Gladys Hall Coates

Life and Orange County connections

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1. December 1930 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: Albert Coates, 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
2. 1931-32 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
3. May 6-7, 1932 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
4. February 13, 1936 Former summer school and education dean N. W. Walker dies Walker had headed the university's summer school and its school of education until he retired with a heart ailment in the summer of 1934. He died at his home after a long illness on February 13, 1936, at 61. After his death his house at 517 East Rosemary Street was sold to education professor Guy B. Phillips, and Albert and Gladys Coates stayed on in the cottage behind it. People: N. W. Walker, Gladys Hall Coates Place: 517 East Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Guy B. Phillips · Also mentions: East Rosemary StreetSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 165 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 21, 1936, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 3, 1936, p. 2
5. November 29, 1939 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
6. February 1945 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: Albert Coates, 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
7. 1952 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: Albert Coates, 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
8. February 19, 1976 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
9. November 1977 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: Albert Coates, 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
10. 1985 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: Albert Coates, 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
11. January 28, 1989 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
12. March 29, 1989 UNC holds a memorial celebration for Albert Coates About 150 people met in the Student Union Auditorium to honor Albert Coates, the law professor who founded the Institute of Government and chronicled student government, who had died in January. Speakers included Rep. Bertha Holt, former chancellor William Aycock, institute director John Sanders and North Carolina Collection curator H.G. Jones, who gave the eulogy; Gladys Coates spoke on student government's roots in the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. People: Gladys Hall Coates Place: Student Union Auditorium, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Bertha Holt, William Aycock, John Sanders, H.G. Jones, Albert Coates · Also mentions: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, Institute of Government, North Carolina CollectionSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 30, 1989, p. 1