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James Alexander Gray

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  1. UNC trustees turn the campus's growth southward and call for a landscape plan Planning for 1,500 students the next year, the trustees combined their committees on buying land and on buildings, authorized them to hire a landscape engineer to draft a development plan, and decided that new building should move toward the south end of the campus rather than into four dormitories proposed for the north end. They also voted a monument over the graves of President and Mrs. Graham. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Charles T. Woollen, John Sprunt Hill, J. Bryan (John Bryan) Grimes, James Alexander Gray Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 26, 1919, p. 1
  2. An anonymous $50,000 gift clears the Chapel Hill Methodist church's mortgage Just before Christmas, M. T. Plyler of the joint commission reported a $50,000 check to pay off the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company mortgage on the church, and the conference boards paid the rest of the debt. The donor was later revealed as James A. Gray of Winston-Salem, a 1908 graduate who had attended the church as a student. People: James Alexander Gray Place: Chapel Hill Methodist Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: M. T. PlylerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Methodist Church: A Centennial History, 1853-1953 (1954), scan p. 44 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 11, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1935, p. 1
  3. The University gives Louis Graves an honorary degree At the commencement exercises in Kenan Stadium the University conferred honorary degrees on four alumni: Louis Graves, editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly; Leslie Weil of Goldsboro, a trustee for 26 years; William A. Devin; and James A. Gray. Graves later wrote in his column of lending scissors on the platform to cut the string on the diplomas. People: Louis Graves, James Alexander Gray Place: Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill · Also named: Leslie Weil, William A. DevinSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1941, p. 6

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In memoriam James Alexander Gray : 1889-1952

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees · 1953 · Board of Trustees, University of North Carolina

A memorial tribute to James Alexander Gray, 1889 to 1952, issued in 1953 by the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gray served as a trustee. Short official commemorative printing of the kind the board produced when one of its members died.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Gray, James Alexander, 1889-1952.

UNC

Teaching the Bible in the University of North Carolina : the James Alexander Gray Professorships in the Bible

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1950 · University of North Carolina?

Statement on the James Alexander Gray Professorships in the Bible at the University of North Carolina, published at Chapel Hill around 1950. Topics include Bible teaching in Chapel Hill, religious education, university endowments and James Alexander Gray, for whom the professorships are named.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Gray, James Alexander, 1889-1952.

UNC

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