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Clyde Roark Hoey

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“United States Senator, 1945-54, congressman, governor, N.C. legislator, lawyer, editor. Home is 1 mi., grave 1.2 mi., N.E.”

State historical marker: O-48: Clyde R. Hoey

1877–1954 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineWoollen Gymnasium, the Bowman Gray Pool and the first women’s dormitories, 1935–19411935–1941 · 12 events · Once the state supreme court settled the legal questions in 1935, the University won a Public Works Administration grant of $283,000 toward a physical education building with a swimming pool and a dormitory for graduate women, meeting its own share with a self-supporting bond issue and gifts. The dormitory, later named for Edwin Alderman, was occupied by September 1937. The gymnasium was presented to the University in March 1938, its pool the gift of Mrs. Nathalie Gray and her sons in memory of Bowman Gray, and the trustees named the building for Charles T. Woollen, who had advocated for it. Two more women's dormitories opened in 1939, and by August 1941 the University had six dormitories for women. StorylineThe Institute of Government’s building, 1935–19391935–1939 · 6 events · Albert Coates's first plan for an Institute of Government building collapsed when the Public Works Administration rescinded its grant in the summer of 1936. The University trustees had offered a site south of the Carolina Inn in 1935, and Coates had won extensions and let a contract, but the promised materials and cash never fully came through. With the campus site no longer available, he arranged to buy lots on the north side of Franklin Street facing Graham Memorial and borrowed to clear them in 1938. A gift from Will Reynolds paid for the land, gifts from Gordon and Bowman Gray covered half the building's cost, and Jefferson Standard Life lent the rest. The building opened in November 1939. StorylineThe University’s PWA building program of 1938–19411938–1941 · 26 events · In August 1938 a special legislative session called by Governor Hoey to match grants from the Public Works Administration approved University building at Chapel Hill, though not all that President Graham had asked for. Federal allotments and a last-minute approval of three more dormitories and a Carolina Inn addition raised the program to $2,349,000 by October, the government paying 45 per cent. Between 1938 and 1941 the University built dormitories, a power plant, an Inn addition, a new dining hall seating 1,050 and a zoology building, and rebuilt the interiors of older halls such as Gerrard Hall and Bynum Gymnasium. Graham dedicated the zoology building as the Wilson Zoology Laboratory in 1941.

