C. D. Spangler Jr.

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1986–1997 C. D. Spangler Jr. serves as president of the UNC System Spangler, a Charlotte businessman and 1954 graduate of the university, succeeded William Friday in 1986 and led the sixteen-campus system for eleven years from its offices in Chapel Hill, fighting to keep tuition low and reforming intercollegiate athletics. People: William C. FridaySearch the index · UNC System: UNC System Announces the Passing of President Emeritus C.D. Spangler, Jr.
2. October 17, 1986 Anti-apartheid students protest at C. D. Spangler's inauguration on Polk Place About 30 members of the UNC Anti-Apartheid Support Group held a silent protest with signs at the inauguration of UNC system president C. D. Spangler on Polk Place and dropped a DIVEST NOW banner from South Building windows, which University Police removed within seconds. They were protesting the trustees' decision to put off divestment for more information; Dean of Students Frederic Schroeder called the protest appropriate. People: C. D. Spangler Jr.Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 6, 1986, p. 1
3. by February 1987 The UNC Board of Governors extends its desegregation consent decree two years With the 1981 consent decree expired on December 31, 1986 and its goal of 10.6 percent minority enrollment on mostly white campuses unmet, the Board of Governors voted unanimously to extend it voluntarily for two more years, UNC president C. D. Spangler said. He put minority enrollment at Chapel Hill between 8 and 9 percent. People: C. D. Spangler Jr.Search the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 27, 1987, p. 1
4. between 1994 and 1998 C. D. Spangler Jr. buys the old Green-Phillips house at 513 East Franklin After stepping down as president of the University, Spangler bought the house Walter and Anne Dellinger had owned since before 1973 and began restoring it. The house, built for William Mercer Green in the 1840s, later belonged to Charles Phillips and then served the Presbyterians as their manse. People: William Mercer Green, Charles PhillipsSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 385
5. January 14, 1994 Rosalind Fuse-Hall leaves the Office for Student Counseling to become secretary of the UNC System At a Board of Governors meeting in Chapel Hill, UNC System President C. D. Spangler announced that Associate Dean Rosalind Fuse-Hall, head of the Office for Student Counseling since 1989, would become secretary of the 16-campus system. She took the post on February 1, succeeding D. G. Martin Jr. People: C. D. Spangler Jr.Search the index · Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 4, 1994, p. 8
6. October 12, 1995 Michael Hooker is inaugurated as chancellor at Chapel Hill Hooker, who took office on July 1, 1995, was inaugurated on University Day. A Hugh Morton photograph records university president C. D. Spangler at the ceremony in Chapel Hill. People: C. D. Spangler Jr.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Chancellor Hooker Inauguration, C.D. Spangler (Hugh Morton Collection of Photographs and Films)
7. April 28, 1998 State and university leaders welcome UNC President Molly Broad at a dinner in Chapel Hill On the eve of her inauguration as the 15th president of the UNC system, hundreds of state and university leaders, including Gov. Jim Hunt and former presidents Bill Friday and C. D. Spangler, gathered at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center to welcome Molly Corbett Broad. People: William C. Friday, C. D. Spangler Jr.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel: Hundreds officially greet Broad (April 29, 1998)