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Sandy McClamroch

Roland P. (Sandy) McClamroch of Chapel Hill founded the radio station WCHL in 1953, served two terms as a town alderman and was mayor of Chapel Hill through the 1960s. He was later instrumental in founding the Carol Woods retirement community in 1979.

Source: Orange County Veterans Memorial: Roland (Sandy) McClamroch

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  1. Sandy McClamroch is elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen McClamroch, one of five candidates for three seats, was elected on May 5, 1959 with F. E. Strowd and Roland Giduz, and was sworn in with Mayor Oliver K. Cornwell the following Monday night. Campaigning, he had called for coordinating town and university planning and for bringing the university's payments for town services above the table. People: Oliver K. Cornwell, Roland GiduzSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 14, 1959, page 1 (Newly Elected Town Officers Are Installed)
  2. McClamroch is sworn in as mayor and Joe Page is named to his aldermen seat McClamroch and three re-elected aldermen, Adelaide Walters, Paul Wager and Hubert Robinson, were sworn in at the Monday night meeting of the Board of Aldermen by Recorder's Court Judge William Stewart. The board named businessman Joe Page to the unexpired two year aldermen's term McClamroch left on becoming mayor, and elected Mrs. Walters mayor pro tem. People: Paul W. Wager, Hubert Robinson, Adelaide WaltersSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 11, 1961, page 1 (Joe Page Gets Appointment To Board Of Aldermen)
  3. Sandy McClamroch is elected mayor of Chapel Hill without opposition McClamroch ran unopposed for mayor in the May 1961 town election. Before the vote he took questions from residents at a public meeting at the Negro Community Center sponsored by the Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration and the Civic Club, and on a WUNC radio panel, saying he wanted to improve the town's public relations and would discuss merging Chapel Hill and Carrboro.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 20, 1961, page 1 (McClamroch In As Mayor; Seven Running For Board)
  4. Aldermen hear Daniel Pollitt's opinion that Chapel Hill may pass a public accommodations law, then shelve it At a Town Hall hearing attended by more than 200 people, Mayor Sandy McClamroch read an opinion by Pollitt that Chapel Hill had the authority to enact a public accommodations ordinance and that similar laws elsewhere had withstood court tests. The Board of Aldermen then voted 4 to 2 to postpone the ordinance indefinitely. People: Sandy McClamrochSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, June 27, 1963, page 1 (Accommodations Proposal Postponed Indefinitely)
  5. Chapel Hill aldermen approve an open housing ordinance 3 to 2 on first reading Weeks after the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. and a petition signed by about 2,200 people, the Board of Aldermen voted 3 to 2 for a local ban on discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. The margin fell short of the two-thirds needed to pass on first reading, so the measure went to a second vote. People: Sandy McClamroch, R. D. Smith, W. David Ethridge, Robert VarleyDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, April 28, 1968, page 3
  6. Chapel Hill adopts North Carolina's first local open housing ordinance On second reading the Board of Aldermen passed the open housing ordinance 4 to 0, effective immediately, making it a misdemeanor for an owner to discriminate by religion, race, color or national origin in selling or renting property in town. The penalty was a fine of up to $50 or up to 30 days in jail. People: Sandy McClamroch, W. David EthridgeDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, May 15, 1968, page 1
  7. Howard Lee takes the oath as mayor of Chapel Hill at Town Hall More than 140 people packed the second-floor room of Town Hall for the 7:30 p.m. meeting at which town clerk Roberts swore in Lee after outgoing mayor Sandy McClamroch reviewed his ten years in office. New aldermen Joe Nassif, Mary Prothro, George Coxhead and Ross Scroggs were sworn in, and Lee's first board elected David Ethridge mayor pro tem. People: Howard N. Lee, Sandy McClamroch, R. D. Smith, W. David Ethridge, Ross ScroggsDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, May 14, 1969, page 1 (OCR text)
  8. Sandy McClamroch helps found the Carol Woods retirement community McClamroch, by then a former mayor and the founder of WCHL, was instrumental in founding the Carol Woods retirement community in Chapel Hill in 1979.Search the index · Orange County Veterans Memorial: Roland (Sandy) McClamroch

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The failure of the scattered site housing policy in Chapel Hill

Bagchi, Neil · 1999

Neil Bagchi's 1999 paper on scattered site public housing in Chapel Hill, the policy of spreading subsidized units across neighborhoods instead of concentrating them in one place. The title states the verdict. Housing discrimination, public housing and town housing policy all run through it. Typescript, with a bibliography on leaves 58 to 60.

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A policy recommendation for dormitory desegregation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Giattina, Anna · 1983 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anna Giattina's 1983 thesis recommending a policy for desegregating the dormitories at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Topics include discrimination in housing in Chapel Hill, dormitories, and student housing at the university. A typescript of vi and 150 leaves with color maps, it records how residence hall assignment was being argued in Chapel Hill in the early 1980s.

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