Alice Noble

Life and Orange County connections

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1. May 28, 1917 Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents vote to form a Red Cross chapter at the Graded School Dr. Louis H. Webb, charged with organizing chapters in his medical district, called a Monday night meeting of Chapel Hill and Carrboro people at the Graded School building on May 28, 1917, which voted almost unanimously for a full chapter rather than an auxiliary. Seventy-one people enrolled at the chapter's first meeting, which elected George Howe chairman and Alice Noble vice-chairman. People: George Howe, Alice NobleSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 18
2. June 5, 1917 Orange County men register on the first draft registration day On June 5, 1917, 1,503 Orange County men registered for the draft. In Chapel Hill a Red Cross committee decorated the town with flags, pinned khaki bands on the registrants, and led a parade of the new registrants through the main streets afterward. People: Alice NobleSearch the index · Documenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 18
3. November 21, 1918 The Chapel Hill Red Cross elects A. H. Patterson chairman at its annual meeting At its annual meeting on Thursday, November 21, 1918, the chapter elected Dr. A. H. Patterson chairman, with Alice Noble vice-chairman, Nellie Roberson secretary and Dudley Carroll treasurer. Earlier that fall George Howe had resigned for his duties on the University's Student Army Training Corps committee, and J. M. Bell had taken his place. People: George Howe, Alice Noble, Dudley Dewitt Carroll, James Munsie Bell, Andrew Henry PattersonSearch the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 19
4. 1918-1919 Alice Noble writes the history of the Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter As chapter historian, Alice Noble signed the Chapel Hill chapter's account of its war work, from the 1917 first aid class through the 1919 welcome home for soldiers and sailors in Memorial Hall.Search the index · State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History (typescripts, 1918-1919), scan 32
5. 1921 Alice Noble joins the UNC School of Pharmacy staff Alice Noble was hired as assistant secretary of the School of Pharmacy in 1921, the start of a decades-long tenure in which she was later librarian and secretary to Dean Edward Brecht.Search the index · UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy: History
6. January 29, 1922 The Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter reports on its public health nurse and elects Howard W. Odum chairman At its annual meeting in the Presbyterian church, the Chapel Hill chapter of the American Red Cross heard that it had helped provide a public health nurse for the schools and homes with the town, the school board and the Community Club, and that its 1921 roll call raised $966.83. It elected Howard W. Odum chairman, referred a memorial to Miss Roper, the nurse who served the students and town in the influenza epidemic, to a committee, and asked its executive committee to work out closer cooperation with the King's Daughters and the tuberculosis seal organization. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Alice Noble, Henry A. WhitfieldSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), March 2, 1922, p. 1
7. January 12 to 13, 1940 Alice Noble becomes first adviser to the pharmacy school's Kappa Epsilon chapter The Weekly reported that Kappa Epsilon, a group of women in the School of Pharmacy organized in the spring of 1938, would be installed as a chapter of the national Kappa Epsilon pharmaceutical sorority (the Lambda chapter, by the school's history) at ceremonies on January 12 and 13, 1940, with a charter presentation, initiation, a banquet at the Carolina Inn and a tea at Graham Memorial. The school's librarian Alice Noble, the group's adviser, became the chapter's first adviser.Search the index · UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy: History · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 12, 1940, p. 2
8. December 2, 1940 The state pharmacists' association honors Alice Noble for nineteen years of service The executive board of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association gave a banquet at the Carolina Inn for Alice Noble in recognition of her nineteen years of service to the association, and the state's pharmacists presented her a set of pigskin luggage. President Graham and members of the pharmacy faculty spoke. People: Frank Porter GrahamSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 6, 1940, p. 1
9. August 1954 Two forgotten graves in a Noble Street backyard come to light A neighbor noticed two weathered, unlettered tombstones under oak trees in the backyard of 108 Noble Street, and the News Leader could not learn whose graves they were. Alice Noble recalled the land as the old Castlebury place and a log cabin that once stood nearby. People: Alice NobleSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill News Leader, August 9, 1954, p. 6