John A. Parker

Life and Orange County connections

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1. September 1946 John A. Parker arrives and UNC's planning program begins classes John A. Parker, hired in 1945 to found a Department of City and Regional Planning, arrived in Chapel Hill in September 1946, and classes began that fall with four students. The department's first office was in the Alumni Building, shared with the Institute for Research in Social Science. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Alumni Building, Institute for Research in Social ScienceSearch the index · UNC Department of City and Regional Planning: Edward J. Kaiser and Karla Rosenberg, The School That Jack Built (2013), pp. 19-20
2. 1947 Architect James Webb moves to Chapel Hill to help start UNC's planning program James Webb, an architect and planner trained at Berkeley and MIT who had worked for William Wurster, came to Chapel Hill in 1947 to help John Parker set up the university's program in city and regional planning. He taught there until 1975 and kept a private practice that brought San Francisco Bay area modernism to the town. People: John A. Parker, James M. Webb Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: John ParkerSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 80
3. April 12-13, 1948 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
4. 1964 The planning department moves into New East Parker won space on the first two floors of New East, vacated when the geology department moved to Mitchell Hall, and the Department of City and Regional Planning left the Alumni Building for it in 1964. In 1966 he secured an $82,000 National Science Foundation grant toward renovating the building. Place: New East, UNC campus · Also mentions: Alumni BuildingSearch the index · UNC Department of City and Regional Planning: Edward J. Kaiser and Karla Rosenberg, The School That Jack Built (2013), p. 69
5. by January 26, 1972 UNC offers a combined degree in law and city and regional planning The School of Law and the Department of City and Regional Planning began offering a combined program that let a student earn both the law degree and the planning degree in four years and a summer instead of five, to prepare lawyers for planning, housing, renewal and environmental agencies. People: James Dickson Phillips, John A. Parker Place: School of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, January 26, 1972, p. 4
6. Spring 1974 John A. Parker retires as head of the planning department Parker retired in 1974 at sixty-five after leading the Department of City and Regional Planning since its start. More than a hundred academics, alumni and friends met at a conference in Chapel Hill that spring to mark the occasion, with a retirement banquet in May 1974. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Department of City and Regional Planning: Edward J. Kaiser and Karla Rosenberg, The School That Jack Built (2013), pp. 86-87