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Allison W. Honeycutt

Allison W. Honeycutt was elected superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools in July 1937, succeeding J. Minor Gwynn. A Yancey County native and 1902 Wake Forest graduate, he had been school superintendent at Hendersonville for thirteen years and at Lexington since 1932.

Source: Chapel Hill Weekly: A. W. Honeycutt Elected School Superintendent (July 30, 1937, p. 1)

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  1. A. W. Honeycutt becomes superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools Allison W. Honeycutt came to Chapel Hill in 1937 as superintendent of the town schools, through his ties to the university's education department. He had been superintendent at Hendersonville for thirteen years and at Lexington from 1932. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, November 2, 1944, p. 1
  2. Chapel Hill's schools start bands under David Bennett With David Bennett as the schools' new band director, the high school and the elementary school began daily band rehearsals, free to boys and girls who owned or rented instruments; the bands were to play for football games, chapel, parades and public gatherings and to enter the state music contest. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 10, 1937, p. 1
  3. The Orange County Training School PTA elects Charles C. Craig and starts a drive for shop machinery At its first meeting of the year the Black school's Parent-Teacher Association chose Charles C. Craig as president and voted to raise money for manual training machinery, a victrola and radio for the music department, and a mimeograph machine, projects proposed by principal H. M. Holmes. In late October the association reported on the drive, and Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt praised the school's two new departments, home economics and manual training. People: Charles C. Craig, Harold M. Holmes, Allison W. HoneycuttThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1937, p. 6
  4. Chapel Hill High School opens an off-street road for its school buses A new road from West University Drive to the rear of the high school went into use, so buses no longer loaded, unloaded or parked on the Pittsboro road in front of the building, the hazard Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt had named as his first concern in August. The state highway commission agreed to build a curb and gutter in front of the school. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1937, p. 1
  5. Chapel Hill High School starts a band with instruments from the Carrboro mill Under an arrangement between Superintendent Honeycutt and Glen Haydon of the University music department, Earl A. Slocum and graduate student David Bennett taught band in the schools without pay. The Durham Hosiery Mills in Carrboro gave 18 of the instruments and the Rotary Club paid to repair them; the 36-member band played at the Orange County Training School in November and gave a concert at the high school on February 15, 1938. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 18, 1938, p. 1
  6. The WPA approves work on the Chapel Hill High School grounds State WPA headquarters approved the school's application, about $2,800 with roughly $2,500 from the WPA, for a 400-foot rock retaining wall along the front, walks and drains, an all-weather bus road behind the building out to McCauley Street, and a graded playground. Town engineer A. R. Hollett drew the plans and was to supervise, with work due to start the next week. People: Arthur R. Hollett, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 21, 1938, p. 1
  7. The Orange County Training School graduates its largest class, fourteen Chapel Hill's Black high school held its commencement before a crowded auditorium; eight seniors spoke on the school's activities in place of a guest speaker. The Weekly reported 14 graduates, the largest class in the school's history. People: R. E. Coker, Harold M. Holmes, Allison W. HoneycuttThe Chapel Hill Weekly, June 3, 1938, p. 5
  8. A measles epidemic closes Chapel Hill's three schools early for Christmas With more than 30 per cent of pupils absent, Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt closed the two white schools and the school for Black students on December 16 instead of December 21 as scheduled. Health officer W. P. Richardson counted 230 measles cases in the school area since November 1; three weeks before, he had reported 110 cases from the Chapel Hill community in November, about 60 per cent white and 40 per cent Black, and 896 for the year. People: William P. Richardson, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 16, 1938, p. 1
  9. R. J. M. Hobbs leaves the Chapel Hill school board and J. Temple Gobbel joins it The trustees of the Chapel Hill schools elected J. Temple Gobbel on March 31 to fill out the unexpired term of Congressman Carl Durham, and at their April meeting reluctantly accepted the resignation of R. J. M. Hobbs. Under the new school law requiring annual reappointment, they unanimously reappointed superintendent Allison W. Honeycutt. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Carl T. Durham, R. E. Coker, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 7, 1939, p. 1
  10. The Chapel Hill schools finish new playgrounds and courts New outdoor play facilities at the Chapel Hill high school (three volleyball and two basketball courts on the old tennis court site and a graded, fenced playing field along West University Drive) were finished to open on March 20, and the elementary school got two new tennis courts, a volleyball court and lockers from the old Bynum Gymnasium. Superintendent Allison W. Honeycutt said the aim was supervised outdoor play for every pupil. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 10, 1939, p. 1
