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R. B. House

House became executive secretary of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1926 and dean of administration in 1934. In 1945 he became the Chapel Hill campus's first chancellor, serving until 1957, then taught in the English department until 1962. He died at his Chapel Hill home in 1987.

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1892–1987 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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R. B. House, Yackety Yack, 1916
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StorylineThe new University library, 1926–19291926–1929 · 4 events · In September 1926 the University trustees' executive committee asked the legislature for $861,000 for a new library, the largest item in its building request, and the Weekly called the library the University's first need. After Harry Woodburn Chase's pleading, the 1927 General Assembly provided $625,000, and Robert B. House kept the project on schedule with the Advisory Budget Commission while Chase was abroad. Construction began by March 1928 on the south edge of the campus, and estimates came within the appropriation. Students began using the building in the fall of 1929, and it was dedicated on October 19. Named for librarian Louis Round Wilson in 1956, it later became the home of UNC's special collections. StorylineConsolidating the University, 1931–19361931–1936 · 17 events · In 1931 the legislature merged the University, State College and the North Carolina College for Women into one University of North Carolina, and by 1936 the trustees had divided the work among the three campuses. They put the schools under one president, electing Frank P. Graham in November 1932, and in 1934 provided a dean of administration at each unit. In June 1935 they voted 58 to 11 for Graham's plan to combine the engineering schools at State College, move its science and business work to Chapel Hill and center graduate work there. In 1936 the University faculty voted 80 to 19 to send the trustees resolutions against moving the engineering school, but the trustees refused to reconsider. StorylineThe hard winter of 1935–19361935–1936 · 3 events · Chapel Hill had not had so cold a winter since 1899, said Clyde Eubanks, who kept the town's weather records, and by February 1936 snow and sickness had put off University events and closed the Chapel Hill school. Snow and ice lay on the ground almost without a break from just before Christmas 1935, and on January 28 the thermometer near Phillips Hall read 6 degrees above zero. The heaviest of six snows, beginning February 6, left about a foot. On February 11, in what Dean Robert B. House called a mild epidemic of colds, the University postponed Parents' Day, the midwinter dances and the week's athletic events, and the school closed on February 13 and 14. StorylineBuilding the undergraduate library and student union, 1964–19681964–1968 · 10 events · In the mid-1960s UNC built an undergraduate library, a student union and a student stores building beside Wilson Library. A federal loan of 1964 was for the union, and a 1966 federal grant enlarged the library, named for former chancellor Robert B. House. The site was cleared in 1966 and the library's foundations begun in 1967. In January 1968 a concrete roof section of the unfinished union collapsed without injuring anyone. The Josephus Daniels Student Stores and the House Undergraduate Library opened in the fall of 1968 and the union in January 1969, framing the sunken court known as the Pit.

