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C. P. (Corydon Perry) Spruill

1899–1988 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. President Graham names a University faculty committee on national defense Graham appointed Francis Bradshaw, H. G. Baity, C. P. Spruill and Robert E. Coker to work with a trustees' committee named by Governor Hoey on ways the University could help the state and nation prepare for defense. Proposals under study included military training, airport facilities and an aviation department, an inventory of technical skills, and defense research. People: Frank Porter Graham, Herman G. Baity, C. P. (Corydon Perry) Spruill, R. E. Coker Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Francis BradshawSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 28, 1940, p. 1
  2. UNC buys four airplanes and widens its pilot training at the new airport With the enlarged airport now its own, the University had acquired four planes and readied a wider course of government pilot training under instructor William Mann, assigned by L. R. Parkinson's aeronautics department at State College; 120 sophomores and upperclassmen had applied, against a hoped-for quota of at least 50. People: C. P. (Corydon Perry) Spruill Place: Chapel Hill airport (Horace Williams Airport), north of Chapel Hill · Also named: William Mann, L. R. ParkinsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1940, p. 1
  3. M. A. Hill Jr. succeeds Corydon P. Spruill as dean of the General College With Dean Corydon P. Spruill commissioned an Army major and stationed at Camp Lee, mathematics professor M. A. Hill Jr., a Beaufort native and a member of the advisory board that ran the college's individual counseling system, became dean of the University's General College. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: M. A. Hill Jr.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 9, 1942, p. 5

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By C. P. (Corydon Perry) Spruill

Letter: Corydon Spruill to David M. Britt, November 5, 1965

Spruill, C. P. (Corydon Perry), 1899-1988 · 1965

Letter of 5 November 1965 from C. P. Spruill to David M. Britt thanking him for his work on the Speaker Ban Study Commission. The Speaker Ban Law, passed on 25 June 1963, barred known Communists and certain others from speaking at the state's public colleges. One image.

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A report to the faculty on grades in courses given by departments in arts and sciences and the schools of business administration, education, and journalism

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Office of the Dean of the Faculty; Spruill, C. P. (Corydon Perry), 1899-1988 · 1956 · University of North Carolina

Dean C. P. Spruill's 1956 report to the faculty of the University of North Carolina on the grades given in courses across arts and sciences and the schools of business administration, education and journalism. It was issued by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Chapel Hill and signed at the end by Spruill.

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About C. P. (Corydon Perry) Spruill

Office of Provost of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1917-2017 (bulk 1954-2013).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Provost · 1917

Provost's office records at Chapel Hill, 1917 to 2017 with most material from 1954 to 2013, some 287,700 items filling 367.5 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40039. These are the papers of academic administration: curricula, faculty and the units reporting to the provost, among them the Ackland Art Museum, the business school, the Center for Urban and Regional Studies and the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Spruill, C. P. (Corydon Perry), 1899-1988.

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