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Robert W. Madry

Robert W. Madry, a 1918 graduate of the University of North Carolina, came back to Chapel Hill in 1922 to head the University news bureau, and in July 1942 the town's aldermen unanimously elected him mayor of Chapel Hill. The Chapel Hill Weekly believed he was the first person in the University's service to head the town government.

Source: Chapel Hill Weekly: "Madry Is Mayor; A New Alderman Is to Be Chosen" (July 10, 1942), p. 1

Also found in catalogs as Robert W. (Robert Wilson) Madry.

1897–1955 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineChapel Hill town elections, 1933–19491933–1949 · 10 events · On May 2, 1933 former town manager John Foushee was elected mayor of Chapel Hill over Mayor Zeb P. Council and B. J. Howard, and he was returned in 1935, 1937, 1939 and 1941, twice without opposition. In May 1942 he said he would resign because he was moving to his farm outside the town limits, and on July 8 the aldermen unanimously elected R. W. Madry, director of the University news bureau, as mayor. The Weekly believed no one in the University's service had headed the town government before. No one filed against Madry in 1943. On May 3, 1949 Edwin S. Lanier defeated him 811 to 589, ending his seven years as mayor. StorylineChapel Hill's bus service and bus stations, 1936–19461936–1946 · 4 events · Chapel Hill's bus service went from a station on Rosemary Lane, through a contest between two lines, to a Colonial-style station on West Franklin Street held up by wartime shortages. In 1936 Carolina Coach Company moved the town's station to Rosemary Lane and Columbia Street, running ten round trips a day to Durham. In December 1942 Carolina Coach and the Virginia Stage Lines explained rival applications to run through Hillsboro and Yanceyville, and about fifty citizens petitioned for the Virginia line. By 1945 Carolina Coach had bought a lot at West Franklin and Kenan streets and promised a Colonial-style station, as the town planning commission wished, once wartime priorities for materials came through. It built the station in 1946. StorylineHousing Chapel Hill’s student veterans, 1945–19461945–1946 · 10 events · In July 1945 Mayor R. W. Madry named a citizens' committee to study Chapel Hill's postwar housing, and that fall residents formed a corporation to build homes. As returning veterans filled the university in 1946, the trustees approved five dormitories, a trailer camp opened on the old high school site, the federal government put up the prefabricated houses of Victory Village on the south campus for about 350 student families, and federal rent control took effect in Orange County on July 1. That summer the town named a Veterans Housing Commission to bring in surplus demountable houses for married veterans, and Chapel Hill's churches opened nursery schools for their children. StorylineThe Chapel Hill town election of 1949April–May 1949 · 6 events · A mass meeting at the Community Center nominated the Rev. J. H. Jones, a Black minister, for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen in April 1949, registration added 479 voters, 174 of them Black, and the League of Women Voters held a candidates' meeting. On May 3, with 1,442 of 1,726 registered voters at the polls, Edwin S. Lanier unseated Mayor Robert W. Madry, 811 to 589. Mrs. Roland McClamroch and Jones, whom the News called the town's first woman and first Black candidates for the board, each drew 607 votes and lost. At its first meeting the new board asked for zoning a mile beyond the town limits.

