L. B. Rogerson

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1. 1921 L. B. Rogerson joins the University and sets up its accounting and budget systems L. B. Rogerson came to the University in 1921 and installed its accounting and budget systems under the direction of Charles T. Woollen, the University's business manager. He was later the University's auditor and then its assistant controller and business manager at Chapel Hill. People: Charles T. WoollenSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 3, 1943, p. 1
2. October 13, 1925 Chapel Hill Insurance and Realty Company sells 38 lots in Davie Woods for $52,260 At the first sale in Davie Woods, the former Strowd farm east of Chapel Hill that W. S. Roberson's company named for William R. Davie, 38 lots near the old Strowd home brought $52,260. Buyers were to receive shares in a company holding about a thousand acres kept back for later development. People: W. S. Roberson, L. B. RogersonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1925, p. 1
3. September 26, 1928 Chapel Hill citizens agree to underwrite the teachers' back pay Meeting with the school board, a group of citizens resolved to have the bank lend about $7,500 on notes they would endorse, each endorser liable for no more than $100, so the teachers could be paid at once. The loan was to be repaid from a $16,500 school bond issue, which needed a special act of the legislature and a vote, and the University's business office was to keep the school's accounts. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Harry Woodburn Chase, N. W. Walker, L. B. Rogerson, Gustave M. BrauneSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 28, 1928, p. 1
4. May 27, 1931 Auditor L. B. Rogerson reports Chapel Hill's spending under budget as the fiscal year changes At a special meeting the aldermen heard auditor L. B. Rogerson report that the town's operating expenses for the year ending May 31 had run about $3,000 under the budget and its debt service about $1,900 under. The saving let the town carry June into the old year when the new local government finance law moved the end of the fiscal year to June 30, without raising the tax levy. People: John M. Foushee, Milton E. HoganSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 29, 1931, p. 1 (Town's Expenses Below Budget in Year Now Ending)
5. August 1, 1934 Chapel Hill aldermen adopt a budget raising the town tax rate 28 cents to $1.32 Because the Local Government Commission would not let the town borrow for its share of the street surfacing, the aldermen put about $9,000 for it into a single year's budget. The tentative budget set the general fund rate at 84 cents and the debt service rate at 48 cents, a total of $1.32 against $1.04 the year before. People: L. B. Rogerson, John L. Caldwell, Milton E. HoganSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 3, 1934, p. 1
6. by August 10, 1934 South Building's first floor is rebuilt into offices for the consolidated University Following consolidation, the partitions on the first floor of South Building were rearranged to give new offices to the registrar, the comptroller, the dean of administration, the assistant comptroller, the purchasing supervisor and the student loan fund; the President's office was left as it was. People: R. B. House, Charles T. Woollen, L. B. RogersonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 10, 1934, p. 1
7. December 10, 1938 Chapel Hill and Carrboro leaders meet to find work for the jobless Carrboro mill hands Six months after Durham Hosiery Mills closed its Carrboro mill and put about 140 men and women out of work, a conference in Dean R. B. House's office brought together mill superintendent Floyd Durham, University business manager L. B. Rogerson, George H. Lawrence, Russell M. Grumman and Fred Fletcher to look for jobs for them, including places on the University's PWA building projects. The company's W. F. Carr told the Weekly it would keep giving the unemployed free rent and water in its 69 company houses after January 1 but would stop furnishing electric lights. People: R. B. House, Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, L. B. RogersonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 16, 1938, p. 1
8. by June 9, 1939 Chapel Hill men organize a faculty club to occupy the Archer house Ninety-nine men signed up for a faculty club open to townsmen as well as faculty, and 72 mailed ballots elected directors W. A. Olsen, L. B. Rogerson, George McKie, Clarence Heer, Louis Graves, Oliver Cornwell, J. M. Lear and R. H. Wettach. The club was to take over the Archer house on Columbia Street in July, with members' meals served in a room at the Carolina Inn. People: George McKie, Louis Graves, L. B. Rogerson, Robert H. WettachSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 9, 1939, p. 1
9. by December 21, 1939 Floodlights light up the Old Well at night In December 1939 University business manager L. B. Rogerson had the Old Well painted with aluminum paint and lit by floodlights set in nearby trees and one hidden in the fountain, so that, the Weekly said, it could be seen at night from Franklin Street and Cameron Avenue for the first time. The campus path lights were colored red and green for Christmas. People: L. B. RogersonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 21, 1939, p. 1
10. by December 21, 1939 The WPA approves stone seats and buildings for the Forest Theatre By December 21, 1939, the WPA had approved a project to give the Forest Theatre in Battle Park stone seats for about a thousand people laid along the hillside, stone light towers, dressing rooms and a stone gate, at a cost of about $20,000, mostly WPA labor and materials, with work to begin in spring 1940. People: Frederick H. Koch, L. B. RogersonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 21, 1939, p. 1
11. by August 30, 1940 UNC gives the Archer House back to women students as enrollment swells With all dormitory rooms sold before the end of June, a waiting list of more than 300, and some rooms to hold three men, the University reassigned the Archer House on Columbia Street to women students, ending a year in which men had lived there and the faculty club met on the ground floor; the club moved its gathering place to the Carolina Inn. Assistant Controller L. B. Rogerson expected more than 4,000 students. People: L. B. RogersonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1940, p. 1
12. by May 9, 1941 Seven families of University service employees live in the new Oakwood cooperative homes Seven families of white University service employees were living in new homes at Oakwood, a cooperative development planned by business manager L. B. Rogerson, with more houses nearly finished; the employees did most of the building, road work, wiring, and plumbing themselves after hours. The University put in no money, and a similar development, Knolls Homes, was under way for Black employees. People: L. B. RogersonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1941, p. 2