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Glenn T. Proffit

Glenn T. Proffit, a 1926 graduate of the University of North Carolina, was superintendent of the Orange County schools in the late 1940s. In 1948 he reported the closing of Piney Mountain School, one of the county's Black schools, once a new gravel road let a bus carry its children to Morris Grove School. He left Orange County on June 30, 1951 to head the Harnett County schools, and he died in May 1967.

Source: The News of Orange County, July 1, 1948

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  1. 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. ProffitSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, July 1, 1948, p. 1
  2. 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. ProffitSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 129
  3. The county board elects G. Paul Carr superintendent of the Orange County schools Gabriel Paul Carr, principal of Angier High School, became the county's tenth school superintendent in 1951, succeeding Glenn T. Proffit, who left for the Harnett County superintendency. Carr served eighteen years, through the consolidation of schools and the desegregation of the system, and resigned effective June 30, 1969. People: G. Paul Carr, Glenn T. ProffitSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 131

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