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  1. Robert W. Madry becomes the University's full-time publicity man Persuaded by Louis Round Wilson that the University had to tell its story better, Chase hired Madry, an alumnus then writing for the New York Herald, as its first full-time publicity man. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Louis Round Wilson, Robert W. Madry 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. 270
  2. A model law office and courtroom are fitted out in Manning Hall Through the Law School Association, Coates had lawyers around the state pay for a model courtroom and a practice law office stocked with real forms, so students could join theory to practice. Coates had put $2,600 of his own money into the office over four years. People: Albert Coates, Robert W. Madry Place: Manning Hall, UNC, 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. 88 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 8, 1928, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 17, 1928, p. 1
  3. Chapel Hill aldermen choose Robert W. Madry to fill a vacant seat The board elected Robert W. Madry, director of the University news bureau, to succeed Robert H. Wettach, who had resigned on becoming an assistant attorney general of the state. Madry was to serve the rest of the term, to May 1939. People: Robert H. Wettach Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 12, 1938, p. 1
  4. Chapel Hill dedicates its new Town Hall Townspeople toured the new Town Hall at an open house and gathered in its courtroom for the dedication. L. T. Hansen presented the building on behalf of the PWA, which the Weekly said had paid 46 per cent of the cost, and Mayor John M. Foushee accepted it; Mayor William F. Carr of Durham, Robert B. House and Archibald Henderson spoke, and Alderman R. W. Madry presided. People: Robert W. Madry, R. B. House, Archibald Henderson, John M. Foushee Place: Courtroom, Town Hall, Rosemary and Columbia streets, Chapel Hill · Also named: L. T. Hansen, William F. CarrSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 14, 1939, p. 1
  5. The University Press, the journalism department and the news bureau move into the rebuilt Bynum Gymnasium The University Press moved from the Alumni Building basement into the former Bynum Gymnasium, its interior completely rebuilt, taking the first and second floors, while the journalism department and the news bureau divided the third. The move cleared the Alumni Building for its interior reconstruction, which was to begin at once. People: William T. Couch, Robert W. Madry Place: Former Bynum Gymnasium, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Alumni BuildingSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 21, 1939, p. 1
  6. Chapel Hill re-elects John M. Foushee mayor over Clarence Pickard In the town election John M. Foushee won another term as mayor, beating A. Clarence Pickard 411 to 369, and aldermen R. W. Madry, R. J. M. Hobbs and P. L. Burch were returned. The Weekly said Madry's 657 votes were more than any candidate had ever received in a Chapel Hill town election; Andrew McIntosh, unopposed, polled 663 for judge of the recorder's court. People: Robert W. Madry, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Clarence Pickard, Peter L. Burch, John M. Foushee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: A. Clarence Pickard, Andrew McIntoshSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 5, 1939, p. 1
  7. Chapel Hill aldermen move to hold down rents before the Navy cadets come At their March 11 meeting the Chapel Hill aldermen went on record for any measure needed to keep rents from rising with the coming of 1,875 Navy cadets and their staff, and Mayor John Foushee named Obie Davis and R. W. Madry to work with the University on rents and on finding rooms for displaced students and the Navy staff. The board also backed stricter enforcement of the speed laws and talked of adding police, after the chief reported fourteen speeding arrests in February. People: Robert W. Madry, John M. Foushee Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Obie Davis, John FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 13, 1942, p. 1
  8. Chapel Hill aldermen elect Robert W. Madry mayor The board of aldermen unanimously elected Robert W. Madry, director of the University news bureau and an alderman, as mayor to succeed John M. Foushee, who had moved out of town after ten years as mayor. The Weekly believed no one in the University's service had headed the town government before. People: John M. Foushee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Chapel Hill Weekly: "Madry Is Mayor; A New Alderman Is to Be Chosen" (July 10, 1942), p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill aldermen elect R. H. Wettach to the board The board chose law school dean Robert H. Wettach to fill the seat Robert W. Madry had left on becoming mayor, Wettach's second time as an alderman. At the same meeting the aldermen voted $500, to be matched by the University, to improve the sewage disposal plant, strained by the larger town and campus population. People: Robert W. Madry, Robert H. Wettach Place: Town Hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1942, p. 1
  10. Guy B. Phillips succeeds L. B. Rogerson as Chapel Hill's civilian defense director Rogerson resigned as executive director and coordinator of the Chapel Hill-University Civilian Defense Council because of his University duties, and Guy B. Phillips was chosen in his place. Mayor Robert W. Madry, the council's chairman, credited Rogerson with setting up a working control center three days after Pearl Harbor and named Francis Bradshaw, Town Manager John L. Caldwell, V. Z. Cannon and E. C. Smith to the council. People: Robert W. Madry, L. B. Rogerson, John L. Caldwell Place: Control Center, Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Guy B. Phillips, Francis Bradshaw, E. C. SmithThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 4, 1942, p. 1
