Warner Wells

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1952 Neurosurgeon Warner Wells buys the Pratt house on East Franklin Street Ten years after Joseph Hyde Pratt's death, Dr. Warner Wells, a neurosurgeon on the UNC medical school faculty, buys the Pratt house on East Franklin Street, which became known as the Pratt-Wells House. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt Place: 704 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · National Register: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation (OR1750, 2015), section 7
2. August 1955 The University of North Carolina Press publishes Hiroshima Diary Hiroshima Diary, the first eyewitness account of the atomic bombing and its aftermath, by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, was published by the University Press in August 1955 in a translation by Dr. Warner Wells, assistant professor of surgery at the university's medical school in Chapel Hill. The book became a best seller, and by 1957 author and translator had given their royalties to found the Hiroshima Yurin Scholarship Foundation for orphans attending Japanese high schools. People: Warner Wells Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Michihiko HachiyaSearch the index · Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 34 (1957), p. 310
3. by April 6, 1961 Music for Children, Inc. is chartered in Chapel Hill A nonprofit group, Music for Children, Inc., was incorporated in Chapel Hill to widen children's chances to hear and play music, with plans for school concerts by groups such as the University String Quartet, scholarship aid and help for the new youth orchestra. Its founders said the local schools did not offer an adequate music curriculum. People: Warner Wells Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 6, 1961, p. 19