J. Minor Gwynn

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1. by May 27, 1932 J. Minor Gwynn is named principal of the Chapel Hill school The school board unanimously chose Gwynn, an assistant professor of education released by the University, to succeed Superintendent Hoyle, who returned to teaching; the title of superintendent was dropped, though the principal would head both the high school and the elementary school. He took office September 1. People: J. Minor GwynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 27, 1932, p. 1
2. by September 2, 1932 The Chapel Hill school board adopts a textbook rental plan for the first four grades By September 2, 1932 the Chapel Hill school board had decided to rent textbooks to pupils in the first four grades, at $2 to $3 a year, as Durham, Greensboro and Reidsville did; buying books remained optional. The school bought back usable second-hand texts on Book Days, September 13 and 14, and began renting books that week. People: J. Minor GwynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 2, 1932, p. 1
3. May 28, 1933 Chapel Hill's school board asks to stay a special district that may vote its own school tax Meeting on a Sunday, the former Chapel Hill charter school board voted unanimously to ask that its old district, with unchanged boundaries, become a city administrative unit under the 1933 school machinery act, so that its voters could tax themselves to supplement the state's allowance for an eight-month term. The county board of education approved the request at a special meeting two days later and sent it on to the State School Commission. People: Harold D. Meyer, J. Minor GwynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 2, 1933, p. 1
4. by July 21, 1933 The State School Commission makes an enlarged Chapel Hill district a special school unit After first ruling that a special unit needed more children than Chapel Hill had, the State School Commission agreed to make Chapel Hill a special school district once the local board proposed adding the thinly settled country north of Bolin Creek to reach the required enrollment. The new district ran from Morgan Creek and the Durham County line north past the Weaver dairy to the old Hillsboro road, and the board asked leave to vote a supplementary tax of up to 20 cents. People: J. Minor GwynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 21, 1933, p. 1
5. by September 1, 1933 Chapel Hill's school board sets an 18.5-cent tax for the October 12 vote and names H. F. Munch acting superintendent With the approval of the county commissioners, the county board of education and the town council, the Chapel Hill board of education fixed at 18.5 cents on $100 the special tax to be put to the district's voters on October 12, to raise teachers' pay and add a ninth month to the state's eight. It chose H. F. Munch of the University's school of education, a former high school principal, to run the school while J. Minor Gwynn was on leave. People: J. Minor GwynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 1, 1933, p. 1
6. by July 13, 1934 George Howard becomes principal of the Chapel Hill school When H. F. Munch declined another year, the school board chose George Howard, a former Rowan and Edgecombe county superintendent and state director of school organization, to run the Chapel Hill school while J. Minor Gwynn stayed on leave at Yale; the University released Howard from its extension division for the year. People: J. Minor GwynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 13, 1934, p. 1
7. by July 12, 1935 The state school commission takes a teacher from Chapel Hill's school for Black children The state school commission notified Superintendent J. Minor Gwynn that the Chapel Hill school for Black children would lose one elementary teacher for 1935-36 because its building lacked classroom space for the teachers it had; Gwynn hoped to have the ruling reversed. People: J. Minor GwynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 12, 1935, p. 3
8. by August 21, 1936 Lettie Glass becomes principal of Chapel Hill's elementary school Miss Lettie Glass, about to begin her twentieth year in the Chapel Hill school and often its acting principal, was named principal of the elementary school, which kept the old building while Superintendent J. Minor Gwynn moved to the new high school. The school budget added a teacher, restored physical education and extended art. People: J. Minor GwynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 21, 1936, p. 1
9. March 1937 J. Minor Gwynn gives up the Chapel Hill school superintendency J. Minor Gwynn, superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools since 1932 and a teacher there since 1927, decided to leave the post at the end of the session to teach full time in the University. School board chairman R. E. Coker credited him with the planning of the new high school and a new building at the Orange County Training School, and the board began looking with the University for a successor. People: R. E. Coker, J. Minor GwynnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1937, p. 1