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Albert Coates

Coates joined the University of North Carolina law faculty at Chapel Hill in 1923 and founded the Institute of Government there in 1931 with Gladys Hall Coates. It ran privately until it became part of the university in 1942, and the campus building finished for it in 1939 later carried his name.

Source: Carolina Story: Albert Coates (1896-1989), Gladys Hall Coates (1902-2002) and Coates Building

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StorylineThe Graham Memorial, 1918–19321918–1932 · 16 events · President Edward Kidder Graham's death of influenza and pneumonia in October 1918 led to a campaign for the student activities building he had hoped for, which took years to finish. In December trustees and faculty agreed to raise $150,000 privately, with Albert Coates running the drive. Students, faculty and a town canvass pledged in 1919, and the drive reached $120,000 by the end of that year. Arthur C. Nash's building stood finished outside in March 1925, but the money had run out and its interior was bare concrete and steel. A gift from an anonymous alumnus, which the Weekly put at $80,000, paid to finish it, and it was dedicated on January 29, 1932. StorylineThe Institute of Government’s building, 1935–19391935–1939 · 6 events · Albert Coates's first plan for an Institute of Government building collapsed when the Public Works Administration rescinded its grant in the summer of 1936. The University trustees had offered a site south of the Carolina Inn in 1935, and Coates had won extensions and let a contract, but the promised materials and cash never fully came through. With the campus site no longer available, he arranged to buy lots on the north side of Franklin Street facing Graham Memorial and borrowed to clear them in 1938. A gift from Will Reynolds paid for the land, gifts from Gordon and Bowman Gray covered half the building's cost, and Jefferson Standard Life lent the rest. The building opened in November 1939. StorylineThe Equal Rights Amendment campaign in Chapel Hill, 1975–19811975–1981 · 7 events · Chapel Hill's aldermen endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1975, and an Orange-Chatham coalition opened a local ratification drive in 1976. Supporters picketed the 1977 unveiling of a bust of Sam Ervin, who had spoken against the amendment before the state Senate defeated it, and rallies in the Pit in 1978 heard Miriam Slifkin and state Sen. Kathy Sebo. In 1980 a campus group formed to oppose ratification, and in 1981 Betty Friedan and Phyllis Schlafly debated the amendment in Memorial Hall.