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  1. Chapel Hill observes National Defense Day with exercises at the post office About 100 people gathered at the post office at noon for Defense Day exercises arranged by Carl Durham, commander of the Chapel Hill American Legion post. The Boy Scouts' band played, Robert B. House of the state historical commission was the main speaker, Dean of Students Francis F. Bradshaw and Durham also spoke, E. R. Rankin presided and Rev. A. S. Lawrence led the devotions. House called the day the first intelligent application of the principle of universal service. People: R. B. House, Francis Foster Bradshaw, Alfred Stratton Lawrence, Carl T. Durham Place: Post office, Chapel Hill · Also named: E. R. RankinSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), September 18, 1924, p. 1
  2. Robert B. House becomes the university's first executive secretary The trustees created the post of executive secretary to carry part of the president's load, and House, class of 1916, came from the North Carolina Historical Commission to fill it. His first major task was a plan for better teacher training; he ran the office while Chase was abroad in 1927. Place: South Building, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 353-355 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 23, 1926, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 25, 1926, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, March 17, 1994, p. 3
  3. University trustees resolve against selling University land to fraternities The executive committee of the University trustees, meeting in Chapel Hill, adopted a resolution against selling University land to fraternities. At the same meeting it created the post of executive secretary and chose Robert B. House to fill it. People: R. B. House Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 23, 1926, p. 1
  4. The legislature allows $625,000 for a new university library Plans had called for a library costing as much as $862,000. After Chase's pleading, the 1927 General Assembly provided $625,000, just over half of all the capital money for the campus. Robert B. House kept the project on schedule with the Advisory Budget Commission while Chase was abroad. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, R. B. House Place: University Library (later Wilson Library), UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 371 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 11, 1927, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 22, 1927, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 19, 1927, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 17, 1928, p. 1
  5. The University extension division begins a weekly radio hour over WPTF Through WPTF in Raleigh the University extension division began a radio hour every Monday from 5 to 6, with Morgan F. Vining announcing. Robert B. House gave the first program on January 9; later programs paired faculty talks with music. People: R. B. House Place: WPTF, Raleigh (University of North Carolina extension division program) · Also named: Morgan F. ViningSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 20, 1928, p. 1
  6. 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 Hibbard Place: South Building, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 2, 1929, p. 1
  7. The council of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs meets in Chapel Hill Despite a downpour, the federation's council held its two-day meeting in Chapel Hill, with arrangements by a committee under Mrs. R. D. W. Connor, an address by the state president, Mrs. Edward M. Land, and a luncheon for the whole council given by the Rotary Club at the Carolina Inn. Robert B. House welcomed the delegates to the University, and the Community Club took them on a campus tour. People: R. B. House Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mrs. R. D. W. Connor, Mrs. Edward M. LandSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1929, p. 6
  8. Chase resigns to become president of the University of Illinois The evening before, a full-dress reception at the Carolina Inn marked ten years since Chase's inauguration, with Governor Gardner already holding his resignation. When the Illinois trustees elected Chase the next day, Gardner announced it from Raleigh. The Illinois post reportedly paid $20,000, twice his salary. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, R. B. House, O. Max Gardner Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 402-404 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 21, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1930, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill's men give Frank Graham a barbecue supper on his accession as president About 200 men of Chapel Hill gave Frank Graham, the University's new president, a barbecue supper at the Country Club on the evening of July 9, 1930. Mayor Zeb Council spoke for the town, Rev. A. S. Lawrence for the churches and Robert B. House for the village's alumni, and M. C. S. Noble closed with recollections of the presidents he had known. People: Frank Porter Graham, Alfred Stratton Lawrence, R. B. House, M. C. S. Noble, Zeb P. Council Place: Country Club, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank GrahamSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 11, 1930, p. 8
  10. The Daughters of the Confederacy plant a George Washington memorial elm at Spencer Hall At the seventh-district meeting of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, attended by 90 delegates from Orange, Durham, Chatham, Lee, Harnett and Person counties, an elm given by Mrs. John Anderson was planted on the front lawn of Spencer Hall as a George Washington memorial tree and accepted for the University by R. B. House. The delegates met in the Episcopal parish house and visited W. C. Coker's grounds and the Comer home in Westwood, which has a stone step from Robert E. Lee's office at Fort Mason, Texas. People: R. B. House Place: Spencer Hall lawn, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mrs. John Anderson, W. C. Coker, Robert E. Lee · Also mentions: Episcopal parish houseSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1931, p. 5
  11. The University cuts staff pay 20 percent for the last three months of the year With the state appropriation reduced, the University paid its faculty and staff, except janitors, student assistants and fellows, 80 percent of their rate for April, May and June, on top of a 10 percent cut at the start of the year. The Weekly put the net cut for the year at 14.5 percent and said part might be returned if $40,000 in unpaid student fees came in. People: R. B. House, Frank Porter Graham Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 29, 1932, p. 1
  12. Janitors' Association president Elliot Washington asks for help joining a union In 1934 Dean Robert House wrote to President Frank Porter Graham about a request from association president Elliot Washington for help with union membership, since the janitors could not afford local union dues. People: Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Elliot WashingtonThe Daily Tar Heel: A history of housekeepers organizing at UNC
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  1. Robert B. House becomes Dean of Administration at Chapel Hill As part of consolidation, the University trustees' committee charged with choosing three deans of administration met in Chapel Hill on Monday, July 2, 1934, and its chairman, Judge John J. Parker, announced Robert Burton House as dean of administration for the Chapel Hill campus, with W. C. Jackson at the Woman's College in Greensboro. Lefler and Wager credit the choice to President Frank Graham. House's title became chancellor in 1945. People: Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank Graham, W. C. Jackson, John J. ParkerSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 153 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 6, 1934, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 6, 1934, p. 3; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 6, 1934, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 23, 1991, p. 5; The Daily Tar Heel, March 17, 1994, p. 3
