Rufus Lenoir Patterson

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1. May to August 1875 Kemp Battle's subscription drive raises $20,167 and Paul Cameron repairs the campus for the reopening After the trustees on May 5, 1875, appointed a committee to seek gifts for the revival, Kemp P. Battle canvassed Raleigh, Goldsboro, Rocky Mount and Tarboro in person and the rest of the state by letter, reporting $18,787 in six weeks and $20,167 in twelve, at a total expense of $62.66; Zebulon B. Vance and Charles W. Broadfoot collected in Charlotte and Fayetteville, and women's groups sent scientific apparatus through Cornelia Phillips Spencer. Paul C. Cameron, without contractor or pay, spent the summer at Chapel Hill directing the repairs and reported on August 31 that he had spent $10,677.76 on the buildings and $2,249.09 on gas works and apparatus. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Paul C. Cameron, Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Zebulon B. Vance, Washington Caruthers Kerr, Rufus Lenoir Patterson Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles W. BroadfootInternet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text
2. May 1875 Rufus L. Patterson moves a loan to repair the university buildings and offers to stand surety At the trustees' reorganization meeting, Patterson moved that the treasurer be allowed to borrow $5,000 if needed to repair the Chapel Hill buildings, and volunteered to be surety for the university. People: Kemp Plummer Battle, Paul C. Cameron Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Internet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text
3. June 1930 Trustees' committee chooses the site for the Morehead-Patterson bell tower The buildings committee of the University trustees, with consulting architect William M. Kendall of McKim, Mead and White, chose a knoll south of the new library and beyond the highway for the carillon tower given by John Motley Morehead and Rufus Lenoir Patterson. The 171-foot tower was to stand on the axis of the South Building and the library. People: Rufus Lenoir Patterson Place: Knoll south of the University library, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Motley Morehead, William M. KendallSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 20, 1930, p. 1
4. by December 12, 1930 Chime and clock are ordered for the Morehead-Patterson tower John Motley Morehead arranged with the Meneely Bell Company of Troy, New York, for a chime of twelve bells modeled on the one at West Point, and the contract for the tower clock was let to the Howard Clock Company. McKim, Mead and White were drawing the plans, with dedication set for Thanksgiving Day 1931. People: Rufus Lenoir Patterson, Harold S. Dyer Place: UNC campus · Also named: John Motley MoreheadSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 12, 1930, p. 1
5. by February 13, 1931 The University lets the contract for the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Tower The contract for the bell tower given by John Motley Morehead and Rufus L. Patterson went to T. C. Thompson and Brothers, who were to begin digging the foundations on February 16 on a line with South Building and the Library, near Kenan Stadium. By February 27 excavation was under way; with the work on the Graham Memorial it was paying about 30 men $500 to $1,000 a week, which the Weekly said had cheered the town. People: Rufus Lenoir Patterson Place: Site between the Library and Kenan Stadium, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Motley Morehead, T. C. Thompson · Also mentions: Graham MemorialSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 13, 1931, p. 1
6. June 11, 1935 Eleanor Roosevelt gives the University commencement address in Kenan Stadium Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to about 9,000 people at the 140th Commencement, the largest crowd the Weekly knew of there outside a football game, and received an honorary doctor of laws. The paper had called her the first woman chosen as the University's commencement speaker. Honorary degrees also went to James King Hall, Rufus L. Patterson, Holland Thompson and Wallace E. Rollins. People: Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank Porter Graham, Josephus Daniels, James Hall, Rufus Lenoir Patterson, Holland Thompson Place: Kenan Stadium, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Wallace E. RollinsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 14, 1935, p. 5