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  1. The university assigns each freshman a faculty adviser President Graham began a system of faculty advisers to help new students settle into university life, and fall 1914 was its first year. Albert Coates's adviser was Oliver Towles of romance languages. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Albert Coates Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Oliver TowlesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 13
  2. Some 250 high school debaters come to Chapel Hill for state finals About 250 high school students came to the campus for the final rounds of the university's statewide debating union, one of Graham's means of tying the university to towns across the state. Topics included woman suffrage and public ownership of railroads. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Albert Coates Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 20
  3. The university cancels its 1917 football season as students drill With more than half the students in a new four-company training program under Captain J. Stuart Allen, a twice-wounded Canadian veteran, the Athletic Association called off intercollegiate football for the duration. Albert Coates, its president, took part in the decision. People: Albert Coates, J. Stuart Allen Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 28
  4. A Chapel Hill mass meeting sends off the men leaving for Fort Oglethorpe A mass meeting in the Methodist church, with Mayor W. S. Roberson presiding, bade farewell to the young men of the town and university leaving for the officers' training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and other army service. Dr. Archibald Henderson, the student Albert Coates and the Rev. Maynard Marshall spoke; more than a hundred students, mostly seniors, were to leave that week. People: W. S. Roberson, Archibald Henderson, Albert Coates Place: Methodist church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Maynard MarshallThe News (Chapel Hill), May 10, 1917, p. 1
  5. The university publishes the North Carolina Club's study of county life The extension program issued a 188-page report on the counties built on the North Carolina Club's research, in which E. C. Branson called county government the least creditable institution in the country. The study later fed the 1920s county government reforms. People: Albert Coates, Eugene Cunningham Branson Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 29
  6. Trustees and faculty back a $150,000 student building as Edward Kidder Graham's memorial A joint committee of trustees and faculty, meeting in the governor's office in mid-December, agreed to raise $150,000 privately for the student activities building Graham had hoped for, to stand where Person Hall was. Albert Coates ran the drive and by the end of January 1919 announced $20,000 pledged by students, $14,500 of it in one night. People: Louis Round Wilson, Albert Coates, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Governor's office, Raleigh (for UNC, Chapel Hill) · Also mentions: Person HallSearch 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. 192
  7. Students open the Graham Memorial fund drive in Gerrard Hall At a student rally led by Albert Coates, with William H. Bobbitt and Luther Hodges also speaking, students and faculty pledged $20,000 toward a building now budgeted at $150,000. The drive reached about $70,000 by its June deadline and $120,000 by the end of 1919. People: Albert Coates, William H. (William Haywood) Bobbitt, Luther H. Hodges Place: Gerrard Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Luther HodgesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 39 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), February 20, 1919, p. 1
  8. Gerrard Hall memorial service for Marvin H. Stacy Students, faculty and friends met in Gerrard Hall to remember Stacy, who had died of influenza on January 21. Former president Francis P. Venable, a childhood friend, and Albert Coates for the students spoke. People: Marvin Hendrix Stacy, Francis Preston Venable, Albert Coates Place: Gerrard HallSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 38
  9. A thunderstorm halts Esther Wake at Cameron Park during the homecoming University Summer School students staged Adolph Vermont's play Esther Wake, on the early history of Hillsborough and Orange County, at Cameron Park for more than 5,000 people. A heavy thunderstorm stopped it in the second act. People: Albert Coates, N. W. Walker, Adolph Vermont Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Cameron ParkDocumenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 114
  10. The Graham memorial fund passes $104,000 Albert M. Coates, secretary of the Graham memorial fund committee, announced that $104,000 had been raised toward a student activities building at the University in memory of President Edward Kidder Graham, with $150,000 expected by the first of the year. People: Albert Coates Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Edward Kidder GrahamSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), December 6, 1919, p. 4
  11. Albert Coates joins the law faculty at Chapel Hill Coates, a university graduate with a Harvard law degree, joined the law faculty in 1923. The schools he ran for police officers and sheriffs grew into the Institute of Government. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · Carolina Story: Albert Coates (1896-1989), Gladys Hall Coates (1902-2002) and Coates Building · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 12, 1923, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 13, 1923, p. 1
  12. Albert Coates revives the Law School Association Coates brought back Efird's association and used it to bring state supreme court justices, judges and lawyers to Manning Hall to lecture, to run moot courts across all three classes, and later to equip a model law office. People: Walter Clark Place: Manning Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 64
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  1. Chase and Coates rally students to revive the Graham Memorial drive President Chase, Albert Coates and student body president Julian Allsbrook held a special meeting of the students in Memorial Hall on Monday morning, February 25, 1924, to restart the stalled fund drive, with plans cut back to a smaller building whose exterior was under way. The Weekly named Chase, Allsbrook and the athletes C. C. Poindexter and Monk MacDonald as the speakers and did not mention Coates. In March Coates set out a University Life Unification Plan centered on the building. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Albert Coates Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Julian AllsbrookSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 63 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1924, p. 1
  2. Chase keeps Albert Coates with a raise and tenure After Coates collapsed from exhaustion in June 1926 and sent Chase a private resignation, Chase gave him a pay raise and tenure as professor of law, and Coates was teaching again that fall. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC School of Law, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 75
  3. First-year law students protest Coates's failing grades Coates failed fifteen of fifty-two students in personal property and gave seven more Es. Class leaders including Dan K. Moore pressed him to grade on a curve and talked of a boycott; he kept the grades but gave a new examination. People: Dan K. Moore Place: UNC School of Law, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 80
  4. A model law office and courtroom are fitted out in Manning Hall Through the Law School Association, Coates had lawyers around the state pay for a model courtroom and a practice law office stocked with real forms, so students could join theory to practice. Coates had put $2,600 of his own money into the office over four years. People: Albert Coates, Robert W. Madry Place: Manning Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 88 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 8, 1928, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 17, 1928, p. 1
  5. Coates holds a Law School Association conference on criminal justice About thirty lawyers, judges and state officials, including Attorney General D. G. Brummitt and Justices George W. Connor and Willis J. Brogden, met at the law school and split up sections of the American Law Institute model code to begin a new state code of criminal procedure. People: George Whitfield Connor Place: UNC School of Law, Chapel Hill · Also named: D. G. Brummitt, Willis J. BrogdenSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 91 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1929, p. 1
  6. Chase seeks money for a school of public affairs to train state and local officials Chase asked Governor Gardner to help find about $30,000 a year in private money for a school to train city and county officials, public health and public safety officers and others, saying none existed in the South. Albert Coates's Institute of Government soon took up the same mission. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, O. Max Gardner, Albert Coates 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. 400