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  1. Chapel Hill fetes Estelle Lawson Page, the new women's national golf champion About 200 people gave a dinner at the Carolina Inn for Page, who had won the women's national championship at Memphis on October 9 by beating Patty Berg 7 and 6, six years after she took up golf on the Chapel Hill Country Club course with her father, Dr. R. B. Lawson. Governor Clyde R. Hoey presented a trophy cup from the people of Chapel Hill; the Weekly called her title the greatest athletic honor that had ever come to the village. People: Estelle Lawson Page, Clyde Roark Hoey, R. B. House, John M. Foushee Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: R. B. Lawson · Also mentions: Chapel Hill Country ClubSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1937, p. 1
  2. The P.W.A. formally presents the new gymnasium to the University At a presentation dinner at the Carolina Inn, Stanley H. Wright of the P.W.A. turned the new gymnasium over to the University and Governor Hoey accepted it for the trustees and the state. President Graham named the donors: the swimming pool was the gift of Mrs. Nathalie Gray and her sons in memory of Bowman Gray, and the 1,700 lockers were a memorial from the J. E. Millis family. People: Clyde Roark Hoey, Frank Porter Graham, J. C. B. Ehringhaus Place: Carolina Inn and new gymnasium, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Stanley H. Wright, Nathalie GraySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 1, 1938, p. 1
  3. Chapel Hill's Harry McMullan is appointed Attorney General of North Carolina Governor Hoey appointed Harry McMullan, assistant attorney general, to be Attorney General after naming A. A. F. Seawell to the state Supreme Court. Both men had made their homes in Chapel Hill while holding state office, and McMullan commuted to Raleigh daily. People: Clyde Roark Hoey Place: Chapel Hill and Raleigh · Also named: Harry McMullan, A. A. F. SeawellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 29, 1938, p. 1
  4. Special legislative session funds $427,000 in University building at Chapel Hill Called by Governor Hoey to match PWA grants, the special session approved for Chapel Hill a zoology annex to the old medical building (Caldwell Hall), equipment for the new medical building, and interior reconstruction of the Alumni Building, Bynum Gymnasium and Gerrard Hall, $427,000 in all, the state paying 55 per cent. The classroom building, library addition, religious center and dramatic arts building that President Graham had asked for were left out. People: Frank Porter Graham, Clyde Roark Hoey Place: UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Alumni Building, Bynum Gymnasium, Caldwell Hall, Gerrard HallSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 12, 1938, p. 1
  5. President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks in Woollen Gymnasium and receives an honorary degree Franklin D. Roosevelt rode from Sanford through Pittsboro to Chapel Hill at the invitation of the student Carolina Political Union, spoke in Woollen Gymnasium (in rain, rather than in Kenan Stadium) to a crowd estimated at more than 9,000 inside, and received an honorary doctor of laws from President Frank Graham. Officials estimated about 15,000 came to the campus, many hearing him by loudspeaker in Memorial Hall, Hill Music Hall and the Graham Memorial, and a WPA choir of Black singers sang spirituals before the speech. People: Frank Porter Graham, Clyde Roark Hoey Place: Woollen Gymnasium, Chapel Hill · Also named: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank Graham · Also mentions: Graham Memorial, Hill Music Hall, Kenan Stadium, Memorial HallSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 9, 1938, p. 1
  6. A state commission recommends a four-year medical school, its majority favoring Chapel Hill The commission Governor Hoey appointed to study medical education recommended that the state establish a four-year, degree-granting medical school with a 300-bed hospital, at about $1,500,000 plus $200,000 a year, as part of the University. Its majority, among them chairman T. W. M. Long and William deB. MacNider, dean of the two-year school, wanted it added to the plant at Chapel Hill; Odus M. Mull and Dr. B. J. Lawrence dissented in favor of another place where an unnamed donor was said to be ready to give. People: William de Berniere MacNider, Clyde Roark Hoey Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: T. W. M. Long, Odus M. Mull, B. J. LawrenceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 9, 1938, p. 1
  7. The Orange Printshop of Chapel Hill prints the state's 1939 Public Laws in record time The Orange Printshop of Chapel Hill, managed by W. M. Pugh, printed the North Carolina Public Laws of 1939, and Secretary of State Thad Eure, presenting a copy to Governor Hoey, said it had beaten all records for delivery after the legislature adjourned. About twenty men and women worked night and day as the copy came in from Raleigh. People: Thad Eure, Clyde Roark Hoey Place: Orange Printshop, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. M. PughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 28, 1939, p. 1
  8. North Carolina's first Boys State meets on the UNC campus The Institute ran the week-long civics program for the state American Legion, modeled on one begun in Illinois in 1935. About 135 high school boys spent up to three hours a day in class on government besides sports, heard Governor Hoey and other officials, and elected Douglass Hunt their governor. People: Albert Coates, Clyde Roark Hoey, Douglass Hunt Place: UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 186 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 1, 1939, p. 6
  9. House Speaker William Bankhead dedicates the Institute of Government building On the eve of Thanksgiving a standing-room crowd in Hill Music Hall heard Bankhead, Governor Clyde Hoey and President Frank Graham praise Coates, with eight of the state's eleven congressmen and former governor O. Max Gardner on hand. A reception followed in Graham Memorial, and guests stayed for the Virginia football game the next day. People: Clyde Roark Hoey, Frank Porter Graham, Albert Coates, Gladys Hall Coates, O. Max Gardner Place: Hill Music Hall and Institute of Government building, Chapel Hill · Also named: William B. Bankhead, Frank Graham · Also mentions: Graham Memorial, Hill Music HallSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 182 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 1, 1939, p. 1
  10. The University Press issues Old Homes and Gardens of North Carolina The University of North Carolina Press issued Old Homes and Gardens of North Carolina, with text by Archibald Henderson and photographs by Bayard Wootten, for the Garden Club of North Carolina in an edition of 1,000 copies at $10, nearly all sold by early January. Governor Clyde R. Hoey wrote the foreword and signed every copy. People: Archibald Henderson, Bayard Wootten, Clyde Roark Hoey Place: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 5, 1940, p. 6

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Ralph Waldo McDonald papers, 1936.

McDonald, Ralph Waldo, 1903-1977 · 1936

Ralph Waldo McDonald (1903-1977) ran for governor of North Carolina in 1936, and his papers from that year, about 1,100 items in three linear feet, are part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5413. Political cartoons and campaign literature cover the Democratic Party, campaign funds, contested elections, Duke Power and Clyde Roark Hoey, with photographs of the Order of Gimghoul at Chapel Hill and of Walker Percy.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Hoey, Clyde Roark, 1877-1954.

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  • Historical marker O-48: Clyde R. HoeyNC Highway Historical Marker United States Senator, 1945-54, congressman, governor, N.C. legislator, lawyer, editor. Home is 1 mi., grave 1.2 mi., N.E.

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