Walter Royal Davis

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1. 1972–1980 Walter Royal Davis serves as a UNC trustee Davis sat on the university's board of trustees and in the 1970s argued that proceeds from the state's sale of the university's utilities should go to the university. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Carolina Story: Walter Royal Davis (1920-2008) and Davis Library
2. September 12, 1975 UNC trustees approve a Student Health Service site that cuts into a 1951 park reserve The UNC Board of Trustees approved a site just north of N.C. Memorial Hospital's Wing C for a new $3.6 million Student Health Service building, though it took about a quarter acre of the last five acres of a 55-acre tract the trustees had set aside as park land in 1951. Four trustees voted no, and the board said the encroachment should not be a precedent. People: Walter Royal Davis Place: North Carolina Memorial Hospital, University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Student Health ServiceThe Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1975, p. 1
3. April 14, 1978 UNC trustees approve the Health Sciences deck addition and raise parking fines Four days after the aldermen turned down the permit, the UNC Board of Trustees approved plans for an addition to the Health Sciences parking deck over Student Body President Jim Phillips's objections and set aside $3,157,000 for it. The trustees also raised parking fines and towing fees from July 1 and named a committee to study whether the University should give the bus system more support. People: Walter Royal Davis, Margaret Taylor Harper, E. M (Elie Maynard) Adams Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jim PhillipsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 17, 1978, p. 1
4. October 13, 1978 UNC trustees leave the end of Student Stores money for athletic scholarships to the chancellor Asked by student body president Jim Phillips to stop using $25,000 a year of Student Stores profits for athletic grants-in-aid, the UNC Board of Trustees left any phase-out to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, who said he had cut the support from $45,000 in 1971-72 and meant to end it; trustee Walter R. Davis's compromise to end it while the athletic department ran in the black was rejected. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Walter Royal Davis, Margaret Taylor Harper Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jim Phillips · Also mentions: Student StoresSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1978, p. 1
5. August 21, 1981 UNC trustees name the new central library for Walter R. Davis Meeting at Kill Devil Hills, the Board of Trustees voted to name the $22.3 million central library then under construction for Walter R. Davis, the former trustees chairman and new Board of Governors member who led the funding through the sale of University utilities. The trustees also elected Newman A. Townsend Jr. chairman. People: Walter Royal Davis Place: Davis Library site, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Newman A. Townsend Jr. · Also mentions: University utilitiesSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, August 24, 1981, p. 1
6. February 7, 1984 Davis Library opens The university's new library building, named the Walter Royal Davis Library for the trustee and benefactor, opened in Chapel Hill on February 7, 1984, after the main collections moved over from Wilson Library the weekend before. Lambda later gave the opening as February 17. Place: Davis Library, Chapel HillSearch the index · Carolina Story: Walter Royal Davis (1920-2008) and Davis Library · Also: Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 1, 1984, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1983, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, February 3, 1984, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 11, 1984, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 29, 1985, p. 2
7. April 27, 1985 Governor Jim Martin dedicates Davis Library Before about 500 people, Governor Martin dedicated the Walter Royal Davis Library and unveiled a bronze bust of Davis, the former trustees' chairman who had lobbied for its funding from the sale of the University's telephone system. Vice President George Bush had been booked for April 26 but canceled, and a faculty Books-Not-Bombs committee led by Nell Painter and Leon Fink, which had planned a silent protest against his selection, called its protest off. People: Walter Royal Davis, Christopher C. Fordham III, Leon Fink Place: Walter Royal Davis Library, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: James G. Martin, Nell PainterSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 29, 1985, p. 1
8. by October 24, 1991 Walter Royal Davis designates $490,000 for books for UNC's libraries Walter Royal Davis, for whom Davis Library is named and a former chairman of the trustees, designated $490,000 in accumulated earnings from two endowments he had set up to buy books, after four years of state budget cuts had eroded the library's purchasing. People: Walter Royal Davis Place: Davis Library, University, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1991, p. 3
9. May 1993 Gov. Jim Hunt appoints Walter Royal Davis and William Jordan UNC trustees In May 1993 Gov. Jim Hunt appointed Walter Royal Davis and Dr. William Jordan to the UNC Board of Trustees, to join the Board of Governors' appointees Ann Cates, Charles Sanders and William Armfield in July. People: Walter Royal Davis Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Jordan, Jim Hunt, William Armfield, Ann Cates, Charles SandersSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 27, 1993, p. 1