  7. Albert and Gladys Coates mail the first issue of Popular Government The seventy-page first issue, built on Coates's paper The Convict's Question, called for a scientific overhaul of the state's criminal justice system. The Coateses paid about $1,500 to print it and addressed some two thousand copies by hand at the Chapel Hill post office before year's end. People: Gladys Hall Coates Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill post officeSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 102
  8. Albert Coates establishes the Institute of Government UNC law professor Albert Coates began building the Institute of Government in 1931, with police schools that September and a Carolina Inn planning meeting in December, and the Institute was formally organized and named in May 1932. Working with his wife, Gladys Hall Coates, he ran it as a private enterprise until it became part of the University in 1942; it is now the UNC School of Government. People: Albert Coates, Gladys Hall Coates Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina Inn, Institute of GovernmentIn the index: Institute of Government (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · UNC School of Government: How and when did the Institute of Government get started? · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, May 8, 1932, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 12, 1993, p. 8
  9. The legislature creates a commission on improving the state's laws, with Coates as secretary The 1931 General Assembly set up a commission of justices, judges, lawyers and law school representatives to recommend changes to the laws, with Albert Coates as executive secretary and a report due in 1933. People: O. Max Gardner Place: RaleighSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 106 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 12, 1931, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 19, 1931, p. 3
  10. Coates opens his first statewide school for law officers in Manning Hall About fifty police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, clerks and judges, growing to seventy-five or more, met for three days under the police chiefs' association, described as the first meeting of city, county, state and federal officers under one roof. The university's extension division and the same association had already run a ten-day police school in Chapel Hill in August 1929. Governor Gardner called it the most promising movement the university had begun. People: Henry Horace Williams, O. Max Gardner, J. C. B. Ehringhaus Place: Manning Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 107 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 16, 1929, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1931, p. 8
  11. Coates and his law students open local police schools around the state Less than a month after the Chapel Hill meeting, the first local police school opened in a Raleigh courtroom with Coates's students in tow, followed by schools in High Point, Greensboro, Wilmington, Asheville and Winston-Salem. Place: Raleigh and other North Carolina citiesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 110
  12. Officials at the Carolina Inn back Coates's plan for schools of public officers Forty-five judges, lawyers and lawmen invited by Judge W. A. Devin heard Coates propose an association of government officers served by a staff that would write guidebooks and train officials. They told him to go ahead, and Coates later called this the first meeting of the Institute of Government. Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. A. Devin · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 114
  13. About two hundred officials organize and name the Institute of Government Mayors, legislators, judges and county commissioners met at the new Graham Memorial, endorsed Coates's plan for an association of government officials and formally adopted the name Institute of Government. Junius G. Adams chaired, with Coates as secretary, and a larger meeting was set for September. People: Albert Coates, Gladys Hall Coates Place: Graham Memorial, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Junius G. Adams · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 119
  14. UNC names W. C. Jackson dean of a new School of Public Administration Graham and Odum announced Jackson, history chair at the Woman's College in Greensboro, as dean of the school Odum had planned for three years with a small state allocation. Graham urged Coates to fold the Institute into it and made him one of its trustees, but Coates kept apart; short of state money, the school was dissolved after Jackson returned to Greensboro as chancellor. People: Howard W. Odum, Frank Porter Graham, Albert Coates Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. C. JacksonSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 137 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 10, 1932, p. 1
  15. Albert Coates convenes the Institute of Government's first statewide school for public officials About six hundred officials and citizens from nearly every county came to Chapel Hill for a two-day meeting Coates had promoted all summer. Frank Graham opened the Friday evening session in Gerrard Hall and Harvard law dean Roscoe Pound gave the closing address on Saturday, when the organizing committee approved hiring Coates as director with a staff. People: Frank Porter Graham, O. Max Gardner Place: Gerrard Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Roscoe Pound, Frank GrahamSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 121 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 9, 1932, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 16, 1932, p. 2
  16. The Institute of Government stages a statewide radio swearing-in of new county officers Working with Raleigh station WPTF, Coates had a five-station network carry the oath-taking of incoming sheriffs, commissioners and other county officers, with speeches by governor-elect J. C. B. Ehringhaus and his Republican opponent Clifford Frazier. People gathered in courthouses across the state to watch and listen, and Coates billed the night as the Institute's formal launch. People: Albert Coates, J. C. B. Ehringhaus Place: Wake County courthouse, Raleigh, and county courthouses statewide · Also named: Clifford FrazierSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 127
  17. Ben Cone pledges $5,000 a year for three years to the Institute of Government After a $1,500 gift at the end of 1932, the Greensboro textile executive pledged $5,000 a year for three years and his brother Ceasar Cone II promised $5,000 more. The Cone money paid for the first staff, and by late 1933 it was more than three-quarters of all the Institute had deposited at the Bank of Chapel Hill. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ben Cone, Ceasar Cone II · Also mentions: Bank of Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 130
  18. Henry P. Brandis Jr. becomes the Institute of Government's first associate director Paid from the Cone pledges at $50 a week, Brandis, a Salisbury native with a Columbia law degree, left a New York firm and went straight to Raleigh to follow the General Assembly and digest its new laws. He was later dean of the UNC law school. People: Albert Coates, Henry P. Brandis Jr. Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill; General Assembly, RaleighSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 130
  19. Coates and law dean Van Hecke withdraw their resignations after meeting with President Graham That spring law dean Maurice T. Van Hecke had recommended that Coates stop teaching and work only for the Institute, and first Coates and then Van Hecke offered to resign. At a June 6 meeting in Graham's South Building office both stayed on: Coates got a fall leave and a second chance in the law school, and he agreed to stop presenting the law school or the university as the Institute's sponsor. People: Frank Porter Graham Place: South Building, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Maurice T. Van HeckeSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 136
  20. More than a thousand people attend the Institute of Government's second statewide conference Officials and citizens met in Chapel Hill to hear the state's congressional delegation, led by Senator Josiah Bailey, explain the first New Deal recovery laws, and President Roosevelt sent a letter urging other states to copy the Institute. The organizing committee then gave Coates new work, among it a report on proposed constitutional amendments and a guidebook for election officials. People: Albert Coates Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Josiah BaileySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 132 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 30, 1933, p. 3
  21. Anonymous donors guarantee the Institute of Government $50,000 for three years Albert Coates announced that the Institute of Government had been guaranteed $50,000 to carry on its study of North Carolina government for three years. The institute's board of advisers voted to accept; the donors' names were withheld, and the gift was conditioned on members contributing at least a dollar apiece. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 20, 1933, p. 1