  11. Chapel Hill schools hold a Schools at War ceremony in Hill Music Hall Pupils and teachers of the Chapel Hill schools marked National Schools at War Week with a ceremony in Hill Music Hall at which seventeen war-activity groups, from the Junior Red Cross and salvage squads to the Victory Farm Workers and 4-H clubs, answered a roll call. Mayor R. W. Madry, Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt and school board chairman R. E. Coker spoke. People: Robert W. Madry, R. E. Coker, Allison W. Honeycutt, William F. Lathan Place: Hill Music Hall, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill schoolsThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1942, p. 5
  12. Chapel Hill aldermen order an inquiry into charges that police mistreated Black prisoners After the Daily Tar Heel printed affidavits from three Black residents charging Chapel Hill police with mistreating them during and after arrest, the board of aldermen voted unanimously at a special meeting to investigate, and Mayor R. W. Madry named Aldermen P. L. Burch and R. H. Wettach to make a preliminary inquiry, with a public hearing to follow. People: Robert W. Madry, Robert H. Wettach, Peter L. Burch Place: Town Hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1942, p. 1
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  1. Chapel Hill Civilian Defense Council holds a public mass meeting At a public meeting at the elementary school, Civilian Defense coordinator Guy B. Phillips reported that 85 volunteers had helped with rationing and 125 with Red Cross work, called for more, and warned that civilians might be organized into work corps to plant food crops in the spring. Mrs. R. H. Wettach described the newly organized Citizens Service Corps. People: Robert W. Madry, Sterling A. (Sterling Aubrey) Stoudemire Place: Chapel Hill elementary school · Also named: Guy B. Phillips, Mrs. R. H. WettachThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 27, 1942, p. 1
  2. Chapel Hill aldermen hold a hearing and find police mistreatment charges not sustained At a hearing attended by Recorder's Court Judge H. A. Whitfield, a group of white citizens and a group of Black citizens including Rev. J. H. Jones and Rev. C. T. Boyd, the aldermen read the complainants' affidavits and the officers' denials. In a statement published with all the affidavits, the board said it could not commend an officer's striking of a prisoner but found the charges not sustained, voiced confidence in Chief Sloan and the police, and rejected the Tar Heel's criticism of the Recorder's Court. People: Robert W. Madry, William T. Sloan, Henry A. Whitfield, Kenneth Jones Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. H. Jones, C. T. BoydSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 11, 1942, p. 5
  3. Two bus companies make their case in Chapel Hill for a route through Hillsboro At the Town Hall, J. G. Humphrey and William B. Umstead for the Carolina Coach Company and Willis Smith for the Virginia Stage Lines explained rival applications to the state Utilities Commission to the mayor, aldermen and other citizens: Carolina Coach sought to extend service from Chapel Hill through Hillsboro and Yanceyville to Reidsville, the Virginia Stage Lines to run from Raleigh through Chapel Hill, Hillsboro and Yanceyville toward Washington. Both promised several daily round trips to Hillsboro, and by January 7 about fifty citizens, Mayor Madry among them, had signed a petition for the Virginia Stage Lines. People: William B. Umstead, Robert W. Madry Place: Town Hall courtroom, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. G. Humphrey, Willis SmithSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1942, p. 1
  4. Chapel Hill and Carrboro give $8,820 to the Red Cross War Fund, far over quota The Red Cross War Fund campaign in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, opened March 1 under Hugh Lefler, raised $8,820.89 against a $5,400 quota. University students gave $1,237, the National Munitions plant and its employees $914, Black residents of Chapel Hill $220 under Nurse Compton, and the Hollywood, the Black theater, $50. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Robert W. Madry, Hugh Talmage Lefler Place: Chapel Hill and Carrboro · Also named: Hugh Lefler, Nurse ComptonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 7, 1943, p. 1
  5. No one files against Chapel Hill's mayor, aldermen and recorder in the 1943 town election When nominations closed for the May 4 town election, no one had filed against Mayor R. W. Madry, aldermen R. J. M. Hobbs, R. H. Wettach and P. L. Burch, or recorder's court judge H. A. Whitfield, so their reelection was automatic. People: Robert W. Madry, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Robert H. Wettach, Henry A. Whitfield, Peter L. Burch Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 30, 1943, p. 1
  6. Mayor Madry names John M. Foushee coordinator of civilian defense Mayor R. W. Madry appointed former mayor John M. Foushee coordinator of local civilian defense in Chapel Hill, succeeding Guy B. Phillips, who resigned under new University duties. His staff included Mrs. R. H. Wettach of the Citizens Service Corps, R. J. M. Hobbs of the Defense Corps and Mrs. W. R. Berryhill of the Volunteer Office. People: Robert W. Madry, John M. Foushee Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Guy B. Phillips, R. J. M. Hobbs, Mrs. R. H. WettachThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 14, 1943, p. 5
  7. OPA officials come to study Chapel Hill's rationing board community service program Mrs. Philip L. Crowlie, the Office of Price Administration's 'first official housewife', came with state, district and regional OPA officials to study the community service program of the Chapel Hill War Price and Rationing Board, which the OPA had already called a model for the Southeast. They heard three hours of committee reports at a meeting run by Mrs. Guion Johnson, who directed the program. People: Guion Griffis Johnson, Robert W. Madry Place: Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 15, 1943, p. 3