  2. Chapel Hill aldermen refuse to rezone for a filling station beside the Presbyterian church Clarence Pickard and Lucius E. Stacy had asked the town to move the block east of the Presbyterian church, facing the campus, into a business zone for an oil-company filling station. After a hearing at which the University, the church's officers and W. C. Coker opposed it, the aldermen unanimously upheld the planning board and denied the application. People: R. B. House, William Chambers Coker, Clarence Pickard Place: Franklin Street east of the Presbyterian church, opposite Graham Memorial, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lucius E. StacySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 17, 1934, p. 1
  3. South Building's first floor is rebuilt into offices for the consolidated University Following consolidation, the partitions on the first floor of South Building were rearranged to give new offices to the registrar, the comptroller, the dean of administration, the assistant comptroller, the purchasing supervisor and the student loan fund; the President's office was left as it was. People: R. B. House, Charles T. Woollen, L. B. Rogerson Place: South Building, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 10, 1934, p. 1
  4. Graham refuses to move Albert Coates out of the law school In May 1935 Dean Van Hecke reported that Coates's teaching had failed again and, with the whole law faculty behind him, asked that Coates be freed from law school duties to run the Institute. Coates threatened to demand an academic trial; Graham declined the transfer and again refused Van Hecke's offer to resign, and Coates rejoined the law faculty in February 1936 and taught there for thirty years. People: Albert Coates, Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House Place: School of Law, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Maurice T. Van HeckeSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 165
  5. The Chapel Hill Methodist church is dedicated once its debt is paid Nine years after the building opened, Bishop Paul B. Kern preached the dedication sermon during W. A. Jenkins's pastorate, and Dean Robert B. House presented the building for the official board. Former pastors Walter Patten and C. Excell Rozzelle took part. People: R. B. House, Walter Patten Place: Chapel Hill Methodist Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Paul B. Kern, W. A. Jenkins, C. Excell RozzelleSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Methodist Church: A Centennial History, 1853-1953 (1954), scan p. 44 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, April 5, 1935, p. 1
  6. University calls off Parents' Day, dances and games during an outbreak of colds and influenza On the advice of University physician W. Reece Berryhill, University authorities and student leaders postponed Parents' Day, Student-Faculty Day, the midwinter dances and the week's athletic events and barred large student gatherings because of what Dean Robert B. House called a mild epidemic of colds, respiratory infections and occasional influenza. The infirmary held 64 patients on February 12. People: W. Reece Berryhill, R. B. House Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 14, 1936, p. 1
  7. Students campaign to reopen the University's first two years to Chapel Hill girls The local chapter of the American Student Union began an editorial campaign in the Daily Tar Heel and drew up a petition to the trustees asking that girls living in Chapel Hill again be admitted as freshmen and sophomores, a right ended under the consolidation plan. The Weekly reported that nearly every campus organization backed the move; Dean R. B. House opposed admitting any special group of girls, while the adviser to women and several professors favored it. There were 290 women students that fall. People: R. B. House Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 2, 1936, p. 4
  8. Edgar W. Knight resigns as director of the Consolidated University's summer schools Edgar W. Knight resigned as director of summer schools for the Consolidated University, effective July 1, after which summer work was to be run through the University's regular administration. Until then Dean R. B. House conducted the Chapel Hill session under Knight's direction. People: Edgar Wallace Knight, R. B. House Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 11, 1937, p. 1
  9. 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
  10. The University creates a division of teacher training Dean Robert B. House announced a division of teacher training, chaired by the new head of the education department, Harl R. Douglass, and made up of education faculty and at least one member of each other arts and sciences department, to coordinate the guidance of students preparing to teach. People: R. B. House Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harl R. DouglassSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1937, p. 3
  11. The Southern Historical Association meets at Chapel Hill and Duke About 700 delegates were expected for the three-day meeting, with Fletcher M. Green, the association's secretary-treasurer, in charge of the program. The University Library put on an exhibit from the Southern Historical Collection gathered by J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, which the Weekly said drew more interest from the visitors than anything else at the convention. People: Fletcher Melvin Green, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, R. B. House, Hugh Talmage Lefler Place: University Library and Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill; Duke UniversitySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 26, 1937, p. 1
  12. The Rockefeller Foundation gives the University $33,000 for its drama work and pledges $150,000 more The Rockefeller Foundation's review of 1938 reported a grant of $33,000 to the University for three years of its work in drama and a pledge of $150,000 toward an endowment of that work. The Weekly understood the pledge to depend on a new drama building, which the legislature had declined to fund in August 1938; Dean Robert B. House and Frederick H. Koch would not discuss it. People: Frederick H. Koch, R. B. House Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 7, 1939, p. 1
  13. Opera-on-Tour stages Faust in Memorial Hall after the University drops student stagehands in a union dispute The stagehands' union, backing the musicians' union against a touring opera company that used recorded music, forbade its members to work for Opera-on-Tour; J. P. Harland of the student entertainment committee hired 25 self-help students instead, but that afternoon the University administration, after complaints and threats of picketing from union sympathizers, asked him not to use them. Dean R. B. House told the packed hall, to boos, hisses and applause, that the University took no side, and the company's own members set up the scenery for Gounod's Faust. People: R. B. House Place: Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. P. HarlandSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 25, 1938, p. 1
