Thomas W. Lambeth

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1. September 13, 1974 Lambeth presents the charter for the Order of the Tar Heel One Hundred Thomas Lambeth, chairing a committee to study an adjunct to the Board of Trustees, presented its recommendation: a charter for the Order of the Tar Heel One Hundred, renamed the Board of Visitors after 1980. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Board of Visitors: The History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Visitors
2. October 11, 1974 UNC trustees tentatively approve selling the University utilities and call for a local water and sewer authority The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted 13 to 1 to approve the study commission's plan to sell the telephone system to Southern Bell and the electric and water systems to Duke Power, but asked that Duke Power build the planned Cane Creek reservoir and then sell the water system to a water and sewer authority of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and possibly Orange County. Student Body President Marcus Williams, an ex officio trustee, cast the only no vote, and the board asked the negotiators for a second contract covering the electric system alone in case federal money could build the reservoir. People: Thomas W. Lambeth Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Marcus WilliamsThe Daily Tar Heel, October 14, 1974, p. 1
3. March 11, 1977 UNC trustees choose an architect for the new central library and approve a larger Manning Drive parking deck The UNC Board of Trustees unanimously chose the Wilmington firm of Leslie N. Boney as architect, with Mitchell-Giurgola Associates of Philadelphia as consultants, for a $22 million central library to be built on the Carolina Union parking lot, and approved an 800-space addition to the 621-space parking deck on Manning Drive to replace the 474 spaces the library would take. Student body president Bill Moss cast the only vote against the deck, asking for more student discussion; Vice Chancellor Claiborne S. Jones said ground for the library was to be broken in spring 1979. People: Thomas W. Lambeth, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Carolina Union parking lot, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Leslie N. Boney, Bill Moss, Claiborne S. Jones · Also mentions: Manning DriveSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 14, 1977, p. 1
4. September 8, 1978 UNC trustees approve a 600-space shuttle parking lot near Hinton James The UNC Board of Trustees approved a 600-space parking lot between Hinton James dormitory and U.S. 15-501, to be served by shuttle buses, because the Health Sciences deck addition would not be finished by summer 1979, when the lot beside the Carolina Union would be lost to the new central library. People: Thomas W. Lambeth Place: Between Hinton James dormitory and U.S. 15-501, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina Union, U.S. 15-501Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 11, 1978, p. 2
5. September 8, 1978 UNC trustees refuse to move the planned UNC Press building out of Battle Park Over neighbors' objections, the UNC Board of Trustees refused to reconsider building a UNC Press office of about 10,300 square feet on a 1.3-acre lot at Boundary Street and Hooper Lane in the Battle Park neighborhood, where three rented houses stood; chairman Thomas W. Lambeth said the press belonged near the campus. More than 50 residents had protested at an August 17 meeting with Vice Chancellor John L. Temple, and the Chapel Hill Planning Board had just recommended rezoning the tract from University to residential use. People: Thomas W. Lambeth Place: Boundary Street and Hooper Lane, Chapel Hill · Also named: John L. Temple · Also mentions: Battle Park neighborhoodThe Daily Tar Heel, September 11, 1978, p. 1
6. October 12, 1978 UNC trustees hold an open meeting with students After their yearly dinner with 25 selected students, the UNC Board of Trustees met any interested students in the Carolina Union, a session the Daily Tar Heel called the first of its kind in recent University history, arranged by student body president Jim Phillips. Students raised parking, which Vice Chancellor John Temple partly blamed on the town's removal of about 1,000 on-street spaces the year before, and BSM president Allen Johnson pressed the trustees on Dean Renwick's admissions charges. People: Thomas W. Lambeth Place: Carolina Union, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Jim Phillips, John Temple, Allen JohnsonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1978, p. 1
7. June 8, 1979 The Board of Governors appoints new Chapel Hill trustees On June 8, 1979, the UNC Board of Governors appointed 67 trustees for the 16 campuses, naming Travis Porter and George Ragsdale to the Chapel Hill board and reappointing Thomas W. Lambeth and Jack Tate, and approved a master's program in dental auxiliary teaching at Chapel Hill. People: Thomas W. Lambeth Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Travis Porter, George Ragsdale, Jack TateSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 14, 1979, p. 3
8. September 18 or 19, 1979 A UNC trustees' committee recommends keeping the $20 student health fee increase After a public hearing on the health fee increase, the trustees' Student Affairs Committee voted 2 to 1 to recommend approval, asked for a comparison of health services across the UNC system and an independent study of the service, and chairman Thomas Lambeth suggested reducing the part of the fee tied to the new building once it opened. People: Thomas W. Lambeth Place: Morehead Planetarium faculty lounge, University, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: UNC systemSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 20, 1979, p. 1
9. January 28, 1980 UNC trustees raise the student health fee over student government's objection On January 28, 1980, the UNC Board of Trustees approved a $7.50-a-semester increase in the student health fee for 1980-81, on top of the increase of the previous fall, to pay state-mandated salary raises; Student Body President J. B. Kelly opposed it until student health needs were studied. The trustees also approved a new orientation fee and an intramural and recreation fee contingent on a student referendum. People: Thomas W. Lambeth Place: Morehead Building, University, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. B. KellySearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 29, 1980, p. 1
10. 2006 The Lambeth Lectureship in public policy is established at UNC Joel L. Fleishman established the Lambeth Lectureship at Chapel Hill in 2006 with an anonymous gift, honoring Lambeth's public policy work. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Joel L. FleishmanSearch the index · UNC Public Policy: Lambeth Lectureship
11. 2012 UNC confers an honorary Doctor of Laws on Thomas W. Lambeth The university gave Lambeth an honorary degree for public service and philanthropy, citing his two years as chair of its Board of Trustees. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Faculty Governance: Thomas Willis Lambeth, Doctor of Laws
12. July 1, 2013 The Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy begins The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation funded a five-year chair at UNC honoring Lambeth's retirement, and three professors were named to it from July 1, 2013. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC News Archive: Three UNC professors honored with Lambeth Chair