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Sterling A. (Sterling Aubrey) Stoudemire

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  1. Chapel Hill holds its own blackout when the state signal fails When state civilian defense headquarters in Raleigh sent a preliminary alert but no signal for the statewide test blackout, Chapel Hill went ahead on its own: sirens began the blackout at 10:04 p.m. and the all-clear sounded about 10:40, with Sterling Stoudemire and his staff directing the air raid wardens from the control room in the Town Hall. Louis Graves wrote that the town was really black. People: Sterling A. (Sterling Aubrey) Stoudemire Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Louis Graves, Sterling StoudemireThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 2, 1942, p. 1
  2. Chapel Hill Civilian Defense Council holds a public mass meeting At a public meeting at the elementary school, Civilian Defense coordinator Guy B. Phillips reported that 85 volunteers had helped with rationing and 125 with Red Cross work, called for more, and warned that civilians might be organized into work corps to plant food crops in the spring. Mrs. R. H. Wettach described the newly organized Citizens Service Corps. People: Robert W. Madry, Sterling A. (Sterling Aubrey) Stoudemire Place: Chapel Hill elementary school · Also named: Guy B. Phillips, Mrs. R. H. WettachThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 27, 1942, p. 1
  3. R. J. M. Hobbs takes command of Chapel Hill's Citizens Defense Corps Civilian Defense coordinator Guy B. Phillips named Alderman R. J. M. Hobbs to replace S. A. Stoudemire, who had gone into the Navy, as commander of the Citizens Defense Corps, over the air raid wardens, auxiliary police and firemen, demolition and road repair crews, and the medical and nurses' aides corps. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sterling A. (Sterling Aubrey) Stoudemire Place: Town Hall, Chapel Hill · Also named: Guy B. PhillipsThe Chapel Hill Weekly, January 8, 1943, p. 1

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By Sterling A. (Sterling Aubrey) Stoudemire

Sterling A. Stoudemire papers, 1920s-1990s

Stoudemire, Sterling A. (Sterling Aubrey), 1902-1992 · 1924

Sterling A. Stoudemire, 1902 to 1992, taught Spanish at Chapel Hill, and his papers run from the 1920s into the 1990s. Topics include the teaching of Spanish language and literature at the university and the wider history of that teaching in North Carolina in the twentieth century. Cranford Stoudemire is also named. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4623.

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