J. C. B. Ehringhaus

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 9 dated events in the chronology →

1. September 8-10, 1931 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. EhringhausSearch 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
2. December 5, 1932 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. EhringhausSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 127
3. October 14, 1933 The trustees ask Frank Graham to stay, and he declines a post with the NRA After the executive committee of the trustees resolved that President Frank Graham could not be spared during the consolidation of the University, Governor Ehringhaus announced that Graham would not accept Gen. Hugh S. Johnson's invitation to direct the NRA's economic education program. Graham stayed on the program's advisory committee. People: J. C. B. EhringhausSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 20, 1933, p. 4
4. June 12, 1934 Relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins gives the University commencement address Rain drove the commencement from Kenan Stadium into Memorial Hall, where a crowd too large for the building heard Harry L. Hopkins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, forecast unemployment insurance, old-age pensions and government housing. The University conferred 368 degrees and honorary doctorates on Governor Ehringhaus, Jane S. McKimmon, Herman H. Horne and Louis R. Wilson. People: Jane Simpson McKimmon, Louis Round Wilson, Frank Porter Graham, J. C. B. EhringhausSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 15, 1934, p. 1
5. April 25 to 28, 1935 About 1,600 Boy Scouts camp in Chapel Hill for a state Scout Jubilee Scouts from all over North Carolina pitched tents around Kenan Stadium for a four-day jubilee marking the 25th anniversary of Scouting, held with the Dogwood Festival. Governor Ehringhaus addressed them, and Chief Scout Executive James E. West spoke at a Saturday night pageant in the stadium; Swain Hall fed the campers. People: Harold D. Meyer, J. C. B. EhringhausSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 3, 1935, p. 1
6. September 3, 1935 Governor Ehringhaus and local officials meet in Memorial Hall to protest PWA rejections Called together by state PWA director Herman G. Baity, Governor Ehringhaus, other state officers and several hundred county and town officials met in Memorial Hall after Washington stiffened its rules and approved only about $600,000 of some $20,000,000 in North Carolina projects. They named the Governor, Senators Bailey and Reynolds and Congressman Doughton to press the state's case, and many gave Baity power to amend their applications. People: Herman G. Baity, J. C. B. EhringhausSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1935, p. 1
7. March 25, 1938 The P.W.A. formally presents the new gymnasium to the University At a presentation dinner at the Carolina Inn, Stanley H. Wright of the P.W.A. turned the new gymnasium over to the University and Governor Hoey accepted it for the trustees and the state. President Graham named the donors: the swimming pool was the gift of Mrs. Nathalie Gray and her sons in memory of Bowman Gray, and the 1,700 lockers were a memorial from the J. E. Millis family. People: Clyde Roark Hoey, Frank Porter Graham, J. C. B. EhringhausSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 1, 1938, p. 1
8. December 28, 1939 University trustees put off admitting local women to the freshman and sophomore classes At a special meeting in Raleigh the University trustees postponed to June President Graham's proposal to let women living in their own homes take freshman and sophomore work at Chapel Hill, after Haywood Parker cited a law allowing University regulations to be changed only at a regular meeting. Parker and former Governor Ehringhaus leaned against the proposal and Judge John J. Parker and William G. Clark backed it. People: Frank Porter Graham, J. C. B. EhringhausSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 5, 1940, p. 6
9. 1962 Ehringhaus Residence Hall opens, named for J. C. B. Ehringhaus The University completed a high-rise residence hall on its south campus in 1962 and named it for former governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, an alumnus. It stands at 450 Ehringhaus Drive.Search the index · The Carolina Story (museum.unc.edu): John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus (1882-1949) and Ehringhaus Residence Hall