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Paul F. Sharp

Sharp was chief administrative officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from September 1, 1964 to February 15, 1966. His chancellor's records document the state's speaker ban law, which barred Communists from speaking at the university, and programs in medical education.

Source: UNC Libraries: Office of Chancellor, Paul Frederick Sharp Records, 1964-1966 (finding aid)

Also found in catalogs as Paul F. (Paul Frederick) Sharp.

1918–2009 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

5 works about Paul F. Sharp are indexed here, as is one work by Sharp.

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Life and Orange County connections

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June 17, 1964 Hiram College president Paul F. Sharp is named chancellor at Chapel Hill The University trustees chose Dr. Paul F. Sharp, president of Hiram College in Ohio, to succeed William B. Aycock as chancellor of the University at Chapel Hill. Sharp told the News he fully endorsed the statements of Aycock and President William Friday on academic and student freedom. People: William B. Aycock, William C. FridaySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 18, 1964, p. 3
September 1, 1964–February 15, 1966 Paul F. Sharp serves as chief administrator of UNC at Chapel Hill Sharp was chief administrative officer of the university at Chapel Hill from September 1, 1964 to February 15, 1966. His records document the state's speaker ban law and programs in medical education, and he left to become president of Drake University.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Office of Chancellor, Paul Frederick Sharp Records, 1964-1966 (finding aid)
October 12, 1964 Secretary of State Dean Rusk receives an honorary degree on University Day Secretary of State Dean Rusk flew from Washington to speak to an overflow crowd in Memorial Hall and receive an honorary Doctor of Laws at the University's 171st birthday convocation, the first University Day under Chancellor Paul F. Sharp. He was presented by history professor James R. Caldwell, his Davidson College classmate. People: Paul F. SharpSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 22, 1964, p. 26
December 7, 1964 The UNC chapter of the AAUP sends its report on the speaker ban to the chancellor, not the press Meeting with officers from the Greensboro and Raleigh campuses and the state conference, the Chapel Hill chapter of the American Association of University Professors voted without dissent to send its committee report on the Visiting Speakers Law's effect on the University to Chancellor Sharp for the President and trustees, rather than release it to the press. People: Paul F. SharpThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 10, 1964, p. 4
February 25, 1965 Faculty members press Chancellor Sharp after a pellet is fired into Kenan Dormitory The shot came on the day of a campus rally, and the campus police chief called it minor. The professors asked whether the university's hiring and admissions practices favored white people and whether fraternities had discriminatory clauses.Search the index · Sixty Years of Struggle: A Documented History of Housekeepers at U.N.C. (1996), scan p. 71
May 1965 Memorial Hospital ends racial segregation After a federal inspection team found the hospital out of compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chancellor Paul F. Sharp announced it would take immediate steps to obey the law. The hospital had assigned patients to rooms by what it called cultural background, and room assignments now had to be made without regard to race. People: Paul F. Sharp, Isaac Montrose TaylorThe Daily Tar Heel, May 5, 1965, p. 1
July 8, 1965 A Committee of Janitors asks the university for a hearing on treatment by supervisors The janitors said they did not mind the work but wanted supervisors to speak to them with respect, and they listed grievances over leave and vacations. In late June Professor H. M. Blaylock had written Chancellor Paul F. Sharp about poor treatment, low pay and blocked promotions for Black employees. People: Paul F. SharpSixty Years of Struggle: A Documented History of Housekeepers at U.N.C. (1996), scan p. 62

People named in the same events

People named in the same dated entries as Paul F. Sharp, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.

Isaac Montrose Taylor 1 entry: Memorial Hospital ends racial segregation (May 1965)
William B. Aycock 1 entry: Hiram College president Paul F. Sharp is named chancellor at Chapel Hill (June 17, 1964)
William C. Friday 1 entry: Hiram College president Paul F. Sharp is named chancellor at Chapel Hill (June 17, 1964)

Indexed works

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By Paul F. Sharp

University Day, 1965 : address

Sharp, Paul F. (Paul Frederick), 1918-2009 · 1965 · News Bureau, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Paul F. Sharp gave the University Day address at Chapel Hill on October 12, 1965, and the university News Bureau distributed the text on six leaves. University Day falls each year on the anniversary of the 1793 cornerstone laying.

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Progress and protests : UNC-Chapel Hill leaders during "the Long Sixties" (1957-1972) : covering chancellors William Brantley Aycock, Paul F. Sharp, and J. Carlyle Sitterson

Roundtree, Lynn · 2024 · Lynn Roundtree

Lynn Roundtree covers the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 1957 and 1972 through its three chancellors, William Brantley Aycock, Paul F. Sharp and J. Carlyle Sitterson, set against the student movements of those years. Part of the Coates university leadership series, published by the author in 2024 and running to 926 pages. It is twentieth century campus history.