  8. The National Munitions plant at Carrboro receives the first National Security Award given in North Carolina The U.S. Office of Civilian Defense presented its National Security Award, given for guarding a plant against accidents and sabotage, to the National Munitions Corporation at Carrboro on May 25, 1944, the first such award to a North Carolina firm. Regional director James A. Connor presented the award, general manager M. J. Williams accepted it, Lieutenant Governor R. L. Harris spoke, and the Navy Pre-Flight band played. People: Robert W. Madry Place: National Munitions Corporation plant (Mill No. 7), Carrboro · Also named: M. J. Williams, R. L. HarrisSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 25, 1944, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill reelects Mayor Madry and Judge Whitfield and adds Edwin Lanier to the aldermen About 700 Chapel Hill voters reelected Mayor R. W. Madry without opposition (616 votes) and returned Henry A. Whitfield as judge of the recorder's court with 417 votes to 90 for Tom Henry and 17 for Paul Robertson. For three aldermen they chose R. B. Fitch (493), newcomer Edwin S. Lanier (456) and Bruce Strowd (398); F. O. Bowman, an alderman for eight years, lost with 375. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Bruce Strowd, Paul H. Robertson, Henry A. Whitfield, Frederick O. Bowman Place: Town hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: R. B. Fitch, Paul RobertsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 10, 1945, p. 5
  10. 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: 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
  11. The Cloudbuster prints its last issue, counting 18,700 cadets trained at Chapel Hill The Pre-Flight School's weekly closed with an eight-page special, its 156th issue since September 19, 1942. It counted 18,700 cadets received for training, 1,220 officers indoctrinated as instructors, 360 French cadets and 78 French officers, and printed farewells from Mayor Robert W. Madry, who named every man of the station an honorary citizen of Chapel Hill. People: Robert W. Madry, James P. Raugh Place: Navy Pre-Flight School, University, Chapel HillCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 3, 1945, p. 1
  12. Chapel Hill aldermen agree to a federal survey of local rents At a special meeting requested by Forrest A. Pollard of the OPA's Durham-area rent office, the aldermen decided not to oppose a Labor Department survey to learn whether Chapel Hill's high rents called for OPA rent control. Local veterans had petitioned Washington for the inquiry; property owners agreed on condition that the survey be made public. People: Robert W. Madry Place: Town hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Forrest A. PollardSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 21, 1946, p. 1
  13. A trailer camp for students opens on the old Chapel Hill High School site With UNC enrollment at 4,430, a trailer camp was started on the site of the old Chapel Hill High School, and the Community Council under Kiwanis president Clarence Oakley organized volunteers to telephone every household for spare rooms. Mayor R. W. Madry warned that excessive rents could bring rent control. People: Robert W. Madry Place: Former Chapel Hill High School site, Chapel Hill · Also named: Clarence OakleySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 11, 1946, p. 1
  14. UNC and Chapel Hill ask the SBI to investigate a former prosecutor's liquor charges University officials asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into charges by Thomas A. Henry, former prosecutor of Chapel Hill Recorder's Court, who wrote Governor Cherry that Chapel Hill police and state highway patrolmen used the University as a front for illicit liquor operations. University, town and patrol officials denied the charges, and the aldermen joined the call for an inquiry. People: R. B. House, Robert W. Madry Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas A. HenrySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 2, 1946, p. 1
  15. Federal rent control takes effect in Orange County The Office of Price Administration put Orange County, and Chapel Hill above all, under rent control, freezing rents at March 1, 1945 levels after a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey found about a third of Chapel Hill's private rental units had raised rents an average of 23 percent. The university, Mayor R. W. Madry and veterans' groups had asked for it. People: Robert W. Madry Place: Chapel Hill; Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 27, 1946, p. 1
  16. Chapel Hill appoints a Veterans Housing Commission to bring in surplus houses for student veterans Mayor R. W. Madry and the aldermen appointed a nonprofit Veterans Housing Commission, with John M. Foushee as president, to buy surplus demountable houses from the Federal Public Housing Authority under the Lanham Act and sell them on easy terms to married veterans at the university. People: Robert W. Madry, John M. Foushee Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 22, 1946, p. 1
  17. Chapel Hill requires board approval of new subdivision plats The Chapel Hill board of aldermen adopted an ordinance that no land in town or within one mile of the town limits could be subdivided or its plat recorded without board approval, with plats also going to the Planning Board. At the same meeting Obie Davis was installed as an alderman and a proposed Sunday beer ban split 3 to 3. People: Robert W. Madry Place: Town hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Obie DavisSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 26, 1946, p. 1
  18. Chapel Hill dedicates its new bus station Several hundred people attended the formal dedication of Chapel Hill's new bus station, with talks by Senator William B. Umstead, Representative Carl T. Durham, University President Frank P. Graham, Lt. Gov. L. Y. Ballentine and others. Mayor R. W. Madry accepted the station for the town and said Chapel Hill, at about 15,000 people, now ranked as a small city. People: William B. Umstead, Carl T. Durham, Frank Porter Graham, Robert W. Madry Place: Bus station, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: L. Y. BallentineSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 24, 1947, p. 8