  14. Chapel Hill and Carrboro leaders meet to find work for the jobless Carrboro mill hands Six months after Durham Hosiery Mills closed its Carrboro mill and put about 140 men and women out of work, a conference in Dean R. B. House's office brought together mill superintendent Floyd Durham, University business manager L. B. Rogerson, George H. Lawrence, Russell M. Grumman and Fred Fletcher to look for jobs for them, including places on the University's PWA building projects. The company's W. F. Carr told the Weekly it would keep giving the unemployed free rent and water in its 69 company houses after January 1 but would stop furnishing electric lights. People: R. B. House, Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, L. B. Rogerson Place: South Building, Chapel Hill; Carrboro mill village · Also named: Floyd Durham, W. F. Carr, George H. LawrenceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 16, 1938, p. 1
  15. Chapel Hill dedicates its new Town Hall Townspeople toured the new Town Hall at an open house and gathered in its courtroom for the dedication. L. T. Hansen presented the building on behalf of the PWA, which the Weekly said had paid 46 per cent of the cost, and Mayor John M. Foushee accepted it; Mayor William F. Carr of Durham, Robert B. House and Archibald Henderson spoke, and Alderman R. W. Madry presided. People: Robert W. Madry, R. B. House, Archibald Henderson, John M. Foushee Place: Courtroom, Town Hall, Rosemary and Columbia streets, Chapel Hill · Also named: L. T. Hansen, William F. CarrSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 14, 1939, p. 1
  16. Citizens buy land for a Negro Community Center Ten Chapel Hill men, among them Louis Graves, R. B. House and Paul Wager, signed a $1,500 note at the Bank of Chapel Hill to buy about five acres of the old Craig place at the west end of Rosemary Lane for a Black community center. The project grew out of concerns raised by the Negro Civic Club. People: William Chambers Coker, Louis Graves, R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Paul Wager · Also mentions: Bank of Chapel Hill, Rosemary LaneThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 6, 1939, p. 2 (People of Both Races Combine Efforts to Establish a Community Center for Negroes)
  17. UNC adds several scholars from European universities to its faculty Faculty appointments announced by Dean R. B. House in September 1939 included scholars from European universities: Helmut Kuhn, formerly of the University of Berlin, as visiting professor of philosophy; Witold Hurewicz of Vienna as assistant professor of mathematics; Franz Gutmann and Ervin Hexner as lecturers in economics; and a former lecturer in art history from Greifswald in the art department. People: Helmut Kuhn, R. B. House Place: UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Witold Hurewicz, Franz Gutmann, Ervin HexnerSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 15, 1939, p. 3
  18. Dean Robert B. House tells Paul Green to get Richard Wright out of Chapel Hill According to a 1967 letter by Paul Green published in 1994, while Richard Wright was in Chapel Hill in 1940 working with Green on the stage version of Native Son, neighbors complained after Green's secretary gave a party for Wright at her home, and Dean of Administration Robert B. House told Green to get Wright out of town, warning that men were talking of running him out that night. Green wrote that he spent the afternoon at Eubanks' Drug Store talking the crowd out of it and the night outside the house where Wright was staying; Wright was already due to leave the next day. People: R. B. House, Paul Green Place: Eubanks' Drug Store, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Richard WrightSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 17, 1994, p. 3
  19. The University opens its summer general college to women just out of high school The University announced that every woman graduate of a high school, whether or not she had been to college, could enroll in the general college of its 1940 summer session, so that girls finishing high school that spring could take regular freshman work where before they had been limited to certain special courses. The women of the first term were to be housed in the three new women's dormitories. People: R. B. House Place: University summer session, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 8, 1940, p. 3
  20. Charles E. Rush takes charge of the university library Charles E. Rush, head of the Cleveland Public Library and a former vice president of the American Library Association, took over as university librarian, succeeding Carl M. White, who had left for the University of Illinois. Assistant librarian Olan V. Cook had run the library in the meantime. People: Charles E. Rush, Olan V. (Olan Victor) Cook, R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Carl M. WhiteSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1941, p. 4
  21. 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. Honeycutt Place: Hill Music Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: William H. Peacock, Mrs. R. H. WettachSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1941, p. 1
  22. The University creates a degree in medical technology Dean R. B. House announced a new four-year course leading to the B.S. in medical technology, to be given for the first time that fall in the college of arts and sciences to meet a growing demand for hospital technicians brought on by the defense program. It was open to both men and women. People: R. B. House Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 1, 1941, p. 5
  23. The University dedicates its new zoology building as the Wilson Zoology Laboratory On Thanksgiving morning President Graham dedicated the University's new zoology building, built with help from a federal grant on the rise west of the Bell Tower, and named it the Wilson Zoology Laboratory for Henry Van Peters Wilson, who had taught at the University for 47 years until his death in 1939. R. B. House presided, Robert E. Coker, Kemp D. Battle, Ivey F. Lewis and C. D. Beers spoke, and a portrait of Wilson by Alice Kent Stoddard was shown for the first time. People: Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House, R. E. Coker, H. V. Wilson Place: Zoology building (Wilson Hall), UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Alice Kent Stoddard, Kemp D. BattleThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 21, 1941, p. 3
  24. The University organizes a civilian morale service center The University organized a civilian morale service center, which the Weekly called the first in this part of the country, under the U.S. Office of Education program the President had asked for, to build 'unity of purpose' through study and discussion groups for adults. Russell M. Grumman was coordinator, with division heads for an information library, training of forum leaders, forums, civic relations, curriculum, publications and finance. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Francis Foster Bradshaw, R. B. House, L. B. Rogerson Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 28, 1941, p. 4
  25. Bishop Eugene McGuinness celebrates Chapel Hill's first military field mass in Kenan Stadium A pontifical military field mass, the first in Chapel Hill's history according to the Cloudbuster, was celebrated in Kenan Stadium by Bishop Eugene J. McGuinness of Raleigh, after a procession of Catholic officers and cadets from the field house to an altar on the field. Msgr. Dennis Lynch preached, and the Catholic officers gave the bishop a dinner at the Carolina Inn with Frank P. Graham and Dean R. B. House among the guests. People: Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House Place: Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill · Also named: Eugene J. McGuinness, Dennis Lynch · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 24, 1942, p. 6
  26. A regimental review in Kenan Stadium honors Commander Kessing as he leaves for the Pacific With Admiral Halsey asking for him in the southwest Pacific, Commander O. O. Kessing was ordered to sea duty, and the Pre-Flight School held a regimental review in his honor in Kenan Stadium. Lieutenant Commander John P. Graff succeeded him in command. People: Oliver Owen Kessing, R. B. House, John P. Graff Place: Kenan Stadium, Chapel HillSearch the index · Chapel Hill Weekly: "Kessing to Leave Here because He Is Wanted on Battle Front" (November 27, 1942), p. 1
