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Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman

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StorylineThe Carrboro school as a community center: night school and clinics, 1929–19331929–1933 · 15 events · Between 1929 and 1933 the Carrboro school served grown people as well as children, with health clinics, a night school for adults and the start of a library. The annual child health clinic gave free examinations and vaccinations there, and in 1931 Dr. J. P. Jones began a free dental clinic. A night school for adults, begun in summer 1931 by students of a University extension course, reopened at the school that fall under Mrs. R. M. Grumman. In 1933 the State Federation of Women's Clubs named its pupil Marvin Pendergraph the most improved night-school pupil in North Carolina, and Nellie Roberson gave the school 145 books toward a library for grown people as well as children. StorylineChapel Hill’s Dogwood Festival, 1933–19351933–1935 · 5 events · Begun in April 1933 in the Forest Theatre with fiddlers and ballad singers, and more than 1,500 North Carolina crafts shown in the Graham Memorial, the Dogwood Festival paid its expenses from 25-cent admissions and was held again in 1934 and 1935. By 1934 the state had chartered it as a non-stock corporation to promote folk music, drama, dancing, crafts and the protection of native dogwoods, with Russell M. Grumman as president. The second festival brought more than 100 unpaid performers and exhibitors, from Ashe County musicians to the Jugtown potters. The third included a Cherokee ball game that, the Weekly reported, filled the stands at Emerson Field, and a state Scout Jubilee that brought about 1,600 Boy Scouts.

