George H. Esser Jr.

Life and Orange County connections

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1. October 1, 1948 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: Albert Coates, James Dickson Phillips, Philip P. Green 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. 215
2. November 1, 1949 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.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 217
3. May 1954 Chapel Hill-Carrboro churches name a committee to help schools desegregate peacefully Two weeks after the Brown decision, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Ministerial Association set up a steering committee to study how the churches could help bring a peaceful transition to non-segregated schools. Its members were the Rev. Charles Jones, Mrs. Harold Walters, George Esser Jr., the Rev. T. P. Duhart and Mrs. J. Snipes. People: Charles M. JonesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 3, 1954, p. 4
4. 1955 George Esser launches the Institute's course in municipal management Assistant director George Esser started a ten-week course in municipal management, taught over a series of three-day weekends, that came to be expected of anyone hoping to run a North Carolina city. It was part of a shift at the Institute from teaching the letter of the law toward public administration and policy.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 259
5. About 1959 Institute of Government staff draft a new state law on municipal annexation Assistant directors Philip Green Jr., George Esser and Jake Wicker wrote a new North Carolina annexation law for a state study commission. The law, which stayed unchanged for more than forty years and became a model elsewhere, let the state's cities grow without being ringed by small incorporated suburbs. People: George H. Esser 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. 259
6. August 1963 George Esser proposes an ordinance barring discrimination by new Chapel Hill businesses After the aldermen declined a public accommodations law in June, Esser suggested as a private citizen an ordinance that would bar racial discrimination by businesses opening in the future, applied like zoning rules. The Board of Aldermen began considering it in August while the Committee for Open Business kept up its marches.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 11, 1963, p. 1
7. January 1964 Institute of Government delivers its report on Chapel Hill's power to pass a public accommodations law A report prepared by George Esser at the aldermen's request, gathering cases from all fifty states on a town's power to pass a public accommodations law, was completed and handed to Town Manager Robert Peck for the aldermen days before their vote. Esser said it showed the probable attitude of North Carolina courts toward a town using its general welfare power for that purpose. People: John L. SandersIn the index: Institute of Government (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · The Daily Tar Heel, January 12, 1964, p. 1