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Margaret Taylor Harper

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  1. UNC trustees approve the Health Sciences deck addition and raise parking fines Four days after the aldermen turned down the permit, the UNC Board of Trustees approved plans for an addition to the Health Sciences parking deck over Student Body President Jim Phillips's objections and set aside $3,157,000 for it. The trustees also raised parking fines and towing fees from July 1 and named a committee to study whether the University should give the bus system more support. People: Walter Royal Davis, Margaret Taylor Harper, E. M (Elie Maynard) Adams Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jim PhillipsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 17, 1978, p. 1
  2. UNC trustees leave the end of Student Stores money for athletic scholarships to the chancellor Asked by student body president Jim Phillips to stop using $25,000 a year of Student Stores profits for athletic grants-in-aid, the UNC Board of Trustees left any phase-out to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, who said he had cut the support from $45,000 in 1971-72 and meant to end it; trustee Walter R. Davis's compromise to end it while the athletic department ran in the black was rejected. People: N. Ferebee Taylor, Walter Royal Davis, Margaret Taylor Harper Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jim Phillips · Also mentions: Student StoresSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1978, p. 1

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By Margaret Taylor Harper

Margaret Taylor Harper papers, 1955-

Harper, Margaret Taylor, 1917-2009 · 1955

Margaret Taylor Harper (1917 to 2009), a journalist from Southport who served on the Board of Trustees at Chapel Hill, left papers opening in 1955 with no closing date given, collection 4496 in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC. Topics include women in public life and politics in North Carolina, women's clubs and the state Council of Women's Organizations, and social life in Southport.

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