Glenn T. Proffit

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1. August 12, 1946 G. T. Proffit becomes assistant superintendent of the Orange County schools Glenn T. Proffit, a UNC graduate who had spent twelve years in the Harnett County schools as district principal and acting superintendent, took up the new post of assistant to Orange County school superintendent R. H. Claytor. People: R. H. Claytor Place: Orange County schools office, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 15, 1946, p. 1
2. May 5, 1947 The county board elects Glenn T. Proffit superintendent and keeps R. H. Claytor as his assistant Meeting on May 5, 1947, the Board of Education elected G. T. Proffit superintendent and R. H. Claytor his assistant, offering $2,400 a year part time or $3,000 full time; Claytor chose full time. The board passed a resolution of appreciation for his thirty years with the county schools. People: R. H. Claytor, Glenn T. Proffit Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 81
3. May 12, 1947 The county school board stands by Glenn T. Proffit after a petition for R. H. Claytor Meeting until midnight at Proffit's request, the Orange County board of education reaffirmed its May 5 choice of Glenn T. Proffit as superintendent, with R. H. Claytor kept as adviser, after a teachers' petition to reinstate Claytor had circulated and 'Down with Proffit' posters had gone up on Hillsboro streets. Claytor asked the teachers not to present the petition, and the board published its own account disputing his statement about his 1946 resignation. People: R. H. Claytor, Grady A. Brown, James S. Compton Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 15, 1947, p. 1
4. July 1947 Glenn T. Proffit succeeds R. H. Claytor as Orange County school superintendent Glenn Theodor Proffit, a Wilkes County native who had led high schools in Clinton, Harnett County and Dunn, took over the county schools in July 1947 and served until 1951. People: R. H. Claytor, Glenn T. Proffit Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 99
5. late August 1947 Superintendent Proffit holds back Aycock and the county's Black schools a week for the tobacco harvest Because the tobacco crop was late, Superintendent Glenn T. Proffit moved the opening of Aycock School and of every Black school in the county from September 1 to September 8, while the other white schools opened on time. He said two new buses would go to the Black schools, some of whose buses had run as far as 75 miles a day. Place: Orange County schools · Also mentions: Aycock SchoolSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 28, 1947, p. 1
6. January 12, 1948 Orange County teachers ask the governor for a special legislative session on their pay Meeting as a unit of the North Carolina Education Association, Orange County's teachers unanimously asked Governor Gregg Cherry to call a special session of the General Assembly to raise their pay against the rising cost of living and to give the schools more for operating costs. Superintendent Glenn T. Proffit noted that coal for the schools had gone from $3.50 to as much as $7 a ton at the mines. People: Glenn T. Proffit Place: Hillsboro High School, HillsboroSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 15, 1948, p. 1
7. January 24 to February 16, 1948 Snow and ice storms close Orange County schools for eight days A sleet and snow storm that began January 24, more snow and sleet the next weekend, and what the paper called a record 8.5-inch snow on the night of February 9 iced the county's roads, left many homes short of fuel oil and coal, and closed the county schools eight days in all before they reopened February 16. Principals then voted to hold school on alternate Saturdays and on Easter Monday to make up the time. People: Glenn T. Proffit Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 12, 1948, p. 1
8. by July 29, 1948 Construction begins on a home economics building at the Hillsboro school for Black students By July 29, 1948, the county had begun building a 22 by 60 foot home economics department at the Hillsboro school for Black students, built to state specifications after the state warned the school could lose its home economics program. Superintendent Glenn T. Proffit said capital outlay money in the new county budget paid for it. People: Glenn T. Proffit Place: Hillsboro school for Black students (Central High School), Hillsborough · Also mentions: Hillsboro schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 29, 1948, p. 1
9. July 1948 Piney Mountain School closes and its pupils go to Morris Grove School The county consolidated Piney Mountain School, one of its Black schools, with Morris Grove School. A new gravel road into the area let a bus carry the children out; the school had been kept open only because no bus could reach it. People: Glenn T. Proffit Place: Piney Mountain Road, Chapel Hill TownshipSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 1, 1948, p. 1
10. by July 1, 1948 Sunny Side School is consolidated with the Orange County Training School By July 1, 1948, the county had consolidated Sunny Side School, one of its schools for Black children, with the Orange County Training School in Chapel Hill, while Piney Mountain School went into Morris Grove. The two consolidations cost the county's Black schools two elementary teachers for 1948-49. People: Glenn T. Proffit Place: Orange County Training School, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Piney Mountain SchoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 1, 1948, p. 1
11. 1949-1951 Superintendent Proffit's $1 million school bond pays for a new Efland school for Black children and county lunchrooms The $1,000,000 school bond passed under Superintendent Glenn T. Proffit paid for grounds and a building for the Efland school for Black children, an addition to Hillsboro High School, and lunchrooms at Aycock, Efland, West Hillsborough and White Cross. It also bought a cannery and gymnasium at Aycock and a remodeling and auditorium at Caldwell. People: Glenn T. Proffit Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Efland school, Hillsboro High SchoolSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 129
12. April 4, 1949 A Cedar Grove delegation asks the school board how to keep Aycock High School With the state education commission urging 300 pupils as the minimum for a senior high school, a Cedar Grove delegation asked the county Board of Education how to save the Aycock high school, which had 86 pupils and five teachers. The board, which reappointed Glenn T. Proffit superintendent for two years at the same meeting, advised enlarging the attendance area and building good will but took no action. People: Glenn T. Proffit Place: Orange County Board of Education, HillsboroThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 7, 1949, p. 1