  27. University establishes a war training college The University announced a war training college, with Francis F. Bradshaw as dean and Guy B. Phillips as executive secretary, to train men and women for Army, Navy, civil service and civilian defense work and to grant special A.B. and M.A. degrees in war training. Two weeks later it was named to run a pre-induction program for high school boys beginning February 1, 1943. People: Francis Foster Bradshaw, R. B. House Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Guy B. PhillipsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 13, 1942, p. 1
  28. University holds a graduation for students finishing in the winter quarter The University held special graduation exercises in Hill Music Hall for about 125 men who finished their degree work at the end of the winter quarter, breaking long precedent to speed students into service. Former president Harry Woodburn Chase gave the address and Governor Broughton was to award the degrees. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, J. Melville Broughton, R. B. House Place: Hill Music Hall, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 12, 1943, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 19, 1943, p. 5
  29. Carolina Playmakers mark their 25th anniversary The Carolina Playmakers celebrated their 25th anniversary with a dinner at the Carolina Inn addressed by Barrett H. Clark of the Dramatists' Guild on the theater as a wartime job, opening the 20th Dramatic Festival and state tournament of the Carolina Dramatic Association. Twenty-one plays were given over three days. People: Frederick H. Koch, R. B. House Place: Carolina Inn and Playmakers Theatre, Chapel Hill · Also named: Barrett H. Clark · Also mentions: Carolina Inn, Carolina PlaymakersThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1943, p. 3
  30. British Ambassador Lord Halifax reviews 3,500 cadets and students in Kenan Stadium Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, came to Chapel Hill with Governor J. Melville Broughton and reviewed a combined parade of about 3,500 Pre-Flight cadets and Naval ROTC, V-12 and Army ASTP students in Kenan Stadium, then spoke to the units. University officials and the heads of the Army and Navy units greeted him. People: J. Melville Broughton, R. B. House, John P. Graff Place: Kenan Stadium, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lord HalifaxCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), December 4, 1943, p. 1
  31. Commander Graff hands the Pre-Flight School to Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh at a Kenan Stadium review Before about 4,000 people in Kenan Stadium, Commander John P. Graff gave up command of the Pre-Flight School to his executive officer, Lieut. Comdr. James P. Raugh, and left for duty overseas. University president Frank P. Graham gave the main address and a scroll from the state and university, Governor Broughton and Josephus Daniels spoke, and Graham said 13,000 cadets had entered the school. People: Frank Porter Graham, J. Melville Broughton, Josephus Daniels, R. B. House, James P. Raugh, John P. Graff Place: Kenan Stadium, University, Chapel HillCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), April 15, 1944, p. 1
  32. R. B. House becomes the first chancellor at Chapel Hill North Carolina created chancellorships for its three campuses in 1945, and President Frank Porter Graham turned to House, who had been executive secretary from 1926 and dean of administration from 1934. House held the post until 1957, the longest chancellorship at Chapel Hill. People: Frank Porter Graham Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Carolina Alumni: History of the Chancellorship
  33. The outdoor pool named for Commodore O. O. Kessing is formally dedicated The outdoor pool completed in 1943 and named by the university trustees for Commodore O. O. Kessing, the school's first commanding officer, was dedicated during the Pre-Flight sports finals. Chancellor Robert B. House presided, Comdr. James P. Raugh and President Frank P. Graham spoke, and a cypress plaque was unveiled in the pool's rock wall; the pool served the school, the university and the town. People: Oliver Owen Kessing, R. B. House, Frank Porter Graham, James P. Raugh Place: Kessing Pool, UNC campus, Chapel HillCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), June 29, 1945, p. 3
  34. UNC holds a farewell assembly for the Navy Pre-Flight School As the war ended the university held a formal assembly to say goodbye to the Pre-Flight School; Chancellor R. B. House had told the Navy that any peacetime Navy program should fold into the NROTC and the regular degree. People: R. B. House Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillNC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 35
  35. State investigators find no evidence for a former prosecutor's liquor charges at Chapel Hill A State Bureau of Investigation report found nothing to support Thomas A. Henry's charge that the university was a front for liquor traffic run by Chapel Hill police and highway patrolmen. Henry, former prosecuting attorney of the Chapel Hill Recorder's Court, had made the charge in a letter to Governor Cherry; university officials had found nothing and asked for the inquiry. People: R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas A. HenrySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 23, 1946, p. 1
  36. UNC and Chapel Hill ask the SBI to investigate a former prosecutor's liquor charges University officials asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into charges by Thomas A. Henry, former prosecutor of Chapel Hill Recorder's Court, who wrote Governor Cherry that Chapel Hill police and state highway patrolmen used the University as a front for illicit liquor operations. University, town and patrol officials denied the charges, and the aldermen joined the call for an inquiry. People: R. B. House, Robert W. Madry Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas A. HenrySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 2, 1946, p. 1
  37. Chapel Hill's Black community holds a week's drive for its Community Center and nursery school With all government money for its nursery school withdrawn, Chapel Hill's Black community held Community Center and Nursery School Week to pay for the school, more auditorium chairs and painting, closing with a rally where Chancellor R. B. House spoke. The week raised $643.47, well short of the goal. People: R. B. House, Kenneth Jones Place: Community Center, Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 11, 1946, p. 7
  38. Paul Henderson reopens the restored Colonial Inn in Hillsborough Col. Paul Henderson bought the run-down inn on West King Street at auction in 1946 and restored it as a hotel and dining room, managed by Martin Henderson. It opened on Thursday, May 1, 1947, giving Hillsboro its first hotel in several years, and about 100 people came to the formal opening of the dining hall, a Hillsboro Merchants Association dinner addressed by R. B. House. People: R. B. House Place: Colonial Inn, West King Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Paul Henderson, Martin Henderson · Also mentions: West King StreetSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 22, 1947, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 16, 1946, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 15, 1947, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 1, 1947, p. 1
