Addison Hibbard

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1924 Addison Hibbard starts The Literary Lantern, a column on Southern books Addison Hibbard of the University's English faculty started The Literary Lantern, a weekly column on books by Southerners and about the South, in 1924. It ran at first in four or five papers, among them the Greensboro News and the Charlotte Observer, and Hibbard gave it up after about three years.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 23, 1930, p. 1 (Greens to Take Over Lantern)
2. June 1, 1926 University trustees make James F. Royster and Addison Hibbard permanent deans At their meeting on June 1, 1926, the University trustees dropped the word 'acting' from the titles of James F. Royster, dean of the graduate school, and Addison Hibbard, dean of the college of liberal arts. The trustees also raised President H. W. Chase's salary from $8,500 to $10,000. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 4, 1926, p. 2
3. 1928-1929 college year University's new entertainment committee brings a season of concerts and lectures on a student fee In the 1928-1929 college year the University's new entertainment committee, chaired by Addison Hibbard, used a $1-a-quarter entertainment fee paid by liberal arts students, the lecture fund and $3 season tickets sold in the village to bring nine attractions to Memorial Hall, among them Paul Whiteman's orchestra, Sherwood Anderson, Count von Luckner, the Flonzaley Quartet and E. H. Sothern. People: Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 1, 1929, p. 1
4. July 31, 1929 The Summer School board lets students wear pajama suits about the campus On July 31, 1929, about twenty summer-school students who had begun wearing pajama-style suits on campus and in the village paraded before the Summer School's administrative board in the South Building, which saw no objection so long as nothing offended decency. The fashion followed editor Louis Graves's long campaign for cooler men's summer clothes and W. O. Saunders's pajama walk in Elizabeth City. People: Louis Graves, R. B. House, Charles T. Woollen, Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 2, 1929, p. 1
5. November 11, 1929 Chapel Hill marks Armistice Day with a reading of the Orange County war dead At the joint University and American Legion ceremony in Gerrard Hall, Dean Addison Hibbard read the roll of the University's World War dead and post commander Paul Robertson the roll of Orange County's, and Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt urged his hearers to vote and serve as they had in 1917 and 1918. The day before, the Legion post showed 'The Soul of France' at the Carolina Theatre with an offering for disabled veterans at Oteen. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, John M. Booker, Alfred Stratton Lawrence, Paul H. Robertson, Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1929, p. 1
6. by May 30, 1930 Addison Hibbard resigns as dean of the College of Liberal Arts Addison Hibbard, dean of the University's College of Liberal Arts for four years and on the faculty since 1919, resigned to become dean of liberal arts at Northwestern University. The Weekly put the loss down to the larger salaries and pensions offered elsewhere and counted it among the English department's heavy losses that spring. People: Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 30, 1930, p. 1
7. by May 23, 1930 Paul Green and his wife take over 'The Literary Lantern' book column Howard Mumford Jones, leaving for the University of Michigan, turned over 'The Literary Lantern', the Chapel Hill column on Southern books carried by a dozen Southern newspapers with about 450,000 readers, to Paul Green and Mrs. Green, whose first column was set for June 8. Addison Hibbard had started the column in 1924. People: Howard Mumford Jones, Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 23, 1930, p. 1
8. July 5, 1930 Allan Wilson Hobbs is named dean of the University's college of liberal arts President Frank Graham announced on July 5, 1930, that A. W. Hobbs, professor of applied mathematics and 13 years on the faculty, would be dean of the college of liberal arts. He succeeded Addison Hibbard, who had left for Northwestern University. People: Frank Porter Graham, Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 11, 1930, p. 6
9. September 1930 Writers in Chapel Hill launch a literary magazine, The Agora A group of writers in Chapel Hill brought out the first issue of a new magazine, The Agora, in mid-September 1930. Edited by the student Richard A. Chace, it set out to give young Southern writers a place to publish, with Paul Green and Addison Hibbard on its advisory board. People: Paul Green, Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 19, 1930, p. 2
10. October 15, 1941 English professor William Flint Thrall dies William Flint Thrall, professor of English in the University for 21 years and chairman of freshman English from 1922 to 1930, died at his Chapel Hill home after a long illness at the age of 60. He was an advisory editor of Studies in Philology and, with Addison Hibbard, compiled the reference work Handbook to Literature. People: Addison HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 17, 1941, p. 1