Orange County Indexed
The Cell surname
The Cell name in Orange County Indexed: 1 historical record and 2 people in the chronology.
- In the records
- 1798
most named in the 1790s
- Wills 1798
- In the chronology
- 1965 to 1991 2 people in 32 entries, most in the 1980s
- Search beyond these records
- Cell in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Cell there)
- Cell in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
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In the chronology 2 people
The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.
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Cell, Gillian 31 entries, 1965–1991
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- 1965: The history department hires Gillian Cell, its first woman on the tenure track
- 1970–1994: Women's complaints and affirmative action at UNC, 1970–1994
- 1971–1994: Answering sexual assault in Chapel Hill, 1971–1994
- 1972–1992: Pressing UNC to hire Black faculty, 1972–1992
- January 15, 1981: Gillian Cell becomes UNC's first full-time affirmative action officer
- March 19, 1982: UNC requires departments to report openings and resignations to its affirmative action officer
- September 17, 1982: Chancellor Fordham tells the Faculty Council UNC must hire more Black faculty and proposes curbs on big-time athletics
- January 1982: UNC puts a written sexual harassment policy into effect for employees and students
- July 1985: Gillian Cell becomes the first woman dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
- April 15, 1985: Order of the Golden Fleece taps State Archivist H.G. Jones and four others
- April 22, 1986: Vice Chancellor Boulton sets out a plan for a Black Cultural Center in the Carolina Union
- April 22, 1986: UNC's senior class holds a convocation on life after Carolina in Memorial Hall
- March 22, 1988: Black students rally at South Building over Dean Hayden Renwick's replacement
- January 27, 1988: Black Student Movement joins a student committee advising on Hayden Renwick's successor
- March 23, 1988: Dean Gillian Cell drops her plan to restructure the Office for Student Counseling
- February 19, 1988: UNC Faculty Council votes to make Women's Studies a curriculum with its own degree
- March 18, 1988: Chancellor Fordham tells the Faculty Council that UNC's Black faculty has fallen to 48
- 1988–1990: The Office for Student Counseling and Dean Cell’s reappointment, 1988–1990
- December 5, 1989: Dean Gillian Cell agrees to a student advisory committee with seats for minority groups
- November 16, 1989: Chancellor Paul Hardin backs Dean Gillian Cell's reappointment over Black student groups' petition
- by March 1989: Rosalind Fuse-Hall is named associate dean for the Office for Student Counseling
- November 1989: Trudier Harris is chosen permanent chair of UNC's curriculum in African-American studies
- December 5, 1989: UNC trustees reappoint Gillian Cell as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
- 1989–1991: UNC and the state budget cuts, 1989–1991
- January 11, 1990: Board of Governors approves Gillian Cell's reappointment as arts and sciences dean
- February 23, 1990: UNC Faculty Council approves academic minors
- February to April 1990: Students start APPLES to bring service learning into UNC courses
- February 21, 1991: UNC's College of Arts and Sciences tells departments to cut class sections for 1991-92
- by February 11, 1991: Dean Cell and Chancellor Hardin accept a student proposal for a multicultural course requirement
- by April 8, 1991: Dean Gillian Cell accepts the post of provost at Lafayette College
- 1991–1992: UNC’s turnover in leadership, 1991–1992
- Cell, Gillian T. 1 entry, 1983
In the historical records 1 record
1 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection
1790s
- 1798WillsWill of George Riggs
