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Jonathan Howes came to UNC in 1959 to study city and regional planning and later directed the university's Center for Urban and Regional Studies for 23 years. He sat on the Chapel Hill Town Council from 1975 until 1987, when he was elected to the first of two terms as mayor. He retired from UNC in 2010.
Source: WUNC: Lifelong North Carolina Public Servant Jonathan Howes Dies At 78
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Jonathan Howes, a former mayor of Chapel Hill who served in Governor Hunt's cabinet and later worked in the UNC chancellor's office on urban planning, gave this illustrated talk on the past and future of the Chapel Hill campus. Cassette, 1998.
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