L. R. Sides

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1. by June 5, 1924 Fred W. Morrison returns to head the Chapel Hill high school Fred W. Morrison, superintendent of the Chapel Hill high school, returned in June 1924 from a year's leave at Columbia University to take charge of the school for the next session, after Lettie Glass had run it in his absence. By mid-July, though, he had resigned to join the faculty of the North Carolina College for Women, and L. R. Sides of the University's music department was elected principal. People: L. R. Sides, Fred W. MorrisonSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1924, p. 5 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 17, 1924, p. 1
2. by July 17, 1924 L. R. Sides becomes principal of the Chapel Hill school as Fred W. Morrison resigns Superintendent Fred W. Morrison resigned to join the faculty of the North Carolina College for Women, and principal Myrtle Green resigned to marry. The school board elected L. R. Sides, leader of the university's student band, as principal, and with no new superintendent named, much of Morrison's supervision fell to him. People: Fred W. Morrison, L. R. SidesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 17, 1924, p. 1
3. July 1924 L. R. Sides starts a boys' band in Chapel Hill L. R. Sides, leader of the University's student band, began drilling thirteen Chapel Hill boys as a boys' band in a room on the fourth floor of New West, planning a public performance during the second session of the summer school.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 25, 1924, p. 2 (Sides' Band Will Give Concert)
4. February 17, 1925 The school board elects L. R. Sides superintendent of the Chapel Hill school Meeting with all members present on the night of Tuesday, February 17, 1925, the Chapel Hill school board unanimously elected L. R. Sides superintendent. Sides, an Elon College graduate who had come to the University as a fellow in education, had been principal and acting superintendent since the previous September. People: L. R. SidesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 19, 1925, p. 1
5. early February 1925 The Chapel Hill school's new orchestra makes its first appearance An orchestra of Chapel Hill school boys and girls, started under Superintendent L. R. Sides, was to make its first appearance at the Parent-Teachers' meeting, playing four or five pieces it had practiced for weeks. The Weekly counted the orchestra among the school's achievements of the year.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 29, 1925, p. 2
6. May 29, 1925 The Chapel Hill school opens its iron-walled gymnasium The Chapel Hill school's physical education building, an iron-plated hall modeled on the University's Tin Can and nicknamed Ironsides for Superintendent L. R. Sides, was formally opened on May 29, 1925, with drills, relay races, singing games and volleyball by the pupils. Built by Brodie Thompson on land bought from M. E. Hogan, it let 100 or more children exercise under one roof in bad weather. People: Brodie Thompson, L. R. SidesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 4, 1925, p. 1
7. early June 1925 Orange County board of education cuts the Chapel Hill school budget by about $7,000 Told by the county commissioners that the money was not there, the county board of education cut the Chapel Hill school's allowance from about $24,500 to $18,100. The county had run up an education deficit of about $40,000 in two years, and the Weekly reported that home economics, agriculture and music were threatened. People: L. R. SidesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 12, 1925, p. 1
8. September 7, 1925 Chapel Hill school opens a junior high school unit for the sixth through eighth grades The Chapel Hill school opened its year with 485 pupils and a new junior high school, departmental teaching for the sixth, seventh and lower eighth grades under Miss Harriett Bowen. Home economics, agriculture and music were kept after the teachers gave up their raises and the county commissioners added to the appropriation. People: Edgar Wallace Knight, L. R. SidesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1925, p. 4
9. May 1926 County and town school officials meet all day on a Chapel Hill township school district In mid-May 1926 the county superintendent and county board of education met for most of a day at the Chapel Hill school with Superintendent L. R. Sides and six members of the Chapel Hill board and with Carrboro principal A. C. Hoyle and three Carrboro committeemen, sending envoys to consult State Superintendent A. T. Allen. They sought a township school system with a uniform tax after many country children outside the Chapel Hill district had been dropped from school or charged tuition on March 1, when county money ran out; by July Allen was helping draft a special act for a township election. People: Edgar Wallace Knight, L. R. SidesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 21, 1926, p. 1
10. by June 4, 1926 The General Education Board gives $75,000 to make the Chapel Hill high school a University training school By early June 1926 the General Education Board of New York had given $75,000, to be spent over five years, for the Chapel Hill high school, which became in effect a branch of the University's school of education. The fund, run jointly by the University and the town school board, paid most of the salaries of new teachers who would also hold University rank, and the board's representative said the aim was a model public school. People: N. W. Walker, L. R. SidesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 4, 1926, p. 1
11. August 1, 1926 The Hillsboro municipal band gives the Sunday concert on the University campus The Hillsboro municipal band played the regular Sunday afternoon concert on the University campus at Chapel Hill on August 1, 1926. The band had been under the direction of L. R. Sides, superintendent of the Chapel Hill school, for about four months, and he called its players an exceptionally fine company of musicians. People: L. R. SidesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 6, 1926, p. 2
12. September 13, 1926 The Chapel Hill school opens under its cooperative plan with the University's school of education The Chapel Hill school opened on September 13, 1926, with three new high school teachers who also held the rank of University assistant professors, the first fruit of the General Education Board gift that tied the school to the University's school of education. H. L. Munch in mathematics, William Doub Ker in French and C. C. Certain in English joined the faculty under E. R. Mosher as director of training; enrollment reached 515 in the first week, and a new bus was added for children from the White Cross section. People: N. W. Walker, L. R. SidesSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 17, 1926, p. 1