Edwin Greenlaw

Life and Orange County connections

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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.Search 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.Search 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.Search 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 GrahamSearch 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: Edward Kidder Graham, H. V. Wilson, Robert Worth Bingham, Edwin GreenlawSearch 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 GrahamHoward 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. December 1918–1925 Edwin Greenlaw becomes dean of the Graduate School Greenlaw became the third dean of UNC's Graduate School and led it until he left for Johns Hopkins in 1925.Search the index · NCpedia: Greenlaw, Edwin Almiron
8. 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 RoysterSearch 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
9. 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.Search the index · NCpedia: Greenlaw, Edwin Almiron