Luther H. Hodges

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1. By 1919 Luther Hodges leads the UNC student council and his senior class Hodges worked his way through the University of North Carolina, where he was president of the student council and of his senior class. He graduated in 1919. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Hodges, Luther Hartwell (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 8, 1974, p. 1
2. February 10, 1919 Students open the Graham Memorial fund drive in Gerrard Hall At a student rally led by Albert Coates, with William H. Bobbitt and Luther Hodges also speaking, students and faculty pledged $20,000 toward a building now budgeted at $150,000. The drive reached about $70,000 by its June deadline and $120,000 by the end of 1919. People: Albert Coates, William H. (William Haywood) Bobbitt, Luther H. Hodges Place: Gerrard Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Luther HodgesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 39 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), February 20, 1919, p. 1
3. late April 1928 Chapel Hill business and University men organize a Rotary Club A Rotary Club was organized in Chapel Hill at an initial meeting in late April 1928, with Dr. Eric A. Abernethy as president and about twenty charter members; the district president, Luther Hodges, helped launch it. The club met weekly for supper at the Carolina Inn and received its charter from Rotary International at a dinner there on June 14. People: Eric A. Abernethy, Luther H. Hodges, Milton E. Hogan, Edward M. Knox Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: Luther HodgesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 4, 1928, p. 1
4. December 7, 1955 Aubrey Lee Brooks sets up a scholarship foundation for students from Orange and ten other counties In ceremonies at the Morehead Building in Chapel Hill attended by Governor Luther H. Hodges, the Greensboro lawyer Aubrey Lee Brooks established a million-dollar scholarship trust, endowed with 8,000 shares of Jefferson Standard Life stock, for students from the eleven counties of the old Imperial Fifth congressional district, Orange among them, to attend any campus of the Consolidated University. People: Luther H. Hodges Place: Morehead Building, Chapel Hill · Also named: Aubrey Lee BrooksSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 8, 1955, p. 1
5. October 28-29, 1959 Guinea's President Sekou Toure visits Chapel Hill and is honored by Governor Hodges at the Morehead Building The president of the year-old Republic of Guinea, with a party of 21 under close State Department guard, toured the University, held a press conference and was given a dinner by Governor Luther Hodges in the Morehead Building; local greeters could recall only one earlier foreign head of state in town, Turkey's president in 1954. Durham's Black weekly, the Carolina Times, faulted Hodges for receiving him at the University rather than the Governor's Mansion. Place: Morehead Building, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Sekou Toure, Luther HodgesSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 29, 1959, p. 23
6. November 30, 1960 Governor Luther Hodges accepts the Knapp Building for the state at its dedication A four-day dedication of the Institute of Government's headquarters, for which officials were invited by congressional district and the Kughler murals were unveiled, closed with Governor Hodges accepting the million-dollar building on behalf of the state. Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. stayed for the whole program. People: Albert Coates, Luther H. Hodges Place: Knapp Building, Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Luther Hodges, Sam J. Ervin Jr.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 252
7. October 12, 1971 The UNC faculty presents five Distinguished Alumnus Awards at University Day At University Day exercises in Hill Hall on the University's 178th birthday, former Governor Luther H. Hodges gave the address and the faculty presented Distinguished Alumnus Awards to Hodges, English professor Robert M. Lumiansky of the University of Pennsylvania, Texas Tech president Grover E. Murray, Durham author Frances Gray Patton and State Department official Lawrence Sause; the Daily Tar Heel called them the University's first. Faculty were asked to suspend classes for the late morning, and students held a bicycle parade, a campus cleanup and a birthday party in the Pit with Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson. People: Luther H. Hodges, J. Carlyle Sitterson Place: Hill Hall, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert M. Lumiansky, Grover E. Murray, Frances Gray Patton, Lawrence SauseSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 13, 1971, p. 1
8. October 6, 1974 Former governor Luther H. Hodges dies in Chapel Hill Luther Hartwell Hodges Sr., governor of North Carolina from 1954 to 1961 and U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died of an apparent heart attack while walking in his yard in Chapel Hill, where he had lived since leaving Washington in 1965. He was 76 and was pronounced dead at N.C. Memorial Hospital; his funeral was set for University Methodist Church on October 8, with burial in Eden. People: Luther H. Hodges Place: Chapel Hill; North Carolina Memorial Hospital · Also mentions: University Methodist ChurchSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 7, 1974, p. 1