  22. Coates moderates a debate on proposed constitutional amendments and keeps the Institute neutral Pressed by the amendments' sponsors and by Attorney General Dennis Brummitt, Coates held that the Institute would never lobby for or against any measure. In mid-April he moderated a debate in the state House chamber before about 125 officials, with Chief Justice Walter Stacy and revenue commissioner Allen J. Maxwell for the amendments and Brummitt against. Place: House chamber, State Capitol, Raleigh · Also named: Walter P. Stacy, Dennis G. Brummitt, Allen J. MaxwellSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 146
  23. The Institute of Government publishes a study of the proposed state constitution The Institute of Government issued a 126-page book, The Proposed Constitution for North Carolina, by Dillard S. Gardner with Henry P. Brandis Jr. and T. N. Grice under Albert Coates, comparing the proposed document with past constitutions and setting out advocates' and opponents' arguments without taking a side, ahead of the November vote. People: Henry P. Brandis Jr., Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Dillard S. Gardner, T. N. GriceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 13, 1934, p. 1
  24. Popular Government becomes a monthly magazine With new gifts from Winston-Salem backers and Ceasar Cone and some subscription income, Coates moved the Institute's journal from quarterly to monthly, with advertising to help pay for it. Each monthly issue sold for ten cents and carried a courthouse or other government building on its cover. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 148
  25. Graham refuses to move Albert Coates out of the law school In May 1935 Dean Van Hecke reported that Coates's teaching had failed again and, with the whole law faculty behind him, asked that Coates be freed from law school duties to run the Institute. Coates threatened to demand an academic trial; Graham declined the transfer and again refused Van Hecke's offer to resign, and Coates rejoined the law faculty in February 1936 and taught there for thirty years. People: Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House Place: School of Law, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Maurice T. Van HeckeSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 165
  26. Institute of Government staff begin daily bulletins on the General Assembly From rented offices in the Raleigh Building, Brandis, Dillard Gardner and T. N. Grice followed every bill of the 1935 session from the gallery and put a bulletin of the day's action on each member's desk by the next morning. A weekly digest of statewide bills went to every newspaper in the state, so local officials learned of bills before they became law. People: Albert Coates, Henry P. Brandis Jr. Place: General Assembly, Raleigh · Also named: Dillard Gardner, T. N. Grice Jr., T. N. GriceSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 154
  27. Popular Government launches a campaign for an Institute of Government building The April 1935 issue spread across its center pages a drawing of a three-story 'governmental laboratory building' by the university's architects, Atwood and Weeks, and opened a public drive for funds. Coates told Roscoe Pound that building-supply dealers would donate the materials. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Roscoe PoundSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 157
  28. The Institute prints 250,000 copies of a highway safety issue of Popular Government The September 1935 issue was given over to traffic safety, using fatality figures gathered by law student Harry McGalliard at a time when North Carolina had the most deaths per mile driven. Standard Oil helped pay for a pocket-size 32-page edition sent to high schools, police departments and civic groups. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harry McGalliardSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 169
  29. Trustees offer land and the PWA approves a grant for an Institute of Government building University trustees agreed to give the Institute a site valued at $15,000 on the western edge of the campus south of the Carolina Inn, the building to go to the university if the Institute ended. The Public Works Administration approved $55,498 for labor, one of 52 grants from 300 applications in the state, toward a building then estimated at $123,000. People: Albert Coates, Frank Porter Graham, Herman G. Baity Place: UNC campus south of the Carolina Inn, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 161
  30. Dillard Gardner sells Institute of Government memberships to cities and counties Taking a city manager's suggestion, Coates offered local governments yearly 'unit memberships' priced by population, from $413 for Charlotte to $7.50 for the smallest towns, covering guidebooks, the magazine, legislative bulletins and staff help. Gardner set out in the winter of 1936 and enrolled more than a hundred cities, towns and counties; memberships brought in over $10,000 in 1937. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Dillard GardnerSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 173
  31. The PWA withdraws its grant for the Institute of Government building Coates won two thirty-day extensions, the first from President Roosevelt at Senator Josiah Bailey's request, and in February 1936 was allowed to let a contract on his word that the money was in hand. The promised materials and cash never fully came through, and in the summer of 1936 PWA administrator H. G. Baity rescinded the grant; a brief revival by Interior Secretary Harold Ickes in 1937 also failed. People: Albert Coates, Herman G. Baity Place: UNC campus south of the Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: Josiah Bailey, Harold IckesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 168
  32. The Institute of Government opens its first ten-day school for police officers Sixty-one lawmen, about a quarter of them police chiefs, attended, taught in part by instructors lent by the FBI's new National Police Academy. J. Edgar Hoover then gave agent Edward Scheidt, a former Coates student, a year's paid leave to write Institute guidebooks on arrest, search and seizure, and crime detection. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill (site not stated) · Also named: Edward Scheidt, J. Edgar HooverSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 172 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 15, 1937, p. 1
  33. The Institute of Government publishes its first guidebook for police officers Scientific Aids in Crime Detection, with the legal sections by Albert Coates and the police methods by FBI special agent Ed Scheidt, opened a planned series on homicide, arson, robbery and other investigations, patrol work, traffic accidents and testifying; the same subjects were to be taught in the Institute's district schools for officers. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ed ScheidtSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 17, 1937, p. 4
  34. With its money gone, the Institute's first staff leave for state jobs By 1938 the Cone gifts were spent and the staff had gone weeks without pay. Brandis became research director of the State Tax Commission, Dillard Gardner joined the state supreme court staff and Grice the state auditor's office, while two young assistants stayed on at reduced pay; the last regular monthly Popular Government went out in January 1938. People: Albert Coates, Henry P. Brandis Jr. Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Dillard Gardner, T. N. Grice Jr.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 176
  35. Coates clears the old Pickard Hotel and Ledbetter lots on Franklin Street for the Institute building With the campus site no longer available, Coates arranged to buy two lots on the north side of Franklin Street facing Graham Memorial, the university-controlled Ledbetter property and the privately owned old Pickard Hotel property, for $8,700. In late September he borrowed to clear them; the old buildings came down, and the excavation filled with water through a wet winter until town officials called it a nuisance. Place: North side of East Franklin Street opposite Graham Memorial, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Pickard Hotel, Franklin StreetSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 177 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 5, 1938, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 2, 1938, p. 4
