Edwin Greenlaw

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 12 dated events in the chronology →

During their lifetime

1. Fall 1913 Edwin Greenlaw joins the UNC faculty Greenlaw, a Renaissance scholar, came to the University of North Carolina in the fall of 1913 at the age of 39. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Greenlaw, Edwin Almiron
2. 1914–1925 Edwin Greenlaw heads UNC's English department Appointed chairman of the English department in June 1914, Greenlaw built it from eight faculty members to 37 by 1925, when he left for Johns Hopkins. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Greenlaw, Edwin Almiron
3. 1915 Edwin Greenlaw becomes managing editor of Studies in Philology Greenlaw took over the university's journal Studies in Philology in 1915 and reorganized it as a quarterly. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Greenlaw, Edwin Almiron
4. 1917-18 The extension bureau offers war courses and Greenlaw starts the Lafayette Association University extension centers offered free month-long courses on the war and on European history, taught by faculty without extra pay, and mailed pamphlets explaining why the country was at war. Edwin Greenlaw's Lafayette Association sought to rally high schools around patriotic essays and pageants; Winston-Salem's center took its name. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: Bureau of Extension, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 148
5. 1918 Trustees name the first five Kenan professors The trustees adopted President Edward Kidder Graham's recommendations for the new Kenan professorships, funded under the will of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham. Venable was named Kenan Professor of Chemistry, with H. V. Wilson, Edwin Greenlaw, William MacNider and William Cain. People: Francis Preston Venable, Edward Kidder Graham, H. V. Wilson, Robert Worth Bingham, Edwin Greenlaw, William de Berniere MacNider Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William MacNider, William Cain, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler BinghamSearch the index · UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: Chronological List of Events
6. May 1918 Frederick H. Koch is hired as professor of dramatic literature Recruited by Edwin Greenlaw from the University of North Dakota, where he had founded the Dakota Playmakers, Frederick Henry Koch signed in late May 1918 at $2,500 a year to teach dramatic literature, a title he chose. He arrived that summer meaning to build a folk drama program in North Carolina. People: Frederick H. Koch, Edwin Greenlaw, Edward Kidder Graham Place: UNC, Chapel HillHoward E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 164
7. by June 5, 1919 Edward Kidder Graham's Education and Citizenship is published G. P. Putnam's Sons of New York published Education and Citizenship, a 270-page volume of the late president's addresses and papers edited by Louis R. Wilson, H. W. Chase and Edwin Greenlaw, with an introduction by E. A. Alderman of the University of Virginia. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Louis Round Wilson, Harry Woodburn Chase, Edwin Greenlaw Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: E. A. AldermanSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1919, p. 1
8. January 1920 to 1925 Edwin Greenlaw becomes dean of the Graduate School The trustees' executive committee, meeting in Raleigh in mid-January 1920, elected Greenlaw dean of UNC's Graduate School in place of Charles L. Raper, who had resigned and stayed on as head of economics. Greenlaw, the school's third dean, led it until he left for Johns Hopkins in 1925. NCpedia puts the start in December 1918. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles L. RaperSearch the index · NCpedia: Greenlaw, Edwin Almiron · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), January 22, 1920, p. 1
9. June 1925 Edwin Greenlaw leaves the Graduate School deanship for Johns Hopkins Greenlaw left after five years as dean, during which graduate enrollment had tripled to 346 students in eighteen departments. The Alumni Review said he was being driven from the state by tight budgets. James F. Royster followed him as dean. People: James Finch Royster Place: Graduate School, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 315 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 5, 1925, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 25, 1925, p. 1
10. September 10, 1931 Edwin Greenlaw, former head of UNC's English department and graduate dean, dies at his Chapel Hill home Edwin Greenlaw, the Spenser scholar who headed the University's English department and then its graduate school before going to Johns Hopkins in 1925, died of a heart attack at the home he had kept in Chapel Hill. After a funeral at the house he was buried in the Chapel Hill cemetery. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill cemeterySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 18, 1931, p. 5

After their death in 1931

Later events: estates and burials, and the buildings, honors and histories that remember them.

1. February 20, 1932 The University's Graduate Club takes the name of its founder, Edwin Greenlaw At memorial exercises for the late graduate dean Edwin Greenlaw, the club of graduate students formally adopted the name 'The Edwin Greenlaw Graduate Club,' and Almonte Howell, George Coffin Taylor and Dean W. W. Pierson spoke on him as teacher, scholar and administrator. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. W. Pierson, George Coffin TaylorSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 26, 1932, p. 4
2. October 4, 1970 UNC dedicates Greenlaw Hall The university dedicated Greenlaw Hall in Edwin Greenlaw's honor on October 4, 1970. Construction had begun in 1966. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Greenlaw HallSearch the index · NCpedia: Greenlaw, Edwin Almiron