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Mildred Ringwalt
Mildred Ringwalt, a Chapel Hill Quaker, stood at the Wednesday vigil against the Vietnam War in front of the post office for more than six years, helped organize the Inter-Church (now Inter-Faith) Council, and was a founder of Carolina Friends School and first clerk of its board. She died at her Chapel Hill home in 1994.
Source: Carolina Friends School: Mildred Ringwalt, A Legacy to Carolina Friends School
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- The Chapel Hill Friends Meeting opens its meetinghouse Mildred Ringwalt, who joined the Chapel Hill Friends in 1959, was influential in building the Quaker meetinghouse that opened in 1960 and later raised money to enlarge it. A Carolina Friends School tribute says she sold most of her Oriental art to finance the building and anonymously gave the money to finish it. People: Dudley Dewitt CarrollSearch the index · Chapel Hill Friends Meeting: The Early Days of the Chapel Hill Friends Meeting, as told by Lois Ann Hobbs (April 14, 2019)
- Chapel Hill church women ask the county for a welfare office in Chapel Hill A group from the Chapel Hill Council of United Church Women, including Mildred Ringwalt, asked the Orange County commissioners for a branch welfare office in the Chapel Hill area with a caseworker at least two days a week, and offered volunteers. The acting welfare superintendent replied that lay volunteers could not do casework.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, June 8, 1961, page 4
- Quakers from the Chapel Hill and Durham meetings found Carolina Friends School Members of the Chapel Hill and Durham Friends meetings founded Carolina Friends School as a purposely integrated school, beginning with early education programs in the two meeting houses. Mildred Ringwalt was one of the seven founders and the first clerk of its board of trustees.Search the index · Carolina Friends School: Our History
- Chapel Hill dedicates the Peace and Justice Plaza marker The town unveiled a granite marker at Peace and Justice Plaza, in front of the old post office on Franklin Street, naming nine local activists: Charlotte Adams, Hank Anderson, James Brittian, Joe Herzenberg, Mildred Ringwalt, Hubert Robinson, Joe Straley, Lucy Straley and Gloria Williams. The Town Council had named the plaza in 2006 and set criteria for later honorees. People: James Brittian, Mildred Ringwalt, Hubert Robinson, Joe Straley, Lucy Straley, Gloria Williams, Charlotte AdamsSearch the index · Town of Chapel Hill (Internet Archive copy, October 17, 2020): Peace and Justice Plaza
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- Chapel Hill Post Office and Peace and Justice Plaza Public buildings and services · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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- The Early Days of the Chapel Hill Friends Meeting, as told by Lois Ann Hobbs (April 14, 2019) Site steward
- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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