J. Spencer Love

Life and Orange County connections

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1. January 1942 J. Spencer Love's $15,000 gift carries the Institute of Government into the university Covington writes that after the trustees' executive committee approved making the Institute of Government part of the university, William Carmichael called J. Spencer Love, who at the request of Carmichael and Frank Porter Graham gave $15,000 to pay the Institute's costs until the legislature could fund it, and that the full board approved the merger on January 20, 1942. The Weekly of January 23, 1942 reported that the executive committee had decided that week to make the Institute a department of the university, with Albert Coates staying on as director, and said the step was made possible by a $20,000 gift from an anonymous North Carolinian, enough to carry it for a year and a half until the 1943 legislature could be asked for money. People: Albert Coates, Frank Porter Graham Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William Carmichael · Also mentions: Institute of GovernmentSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 193 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 23, 1942, p. 6
2. 1947-1962 J. Spencer Love serves as a university trustee The founder of Burlington Mills sat on the University of North Carolina's board of trustees from 1947 until his death in 1962. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: J. Spencer Love (1896-1962), Carolina's Early Benefactors
3. By 1952 J. Spencer Love gives the Institute of Government $50,000 to spend as Coates sees fit Textile executive J. Spencer Love, whose $15,000 in 1942 had carried the Institute until the state budget took over its costs, sent Albert Coates another $50,000 with no conditions on its use. People: Albert Coates, J. Spencer Love Place: 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. 222
4. March 22, 1952 University trustees give Albert Coates the O. Max Gardner Award By unanimous vote the trustees named Coates the faculty member of the Consolidated University who had done most that year for the welfare of humanity, under the award created by the late governor's will. Coates accepted it for the Institute, and it carried $10,000. People: Albert Coates, O. Max Gardner, W. Kerr Scott, J. Spencer Love Place: Consolidated University of North Carolina, 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. 219
5. 1953 The university gives J. Spencer Love an honorary doctor of laws J. Spencer Love was among the five people the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gave honorary degrees in 1953, a year whose list also included the poet Robert Frost. People: Robert Frost Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries, North Carolina Miscellany: Honorary Degrees Awarded by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1799 to present
6. October 13, 1964 Burlington Industries gives $650,000 toward Memorial Hospital's expansion President William C. Friday announced a $650,000 gift from Burlington Industries toward the multimillion-dollar expansion of North Carolina Memorial Hospital, in memory of the company's founder and University trustee J. Spencer Love. The outpatient clinic areas of the hospital's five-story addition were to be named the J. Spencer Love Clinics. People: William C. Friday, J. Spencer Love Place: North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 22, 1964, p. 26
7. February 8, 1970 N.C. Memorial Hospital dedicates its new outpatient building and the J. Spencer Love Clinics The $10.4 million Ambulatory Patient Care Center at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, dedicated on February 8, 1970, held the J. Spencer Love Clinics, 181 outpatient examination and treatment rooms named for the late founder of Burlington Industries. The hospital had moved into the building and opened its new entrance facing Manning Drive in the first week of December 1969. Burlington chairman Charles F. Myers Jr. and Love's widow, Mrs. Nathan M. Ayers, were among the guests. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles F. Myers Jr. · Also mentions: North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Manning DriveSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 8, 1970, p. 1 (New Clinics Be Dedicated) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1969, p. 4