George McKie

Life and Orange County connections

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1. July 1912 The Chapel Hill Presbyterians vote to call William D. Moss back as pastor Moss had left in 1905 for a church in Washington, D.C. A congregational meeting voted without dissent to invite him back, at $500 a year and the manse with help from the Synod, and by mid-September 1912 he was back as pastor, beginning the long pastorate the church remembered him for. People: William Dygnum Moss, George McKie, George Howe Place: Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · The First Hundred Years: The Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, 1849-1949 (1950), scan p. 29 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), September 19, 1912, p. 5
2. January 1936 The Southern Committee for People's Rights starts its People's Rights Bulletin in Chapel Hill The Chapel Hill chapter of the Southern Committee for People's Rights issued the first number of its People's Rights Bulletin, reporting on strikes, chain gangs, lynchings and civil-liberties cases across the South. Its editorial board included Stanley Stevens, Loretto Carroll Bailey and George McKie, and Paul Green, Phillips Russell and William T. Couch were among its North Carolina sponsors. People: Loretto Carroll Bailey, George McKie, Paul Green Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Stanley Stevens, William T. Couch, Phillips RussellSearch the index · People's Rights Bulletin (Chapel Hill), January 1936, p. 1
3. by June 9, 1939 Chapel Hill men organize a faculty club to occupy the Archer house Ninety-nine men signed up for a faculty club open to townsmen as well as faculty, and 72 mailed ballots elected directors W. A. Olsen, L. B. Rogerson, George McKie, Clarence Heer, Louis Graves, Oliver Cornwell, J. M. Lear and R. H. Wettach. The club was to take over the Archer house on Columbia Street in July, with members' meals served in a room at the Carolina Inn. People: George McKie, Louis Graves, L. B. Rogerson, Robert H. Wettach Place: Archer house, Columbia Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. A. Olsen, Clarence Heer, Oliver Cornwell, J. M. Lear · Also mentions: Carolina Inn, Columbia StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 9, 1939, p. 1
4. May 10, 1940 Chapel Hill holds its first town meeting in many years A full house at the Town Hall took part in spirited debate led by Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt, who was made permanent chairman, on traffic danger to children at the elementary school, the Negro Community Center, the route of the Durham boulevard and the rabies dog quarantine, which only three voted to lift. Meetings were to be held quarterly and announced by a uniformed town crier. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, George McKie Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Negro Community CenterSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 17, 1940, p. 1
5. June 14, 1941 George McKie, University teacher of public speaking for 42 years, dies George McFarland McKie, who came to the University from Boston in 1899 to teach public speaking and debating and coached student plays before the Playmakers existed, died in Philadelphia of uremic poisoning after a minor operation. He was buried in the Chapel Hill cemetery on June 17 after services led by Alfred S. Lawrence and Charles M. Jones. Place: Chapel Hill cemetery (death in Philadelphia) · Also named: Charles M. Jones, Alfred S. LawrenceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 20, 1941, p. 6