  39. Harry F. Comer retires as secretary of the University YMCA Harry F. Comer stepped down after 26 years as secretary of the University YMCA. The Daily Tar Heel credited him with founding the Institute of Human Relations in 1927 and with wartime work as chairman of the housing bureau and head of the USO recreation center. People: Harry F. Comer, Frank Porter Graham, R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University YMCASearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 26, 1947, p. 2
  40. Delegates meeting in Chapel Hill form the North Carolina World Peace Forum At the invitation of the Chapel Hill Community Club, fifty people representing forty state organizations and women's clubs met in Chapel Hill and formed the North Carolina World Peace Forum to build informed public opinion on international affairs. With Chancellor R. B. House as president it held a full-day session in Gerrard Hall on April 7, 1948. People: R. B. House, Guion Griffis Johnson, Irving E. Birdseye Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Gerrard HallSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 15, 1948, p. 1
  41. The cornerstone of the Morehead Planetarium and art gallery is laid The cornerstone of the planetarium and art gallery building given by John Motley Morehead was laid at the university on the morning of the Carolina-Virginia football game, with Chancellor Robert B. House presiding and Morehead making the presentation. People: R. B. House Place: Morehead Planetarium, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Motley MoreheadSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 4, 1947, p. 3
  42. The Southeastern Theater Conference meets in Chapel Hill Sponsored by the Carolina Playmakers with the National Theater Conference, a two-day Southeastern Theater Conference brought dramatic arts leaders from fourteen Southern states to Chapel Hill; Chancellor R. B. House opened it and Paul Green spoke on the South's opportunities in theater. People: Paul Green, R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina PlaymakersSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 15, 1948, p. 4
  43. Dean McGavran reports the school spread across the old Water Works building and four temporary buildings Asking Chancellor Robert B. House to put a new public health building first among the university's needs, McGavran wrote that one department sat in the old Water Works building halfway across campus and that four temporary buildings beside MacNider Hall were overfull. The Department of Health Education still kept its office in the Water Works building in the 1950s, and the school waited until 1961 to break ground for its own building. People: Edward G. McGavran, R. B. House Place: Old Water Works building and temporary buildings north of MacNider Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · Robert Rodgers Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989 (1990), scan p. 70
  44. Druggist Clyde Eubanks receives the state pharmacists' Mortar and Pestle Award The North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association gave its annual Mortar and Pestle Award to Clyde Eubanks, a Chapel Hill druggist since 1892 who had served 25 years as alderman and was president of the Bank of Chapel Hill. Chancellor R. B. House, Congressman Carl T. Durham and Mayor R. W. Madry spoke in tribute at the University's pharmacy school. People: Clyde Eubanks, R. B. House, Carl T. Durham, Robert W. Madry Place: University pharmacy school, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Bank of Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 17, 1949, p. 1
  45. Chapel Hill hosts the Carolinas District convention of Kiwanis International About 500 Kiwanians from some 95 clubs in the two Carolinas met in Chapel Hill for their 29th annual district convention, with sessions in Gerrard Hall, a banquet in Lenoir Hall and a program at the new Morehead Planetarium. Mayor Edwin S. Lanier welcomed them, spoke of making Chapel Hill a convention center and handed the district governor a two-foot gilded wooden key to the town. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, R. B. House Place: University of North Carolina campus, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Gerrard Hall, Lenoir Hall, Morehead PlanetariumSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 1, 1949, p. 1
  46. Eleanor Roosevelt gives the Weil Lectures on the United Nations at the university Eleanor Roosevelt, a United States delegate to the UN General Assembly, opened the university's annual Weil Lectures on American Citizenship before about 1,200 students in Memorial Hall, introduced by Governor W. Kerr Scott. Her three talks on the United Nations ran through February 2, and the state's League of Women Voters chapters planned a luncheon for her that day. People: Eleanor Roosevelt, W. Kerr Scott, R. B. House Place: Memorial Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 2, 1950, p. 1
  47. Chapel Hill and rural Orange observe United Nations Day with flags sewn by home demonstration club women At 10:45 church and University bells rang and United Nations flags made by Orange County home demonstration club women were presented to the University and the town on the steps of South Building, while Chapel Hill stores closed for the ceremony. Other flags went to schools, churches, grange halls and the Hillsboro Legion hut, twelve of them in rural communities, and more flew along Franklin Street. People: R. B. House, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs Place: South Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Orange County home, Franklin StreetSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 26, 1950, p. 1
  48. UNC admits Edward O. Diggs, its first Black medical student UNC mailed Edward O. Diggs of Winston-Salem, a pre-medical student at A&T College in Greensboro, his letter of admission to the School of Medicine under the trustees' April 4, 1951 policy. He enrolled in the fall of 1951. People: W. Reece Berryhill, Gordon Gray, R. B. House Place: UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill · Also named: Edward O. DiggsThe Daily Tar Heel: A&T Student Becomes First To Enter UNC, April 25, 1951
  49. Dean Brandis handles the applications of Pauli Murray and three other Black students to the law school After the trustees left admissions to each professional school's dean, Brandis wrote Chancellor R. B. House about four Black applicants, Pauli Murray, J. Kenneth Lee, Harvey E. Beech and William C. Chance Jr., and on June 6 told Murray the school offered no graduate law courses. The UNC Libraries exhibit reads these letters as showing the law school resisting integration. People: Henry P. Brandis Jr., Pauli Murray, R. B. House, J. Kenneth Lee, Harvey E. Beech Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William C. Chance Jr. · Also mentions: UNC LibrariesSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Pauli Murray and UNC, 1951: Murray inquiry about law school admissions
  50. Bethel Baptist Church plans its hundredth anniversary Bethel Baptist Church announced an all-day centennial program with a picnic on the grounds for Sunday, August 5, 1951. UNC Chancellor Robert B. House was to give the morning address and Annie Strowd to read notes on the church's history. People: R. B. House, Annie Strowd Place: Bethel Baptist Church, Bethel Hickory Grove Church Road near Jo Mac Road, west of CarrboroSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 3, 1951, p. 7
  51. Black students sit with whites at a UNC football game for the first time After fourteen student organizations, the Daily Tar Heel and student body president Henry Bowers protested to Chancellor Robert House, the first Black students were given regular student seat passbooks instead of seats in the colored section, and they sat with white students at a UNC football game. People: R. B. House Place: Kenan Stadium, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry BowersBlack Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), September 16, 1980, p. 3