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  1. The University holds its first Summer Institute for adult education The University extension division opened its first Summer Institute on August 16, 1926, a two-week mix of short courses and recreation with a school of citizenship under Howard W. Odum, a school of recreation and physical education under Harold D. Meyer, and a coaching school under Robert A. Fetzer. Durham's city recreation workers helped teach, and when it closed on August 27 extension director R. M. Grumman said it would be held every year. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Howard W. Odum, Robert A. Fetzer, Harold D. Meyer Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1926, p. 1
  2. The Southern Textile Social Service Association holds its ninth convention in Chapel Hill The ninth annual convention of the Southern Textile Social Service Association, which brought the leading mill social workers of the South to Chapel Hill, opened on the evening of August 25 for a two-day session under the University's extension division. It followed a ten-day textile social workers' institute taught by Howard W. Odum and other University men, and speakers included G. T. Schwenning on women in industry and the state vocational education superintendents of both Carolinas. People: Howard W. Odum, Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: G. T. SchwenningSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 26, 1927, p. 1
  3. University trustees make R. M. Grumman director of extension Meeting in Chapel Hill, the executive committee of the trustees approved the summer's faculty changes, making R. M. Grumman, acting director for two years, director of the extension division and promoting W. E. Caldwell to full professor, along with a list of new appointments. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: W. E. CaldwellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 21, 1928, p. 3
  4. American Association for Adult Education holds its annual meeting at Chapel Hill About 150 educators came to Chapel Hill for the fourth annual meeting of the American Association for Adult Education, with the Carolina Inn as headquarters. Speakers included Frederick P. Keppel of the Carnegie Corporation, U. S. Commissioner of Education William J. Cooper, Everett Dean Martin and President Chase. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: Carolina Inn and UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frederick P. Keppel, William J. Cooper, Everett Dean MartinSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 24, 1929, p. 1
  5. The North Carolina Press Association holds its sixth newspaper institute at Chapel Hill The state press association's sixth annual institute opened with a speech by David Lawrence, publisher of the United States Daily, in Gerrard Hall and continued with sessions at the Carolina Inn and an oyster supper at the Country Club. Morgan F. Vining and Russell M. Grumman of the University extension division ran the program with president Carey Dowd. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: Gerrard Hall and the Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: David Lawrence, Carey Dowd, Morgan F. Vining · Also mentions: Country Club, Gerrard HallSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 17, 1930, p. 1
  6. The Carrboro Night School closes its third term At exercises in the Carrboro school building, R. M. Grumman awarded certificates and spoke on adult education in the state, Mrs. E. R. Mosher also spoke, and Ed Vaughn, the first pupil enrolled, who had not missed a meeting in three terms, received a Bible. Pupils thanked the Carrboro school board for the building, the P.T.A. for lights, the Woman's Club and Missionary Society for teachers and the Kiwanis Club for money. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: Carrboro school, Carrboro · Also named: Mrs. E. R. Mosher, Ed VaughnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 27, 1932, p. 8
  7. Chapel Hill holds a Dogwood Festival of folk music, dancing and crafts The Dogwood Festival filled the Forest Theatre with fiddlers, ballad singers, the Carrboro band, square and English country dances and the Hugh Morson school dancers, while more than 1,500 North Carolina crafts were shown in the Graham Memorial. The 25-cent admissions covered expenses and left a small fund, and the committee planned to make it a yearly event; the Weekly called it the first festival. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Phillips Russell, Lamar Stringfield Place: Forest Theatre, Battle Park, and the Graham Memorial, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Graham MemorialSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 5, 1933, p. 5
  8. T. Smith McCorkle becomes acting head of the University music department After Harold S. Dyer resigned as head of the music department, violinist and band director T. Smith McCorkle, eight years on the faculty, was appointed acting head, and Russell M. Grumman succeeded Dyer as chairman of the Institute of Folk Music. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Harold S. Dyer Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: T. Smith McCorkleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 22, 1933, p. 1
  9. The Dogwood Festival is incorporated Chapel Hill's Dogwood Festival, first held in 1933, was chartered by the state as a non-stock corporation to promote folk music, drama, dancing, games, crafts and the protection of native dogwoods. Russell M. Grumman was president, Joseph Hyde Pratt vice-president and Felix Grisette secretary-treasurer. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Phillips Russell, Herman G. Baity Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Felix GrisetteSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 16, 1934, p. 1
  10. Chapel Hill holds its second Dogwood Festival The second Dogwood Festival ran April 13 to 15, with crafts in Graham Memorial, paintings in Hill Music Hall, and on April 14 a day of string bands, ballads, square dances and plays in the Forest Theatre and the Playmakers Theatre. More than 100 unpaid performers and exhibitors took part, among them musicians from Ashe County, a dance team from Rose Hill in Duplin County and the Jugtown potters. People: Phillips Russell, Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: Forest Theatre, Playmakers Theatre and Graham Memorial, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Graham Memorial, Hill Music Hall, Playmakers TheatreSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 20, 1934, p. 3
  11. Chapel Hill holds its third Dogwood Festival, with a Cherokee ball game on Emerson Field The third annual festival opened April 25 with a Playmakers performance and ran through the weekend with arts and crafts exhibits, a folk music program in Memorial Hall, open gardens, and on April 27 a ball game between Cherokee teams from Wolftown and Yellow Hill. The Weekly reported that the game filled the stands at Emerson Field and paid for itself. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: Emerson Field, Memorial Hall and campus, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 3, 1935, p. 3
  12. Chapel Hill raises $1,690 for the Ohio and Mississippi flood sufferers Asked by Red Cross headquarters for $120, then $240 and then $600, the Chapel Hill chapter had collected $1,690 for flood sufferers in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys by February 4, 1937, and shipped 19 boxes of clothing. Five Junior Red Cross units gave more than $100, among them the Orange County Training School for Black pupils as well as the white schools of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and White Cross, and the Black janitors on the campus took up their own collection. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, W. E. Thompson Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Orange County Training SchoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 5, 1937, p. 1
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  1. The American Chemical Society holds its national meeting in Chapel Hill About 2,155 chemists and guests from 38 states, Hawaii and seven foreign countries came for the society's annual meeting, the first it had held on a Southern college campus and, the Weekly said, the largest gathering of professional people ever held in the state. The University put off its spring vacation to house visitors in the dormitories, about 500 were lodged in village homes, papers were read in campus classrooms, and Duke University was host for an afternoon and evening. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Charles H. Herty Place: University Library and campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 16, 1937, p. 1
