Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves

Life and Orange County connections

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1. September 1927 Professor Ernest R. Groves buys the Marshall house in the Gimghoul colony Ernest R. Groves, newly come to UNC's school of public welfare, buys the Marshall house in the Gimghoul colony. He and his wife Gladys Groves, both writers on marriage and the family, lived there into the 1930s and added a small stone library.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 30, 1927, p. 1 · Also: National Register: Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District nomination (OR0709, 1993); Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1936, p. 5
2. July 5-9, 1937 The University holds its third conference on the conservation of marriage and the family Ernest R. Groves directed the third annual conference, which brought authorities on marriage and family life to Chapel Hill, and the Weekly reported it as the only project of its kind in the world. Groves warned that the subject's sudden popularity in schools risked exploitation and said the University would soon offer courses to train its teachers. People: Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) GrovesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 16, 1937, p. 1