  52. Rural residents again oppose Chapel Hill's proposed zoning of the four-mile area around the town At a hearing of the enlarged Chapel Hill zoning commission many rural residents spoke in bitter opposition, while Chancellor Robert B. House argued the University's stake in orderly growth and Rep. John W. Umstead promised equal rural representation on the commission at the next legislative session; chairman L. J. Phipps accepted a suggestion to bring in more rural residents and set another meeting for April 21. People: Luther James Phipps, R. B. House Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: John W. UmsteadSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 10, 1952, p. 1
  53. Former pupils of Elm Grove School unveil a marker at the old school site At their second annual homecoming on October 12, 1952, former pupils and teachers of the old Elm Grove School heard UNC Chancellor R. B. House at Union Grove Methodist Church and then unveiled a marker at the school's old site, with the Rev. J. R. Hailey leading the service. About 400 of them had met at New Hope Presbyterian Church in September 1951 for a first reunion and formed an alumni association. People: R. B. House Place: Old Elm Grove School site, southern Orange County (homecoming at Union Grove Methodist Church, off NC 86) · Also named: J. R. Hailey · Also mentions: New Hope Presbyterian Church, Union Grove Methodist ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 16, 1952, p. 8
  54. WUNC, the University's student-run FM station, goes on the air WUNC, a noncommercial FM station run entirely by students for the University of North Carolina, began broadcasting on November 3, 1952, at 91.5 megacycles with 1,450 watts. It offered news, music and drama from 7 to 10 each evening, and Chancellor Robert B. House called it a big stride toward President Gray's goals for the University. People: R. B. House, Gordon Gray Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: WUNCSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 13, 1952, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, July 28, 1994, p. 3
  55. Orange Methodist Church dedicates three memorial stained glass windows UNC chancellor Robert B. House preached at the dedication. The windows remember the deceased members of the Women's Society of Christian Service, Samuel J. Brockwell, and the brothers Malcolm C. and John H. Blackwood. People: R. B. House Place: Orange United Methodist Church, near Chapel Hill · Also named: Frances Brockwell, Samuel J. Brockwell, Malcolm C. Blackwood, John H. BlackwoodSearch the index · A Brief History, Orange United Methodist Church, 1832-1989 (1989), scan p. 4
  56. Charles E. Rush retires as the university's director of libraries Rush retired as librarian on July 1, 1954, after thirteen years. Andrew H. Horn, associate librarian at the University of California at Los Angeles, was chosen to succeed him as director of libraries. People: Charles E. Rush, Andrew H. (Andrew Harlis) Horn, Gordon Gray, R. B. House Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill News Leader, May 31, 1954, page 8
  57. The Ford Foundation gives UNC's Institute for Research in Social Science $246,000 Chancellor Robert B. House and director Gordon Blackwell announced a Ford Foundation grant of $246,000 to the university's Institute for Research in Social Science for research in the behavioral sciences. People: R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Gordon Blackwell · Also mentions: Institute for Research in Social ScienceSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 20, 1955, p. 4
  58. Jerrold Orne is appointed University Librarian Chancellor Robert B. House announced Orne's appointment as university librarian, effective August 1, with the approval of President William C. Friday and the trustees. Orne came from the Air University library at Maxwell Air Force Base and succeeded Andrew H. Horn. People: Jerrold Orne, William C. Friday, Andrew H. (Andrew Harlis) Horn, R. B. House Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillIn the index: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · The Daily Tar Heel, June 7, 1957, p. 3 (Administration Announces Four New Appointments)
  59. A Civil War Centennial Conference meets at Chapel Hill The State Department of Archives and History, the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association sponsored the conference. At a luncheon at the Carolina Inn, R. B. House of the university presided, Christopher Crittenden welcomed guests from six southern states, and Bell I. Wiley of Emory University spoke on "The Memorable War." The group then moved to the Assembly Room of the university library for a panel discussion. People: R. B. House Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Christopher Crittenden, Bell I. Wiley · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 36 (1959), p. 251
  60. A federal grant enlarges the plans for UNC's undergraduate library A $657,000 grant under the federal Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963 let UNC enlarge its planned undergraduate library from a $1,315,000 building of about 60,000 square feet to a $1,972,000 building of about 80,000. The library, to stand beside Wilson Library and be named for former chancellor Robert B. House, was planned to seat 2,000 and open in mid-1968. People: R. B. House Place: beside Wilson Library, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 6, 1966, p. 1
  61. The undergraduate library named for R. B. House opens The new undergraduate library behind Lenoir Hall, still being finished in the summer of 1968, opened that fall as the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library, named for the former chancellor. Late shelving pushed back a planned September 1 opening; the reserve reading collection opened on the main floor in early October, and the undergraduate collection began moving over from Wilson Library on October 28, the Daily Tar Heel reported. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Lenoir Hall, Wilson LibrarySearch the index · UNC Names in Brick and Stone: House Undergraduate Library · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, July 5, 1968, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1968, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 23, 1968, p. 1
  62. UNC graduates a record class of 4,200 in Kenan Stadium The University's 176th commencement in Kenan Stadium graduated a record class of 4,200, and New York Times associate editor E. Clifton Daniel told them the country needed "healers, not killers." Honorary degrees went to Daniel, Governor Bob Scott, former chancellor Robert B. House and Justice Susie Sharp. People: R. B. House Place: Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill · Also named: E. Clifton Daniel, Bob Scott, Susie SharpSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 11, 1970, p. 2
  63. Historic district residents oppose a sorority's rezoning request at a Town Council hearing At a Chapel Hill Town Council public hearing, residents of the historic district opposed Zeta Tau Alpha's request to rezone a one-acre lot at 402 Hillsborough Street from R-10 to R-10a so the sorority could build a house there, calling it spot zoning in a single-family neighborhood. The University endorsed the change, while Chapel Hill Preservation Society president Betty Caldwell objected to the $250,000 price and the Rev. Peter Lee called it a threat to the neighborhood's stability. People: R. B. House Place: 402 Hillsborough Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Betty Caldwell, Peter LeeSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 1980, p. 1
  64. R. B. House dies in Chapel Hill House died at his home in Chapel Hill and was buried in the local cemetery. He had retired as chancellor in 1957 and taught in the university's English department until 1962. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: House, Robert Burton