  11. About 1,600 Orange County schoolchildren perform in a county music festival at Woollen Gymnasium Children from eleven Orange County schools (Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Carrboro, White Cross, Murphey, St. Mary's, West Hillsboro, Orange Grove, Caldwell, Efland and Aycock) sang, folk-danced and played in rhythm, harmonica and school bands at a free county music festival in the University's Woollen Gymnasium. Superintendent Allison W. Honeycutt announced the program, and the festival was paid for by private contributions. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 21, 1939, p. 4
  12. Chapel Hill high school graduates a class of 66, twice the year before At commencement in Hill Music Hall Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt, school board chairman R. E. Coker and principal Walter Conrad Jr. gave diplomas to 66 seniors, twice as many as in 1938, after a student forum on youth and the South's problems led by L. M. Brooks of the University. People: R. E. Coker, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 16, 1939, p. 3
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  1. Orange County's adult education council reports classes for 637 adults The Orange County Council for Adult Education, chaired by A. W. Honeycutt, counted 530 white and 1,106 Black adults in the county who could not read and write, and in the year to December 1939 it held classes for 637 adult students, among them mill workers and a young prisoner moved from the county camp to a C.C.C. camp. Night classes ran in Carrboro, in the McFarland community on the Durham road and around Hillsborough. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 8, 1939, p. 5
  2. Allison W. Honeycutt is elected chairman of Boy Scout work in the Chapel Hill district At a district meeting in Chapel Hill, school superintendent Allison W. Honeycutt was elected chairman of the Chapel Hill Boy Scout district, with E. T. Browne as vice-chairman and secretary and G. W. Lovejoy as district commissioner. In February he and Lovejoy led a fund drive for scouting in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.Search the index · Chapel Hill Weekly: The Boy Scout Work, Allison W. Honeycutt Is Elected Chairman (January 12, 1940, p. 5)
  3. An eleven-inch snow paralyzes Chapel Hill and closes the schools Snow fell all afternoon on January 23 and lay about eleven inches deep by morning, stalling traffic, keeping the school buses from coming in from the country and closing the Chapel Hill schools until January 29, while town and University crews plowed through the night and Black town workers Hubert and Luther Atwater walked five miles in before dawn to run the town's plow. The cold held the snow for a week, and on January 28 the government thermometer fell to 3 degrees. People: Arthur R. Hollett, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 26, 1940, p. 1
  4. The Chapel Hill aldermen create a town recreation commission On July 31, 1940, the Chapel Hill board of aldermen unanimously passed an ordinance creating a five-member recreation commission appointed by the mayor, and Mayor J. M. Foushee named R. J. M. Hobbs, Mrs. R. H. Wettach, Harold D. Meyer, A. W. Honeycutt and Joseph Hyde Pratt. A 1948 account says Hobbs was named chairman; the Chapel Hill Weekly reported that when the commission organized on September 17 it elected Pratt chairman and Honeycutt secretary. On May 8 the aldermen had agreed to sponsor a community center for Black residents to be run by such a commission, and the board had first appointed a town recreation committee on September 13, 1939. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Harold D. Meyer, John M. Foushee, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 10, 1948, p. 6 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1940, p. 5
  5. Chapel Hill High School opens with a record 442 pupils and teaches in its auditorium The high school building, in its fifth year, opened on September 16 with 442 pupils, 31 more than the year before, and Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt said offices, the science laboratory and the auditorium were in use as classrooms, some classes running to 45 or 50. Architect Weeks and the state architect were studying an addition, and school board chairman R. E. Coker told the PTA on September 24 that more rooms had to come the next year. People: R. E. Coker, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1940, p. 1
  6. Chapel Hill's new Recreation Commission organizes and names a town superintendent of recreation Mayor John Foushee named Joseph Hyde Pratt, A. W. Honeycutt, Harold D. Meyer, R. J. M. Hobbs and Mrs. R. H. Wettach to the town Recreation Commission by August 30. Meeting at the Town Hall on September 17, the commission chose Pratt chairman and Honeycutt secretary and appointed Jack MacPhee, the WPA recreation director, town superintendent of recreation; its plans took in the Negro Community Center, a proposed white community center, school playgrounds and recreation in Carrboro. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Harold D. Meyer, John M. Foushee, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1940, p. 5
  7. An influenza epidemic closes the Chapel Hill, Carrboro and White Cross schools With 335 children absent and hundreds of cases in town, Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt, on the health officer's advice, closed the white and Black schools of Chapel Hill and the Carrboro and White Cross schools at midday until January 27. The University filled its Infirmary and turned the Faculty Club rooms into a ward for 156 sick students, helped by some 200 student volunteer nurses. People: William P. Richardson, W. Reece Berryhill, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 17, 1941, p. 1
