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Marvin Hendrix Stacy

Marvin Hendrix Stacy graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1902, became professor of civil engineering in 1910, and served as dean, faculty chairman and acting president from Edward Kidder Graham's death in 1918 until his own death from influenza in 1919. Stacy Residence Hall, completed in 1938, is named for him.

Source: Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: Marvin Hendrix Stacy and Stacy Residence Hall

1877–1919 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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The University of North Carolina Record. Marvin Hendrix Stacy. [1919]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1919 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Addresses in memory of Marvin Hendrix Stacy, the University of North Carolina dean who died early in 1919, published at Chapel Hill in February 1919 as university bulletin number 163.

Patterson's General Store Ledger

Store, Patterson's General · 1910

Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.

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  1. 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.Search the index · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: Marvin Hendrix Stacy and Stacy Residence Hall
  2. 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: Edward Kidder Graham, Marvin Hendrix StacySearch the index · NCpedia: Chase, Harry Woodburn
  3. 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 StacySearch 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
  4. 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 StacyUNC Libraries, Going Viral: Influenza at UNC: The Two University Presidents
  5. 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 StacySearch 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
  6. 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 CoatesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 38
  7. 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.Search the index · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History: Marvin Hendrix Stacy and Stacy Residence Hall

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  • Gerrard Hall University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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