudley D. Carroll, who opposed any downtown store, cast the dissenting vote and said he would carry his objection to the state board. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: 325 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Fowler's Food Store, West Rosemary StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, January 5, 1965, p. 1
  33. The State ABC Board rejects the West Rosemary Street liquor store site The State ABC Board turned down the county board's choice of 325 West Rosemary Street for Chapel Hill's second liquor store; University officials had opposed a store so near the campus and Chapel Hill High School, and Dudley D. Carroll brought a petition he said carried more than 800 names. State chairman Victor Aldridge told the county board to choose another site, and Carroll proposed Lake Road by the NC 54 bypass, just west of Carrboro. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll Place: State ABC Board, Raleigh (for a Chapel Hill store) · Also named: Victor Aldridge · Also mentions: Chapel Hill High School, NC 54, West Rosemary StreetThe Daily Tar Heel, February 2, 1965, p. 1

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Beta Gamma Sigma · 1933 · Chas. A. Belz Co.

A printed petition addressed to Dudley DeWitt Carroll granting the authority to organize a chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the business honor society, at the University of North Carolina. The seal was affixed on the twentieth day of February 1933, and the document was produced by the Chas. A. Belz Co. of Philadelphia. Topics include Greek letter societies in Chapel Hill.

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Records of the School of Commerce, 1920-1929

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Commerce · 1920

Records of the School of Commerce at the University of North Carolina for 1920 to 1929, including its Administrative Board. Subjects include Dudley Dewitt Carroll, cover business education at Chapel Hill and the university's curricula, and connect the school to the later history of the Kenan-Flagler Business School. In the University Archives at UNC, collection 40045.

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