  36. Construction begins on the Institute of Government building on Franklin Street A $10,000 gift from Will Reynolds, given after Congressman William Umstead won an IRS ruling that the Institute was a charity, paid for the land. Gifts from Gordon and Bowman Gray covered half of the $50,000 cost and Julian Price's Jefferson Standard Life lent the rest on Coates's signature, against more than half his salary, for a scaled-down Federal-style building of three floors over a raised basement. People: Albert Coates, Gordon Gray, William B. Umstead, Bowman Gray Jr. Place: Institute of Government building, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Will Reynolds, Julian PriceSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 182 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 5, 1938, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 2, 1938, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 2, 1938, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 8, 1939, p. 5
  37. Law students Terry Sanford and William Cochrane join the Institute's legislative team Elmer Oettinger led the Institute's daily coverage of the 1939 General Assembly, mailing bulletins to a list that had grown to 7,000 names. Late in the session Cochrane recruited first-year law student Sanford, later governor, who came back to the Institute as an assistant director after the war. People: Terry Sanford, Albert Coates Place: General Assembly, Raleigh; Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Cochrane, Elmer OettingerSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 185
  38. North Carolina's first Boys State meets on the UNC campus The Institute ran the week-long civics program for the state American Legion, modeled on one begun in Illinois in 1935. About 135 high school boys spent up to three hours a day in class on government besides sports, heard Governor Hoey and other officials, and elected Douglass Hunt their governor. People: Albert Coates, Clyde Roark Hoey, Douglass Hunt Place: UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 186 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 1, 1939, p. 6
  39. House Speaker William Bankhead dedicates the Institute of Government building On the eve of Thanksgiving a standing-room crowd in Hill Music Hall heard Bankhead, Governor Clyde Hoey and President Frank Graham praise Coates, with eight of the state's eleven congressmen and former governor O. Max Gardner on hand. A reception followed in Graham Memorial, and guests stayed for the Virginia football game the next day. People: Clyde Roark Hoey, Frank Porter Graham, Albert Coates, Gladys Hall Coates, O. Max Gardner Place: Hill Music Hall and Institute of Government building, Chapel Hill · Also named: William B. Bankhead, Frank Graham · Also mentions: Graham Memorial, Hill Music HallSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 182 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 1, 1939, p. 1
  40. Albert Coates completes the Institute of Government's Franklin Street building Albert Coates built the Institute's Franklin Street headquarters with private gifts and a Jefferson Standard Life loan, and it opened in November 1939. The University took title only on June 30, 1945, after the legislature paid off the mortgage. The building later carried the Coates name. Place: Chapel HillIn the index: Institute of Government (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 1, 1939, p. 1 · Also: Carolina Story: Albert Coates
  41. The Institute of Government opens a series of FBI-taught police schools The Institute of Government held the first of a planned monthly series of seven-day police schools in its Franklin Street building from October 20 to 26, taught by FBI assistant director Hugh H. Clegg, laboratory chief E. P. Coffey and other FBI, state and Institute instructors. The first session was limited to 35 police chiefs who helped shape the course; later schools were to be open to every law officer in the state, and Clegg spoke at the closing exercises on October 26. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government building, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Hugh H. Clegg, E. P. Coffey · Also mentions: Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 25, 1940, p. 2
  42. Coates trains as a civil defense instructor and Popular Government issues a defense number Called to a War Department school in Texas in the summer of 1942, Coates returned to run civil defense training through the Institute, and that fall Popular Government published a 'Defense Issue' on espionage, water system protection, gas attacks and air raid warnings. In 1945 an Army Service Forces colonel credited the Institute with the plan for joining local and state forces with federal ones to defend the state. Place: Institute of Government, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 195
  43. J. Spencer Love's $15,000 gift carries the Institute of Government into the university Covington writes that after the trustees' executive committee approved making the Institute of Government part of the university, William Carmichael called J. Spencer Love, who at the request of Carmichael and Frank Porter Graham gave $15,000 to pay the Institute's costs until the legislature could fund it, and that the full board approved the merger on January 20, 1942. The Weekly of January 23, 1942 reported that the executive committee had decided that week to make the Institute a department of the university, with Albert Coates staying on as director, and said the step was made possible by a $20,000 gift from an anonymous North Carolinian, enough to carry it for a year and a half until the 1943 legislature could be asked for money. People: J. Spencer Love, Albert Coates, Frank Porter Graham Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William Carmichael · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 193 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 23, 1942, p. 6
  44. The General Assembly passes a resolution commending the Institute of Government Peyton Abbott, a Winston-Salem lawyer who moved into the Institute building on December 1, 1942, led its coverage of the 1943 session, winning a seat at the press table and a copy of every bill. Before adjourning, the legislature passed a joint resolution praising the Institute's service to it. People: Albert Coates Place: General Assembly, Raleigh · Also named: Peyton AbbottSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 196
  45. Reader's Digest profiles Albert Coates and the Institute of Government Roving editor J. P. McEvoy visited Chapel Hill that summer, and his article, titled 'Don't Shoot Your Sheriff: Teach Him,' ran in the October issue. It brought Coates speaking invitations from several states and an offer from founder DeWitt Wallace to pay him to tour the country, which Coates declined. Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. P. McEvoy, DeWitt WallaceSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 197 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 15, 1943, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 23, 1943, p. 1
  46. Coates publishes his first history of the Institute of Government, paid for by DeWitt Wallace In place of a speaking tour, Coates wrote a 76-page account of how the Institute grew out of his law classroom, issued under the Popular Government name in the National University Extension Association's studies series. Wallace paid for 30,000 copies for national distribution, and on the advice of Louis R. Wilson and W. T. Couch, Coates took out the profanity before it went to press. People: William T. Couch, Louis Round Wilson Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: DeWitt WallaceSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 199
  47. Governor Broughton asks the Institute of Government to help towns plan for after the war As Allied armies advanced across Europe, Broughton called on the short-staffed Institute to help plan for life in North Carolina's towns and cities once the war ended. State payments for this work and for civil defense training steadied the Institute's budget. People: J. Melville Broughton, Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 201
  48. The Saturday Evening Post profiles Coates as 'The Ugly Duckling at Chapel Hill' Warner Olivier's article cast Coates as the law school's misfit who had overcome objections to build an Institute admired around the country. It opened with a photograph of Albert and Gladys Coates in front of the Institute building. People: Gladys Hall Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Warner OlivierSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 204
  49. Coates deeds the Institute of Government building to the university After the legislature appropriated $44,000 to pay off the rest of the mortgage, Coates transferred title to the Institute property to the University of North Carolina. This completed the 1941 merger plan, under which the university would take the building once it was clear of debt. Place: Institute of Government building, East Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 204
  50. The Institute builds a Highway Patrol training camp on Raleigh Road Coates won approval to put a training camp on the eastern edge of the campus, on the south side of Raleigh Road at Country Club Road. State Highway Department crews brought seven wooden barracks built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from Camp Mackall near Fort Bragg and set them in a U around a drill yard, with water and sewer lines run from the university gym. People: Albert Coates, Terry Sanford Place: Raleigh Road at Country Club Road, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Country Club RoadSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 208
