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Lula M. Cassidy

Lula M. Cassidy was Orange County's rural school supervisor and canning club agent from 1915 to 1917. She helped Superintendent S. P. Lockhart set up township teachers' meetings, the first at the Carrboro school in December 1915. In August 1917 she was elected secretary of the county Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, resigning a month later because she was leaving the county.

Source: Documenting the American South: Annie Sutton Cameron. A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina.…

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  1. The school board names Lula Cassidy rural supervisor and county canning agent A week after electing Mary O. Graham supervisor, the board chose Lula Cassidy as rural supervisor and canning agent. In 1916 it put her in charge of a county-wide school commencement in Hillsboro. People: Lula M. CassidySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 63
  2. Superintendent Lockhart's first township teachers' meeting meets at the Carrboro school With rural supervisor Lula Cassidy, Lockhart set up meetings of the teachers in each township, smaller than the county meeting. The first, at the Carrboro school, drew a state education official and University School of Education staff, and the Merritt school came with all its teachers and its whole committee. People: Lula M. CassidySearch the index · DigitalNC: The University of North Carolina News Letter, December 22, 1915, p. 1 (The First in Orange)
  3. The Orange County school board asks Superintendent Lockhart to resign, and he refuses The board said Lockhart had failed to adjust to the county's enlarged educational plans and would not cooperate with county supervisor Lula Cassidy. He refused to resign and stayed in office until his term ended in 1917. People: Lula M. CassidySearch the index · DigitalNC: The Smithfield Herald, May 23, 1916, p. 2 (Superintendent Asked to Resign)
  4. Orange County women organize the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense About fifty women representing every women's organization in the county met at the Hillsborough court house on August 1, 1917, and elected Mrs. J. Cheshire Webb chairman, Lula Cassidy secretary and Mrs. Isaac Manning treasurer. On Labor Day they replaced township units with one central committee of eleven departments. People: Lula M. CassidySearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 48

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