Marvin Hendrix Stacy

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1. 1910 Marvin H. Stacy becomes professor of civil engineering Stacy, a 1902 graduate who had stayed on to teach mathematics and taken a master's degree in 1904, went to Cornell for graduate study, then returned to teach civil engineering and was made professor in 1910. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: Marvin Hendrix Stacy and Stacy Residence Hall
2. 1914 Marvin H. Stacy becomes permanent dean of the College of Liberal Arts Graham had made Marvin Hendrix Stacy acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts during Venable's absence and made the post permanent at his first faculty meeting as president. Stacy, a civil engineering professor, handled student discipline and worked to replace written rules with reliance on student honor. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: College of Liberal Arts, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 96
3. October 31, 1918 The trustees make Marvin H. Stacy chairman of the faculty with a president's powers Five days after Graham's death the trustees named his dean, Marvin Hendrix Stacy, chairman of the faculty with the full powers of the presidency. Stacy named Harry W. Chase acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and the trustees agreed. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 180
4. October 1918–January 1919 Chase takes charge of the college and then the faculty after two deaths Chase was appointed acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts after President Edward Kidder Graham died in October 1918, and chairman of the faculty after Marvin H. Stacy died in January 1919. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Edward Kidder Graham, Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Chase, Harry Woodburn
5. December 10, 1918 The SATC is demobilized and half its men leave Chapel Hill Demobilization of the Students' Army Training Corps was completed on December 10, 1918, ending military control of the campus, and half of the SATC men left on the next train. Faculty judged the arrangement a failure because the university had answered to two masters. People: Louis Round Wilson, Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 183
6. January 21, 1919 Acting president Marvin Hendrix Stacy dies of influenza Stacy, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and chairman of the faculty with a president's powers since Graham's death, died on Tuesday morning after several days' serious illness, the second university head lost to the pandemic in three months. The pandemic led the university to appoint its first university physician, Eric Alonzo Abernethy. People: Marvin Hendrix Stacy, Eric A. Abernethy Place: Chapel HillUNC Libraries, Going Viral: Influenza at UNC: The Two University Presidents
7. January 1919 Enrollment drops to 759 for the postwar winter quarter When the winter quarter opened after the SATC left, 759 students registered, the lowest count in more than a decade. Officials hoped returning soldiers would add about 150 in March. People: Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 184 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), January 16, 1919, p. 4
8. March 2, 1919 Gerrard Hall memorial service for Marvin H. Stacy Students, faculty and friends met in Gerrard Hall to remember Stacy, who had died of influenza on January 21. Former president Francis P. Venable, a childhood friend, and Albert Coates for the students spoke. People: Francis Preston Venable, Albert Coates Place: Gerrard HallSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 38
9. 1938 Stacy Residence Hall is completed and named for Marvin H. Stacy Stacy Residence Hall was finished in 1938 and named for Marvin Hendrix Stacy, the dean and acting president who died of influenza in 1919. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: Marvin Hendrix Stacy and Stacy Residence Hall