  8. State survey team recommends a gymnasium and new departments for Chapel Hill High School Twelve educators led by J. Henry Highsmith of the state department of public instruction surveyed the Chapel Hill high school for the national Cooperative Study of Secondary School Standards. Their first recommendation was a health and physical education program from the first grade up, with a gymnasium; they also urged a cafeteria, industrial arts, and an agriculture department for the many students bused in from the country. People: R. E. Coker, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1941, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill High School graduates eighty seniors Eighty boys and girls received diplomas at the high school commencement in Hill Music Hall, where R. B. House of the University gave the address and Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt, William H. Peacock and Mrs. R. H. Wettach of the board handed out the diplomas. People: R. B. House, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1941, p. 1
  10. Chapel Hill High School establishes a department of vocational agriculture With the state paying two-thirds of the teacher's salary and county funds the rest, the Chapel Hill school board set up an agriculture and shop department at the high school, hired W. F. Lathan from the Aycock school as teacher, and took the former University employees' club house behind the Model Market for its shop and classrooms. More than 50 boys, many from county farms, signed up for the course. People: Allison W. Honeycutt, William F. LathanSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 25, 1941, p. 1
  11. Chapel Hill's schools report fall enrollment, with 545 at the Orange County Training School Chapel Hill's elementary school opened the year with 379 pupils, 30 fewer than a year before, and the Orange County Training School, the town's school for Black pupils, with 545, down 15, while the high school enrolled 437, more than at the same point in 1940. The schools added a full-time arts and crafts teacher, Edgar Thorne, and a vocational agriculture teacher. People: Harold M. Holmes, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 26, 1941, p. 1
  12. Work begins to heat Chapel Hill High School from the University heating system Workmen began a concrete tunnel to carry an insulated steam pipe from the University line serving the medical building to Chapel Hill High School, which had had its own furnace. Superintendent Honeycutt expected University steam in the school's radiators within two weeks, and the high school furnace was to replace the worn-out one at the elementary school. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 31, 1941, p. 1
  13. Chapel Hill and Bingham townships register for sugar ration books Teachers and other volunteers issued sugar ration books at the schools, white residents at the Chapel Hill, Carrboro, White Cross and Orange Grove schools and Black residents at the Orange County Training School and six rural Black schools. W. J. Boger directed the work at the elementary school, H. M. Holmes at the Training School and Mrs. L. R. Sturdivant at Carrboro, and the crowds were so steady that registration was extended through May 8. People: Moody W. Durham, Harold M. Holmes, Allison W. HoneycuttThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1942, p. 1
  14. The Chapel Hill school board chooses C. E. Buckner as high school principal The school board chose C. E. Buckner, dean and registrar of Brevard College since 1935 and a former Burlington high school principal, to succeed William H. Peacock, who had resigned, as principal of the Chapel Hill high school from the fall of 1942. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1942, p. 4
  15. The Chapel Hill school board adds an eighth grade under the state's twelve-year plan To meet the legislature's change from an eleven-year to a twelve-year program, the board added an eighth grade at the top of the elementary school and at first planned to drop one high school grade a year for four years. After sixteen citizens protested in a July 15 letter, the board let pupils from the Chapel Hill, Carrboro and White Cross seventh grades test into high school, and 22 of 39 qualified. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 17, 1942, p. 1
  16. Chapel Hill schools hold a Schools at War ceremony in Hill Music Hall Pupils and teachers of the Chapel Hill schools marked National Schools at War Week with a ceremony in Hill Music Hall at which seventeen war-activity groups, from the Junior Red Cross and salvage squads to the Victory Farm Workers and 4-H clubs, answered a roll call. Mayor R. W. Madry, Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt and school board chairman R. E. Coker spoke. People: Robert W. Madry, R. E. Coker, Allison W. Honeycutt, William F. LathanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1942, p. 5
  17. Chapel Hill and Bingham schools launch a Victory Garden campaign A Victory Garden campaign began in all the public schools of Chapel Hill and Bingham townships, aiming to have every school child grow a garden alone or with parents. Agriculture teacher W. F. Lathan was to teach gardening, and a tractor plow would prepare shared plots for town children without land. People: Allison W. Honeycutt, William F. LathanThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 5, 1943, p. 1
