George Howe

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1. 1903 George Howe is elected professor of Latin at the university The trustees elected George Howe, who held a Ph.D., professor of Latin for 1903-04 in place of Dr. H. F. Linscott, who had died in December. Howe kept the chair until 1936. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: H. F. LinscottSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 626
2. 1905 George Howe buys an East Franklin Street lot from the university and builds a house In 1905 the university sold George Howe the lot at 620 East Franklin Street, and the two-story hip-roofed house on it probably went up within a year or so. People: George Howe Place: 620 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey: Final Report (1992), p. 40
3. July 1912 The Chapel Hill Presbyterians vote to call William D. Moss back as pastor Moss had left in 1905 for a church in Washington, D.C. A congregational meeting voted without dissent to invite him back, at $500 a year and the manse with help from the Synod, and by mid-September 1912 he was back as pastor, beginning the long pastorate the church remembered him for. People: William Dygnum Moss, George McKie, George Howe Place: Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · The First Hundred Years: The Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, 1849-1949 (1950), scan p. 29 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), September 19, 1912, p. 5
4. 1917-1919 President Edward K. Graham engages planner John Nolen to study the campus Urged by a faculty grounds committee of W. C. Coker, George Howe and Collier Cobb, formed in 1913, and after the trustees endorsed a full campus plan in spring 1916, Graham brought in the national planner John Nolen. Between 1917 and 1919 Nolen studied the campus and recommended building out the land south of South Building, the direction the 1920s expansion took. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, William Chambers Coker, George Howe Place: UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: John NolenSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 50 · Also: The Tar Heel, March 24, 1917, p. 1
5. May 28, 1917 Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents vote to form a Red Cross chapter at the Graded School Dr. Louis H. Webb, charged with organizing chapters in his medical district, called a Monday night meeting of Chapel Hill and Carrboro people at the Graded School building on May 28, 1917, which voted almost unanimously for a full chapter rather than an auxiliary. Seventy-one people enrolled at the chapter's first meeting, which elected George Howe chairman and Alice Noble vice-chairman. People: George Howe, Alice Noble Place: Graded School, Chapel Hill · Also named: Louis H. WebbSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 18
6. October 1917 The Chapel Hill Red Cross re-elects its officers and names delegates to the state Red Cross congress At the chapter's annual meeting in October 1917, its second under the constitution, members re-elected the officers except treasurer Mrs. J. H. Pratt, who resigned, and chose Dr. J. M. Bullitt in her place. George Howe, Bullitt and Mrs. K. J. Brown were named delegates to the state Red Cross congress in Raleigh on November 1 and 2. The chapter history dates the meeting October 17; the News of October 18 announced it for Friday evening, October 19, in the school auditorium. People: George Howe Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: J. M. Bullitt, Mrs. J. H. Pratt, Mrs. K. J. BrownSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 19 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), October 18, 1917, p. 5
7. September 2, 1918 The Orange County Red Cross forms a canteen committee to give packages to men leaving for camp On September 2, 1918 the chapter appointed a canteen committee of five women, each to add another, with authority to buy supplies for packages worth up to a dollar for men leaving Hillsborough for camp. In October the Chapel Hill chapter offered to share the cost, since the men came from all parts of the county. People: Henrietta P. Collins, George Howe Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 14
8. November 21, 1918 The Chapel Hill Red Cross elects A. H. Patterson chairman at its annual meeting At its annual meeting on Thursday, November 21, 1918, the chapter elected Dr. A. H. Patterson chairman, with Alice Noble vice-chairman, Nellie Roberson secretary and Dudley Carroll treasurer. Earlier that fall George Howe had resigned for his duties on the University's Student Army Training Corps committee, and J. M. Bell had taken his place. People: George Howe, Alice Noble, Dudley Dewitt Carroll, James Munsie Bell, Andrew Henry Patterson Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Nellie Roberson, Dudley CarrollSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 19
9. 1919 George Howe becomes dean of the College of Liberal Arts Howe, professor of Latin since 1903, took over the College of Liberal Arts in 1919 to handle academic affairs while the new dean of students handled discipline. People: George Howe Place: 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. 210
10. by January 28, 1927 The Carnegie Corporation gives the University $5,000 in fine arts materials The Carnegie Corporation awarded the University $5,000 in materials for the study and teaching of the fine arts, at the suggestion of Edgar Wind of the philosophy department. The Weekly understood the gift to be books, prints and textiles, while a faculty committee under George Howe studied founding a school of fine arts. People: George Howe Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Edgar WindSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 28, 1927, p. 1
11. about 1928 Latin professor George Howe builds a Tudor Revival house on Buttons Road George Howe's stuccoed house at 2 Buttons Road in Laurel Hill takes its medieval character from a steep hipped roof, dormers, front wings and casement windows. People: George Howe Place: 2 Buttons Road, Laurel Hill, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 65 · Also: Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II, p. 626
12. by March 2, 1928 W. C. Coker lays off the Buttons residence colony, named for Button Norwood W. C. Coker laid off eleven lots beyond the Country Club on the way to Laurel Hill for a colony to be called Button's, after Button Battle Norwood, an aged Black man who had lived on the tract for many years and had been enslaved by the Battle family. George Howe bought the lot where Norwood's home stood, and Norwood was to move to the Mason farm near his married daughter. People: William Chambers Coker, George Howe Place: Buttons, off the Country Club road toward Laurel Hill, Chapel Hill · Also named: Button Norwood · Also mentions: Country Club, Mason farmSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 2, 1928, p. 1