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N. W. Walker

N. W. Walker joined the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1905 as professor of secondary education, directed its summer school for twenty-seven years from 1907, and became acting dean of the School of Education in 1921. He founded the High School Journal and died at his Chapel Hill home in 1936.

Source: NCpedia: Walker, Nathan Wilson

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1875–1936 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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N. W. Walker, portrait plate, 1905
N. W. Walker, portrait plate, 1905

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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.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Walker, N. W. (Nathan Walker), 1875-1936.

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  1. N. W. Walker revives the UNC summer school Walker, professor of secondary education since 1905, revived the university's summer school in 1907 and directed it for twenty-seven years. In 1921 he became acting dean of the School of Education.Search the index · NCpedia: Walker, Nathan Wilson
  2. The legislature creates the Chapel Hill Graded School District An act ratified February 26, 1909 created the Chapel Hill Graded School District, with a special school tax and six trustees, among them Charles H. Herty and N. W. Walker, who ran its schools free of the Orange County board. Voters had to approve it in May; the city school system dates its founding to 1909. People: Charles H. Herty, N. W. WalkerSearch the index · Private Laws of the State of North Carolina, Session of 1909, chapter 2, pp. 7-11 (Internet Archive)
  3. A thunderstorm halts Esther Wake at Cameron Park during the homecoming University Summer School students staged Adolph Vermont's play Esther Wake, on the early history of Hillsborough and Orange County, at Cameron Park for more than 5,000 people. A heavy thunderstorm stopped it in the second act. People: Albert Coates, N. W. Walker, Adolph VermontDocumenting the American South: A Record of the War Activities in Orange County, North Carolina, 1917-1919, p. 114
  4. Trustees appoint Sallie Belle Marks and Cecilia Hatrick Bason, the first women on the faculty With little discussion, the June trustees made both women assistant professors as part of a push to improve teacher training. Marks became supervising principal of the elementary grades at the university's training school in Chapel Hill; Bason worked for the Extension Division from Asheville. Once women were on the faculty, women graduates could join the American Association of University Women. People: N. W. WalkerSearch 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), pp. 369-370
  5. Former summer school and education dean N. W. Walker dies Walker had headed the university's summer school and its school of education until he retired with a heart ailment in the summer of 1934. After his death his house at 517 East Rosemary Street was sold to education professor Guy B. Phillips, and Albert and Gladys Coates stayed on in the cottage behind it. People: Gladys Hall CoatesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 165

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Picture: N. W. Walker, portrait plate, 1905. Public domain. Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912); via the Internet Archive

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