  51. Popular Government resumes regular publication under William Cochrane After a three-year gap and a single issue in 1945, the Institute's magazine came out nine times a year from January 1946, edited by Cochrane. He also managed the Institute's daily business until he left in 1955 for Senator Kerr Scott's staff. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: William CochraneSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 206
  52. The Institute of Government's first State Highway Patrol school opens in Chapel Hill With money from the legislature to bring the Patrol back to its prewar strength, Governor Gregg Cherry's administration turned to the Institute, which offered an eight-week course for about a hundred recruits chosen from 1,300 applicants. Classes began on October 13, with instructors from the FBI, the State Bureau of Investigation, Northwestern University and New York University. People: Albert Coates, Terry Sanford Place: Highway Patrol training camp, Raleigh Road, Chapel Hill · Also named: R. Gregg CherrySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 208
  53. Political scientist Donald Hayman joins the Institute of Government staff Recommended by political science chair Charles B. Robson when Coates wanted help screening Patrol recruits, Hayman was hired on the spot as an assistant director, the first non-lawyer on the staff since accountant T. N. Grice. He took the place of Terry Sanford, who had left to practice law in Fayetteville. People: Albert Coates, Terry Sanford Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Donald Hayman, Charles B. Robson, T. N. GriceSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 211
  54. George Esser and Alexander McMahon join the Institute of Government Recruited by Coates at Harvard Law School that spring, Esser and McMahon started the same day, joining new Carolina law graduates Donald McCoy and Dickson Phillips; Philip Green came a few months later. It was the largest group of assistant directors Coates had yet employed, and he put them to work on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg study. People: George H. Esser Jr., Albert Coates, James Dickson Phillips, Philip P. Green Jr. Place: Institute of Government building, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. Alexander McMahon, Donald McCoy, Philip GreenSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 215
  55. The Institute of Government delivers its Charlotte-Mecklenburg consolidation study Asked in 1946 by Charlotte and Mecklenburg County leaders after a Charlotte News series, the Institute spent nearly three years inventorying every city and county department. Coates gave the first public report on November 1, 1949, staff members presented eight more over four months, and the study took no side on merger; the city and county schools were combined about a decade later. People: Albert Coates, Henry W. Lewis, George H. Esser Jr., Philip P. Green Jr. Place: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County; Institute of Government, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 217
  56. Albert and Gladys Coates move into their own house on Hooper Lane In 1947 the couple bought a lot on Hooper Lane in what had been the back garden of Edward Kidder Graham's house. Coates rejected a contemporary design by architects Jim and John Webb, the house went up as a two-story Georgian, and they moved in about the time the Gardner Award money arrived. People: Gladys Hall Coates, John B. Webb, James M. Webb Place: Hooper Lane, Chapel Hill · Also named: John WebbSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 220
  57. J. Spencer Love gives the Institute of Government $50,000 to spend as Coates sees fit Textile executive J. Spencer Love, whose $15,000 in 1942 had carried the Institute until the state budget took over its costs, sent Albert Coates another $50,000 with no conditions on its use. People: J. Spencer Love Place: Institute of Government, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 222
  58. University trustees give Albert Coates the O. Max Gardner Award By unanimous vote the trustees named Coates the faculty member of the Consolidated University who had done most that year for the welfare of humanity, under the award created by the late governor's will. Coates accepted it for the Institute, and it carried $10,000. People: O. Max Gardner, W. Kerr Scott, J. Spencer Love Place: Consolidated University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 219
  59. The Knapp Foundation pledges $500,000 toward a new building for the Institute of Government University President Gordon Gray secured a commitment from the foundation of the late Joseph Palmer Knapp for a $500,000 grant, to be matched by the same sum from the state, to build the Institute a new home. Coates had wanted the money as an endowment beside a state-built building, but Gray followed the matching plan that Margaret Knapp favored. People: Gordon Gray, Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Margaret Knapp, Joseph Palmer KnappSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 242
  60. Albert Coates and James C. N. Paul prepare the Institute's report on the Brown decision for Governor Umstead At Governor William B. Umstead's request, Coates wrote a history of the state's separate schools and Paul, who had clerked for Chief Justice Fred Vinson, examined the ruling and the plans for getting around it, concluding that segregated schools could not be kept. When Umstead named Thomas J. Pearsall's advisory committee on August 11, 1954, the report was the first paper its members received, and Coates then ran a shortened version in Popular Government. People: Thomas J. (Thomas Jenkins) Pearsall, William B. Umstead Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: James C. N. PaulSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 231-238
  61. The law faculty and the Institute staff vote against merging the Institute into the law school When Albert Coates pressed again to fold the Institute of Government into the UNC law school, both the law faculty and the Institute's own staff voted the idea down. Assistant director John Sanders warned that the Institute's service work would be subordinated to the law school and its identity lost. People: Albert Coates, John L. Sanders Place: School of Law and Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: John SandersSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 262
  62. A state audit reports irregularities in the Institute of Government's accounts State Auditor Henry Bridges reported a gap of $5,064.32 in the Institute's books, caused by careless record keeping and slow deposit of room fees and book sales, not by missing money. Coates took the blame and paid $5,100 at once; he was repaid once he documented the spending, but staff who had not been warned in advance were angry. People: Albert Coates Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry BridgesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 256-258
  63. Governor Luther Hodges accepts the Knapp Building for the state at its dedication A four-day dedication of the Institute of Government's headquarters, for which officials were invited by congressional district and the Kughler murals were unveiled, closed with Governor Hodges accepting the million-dollar building on behalf of the state. Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. stayed for the whole program. People: Albert Coates, Luther H. Hodges Place: Knapp Building, Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Luther Hodges, Sam J. Ervin Jr.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 252
  64. Albert Coates gives Chancellor Aycock a 158-page account of the Institute's past and needs Using staff tallies of thirty years of Institute publications, training and finances, Coates wrote Chancellor William B. Aycock a long report on how the Institute began and grew and what it would need. It also argued for waiving the retirement rule in his case, and it became the core of his later published history of the Institute. People: William B. Aycock Place: Institute of Government, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 268-269
  65. Law dean Henry Brandis Jr. turns down Albert Coates's last appeal for a merger Coates sent Dean Henry Brandis Jr. a pleading letter with thirty-nine pages of enclosures urging that the Institute become part of the law school. Brandis refused to reopen the question and said that once Coates returned to full-time teaching, Institute staff would no longer teach his courses, since their part had weakened the school's instruction. People: Henry P. Brandis Jr. Place: School of Law, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry Brandis Jr.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 262-263