  19. Chapel Hill re-elects Mayor R. W. Madry and Recorder's Court Judge Henry Whitfield A near-record off-year turnout in Chapel Hill re-elected Mayor R. W. Madry over insurance man Paul H. Robertson, 419 to 261, and Recorder's Court Judge Henry Whitfield over John T. Manning, 385 to 304. P. L. Burch, R. J. M. Hobbs and Obie Davis won four-year seats as aldermen and E. B. Patterson a two-year seat, all unopposed. People: Paul H. Robertson, Henry A. Whitfield, Peter L. Burch Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Henry Whitfield, John T. Manning, Obie Davis, R. J. M. HobbsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 8, 1947, p. 1
  20. Chapel Hill names county accountant Gilbert Ray city manager Choosing from more than a dozen applicants to succeed T. E. Hinson, the Chapel Hill board elected Gilbert Ray, Orange County's auditor and tax supervisor since 1928, as city manager at $4,800 a year, to start September 1. The county commissioners accepted his resignation on August 4 with regrets, crediting his nineteen years with a falling tax rate and sounder county finances. People: Robert W. Madry, Gilbert W. Ray Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Gilbert Ray, T. E. HinsonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 7, 1947, p. 1
  21. 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
  22. Chapel Hill voters approve $260,000 in bonds for sewers, streets and equipment In a record town turnout of 939 votes, Chapel Hill approved all four parts of a $260,000 bond issue: $200,000 toward a $425,000 enlargement of the sewer system with a new treatment plant, the rest of its cost to come from the university, plus $35,000 for paving and seal coating streets and smaller sums for street and garbage equipment and town office equipment. The sewer bonds carried 878 to 48. People: Robert W. Madry, Luther James Phipps, Gilbert W. Ray Place: Town Hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 8, 1948, p. 1
  23. The Junior Service League canvasses the Chapel Hill school district for a census About 300 volunteers under some 45 captains went house to house through Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the county areas that send children to Chapel Hill High School, in the town's first amateur census. The league of young women ran it under the university's Planning Department, with graduate student Eric Hill as supervisor and Mayor Robert W. Madry chairing the advisory committee. People: John A. Parker, Robert W. Madry Place: Chapel Hill School Attendance District, southern Orange County · Also named: Eric Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill High SchoolSearch the index · Junior Service League of Chapel Hill, Population Survey and School Census of the Chapel Hill School Attendance District (1948), scan p. 3
  24. Chapel Hill and the University break ground for a $400,000 sewage disposal plant on the Mason Farm In the week before August 12, 1948, Mayor R. W. Madry turned the first spade of earth for a sewage disposal plant on the Mason Farm near Chapel Hill, a $400,000 joint project of the town and the University. The Charlotte firm of Boyd and Goforth, which held the contract, began work that week. People: Robert W. Madry, Frank Porter Graham, Edwin Sidney Lanier, Gilbert W. Ray Place: Mason Farm, near Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 12, 1948, p. 1
  25. Druggist Clyde Eubanks receives the state pharmacists' Mortar and Pestle Award The North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association gave its annual Mortar and Pestle Award to Clyde Eubanks, a Chapel Hill druggist since 1892 who had served 25 years as alderman and was president of the Bank of Chapel Hill. Chancellor R. B. House, Congressman Carl T. Durham and Mayor R. W. Madry spoke in tribute at the University's pharmacy school. People: Clyde Eubanks, R. B. House, Carl T. Durham, Robert W. Madry Place: University pharmacy school, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Bank of Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 17, 1949, p. 1
  26. Mayor Madry names a committee to study paving Chapel Hill's gravel sidewalks On a unanimous resolution of the Board of Aldermen, Mayor R. W. Madry appointed a nine-member committee under Judge L. J. Phipps to find out whether residents wanted to replace the town's traditional gravel sidewalks with cement or brick, what it would cost and which streets should come first. People: Luther James Phipps Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 10, 1949, p. 1
  27. The League of Women Voters holds a candidates' meeting for Chapel Hill's town election At a public meeting in the Elementary School auditorium sponsored by the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters, mayoral candidate Edwin S. Lanier pledged to seek abolishing the elected mayor's post, and Mrs. Roland McClamroch, the first woman to run for the Board of Aldermen, backed parking meters and annexation. Every candidate present agreed that Black citizens should be represented in all phases of town government. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Robert W. Madry, Henry A. Whitfield Place: Elementary School auditorium, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mrs. Roland McClamrochSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 28, 1949, p. 1
  28. Edwin S. Lanier unseats Mayor Madry in the Chapel Hill election In a town election that drew 1,442 of 1,726 registered voters, Edwin S. Lanier defeated Mayor Robert W. Madry by 811 votes to 589, ending Madry's seven years as mayor. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Chapel Hill Weekly: "Edwin S. Lanier Elected Mayor" (May 6, 1949), p. 1
  29. Robert W. Madry, former Chapel Hill mayor and longtime head of the University News Bureau, dies Robert W. "Bob" Madry, 57, former mayor of Chapel Hill and for more than 30 years director of the University News Bureau, died at Memorial Hospital after ten weeks' illness from a kidney ailment. Hundreds attended his funeral the next day at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, among them newspaper editors and reporters from across the state, and he was buried in the Chapel Hill Cemetery. Place: Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill Baptist ChurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 14, 1955, p. 6

