Vic Huggins

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 7 dated events in the chronology →

1. November 8, 1924 Rameses, the live ram mascot, makes his debut for Carolina Head cheerleader Vic Huggins won athletic department approval and $25 to buy a ram as a mascot; he recalled in 1977 that athletic director Charlie Woollen took the money from his own pocket. Huggins named the ram for Jack Merritt, the player called the Battering Ram, and led it onto Emerson Field. Rameses first appeared at the football game against the Virginia Military Institute, which Carolina won 3-0. Place: Emerson Field, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jack MerrittSearch the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: Illustrious, majestic and highly contested: a complete history of the live Rameses · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 6, 1977, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 30, 1977, p. 1
2. by August 27, 1943 The Orange County polio chapter reports $1,090 from the March of Dimes Dr. William P. Richardson, chairman of the county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, reported $1,090 kept from the winter's March of Dimes and President's Birthday celebration, with an equal sum sent to the national office. Local money paid for a monthly crippled children's clinic in Chapel Hill and braces and shoes for patients, with a reserve held against an epidemic. People: William P. Richardson, Vic Huggins Place: Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 27, 1943, p. 2
3. 1944–1968 Vic and Rebecca Huggins run Huggins Hardware on East Franklin Street The Hugginses bought the University Hardware Company and opened Huggins Hardware on March 22, 1944, adding kitchenware and general merchandise to the keys, paint and tools. They sold the store in 1968. Place: East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Rebecca Huggins · Also mentions: Huggins HardwareSearch the index · Chapel Hill-Carrboro Business Hall of Fame: Vic Huggins
4. by July 12, 1945 Mayor Madry names a citizens committee to study Chapel Hill's postwar housing Chapel Hill Mayor R. W. Madry appointed a Citizens Housing Committee under Oliver K. Cromwell to find out how much rental housing the Pre-Flight and V-12 "transit population" held, what would be free when they left, who planned to build, and what the University, town businesses and Carrboro's munitions plant and woolen mill would need. Madry warned that crowding would grow worse, as after the First World War, with married veterans already being turned away for lack of quarters. People: Robert W. Madry, Collier Cobb Jr., Vic Huggins Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Oliver K. CromwellSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 12, 1945, p. 1
5. March 10, 1948 Chapel Hill aldermen create a permanent planning and zoning board The Chapel Hill board of aldermen unanimously passed an ordinance setting up a town planning and zoning board to chart a comprehensive plan for streets, parks, playgrounds, utilities and public and private property, with each recommendation to go to the aldermen after a public hearing. The five aldermen who had served on the temporary, unofficial planning board, among them Collier Cobb Jr., Vic Huggins and John Parker, became the permanent board. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Vic Huggins, Robert W. Madry Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: John ParkerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 18, 1948, p. 1
6. June 2, 1956 East Franklin Street merchants open a customer parking lot at Columbia and Rosemary streets An association of 28 businesses and individuals in the East Franklin Street section opened the lot at 25 cents an hour, with the first hour free on a member's validated ticket; the News called it Chapel Hill's first customer parking lot. Monthly parking went on a second lot on Rosemary Street, the former American Legion Hut site, owned by five of the members. People: Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Harvey Bennett, Collier Cobb Jr., Vic Huggins Place: North Columbia and East Rosemary streets, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: American Legion Hut, East Franklin Street, Rosemary StreetSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 7, 1956, p. 8
7. 1968 Vic Huggins sells his East Franklin hardware store but lets it keep his name Huggins sold the store he had owned since 1944, and Huggins Hardware ran on under new owners until Miami Subs replaced it between 1989 and 1993. Place: Huggins Hardware, East Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 335