  66. Chancellor Aycock chooses John Sanders to succeed Albert Coates as director of the Institute After Coates would not name a successor through months of talks, Chancellor William B. Aycock picked assistant director John Sanders, then thirty-five, who accepted in a short meeting with Aycock and Dean of Faculty James Godfrey. Sanders, on the staff since October 1956, took over when Coates left the post on August 31, 1962. People: William B. Aycock, Albert Coates, John L. Sanders, James L. Godfrey Place: Chancellor's office, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Sanders, James GodfreySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 265-267
  67. Albert Coates retires as director of the Institute of Government Coates retired as director of the Institute he founded on August 31, 1962, but stayed on the law faculty, teaching full time until about 1967 and a reduced load until a stroke in early 1968. Place: Chapel HillIn the index: Institute of Government (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · UNC School of Government: About the School · Also: Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man
  68. Albert Coates starts the Institute of Civic Education in the University's Extension Division With no place offered by the Institute of Government or the law school, Coates set up an Institute of Civic Education under Extension Division director Charles Milner, paid for by the Richardson Foundation and a $50,000 yearly state appropriation approved by Governor Terry Sanford. In the summer of 1965 it brought high school civics and government teachers to Chapel Hill for short courses in state history and government. People: Terry Sanford Place: Extension Division, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles Milner · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 272-273
  69. The UNC law school dedicates an issue of the North Carolina Law Review to Albert Coates When Coates gave up full-time teaching in 1967, the law school marked it by dedicating the November 1967 North Carolina Law Review to him. That year the North Carolina Bar Association also gave him its John J. Parker award, and Governor Dan K. Moore presented him the North Carolina Award. People: Dan K. Moore Place: School of Law, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: John J. ParkerSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 275 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 30, 1967, p. 5
  70. Albert Coates suffers a stroke and is taken to Memorial Hospital In late January 1968, while still teaching a criminal law class on a reduced schedule, Coates lost the use of his right arm and leg at home and was taken to Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, where he spent about a week in intensive care. He was home on Hooper Lane a month later, and his doctor told him not to return to the classroom. Place: Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Hooper LaneSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 275
  71. Albert Coates speaks at the law school graduation after teaching his last class Recovering from his stroke, Coates gave the law school's commencement address and told the graduates that they and he were leaving together, since he had taught his final class. It ended a law teaching career at Chapel Hill that began in 1923. Place: School of Law, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 275
  72. Albert Coates publishes What the University of North Carolina Meant to Me Coates's collection of autobiographical pieces followed him from a Smithfield boyhood through his student years and law teaching to the building of the Institute, with long sections on his work with the FBI and with the University's Extension Division. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 277
  73. The University of North Carolina gives Albert Coates an honorary doctor of laws The University awarded Coates an honorary LL.D. in 1974, three years after Duke University had given him the same degree. Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 279-280
  74. Albert Coates publishes By Her Own Bootstraps, on women and the law in North Carolina Growing out of his family law teaching, the book traced how North Carolina law on women's political rights and domestic freedoms had changed, and gave much space to the Equal Rights Amendment debate, which Coates supported. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 276
  75. A bronze bust of Albert Coates is unveiled for the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies The Di-Phi societies received a bronze bust of Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government and professor emeritus of law, at a special assembly attended by Chancellor Ferebee Taylor and Duke president Terry Sanford. Gladys Coates unveiled the bust, sculpted by William E. Hipp III, for the societies' chambers. People: Albert Coates, Gladys Hall Coates, N. Ferebee Taylor, Terry Sanford Place: Di-Phi chambers, New West, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William E. Hipp III, Ferebee Taylor · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 20, 1976, p. 1
  76. Equal Rights Amendment supporters picket as the Di-Phi societies unveil a bust of Sam Ervin About 40 supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment from the Association for Women Students, the Carolina Gay Association and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom marched and chanted outside Gerrard Hall while the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies unveiled a bust of former Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., who had spoken against the amendment before the state Senate defeated it. Albert Coates, who introduced Ervin, later wrote that the chanting drowned out the speeches. People: Albert Coates Place: Gerrard Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Sam J. Ervin Jr. · Also mentions: Dialectic and Philanthropic SocietiesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 22, 1977, p. 1
  77. The Institute's former Franklin Street building is dedicated in the names of Albert and Gladys Coates The building the Coateses had given years and money to put up for the Institute, used after 1956 as the Consolidated University's headquarters and later by other programs, was dedicated in their name. Coates had earlier asked the School of Social Work not to name one of its new buildings for him. People: Gladys Hall Coates Place: former Institute of Government building, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: School of Social WorkSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 285
  78. Albert Coates publishes The Story of the Institute of Government Coates's history of the Institute, a book he had worked at for half a century, came out fifty years after the meeting that started it. Director Henry Lewis had read the manuscript in the late 1970s and sent page after page of corrections, some of which Coates took. People: Henry W. Lewis Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry LewisSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 278-279
  79. The UNC-Chapel Hill trustees give Albert Coates the William R. Davie Award The trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gave Coates, the 88-year-old founder of the Institute of Government, their William R. Davie Award in 1984 for his lifelong service to the state and the University. The Daily Tar Heel of November 7, 1984 called the trustees' award recent; by October 1 the paper had already called Charles Shaffer's award the first Davie Award. Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles Shaffer · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 280 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 9, 1984, p. 10; The Daily Tar Heel, October 1, 1984, p. 3
  80. Albert and Gladys Coates publish The Story of Student Government in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The book rested on research Gladys Coates had begun in the 1930s in the University archives, literary society records and student publications, with chapters by Albert on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and chapters by student leaders on recent decades. People: Gladys Hall Coates Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 277, 224 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 9, 1989, p. 1
  81. Albert Coates publishes his last book, on Edward Kidder Graham, Harry Chase and Frank Porter Graham Coates's final book, published in 1988, paid tribute to the three University presidents he credited with shaping his life. People: Frank Porter Graham, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 279
  82. Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Albert Coates (1896-1989), who founded the Institute of Government at the university, was buried in the cemetery. Place: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, South Road (NC 54) and Country Club Road, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 24
  83. Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government, dies Albert Coates, who founded the Institute of Government in 1931 and directed it until 1962, died at 92. A native of Johnston County and UNC graduate of 1918, he taught law at UNC from 1923; the institute, begun privately, became part of the University in 1942, and with his wife Gladys he wrote a history of UNC student government. People: Albert Coates, Gladys Hall Coates Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 30, 1989, p. 1

