James L. Godfrey

Life and Orange County connections

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1. by February 17, 1955 The Chapel Hill PTA asks for a countywide vote on ABC liquor stores Looking for money for school buildings, the Chapel Hill Parent-Teacher Association voted by about three to two, with more than 100 present, to ask the county commissioners to call a countywide referendum on ABC liquor stores, whose profits would go mostly to schools. The Chapel Hill Jaycees backed the request, while several churches and Commissioner Edwin S. Lanier opposed it. People: James L. Godfrey, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Edwin Sidney Lanier Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 17, 1955, p. 1
2. May 3, 1955 Chapel Hill voters elect members of their school board for the first time In the first popular election for the Chapel Hill school board, created as an elective body by a 1955 local act, voters in the Chapel Hill school district chose Charles F. Milner and Richard E. Jamerson over James L. Godfrey, Fred Edwards and Jack Lasley. Edwards, a Black contractor put forward by members of the Black community, received 207 votes. In the town election held the same day Mayor O. K. Cornwell was returned without opposition and Gene Strowd joined the board of aldermen. People: Richard E. Jamerson, James L. Godfrey, Oliver K. Cornwell Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles F. Milner, Fred Edwards, Gene Strowd · Also mentions: Chapel Hill school boardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 5, 1955, p. 1
3. 1957–1965 James L. Godfrey serves as dean of the faculty Godfrey held the post of dean of the faculty from 1957 to 1965, one of the titles that preceded the office of provost at Chapel Hill. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Office of the Provost of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1917-2017 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 17, 1994, p. 3
4. July 1, 1962 Chancellor Aycock chooses John Sanders to succeed Albert Coates as director of the Institute After Coates would not name a successor through months of talks, Chancellor William B. Aycock picked assistant director John Sanders, then thirty-five, who accepted in a short meeting with Aycock and Dean of Faculty James Godfrey. Sanders, on the staff since October 1956, took over when Coates left the post on August 31, 1962. People: William B. Aycock, Albert Coates, John L. Sanders, James L. Godfrey Place: Chancellor's office, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Sanders, James GodfreySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 265-267
5. 1965–1973 James L. Godfrey chairs the history department Godfrey chaired UNC's Department of History from 1965 to 1973. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Department of History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1921-2014 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 17, 1994, p. 3
6. March 12, 1965 James L. Godfrey resigns as UNC's dean of the faculty Chancellor Paul F. Sharp announced that Godfrey, dean of the faculty since 1957 and a Distinguished University Professor of British history, had resigned effective June 30 to return to full-time teaching; the president and trustees had accepted the resignation. Later that month the joint Duke-UNC program in the humanities chose him as its chairman from July 1. People: James L. Godfrey, Paul F. Sharp Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 13, 1965, p. 1
7. November 15, 1994 James Logan Godfrey, former UNC dean of the faculty, dies James Logan Godfrey, who taught history at UNC from 1936 to 1978, served as dean of the faculty from 1957 to 1965 and chaired the history department from 1965 to 1973, died in Chapel Hill at 87. He founded the Southern Conference on British Studies; a service was held at the Chapel of the Cross. People: James L. Godfrey, William C. Friday Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel of the CrossSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, November 17, 1994, p. 3