  18. Black residents of Chapel Hill launch a Victory Garden campaign Black residents launched a Victory Garden campaign meant to reach every Black family in Chapel Hill and Bingham townships, organized at a meeting called by Supt. A. W. Honeycutt and principal H. M. Holmes. Students in the Training School's Young Farmers of America and Excella clubs were to work a school garden on a plowed field beside the school. People: R. D. Smith, Harold M. Holmes, Allison W. HoneycuttThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 19, 1943, p. 1
  19. Chapel Hill school board shortens the school day so pupils can take wartime jobs The Chapel Hill school trustees moved the school day to 8:15 to 1:15 for the rest of the term, because absences by pupils working in the wartime labor shortage threatened the loss of state-paid teachers; a survey found 58 per cent of high school students holding jobs. Within three weeks absences had fallen sharply. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 2, 1943, p. 1
  20. W. J. Boger resigns as principal of the Chapel Hill elementary school The school board accepted with regret the resignation of W. J. Boger, principal for five years, who left for a larger school in Washington, N.C. Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt took over the principal's duties, and Mildred Mooneyhan was named assistant principal. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1943, p. 1
  21. Chapel Hill's schools open late with 771 pupils and nine new teachers The Chapel Hill high and elementary schools opened on September 20, four days late because building materials for new sanitary facilities were slow to come, with 771 pupils and nine new teachers. The high school, burned out in 1942, was still meeting in the Baptist church, and the 8-to-1 short schedule adopted for wartime was kept. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1943, p. 1
  22. The county acquires a West Franklin Street site for a new Chapel Hill High School The land west of the Chapel Hill elementary school on West Franklin Street was obtained for a new high school through the University, in exchange for the old high school site, and by the county board of education's purchase of more Franklin Street frontage. On November 27 the school board and architect H. Raymond Weeks spent hours planning the building with N. L. Engelhardt of New York, a leading school-plant expert. People: Howard Raymond Weeks, Allison W. HoneycuttThe Chapel Hill Weekly, December 3, 1943, p. 1
  23. An influenza epidemic closes the Chapel Hill schools early for Christmas With influenza putting hundreds of people in Chapel Hill to bed, the school board closed the white schools on December 16, six days before the holiday, after absences reached 41 per cent in the elementary school and 30 per cent in the high school; the Orange County Training School closed the next day. The disease was mild and no deaths had been reported, but the University Infirmary overflowed into its halls. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 17, 1943, p. 1
  24. Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt also takes over as principal of Chapel Hill High With wartime staff short, Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt took on the principal's duties at Chapel Hill High School as well for the 1944-45 school year. He served in both posts until he left in June 1945. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, November 2, 1944, p. 1
  25. Chapel Hill's Kiwanis and Rotary clubs buy football uniforms for the high school After an appeal from principal A. W. Honeycutt, the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs canvassed Chapel Hill and raised more than $500, which bought 22 football uniforms with pads and helmets for Chapel Hill High. Y. Z. Cannon, head of the donations committee, said the clubs meant to buy baseball and basketball uniforms next. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 12, 1944, p. 4
  26. The state credits Chapel Hill High's war bond sales with six ambulances The State War Finance Office sent Chapel Hill High a certificate saying its students' Sixth War Loan bond purchases had bought six ambulances that would carry the school's name, and praised its store-window displays as among the most striking school projects in the state. The Proconian noted that the $11,700 on the certificate counted elementary sales; the high school alone sold about $1,100. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, February 1, 1945, p. 1
  27. Chapel Hill High lets servicemen finish their diplomas with armed forces courses Principal A. W. Honeycutt announced that former students who had left Chapel Hill High for the armed forces without enough credits to graduate could earn their diplomas through courses taken in the service, once the government sent their records to the school. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, March 22, 1945, p. 3
  28. The school board names Charles W. Davis of Roanoke Rapids superintendent The Chapel Hill school board chose Charles W. Davis, superintendent at Roanoke Rapids and an Orange County native and former university student, to succeed A. W. Honeycutt, who had asked in May 1944 not to be reappointed. The board valued his school-building experience as it faced a building program; he was to take office July 1, 1945. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, March 8, 1945, p. 1
  29. The Southern Association accredits Chapel Hill High for 1944-45 Principal A. W. Honeycutt received a certificate from Frank C. Jenkins, executive secretary of the Commission on Secondary Schools, stating that Chapel Hill High was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for the 1944-45 year, despite its makeshift quarters since the 1942 fire. People: Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, April 19, 1945, p. 4

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