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A chancellor's eye view : an account of life on the campus at the University in Chapel Hill : a report

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987; Ivey, Pete, 1913-1975; University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1957 · University of North Carolina

Chancellor Robert Burton House and Pete Ivey give an account of life on the Chapel Hill campus in a report dated March 1957 and issued by the University of North Carolina. The work deals with the history of the university and with universities and colleges in Chapel Hill, a view of the place from the chancellor's office.

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A chancellor's eye view : an informal report giving highlights of university events from February 1 to May, 1956

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987; Ivey, Pete, 1913-1975; University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1956 · University of North Carolina

Informal report from Chancellor R. B. House on university events between February and May of 1956, prepared with Pete Ivey and published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A note calls it a cross section of campus life over one semester, and it deals with the university's own history.

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The honor system in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987 · 1951 · Faculty Executive Committee

Sent to the faculty in 1951 by the Executive Committee, this statement on the honor system at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill directs staff attention to their obligations in student discipline. The transmittal letter is signed by Chancellor R. B. House. Topics include the honor system in higher education and student conduct at Chapel Hill.

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R. B. House papers, 1916-1973.

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987 · 1916

R. B. House (1892-1987) was chancellor at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1916 to 1973, come to 7,500 items in six linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3581. University administration is the main subject, with material on Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase, Josephus and Jonathan Daniels, Gordon Gray, Terry Sanford, O. Max Gardner, the Watauga Club and communism in North Carolina.

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Robert B. House Address Book, A-M

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987 · 1900

First half, names A to M, of the address book Robert B. House used from 1919 to 1921, when he gathered war records for the North Carolina Historical Commission. It lists World War I home front committees around the state with their members, towns and counties. House later became chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 132 images.

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Robert B. House Address Book, N-Z

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987 · 1900

Second half, names N to Z, of the address book Robert B. House kept from 1919 to 1921 while collecting war records for the North Carolina Historical Commission. Its pages list members of town and county committees on the World War I home front. 96 images.

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Times past in Chapel Hill.

1967

A 1967 audiocassette about earlier Chapel Hill, concerning town history and social life. The people identified with the recording are Congressman Carl Thomas Durham, Samuel Huntington Hobbs and university chancellor Robert Burton House.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Photographic Services photographs, 1976-2003.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Photographic Services · 1976

Photographs produced by the Photographic Services unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library between 1976 and 2003, about 2,500 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Includes a run of copy negatives, 1977 to 2006. Subjects include William Aycock, Doris Betts, Reynolds Price, Dean Smith, William S. Powell and Hugh Morton.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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The Franklin Street Flower Ladies

1969 · Colonial Press, Inc., Chapel Hill, N.C

Colonial Press postcard from 1969 of the flower ladies, the African American women who sold homegrown flowers along Franklin Street in downtown Chapel Hill. The caption names one of their regular customers: Robert B. House, the retired chancellor of the University of North Carolina.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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Jock Lauterer photographic collection, circa 1964-1968.

Lauterer, Jock · 1964

Photographs made by Jock Lauterer in and around Chapel Hill from about 1964 to 1968, some 3,522 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Subjects include the Speaker Ban Law, Ku Klux Klan activity in North Carolina, Tar Heel basketball and football, the Jubilee festival, the Old Well, and visitors including Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Bob Hope and Jayne Mansfield.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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Jim Wallace collection, 1960-2013

Wallace, Jim (James H.) · 1960

Photographer Jim Wallace made this body of roughly 42,000 images between 1960 and 2013, twenty four linear feet in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC, 70126. Topics include civil rights demonstrations in Chapel Hill and the 1963 March on Washington, the Speaker Ban Law, Tar Heel basketball and football with Dean Smith among the names, and university figures including Frank Porter Graham and J. Carlyle Sitterson.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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Francis Lavergne Johnson photographic collection, 1948-1971.

Johnson, Francis Lavergne, 1901-1971 · 1948

About 1,860 photographs made by Francis Lavergne Johnson (1901-1971) between 1948 and 1971, 1.8 linear feet in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Johnson photographed university faculty and employees, and subjects include William Aycock, Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, Albert Coates, Paul Green, Charlie Justice, Josephina Niggli and Louis Round Wilson among those who worked at Chapel Hill in those years.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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Roland Giduz photographic collection, 1947-1970.

Giduz, Roland · 1947

Photographs made by Roland Giduz between 1947 and 1970, about 19,000 items across eleven linear feet in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Topics include university buildings, commencements, drama productions, faculty and alumni, and baseball, basketball and football, along with the Carolina Inn and Kenan Memorial Stadium, and named figures including Frank Porter Graham, Gordon Gray and John F. Kennedy.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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Commissioning ceremony for US Navy Pre-Flight School, May 23, 1942

Morton, Hugh M. · 1942

Commissioning of the US Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC at Chapel Hill on 23 May 1942. Lt. Commander Thomas J. Hamilton, who directed the Navy's aviation physical training program, speaks at an outdoor podium, with Governor J. Melville Broughton and Frank Porter Graham behind him. Sheet film negative by Hugh Morton.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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UNC University Day procession

Morton, Hugh M. · 1941

University Day procession on 12 October 1941 passing the Old Well at UNC. Frank Porter Graham, the university's president, leads at front left, with Josephus Daniels and R. B. House behind him. A detail ran on the cover of The Alumni Review for November 1941. Hugh Morton photograph.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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Records of the Office of Chancellor : Robert Burton House series, 1919-1957 (bulk 1940-1957).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Chancellor · 1919

Correspondence and other office files from Robert B. House's long tenure as chancellor at Chapel Hill, dated 1919 to 1957 with the weight of it between 1940 and 1957. About 46,800 items in 58.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40019. Topics include the Second World War and education in North Carolina, soldiers' letters, Frank Porter Graham, medical education and college integration.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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Louis Round Wilson photographic collection, circa 1860s-1980s

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979 · 1864

Photographs collected by Louis Round Wilson, 1876 to 1979, about 670 items across 4.5 linear feet in the North Carolina Collection at UNC, dated from the 1860s to the 1980s. Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and cabinet photographs are among the formats. The photographs show the university library and its staff, campus administrators and faculty, William C. Friday, Robert Burton House and Thomas Wolfe.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987.

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