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Great strides have been made at U.N.C. since Dr. Frank Graham became president

Madry, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1897-1955; University of North Carolina (1793-1962). News Bureau · 1941 · University News Bureau

A 1941 release from the University of North Carolina news bureau, written by Robert W. Madry, summarizing what the university had gained since Frank Porter Graham became its president. The release presents the university administration's view of its progress.

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Old University Printshop falls before the march of progress at Chapel Hill : familiar landmark is razed to make way for extension of Phillips Hall

Madry, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1897-1955 · 1925 · University News Bureau

A news release issued by the University News Bureau at Chapel Hill in 1925 and written by Robert W. Madry, reporting that the old University Printshop was being pulled down so that Phillips Hall could be extended. The rest of the title recalls the shop's long tie to student life, and a line beneath it holds the story for Sunday, July 26. Topics include printing in Chapel Hill.

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Explain two plans for teaching Bible in university : University Y.M.C.A. has definite program if churches cannot unite

Madry, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1897-1955 · 1924 · University News Bureau

Robert W. Madry wrote this 1924 release for the University News Bureau on two proposals for teaching the Bible at the university, with the student Y.M.C.A. prepared to run its own program if the Chapel Hill churches could not agree on a joint one. Marked for release on Sunday, May 25. Topics include religious education in Chapel Hill and the curricula of the university.

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Launching of the Chapel Hill Victory

1944

Scrapbook following the construction and launch of the S.S. Chapel Hill Victory, a Second World War cargo ship that carried the town's name, launched on 4 December 1944. Baltimore figures in the story, as do Congressman Carl T. Durham and Robert W. Madry. From the North Carolina Memory collection.

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Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026