Orange County Indexed
The Fordham surname
The Fordham name in Orange County Indexed: 5 people in the chronology and 1 heading in books and archives.
- In the chronology
- 1940 to 1993 5 people in 166 entries, most in the 1980s
- In books and archives
- 1 person, born 1926
- People with a page here
- Christopher C. Fordham III, Christopher C. Fordham, III (Christopher Columbus)
- Search beyond these records
- Fordham 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 Fordham there)
- Fordham in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the chronology 5 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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Fordham, Christopher 69 entries, 1940–1993
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- 1940–2018: The Horace Williams Airport, 1940–2018
- 1956–1992: Parking in Chapel Hill and on campus, 1956–1992
- 1965–2004: The Thomas Jefferson Award at UNC, 1965–2004
- 1970–1993: Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Chapel Hill, 1970–1993
- 1970–1988: UNC, HEW and the desegregation consent decree, 1970–1988
- 1972–1992: Pressing UNC to hire Black faculty, 1972–1992
- 1977–1983: Black admissions at UNC: Bakke, Dean Renwick and the university affairs office, 1977–1983
- 1979–1987: New hotels and the room tax in Chapel Hill, 1979–1987
- March 21, 1980: Faculty Council acts on a report on women at UNC and asks for a full-time affirmative action officer
- December 1, 1980: Harold Wallace becomes UNC's vice chancellor for university affairs
- June 1-3, 1980: Kenan professors from across the country hold their first national convocation in Chapel Hill
- 1980–1986: Public drinking and the drinking age in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1980–1986
- November 1980: Harold Wallace is reported chosen as UNC's first vice chancellor for university affairs
- early April 1981: A conference on Black scholarship honors Blyden Jackson, UNC's first Black full professor
- January 15, 1981: Gillian Cell becomes UNC's first full-time affirmative action officer
- fall 1981: UNC enrolls its largest Black freshman class
- April 22, 1981: UNC offers to phase out Horace Williams Airport if a new airport is built by 1989
- September 1982: The Black Faculty/Staff Caucus publishes a position paper on Black staff
- 1982–1994: The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, B-GLAD and student-fee funding, 1982–1994
- July 8, 1982: County commissioners hear the Midway Airport plan and UNC's pledge to close Horace Williams Airport
- January 28, 1982: UNC holds a campus-wide Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration
- 1982–1984: The Morehead Planetarium star, 1982–1984
- May 22, 1982: UNC's second Black Alumni Reunion hears a panel on the desegregation consent decree
- by November 1983: Harold Wallace is named UNC's acting affirmative action officer
- April 1983: Students and Coretta Scott King press UNC to keep David Garrow
- fiscal year 1982-83 (to June 30, 1983): UNC's endowment grows by $22.3 million to $63.6 million, third best investment return in the nation
- September 14, 1984: A Chapel Hill computer firm threatens legal action over UNC Student Stores computer sales
- March 26, 1984: UNC receives the late Louise V. Coker's four-acre estate on North Street
- 1985–1990: Protests against CIA recruiting at UNC, 1985–1990
- July 1985: Gillian Cell becomes the first woman dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
- November 20, 1986: Police arrest nine anti-apartheid protesters in South Building
- October 9, 1986: The ArtSchool names its planned theater for Earl Wynn
- September 30, 1986: Chancellor Fordham bans public drinking on the UNC campus
- January 17, 1986: UNC President William Friday sends the campuses guidelines for handling AIDS
- April 7, 1986: University police and workers tear down the South Building shanties
- January 15, 1986: TransAfrica's Randall Robinson gives the King Memorial Lecture in Memorial Hall
- 1986–1987: The South Building shanties and sit-ins, 1986–1987
- March 18 to April 7, 1986: Students build anti-apartheid shanties in front of South Building
- by October 27, 1986: UNC's first annual report on intercollegiate athletics is released
- October 7, 1987: The committee seeking a new UNC chancellor holds its only public hearing
- June 8, 1987: Chapel Hill Town Council endorses a joint town-University committee on UNC's land-use plan
- by March 30, 1987: Chapel Hill Town Council asks for hotel room tax authority and sets aside a ticket tax
- November 30, 1987: Dick Crum resigns as UNC football coach in a buyout paid by the Educational Foundation
- August 28, 1987: Chancellor Christopher Fordham tells UNC trustees he will step down on June 30, 1988
- by October 30, 1987: Chancellor Fordham authorizes buying a $460,000 telephone registration system
- January 16, 1987: Chancellor Fordham decides not to press trespass charges against nine South Building protesters
- 1987–1988: Choosing Christopher Fordham’s successor, 1987–1988
- February 16-17, 1987: An ice storm glazes Chapel Hill as UNC keeps classes open
- April 10, 1987: Chancellor Fordham announces a $10 million bequest from the estate of Paul A. Johnston
- September 9, 1987: The joint University-town committee recommends against a road through Battle Park
- By July 9, 1987: Mayor James Wallace and Chancellor Christopher Fordham form a joint University-Town committee on the UNC land use plan
- April 10, 1987: Political scientist Richard Richardson receives the Thomas Jefferson Award
- October 12, 1987: The Class of 1988 gives the Old Well its night lighting
- February 23, 1987: Eight students threaten to withhold student fees over funding for the gay and lesbian association
- September 4, 1987: The committee to find Christopher Fordham's successor holds its first meeting
- 1987–1994: UNC’s land use plans, the Horace Williams tract and the joint town-University committee, 1987–1994
- June 1-2, 1987: UNC puts off its campus land-use plan after more than 400 people object at a Hamilton Hall hearing
- September 18, 1987: UNC's research grants and contracts pass $100 million in a year
- January 13, 1988: Chapel Hill Town Council accepts the Joint University-Town Committee's road recommendations and asks for a permanent town-University committee
- June 27, 1988: Chapel Hill Town Council names the U.S. 15-501 bypass Fordham Boulevard
- February 19, 1988: The CIA calls off its recruiting visit to the UNC School of Law after a student fast
- July 1, 1988: Dennis O'Connor becomes UNC's acting provost
- April 1988: Chancellor Fordham's report to the trustees affirms the joint committee's land-use recommendations
- March 18, 1988: Chancellor Fordham tells the Faculty Council that UNC's Black faculty has fallen to 48
- February 19, 1988: Chancellor Fordham withholds the Craige parking deck plan from the trustees
- February 1, 1988: Outside management audit of UNC is released to guide the chancellor search
- March 18, 1988: UNC trustees send two finalists for chancellor to President Spangler
- July 21, 1989: Christopher Fordham Boulevard is dedicated on U.S. 15-501
- October 11, 1993: Richard Adler's Bicentennial Commemorative Suite has its premiere in Memorial Hall
- Fordham, Christopher C. 1 entry, 1979
- Fordham, Christopher C., III 109 entries, 1940–1988
- Fordham, Christopher C., III 2 entries, 1980–1982
- Fordham, Christopher, III 1 entry, 1979
In books and archives 1 heading
Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.
