Henry W. Lewis

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1946 Henry W. Lewis joins the Institute of Government faculty After his discharge from the Army, Lewis joined the small faculty of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, where he worked mainly on election law and the property tax. People: Henry Wilkins Lewis Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · UNC School of Government: In Memoriam: Henry Wilkins Lewis (1916-2004), Popular Government, Winter 2005
2. November 1, 1949 The Institute of Government delivers its Charlotte-Mecklenburg consolidation study Asked in 1946 by Charlotte and Mecklenburg County leaders after a Charlotte News series, the Institute spent nearly three years inventorying every city and county department. Coates gave the first public report on November 1, 1949, staff members presented eight more over four months, and the study took no side on merger; the city and county schools were combined about a decade later. People: Albert Coates, Henry W. Lewis, George H. Esser Jr., Philip P. Green Jr. Place: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County; Institute of Government, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 217
3. 1973 to 1978 John L. Sanders leaves the Institute to become the University of North Carolina's vice president for planning Sanders gave up the directorship of the Institute of Government in 1973 to become vice president for planning of the University of North Carolina system, where he helped draft its first long-range plan. Henry W. Lewis directed the Institute in his absence. People: John L. Sanders, Henry W. Lewis Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute of Government, University of North Carolina systemSearch the index · UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: John L. Sanders Papers, 1915-2005
4. November 1973 to 1979 Henry W. Lewis serves as director of the Institute of Government The UNC Board of Governors appointed Lewis director of the Institute of Government on October 22, 1973, for a five-year term beginning November 1, succeeding John Sanders. He held the post until he retired from the faculty in 1979. People: Henry Wilkins Lewis Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: John Sanders · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · UNC School of Government: In Memoriam: Henry Wilkins Lewis (1916-2004), Popular Government, Winter 2005 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 23, 1973, p. 2
5. by March 1, 1977 A UNC committee reports 46 Black faculty members among 1,730 The Ad Hoc Committee on the Recruitment of Black Faculty reported to the Faculty Council that 46 of UNC's 1,730 faculty members were Black, 2.7 per cent, up from 41 a year earlier and 14 in April 1973, though fewer positions had been open. Twenty-six served in academic affairs and 20 in health affairs; chairman Fred Wright commended the University for the gain, but the committee worried about how small it was and blamed competition for Black scholars. People: Henry W. Lewis Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Fred WrightSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, March 1, 1977, p. 1
6. 1981 Albert Coates publishes The Story of the Institute of Government Coates's history of the Institute, a book he had worked at for half a century, came out fifty years after the meeting that started it. Director Henry Lewis had read the manuscript in the late 1970s and sent page after page of corrections, some of which Coates took. People: Albert Coates, Henry W. Lewis Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry LewisSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), pp. 278-279
7. 2004 The Henry W. Lewis classroom is dedicated in the Knapp-Sanders Building The Institute of Government named a classroom for Lewis in its renovated Knapp-Sanders Building. People: Henry Wilkins Lewis Place: Knapp-Sanders Building, Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC School of Government: In Memoriam: Henry Wilkins Lewis (1916-2004), Popular Government, Winter 2005