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Jane Simpson McKimmon

1867–1957 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins gives the University commencement address Rain drove the commencement from Kenan Stadium into Memorial Hall, where a crowd too large for the building heard Harry L. Hopkins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, forecast unemployment insurance, old-age pensions and government housing. The University conferred 368 degrees and honorary doctorates on Governor Ehringhaus, Jane S. McKimmon, Herman H. Horne and Louis R. Wilson. People: Jane Simpson McKimmon, Louis Round Wilson, Frank Porter Graham, J. C. B. Ehringhaus Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harry L. Hopkins · Also mentions: Kenan StadiumSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 15, 1934, p. 1

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State

1975

Issue of The State, the North Carolina magazine, for July 1975 (volume 43, number 2), carrying the motto Down home in North Carolina. Hillsborough and Orange County history share the issue with Jane Simpson McKimmon and home demonstration work, the poet James Larkin Pearson, Carteret County graves, Greensboro fire stations and miniature railroads in Charlotte.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: McKimmon, Jane Simpson, 1867-1957.

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