Richard H. Lewis

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1885 Alumni build the university's first gymnasium off university land After the dancing ban, a chartered Gymnasium Association sold $10 shares to alumni and built a hall 110 by 45 feet on its own land, rented to the university for exercise and used for the 1885 commencement ball. The building later became Commons Hall, the student dining hall. People: Julian S. Carr, Robert Bingham, Isaac Hall Manning, Richard H. Lewis, David Gaston Worth Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 313
2. May 1905 Judge W. P. Bynum gives the university a gymnasium Judge William Preston Bynum paid for a gymnasium on the campus in memory of his grandson and namesake, a student who died before graduating, and presented it to the trustees by letter in May 1905. Dr. Richard H. Lewis accepted it at commencement. People: Francis Preston Venable, Richard H. Lewis Place: Bynum Gymnasium · Also named: William Preston Bynum, William Preston Bynum Jr.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 644
3. June 2, 1907 The campus YMCA building is dedicated The new Young Men's Christian Association building was formally dedicated on the evening of June 2, 1907, after the YMCA sermon. Professor J. W. Gore presented it for the building committee and Dr. Richard H. Lewis accepted it for the trustees. People: Richard H. Lewis, Joshua W. Gore Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: YMCASearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 665
4. May 8, 1912 The medical building, Caldwell Hall, is dedicated On May 8, 1912, the university opened its new medical building and named it Caldwell Hall for its first president. Dr. Richard H. Lewis presented it for the trustees, and Venable and Dean Isaac H. Manning accepted it. People: Francis Preston Venable, Isaac Hall Manning, Richard H. Lewis, Richard Henry Whitehead Place: Caldwell Hall · Also mentions: Caldwell HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 731
5. June 1912 Trustees split the secretary-treasurer office after Richard H. Battle's death After Richard H. Battle, secretary and treasurer of the university, died on May 12, 1912, the trustees divided his office, required the treasurer to live in Chapel Hill, and abolished the office of bursar. Julius A. Warren became treasurer. People: Richard H. Lewis, Richard H. Battle Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Julius Algernon Warren, Julius A. WarrenSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 732
6. May 17, 1914 Francis P. Venable resigns the presidency from London Writing to the trustees from London, Venable resigned on his doctor's warning against another breakdown and asked to return to teaching chemistry. His letter reached board secretary Richard H. Lewis about the same time Graham got a personal note, which Graham called a great shock. People: Francis Preston Venable, Richard H. Lewis 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. 86
7. Autumn 1915 The University Gymnasium Association votes to give Old Commons Hall to the university Stockholders of the association that had owned the old ballroom, gymnasium and dining hall since 1885 voted at a meeting in Dr. R. H. Lewis's office to deed the building to the university. It was then used for class basketball games and, in 1917, for military drill. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Francis Preston Venable, Richard H. Lewis Place: Old Commons Hall, East Cameron Avenue, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Tar Heel, October 7, 1915, p. 1 · Also: The Tar Heel, January 14, 1921, p. 1
8. February to May 1919 Richard H. Lewis chairs the trustees' search for a new university president After Edward Kidder Graham's death, the trustees named a search committee chaired by Dr. Richard H. Lewis of Raleigh, which met students and faculty on the campus in mid-February. In mid-May it put forward Frank L. McVey, Robert J. Aley and Harry W. Chase, with McVey its favorite. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Edward Kidder Graham, Victor Silas Bryant Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank L. McVeySearch 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), pp. 193-194, 199, 202 (pdf 210-211, 216, 219)
9. June 13, 1922 Trustees vote to ask for a 200-bed teaching hospital in Chapel Hill A June 1 report by Dean Isaac H. Manning, Chase and Dr. Richard H. Lewis found the state 45th in hospital beds and short of doctors. Twelve days later the full board voted to ask the legislature for a 200-bed teaching hospital at Chapel Hill, a memorial to the World War dead, so the two-year medical school could grow to four years. People: Isaac Hall Manning, Harry Woodburn Chase, Richard H. Lewis Place: UNC School of Medicine, 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. 249