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Daniel Lindsey Grant

1897–1989 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Daniel L. Grant, UNC's first alumni secretary, builds a house on Glandon Drive Daniel L. Grant, the first secretary of the UNC Alumni Association, builds a two-story Colonial Revival house in the new Gimghoul subdivision, one of the five houses finished there in 1924. People: Daniel Lindsey Grant Place: 246 Glandon Drive, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: GimghoulSearch the index · National Register: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District nomination (OR0709, 1993), section 7 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 25, 1936, p. 5
  2. University alumni switch class reunions to the Dix plan A midwinter conference of University alumni leaders in Chapel Hill decided to replace five-year class reunions with the Dix plan, under which classes that were in college together return together. To bridge the change, 1926 was made a reunion year for three fifths of all classes. People: Daniel Lindsey Grant Place: Carolina Inn and Gerrard Hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 5, 1926, p. 1
  3. Alumni workers form the American Alumni Council at Chapel Hill Closing their fourteenth annual conference at the Carolina Inn, the Association of Alumni Secretaries, the Alumni Magazines Associated and the Association of Alumni Funds merged into one body, the American Alumni Council, with W. B. Shaw of Michigan as president. Daniel L. Grant of UNC, who had planned the meeting, was named one of the new council's trustees. People: Daniel Lindsey Grant Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. B. ShawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 6, 1927, p. 3
  4. J. Maryon Saunders becomes executive secretary of the General Alumni Association J. Maryon Saunders of Durham, of the class of 1925 and a former editor of the Tar Heel, was elected executive secretary of the University's General Alumni Association, succeeding Daniel L. Grant, who had held the post five years and left for a Carnegie Corporation fellowship at Columbia. William T. Peacock succeeded C. Percy Powell as business manager of the Alumni Review. People: J. Maryon (Joseph Maryon) Saunders, Daniel Lindsey Grant Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 2, 1927, p. 1

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By Daniel Lindsey Grant

Handbook of alumni work : the University of North Carolina

Grant, Daniel Lindsey · 1925

Daniel Lindsey Grant's 1925 handbook on alumni work at the University of North Carolina, produced in connection with the General Alumni Association at Chapel Hill. Two hundred and five pages with one plate carrying a portrait.

Duke NC State

Alumni history of the University of North Carolina.

Grant, Daniel Lindsey · 1924 · General Alumni Assn., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Daniel Lindsey Grant compiled this register of University of North Carolina alumni for the General Alumni Association, issued in a second edition in 1924. Entries identify graduates and former students of the Chapel Hill campus.

NC Cardinal

Daniel Lindsey Grant papers, 1919-1988.

Grant, Daniel Lindsey, 1897-1989 · 1919

Personal and association papers of Daniel Lindsey Grant (1897-1989) spanning 1919 to 1988, 17,000 items in 20 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4413. Topics include the General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, alumni affairs across the twentieth century, autobiographical writing, and personal finance and investments in North Carolina.

UNC

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