William T. Couch

Life and Orange County connections

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1. June 12, 1922 The University of North Carolina Press is founded On June 12, 1922, university librarian Louis Round Wilson, nine other faculty members and three trustees founded the University of North Carolina Press, the first university press in the South. Its first book, William C. Coker's study of water molds, appeared in 1923, and William T. Couch became director in 1932. People: William T. Couch, Louis Round WilsonUNC Research: Local Ink, Inc. (July 20, 2020)
2. 1926 William T. Couch joins the University of North Carolina Press as assistant director Couch, who had moved to the Chapel Hill area in 1917, began at the press in 1926 as assistant director under Louis Round Wilson and took over as director in 1932. People: Louis Round WilsonIn the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · UNC Libraries: William T. Couch Papers, 1926-1988 finding aid
3. May 1927 Press governors object to Paul Green's introduction to Congaree Sketches Called before Chase and the press's board, assistant editor William T. Couch heard Royster and the others condemn Green's introduction, which said neither race could leave the ditch until whites gave Blacks a hand. Couch pointed out that some 150 advance copies were already out, and the book went out as printed. Six months later, at Chase's order, unsold copies went to a commercial publisher, which reprinted it without Green's introduction. People: William T. Couch, Paul Green, Harry Woodburn Chase, James Finch RoysterHoward 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. 366-367
4. 1932 William T. Couch becomes director of the University of North Carolina Press William T. Couch served as director of the University of North Carolina Press from 1932 until he resigned in 1945 to direct the University of Chicago Press.Search the index · Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 24 (1947), p. 276
5. about 1939 UNC Press editor William Couch builds a brick and stone house on Laurel Hill Road William Couch, editor of the University of North Carolina Press and brother of botanist John N. Couch, built a two-story brick and stone Colonial Revival house with a two-story gallery, designed by William Sprinkle. People: William Van SprinkleSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District, National Register nomination (OR0303), p. 8
6. 1939 UNC Press publishes These Are Our Lives The University of North Carolina Press at Chapel Hill published These Are Our Lives in 1939, life histories gathered by Federal Writers' Project workers in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, with a preface by W. T. Couch.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Federal Writers' Project Papers, 1936-1940 finding aid
7. 1944 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 WilsonSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 199
8. August 1945 William T. Couch leaves the University of North Carolina Press Couch resigned in August 1945, after thirteen years as director, to lead the University of Chicago Press.In the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · UNC Libraries: William T. Couch Papers, 1926-1988 finding aid
9. January 1946 Thomas J. Wilson III becomes director of the University of North Carolina Press Dr. Thomas J. Wilson III became director of the University of North Carolina Press in January 1946, succeeding W. T. Couch. He stayed little more than a year, resigning in 1947 to become director of the Harvard University Press. People: William T. CouchSearch the index · Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 24 (1947), p. 276