After their death in 1989

Later events: estates and burials, and the buildings, honors and histories that remember them.

  1. Gladys Coates dies at one hundred Gladys Coates, partner in the founding of the Institute of Government and a student of the University's history, died at a hundred. After a service at the Chapel of the Cross she was buried beside Albert Coates in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, across the road from the School of Government. People: Gladys Hall Coates, Albert Coates Place: Chapel of the Cross and Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel of the Cross, Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 286

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Indexed works

Works about or by Albert Coates. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

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Chapel Hill 15North Carolina (statewide) 13Orange County 5Hillsborough 1Research Triangle 1

The Good Government Man

Covington, Jr., Howard E. · 2010

Howard E. Covington Jr.'s biography of Albert Coates (1896-1989), the law professor who founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina and led it through its early years. Topics include Coates as a law teacher and the institute's history as a center for the study of public administration in Chapel Hill. Published in 2010 by the University Library at Chapel Hill, 322 pages with 32 pages of plates.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.

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Greetings to first year law students at the beginning of the academic year 1983

Coates, Albert · 1983 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Albert Coates's address of welcome to the entering class at the University of North Carolina School of Law, printed in 1983 as a 16-page pamphlet; a 1976 version also exists. It includes a letter from Thomas Wolfe, the novelist and Coates's friend from their Chapel Hill student days.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.

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The Story of the Institute of Government, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Coates, Albert McKinley · 1981

Albert Coates's own account of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, which he founded, subtitled 'out of a classroom in Chapel Hill' and published in 1981. The 303 pages trace the institute's history and its role in educating North Carolina's public officials.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.

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To whom it may concern: an experience in the North Carolina Memorial Hospital

Coates, Albert · 1968

Albert Coates's personal narrative of his stay in North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill after a stroke, published by the University of North Carolina in 1968. Topics include cerebrovascular disease patients and their rehabilitation, hospital care in Chapel Hill and Coates himself, the founder of the university's Institute of Government. 30 pages; also titled What the NC Memorial Hospital Meant to Me.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.

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Remarks by Albert Coates on the occasion of the Highway Safety Research Center's 15th anniversary

Coates, Albert · 1980 · University of North Carolina, Highway Safety Research Center

Albert Coates's remarks marking the fifteenth anniversary of the Highway Safety Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed by the center in 1980. Coates, founder of the university's Institute of Government, spoke at the occasion.

Included because: Listed as its creator.

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Oral history interview with George Esser, June-August 1990

Esser, George H. · 2008

Oral history interview with George H. Esser Jr. recorded over the summer of 1990 and issued in 2008. Esser worked with the North Carolina Fund and with Albert Coates's Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, and topics include community development, economic conditions, social reform and race relations in the state.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.

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To whom it may concern

Coates, Albert · 1975

Albert Coates's 1975 personal account of his stroke and the care he received at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He describes what the hospital meant to him as a patient.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.

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What the University of North Carolina meant to me from 1914 to 1918

Coates, Albert, 1896-1989 · 1968 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Albert Coates looking back on his undergraduate years at the University of North Carolina from 1914 to 1918, printed in Chapel Hill by the university in 1968. Thirty three leaves. Coates went on to found the Institute of Government, and the piece is a personal recollection of student life and intellectual life in Chapel Hill in the years around the First World War.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.

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Presentation of the Herman G. Baity portrait to the University of North Carolina : April 24, 1966, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Coates, Albert · 1966 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Printed program from the presentation of a portrait of engineer Herman G. Baity (1895-1975) to the University of North Carolina on April 24, 1966. Contains Harold B. Gotaas's statement of presentation, Albert Coates's 'A portrait in words' sketching Baity's life and work, and Baity's own remarks titled 'A voice from the tomb'. Published in Chapel Hill by the university, 29 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Listed as its creator.

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Institute of Government, Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Albert Coates, director.

Institute of Government (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1939 · Institute of Government

Folded illustrated leaflet from 1939 describing the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill under its director, Albert Coates. The Institute worked with North Carolina public officials on state and local government, through teaching political science in Chapel Hill. Three unnumbered pages on one folded sheet, the kind of item issued to introduce a young program.

Included because: Its title names this person.

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The Albert Coates I know

Coates, Gladys Hall · 1979 · North Caroliniana Society

Gladys Hall Coates's 1979 account of her husband Albert Coates, a North Carolina law teacher whose Institute of Government work was based at Chapel Hill. Published by the North Caroliniana Society, thirty pages with a portrait.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.

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Fifty Years With Albert Coates

Coates, Gladys Hall · 1979 · North Caroliniana Society

Gladys Hall Coates's account of fifty years with her husband Albert Coates, the law teacher who founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published by the North Caroliniana Society in 1979.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Coates, Albert, 1896-1989.

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 301.4756 COA By Her Own Bootstraps: A Saga of Women in North Carolina Coates, Albert · 1975

    Albert Coates, who founded the University of North Carolina's Institute of Government, traces how North Carolina women gained legal and civic standing, with attention to figures such as Chapel Hill's Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Sallie Southall Cotten, Ellen Winston and Susie Sharp. Privately printed at Chapel Hill in 1975; 231 illustrated pages.

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