  2. About 1,800 Boy Scouts camp on the University campus for the Region Six Jubilee Scouts from the two Carolinas, invited by the University, pitched tents on Emerson Field, behind the law building and in the grove by the library for the second Jubilee of Region Six, with campfires and a Scout-o-Rama on Fetzer Field, a parade up Franklin Street arranged by the Merchants Association, meals at Swain Hall and a field hospital run by the infirmary. National Chief Scout Executive James E. West was to be guest at the Saturday campfire, and the program called for the Scouts to attend the Carolina-Tulane game and break camp on Sunday. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Harold D. Meyer Place: Emerson Field and Fetzer Field, UNC campus · Also named: James E. West · Also mentions: Fetzer Field, Swain Hall, Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 7, 1938, p. 1
  3. Eighty volunteers go out across Orange County to teach adults to read Orange County's campaign against adult illiteracy got under way when 80 unpaid volunteers, most of them University students, were given WPA teaching materials and sent out to teach one to five adults each for two hours a week, working from a list drawn from the registration and tax books. A University committee headed by Russell Grumman ran the campaign, which grew out of a meeting of Frank Graham, the WPA's L. R. Alderman and state adult education director Elizabeth Morriss and was to serve as a model for other counties; the 1930 census had counted 1,668 adult illiterates in Orange. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Frank Porter Graham Place: Orange County · Also named: Elizabeth Morriss, L. R. Alderman, Frank Graham, Russell GrummanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 11, 1938, p. 1
  4. The Orange County Council on Education organizes at Hillsboro An organization meeting at Hillsboro set up the Orange County Council on Education, electing Sydney Green chairman, Bonner Sawyer vice-chairman and Mrs. Marguerite Richmond secretary, all of Hillsboro. Russell Grumman of Chapel Hill, named chairman of ways and means, said the council's first big job was helping with the volunteer work of the county's literacy campaign. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Bonner D. Sawyer Place: Hillsboro · Also named: Sydney Green, Bonner Sawyer, Marguerite Richmond, Russell GrummanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 18, 1938, p. 5
  5. Chapel Hill and Carrboro leaders meet to find work for the jobless Carrboro mill hands Six months after Durham Hosiery Mills closed its Carrboro mill and put about 140 men and women out of work, a conference in Dean R. B. House's office brought together mill superintendent Floyd Durham, University business manager L. B. Rogerson, George H. Lawrence, Russell M. Grumman and Fred Fletcher to look for jobs for them, including places on the University's PWA building projects. The company's W. F. Carr told the Weekly it would keep giving the unemployed free rent and water in its 69 company houses after January 1 but would stop furnishing electric lights. People: R. B. House, Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, L. B. Rogerson Place: South Building, Chapel Hill; Carrboro mill village · Also named: Floyd Durham, W. F. Carr, George H. LawrenceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 16, 1938, p. 1
  6. University student volunteers begin evening classes for prisoners at the county prison camp Extending the county literacy campaign begun in the fall of 1938, University student volunteers began teaching classes twice a week at the white prison camp on the road between Chapel Hill and Hillsboro, where about 35 of the 85 prisoners took part. Russell M. Grumman and Roben J. Maaske directed the work, arranged by county adult education director Rebecca Wall and camp director Tom McKee, and the Weekly said the classes were the camp's only recreation or education. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: State prison camp on the road between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough · Also named: Roben J. Maaske, Rebecca Wall, Tom McKeeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 3, 1939, p. 1
  7. R. M. Grumman and Mrs. Grumman receive the Carolina Theatre's most-valuable-citizen trophy A committee chaired by Mrs. Isaac Manning chose R. M. Grumman, director of the University extension division, and Mrs. Grumman, until recently librarian and a teacher at the Carrboro school, for the trophy the Carolina Theatre gave each year to Chapel Hill's most valuable citizen. It was presented at the theatre on December 22. Place: Carolina Theatre, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mrs. R. M. Grumman, Mrs. Isaac Manning · Also mentions: Carrboro schoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 5, 1940, p. 6
  8. The University's new radio studio makes its first broadcast The University's radio studio on the second floor of Caldwell Hall, the former medical building, broadcast its first program, a student-written variety show with songs by the Glee Club, on the afternoon of January 14. Run by the extension division with Ralph McDonald in charge and Earl Wynn as program director, it sent non-commercial programs to seven stations in Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Charlotte, Salisbury and Winston-Salem. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: Caldwell Hall, University campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ralph McDonald, Earl WynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 19, 1940, p. 1
  9. The University organizes a civilian morale service center The University organized a civilian morale service center, which the Weekly called the first in this part of the country, under the U.S. Office of Education program the President had asked for, to build 'unity of purpose' through study and discussion groups for adults. Russell M. Grumman was coordinator, with division heads for an information library, training of forum leaders, forums, civic relations, curriculum, publications and finance. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Francis Foster Bradshaw, R. B. House, L. B. Rogerson Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 28, 1941, p. 4
  10. Chapel Hill and Carrboro give $8,820 to the Red Cross War Fund, far over quota The Red Cross War Fund campaign in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, opened March 1 under Hugh Lefler, raised $8,820.89 against a $5,400 quota. University students gave $1,237, the National Munitions plant and its employees $914, Black residents of Chapel Hill $220 under Nurse Compton, and the Hollywood, the Black theater, $50. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Robert W. Madry, Hugh Talmage Lefler Place: Chapel Hill and Carrboro · Also named: Hugh Lefler, Nurse ComptonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 7, 1943, p. 1
  11. The Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter reports 192,300 surgical dressings and an $8,848 War Fund At its annual meeting in the Town Hall the chapter reported 192,300 surgical dressings made since September 1942, nineteen first-aid classes with 260 enrolled, 807 garments from 180 knitters and 1,737 from its sewing rooms. It kept $2,173 of the $8,848 given to the spring War Fund and re-elected R. M. Grumman chairman. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: Town Hall, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, July 2, 1943, p. 1
  12. Commissioners name county members to Chapel Hill's enlarged zoning commission Under the special enabling act just passed by the legislature, mainly to keep commercial building off the new four-lane Durham-Chapel Hill boulevard, the commissioners on April 9 named Alastair L. Muirhead of Glen Lennox, D. W. Loomis of Hidden Hills and Dr. Lucy Morgan to the enlarged Chapel Hill zoning commission. On May 7 they named three members to the enlarged zoning board of adjustment. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: Orange County Courthouse, Hillsborough · Also named: Alastair L. Muirhead, D. W. Loomis, Lucy MorganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 12, 1951, p. 1

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By Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman

The University of North Carolina's Extension Division

Grumman, Russell M. (Russell Marvin), 1895-1963 · 1930 · School News Company

Russell M. Grumman's account of the Extension Division at the University of North Carolina, detached from the magazine School and dated December 4, 1930. The piece concerns university extension in Chapel Hill, so it records how the university carried teaching beyond the campus to readers of a national education paper.

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Records of the Carolina Folk Festival, 1946-1953

Carolina Folk Festival · 1946

Files of the Carolina Folk Festival, the folk music gathering staged at Chapel Hill between 1946 and 1953, numbered 40175 in the University Archives at UNC. The festival is associated with the university's Folklore Council and to Russell M. Grumman (1895 to 1963), and they treat it as part of North Carolina social life and customs.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Grumman, Russell M. (Russell Marvin), 1895-1963.

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