Lillian Hughes Prince

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 4 dated events in the chronology →

During their lifetime

1. September 1939 William Meade Prince joins the university's art department The illustrator William Meade Prince, who with his wife, Lillian Hughes Prince, had moved from Westport, Connecticut, to Chapel Hill in the 1930s, joined the university's art department as a lecturer for the 1939-40 year. The Princes still spent summers in Westport. People: William Meade Prince, Lillian Hughes Prince Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 15, 1939, p. 3 · Also: NCpedia: Prince, William Meade; Chapel Hill Weekly, May 26, 1939, p. 6; Open Orange: William Meade Prince
2. late 1941 Illustrator William Meade Prince and his wife Lillian build a house in Greenwood William Meade Prince, the illustrator who taught art at the university, and his wife Lillian were building a home in the Greenwood neighborhood at the end of 1941. He lived and worked there until his death in 1951. People: William Meade Prince, Lillian Hughes Prince Place: 707 Greenwood Road, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 5, 1941, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 25, 1946, p. 4
3. February 1962 Lillian Hughes Prince leaves funds to the Carolina Playmakers Lillian Hughes Prince, who had acted in thirty or more Playmakers productions, left considerable funds to the Carolina Playmakers in her will, for building a theater for the company. She died in New York in February 1962 and was buried in Chapel Hill Cemetery. The Daily Tar Heel later put the bequest at $135,000 in one story and $138,000 in another. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina Playmakers, Chapel Hill CemeterySearch the index · NCpedia: Prince, Lillian Hughes · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, September 22, 1983, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, October 7, 1983, p. 1

After their death in 1962

Later events: estates and burials, and the buildings, honors and histories that remember them.

1. September 20, 1983 Court of Appeals lets UNC turn the Prince bequest into a scholarship fund On September 20, 1983, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled that the University could keep the rest of the bequest Lillian Hughes Prince, who died in 1962, had left toward a new theater for the Carolina Playmakers, and use it for a scholarship fund in her name. The General Assembly had paid for the Paul Green Theater in 1973, and UNC had spent part of the roughly $135,000 only on planning; Orange County Superior Court had refused the change, and because the ruling was not unanimous the heirs could appeal to the N.C. Supreme Court. People: Lillian Hughes Prince Place: Raleigh · Also mentions: Carolina PlaymakersSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 22, 1983, p. 3