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Alexander Heard

1917–2009 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Ambassador William E. Dodd speaks on democracy in Memorial Hall William E. Dodd, ambassador to Germany and a native North Carolinian, spoke under the Carolina Political Union on the rise and decline of democracy; the Weekly reported that he laid much of Europe's plight to America's refusal to join the League of Nations and criticized rule by minorities of the Supreme Court. People: Alexander HeardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 1, 1937, p. 1
  2. UNC political scientist Alex Heard is named to the county welfare board Alexander Heard, professor of political science at the university, was named to the Orange County Board of Public Welfare to succeed chairman Henry S. Hogan, who had served the six years allowed. He was chosen by the other members, Mrs. R. E. Hughes of Cedar Grove and Henry S. Walker of St. Mary's, and under a new state law would take office on July 1 instead of April 1. People: Henry S. HoganSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 7, 1955, p. 1
  3. The county has the Institute of Government classify its jobs and holds raises until it is done At a joint session the commissioners refused the welfare board's plea for $1,083.60 in raises and car allowances, even after two caseworkers and a secretary resigned for better-paid Durham County jobs, because they had frozen salaries until a job survey was done. Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs said the Institute of Government would start classifying every county job the next day and finish by September 1, and the board later agreed to make any changes retroactive to August 1. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Alexander Heard, Edwin Sidney Lanier, Sim EflandSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 28, 1955, p. 1
  4. County commissioners name a citizens committee to study school finance After a strained joint meeting with both school boards on January 13, the county commissioners named a citizens advisory committee from every section of the county, including one member from each school board, a former school board member, a UNC dean, an Institute of Government staff member and two Black members, to study how the county's schools are financed. At its first working meeting on February 24 the committee chose Donald Hayman of the Institute of Government as chairman and Harry P. Breeze as vice chairman. People: Alexander HeardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 5, 1959, p. 1

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By Alexander Heard

Remarks at the rededication of the Louis Round Wilson Library

Heard, Alexander, 1917-2009 · 1990

Alexander Heard's remarks at the rededication of the Louis Round Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 29, 1988, printed in 1990. The address also concerns J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, founder of the Southern Historical Collection housed there. Issued together with pieces by Roberta Engleman on the Rare Book Collection, H. G. Jones on the North Carolina Collection and Michael R. McVaugh on Elisha Mitchell's books.

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The 1989 Frank Porter Graham lecture on excellence

Heard, Alexander, 1917-2009 · 1989 · Order of the Golden Fleece

Alexander Heard delivered the 1989 Frank Porter Graham lecture on excellence at the tapping banquet of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the honorary society at Chapel Hill, on the evening of April 7, 1989. The order printed the talk in eight pages. The lecture honors university president Frank Porter Graham.

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About Alexander Heard

Office of the Dean of the Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1920-2022 ( bulk 1955-2002)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Graduate School. Office of the Dean · 1920

The Graduate School at Chapel Hill produced these dean's office records, dated 1920 to 2022 with the bulk from 1955 to 2002, approximately 72,800 items in 92 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40107. Graduate work across the state is a central subject, including programs at North Carolina State, at Greensboro, and at the institution formerly known as the North Carolina College for Negroes.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Heard, Alexander, 1917-2009.

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