George F. Williams

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 9 dated events in the chronology →

1. 1969-1977 George F. Williams becomes superintendent of the Orange County schools After G. Paul Carr resigned, the board called George F. Williams, superintendent of the Brunswick County schools, to lead the Orange County system in 1969. He served eight years as the county's eleventh superintendent. People: G. Paul Carr, George F. Williams Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 144
2. 1969-1977 Orange County Schools open kindergarten classes and extend them to every five-year-old Kindergarten began in the county schools with the 1969-70 reorganization, housed at Central Elementary and Efland-Cheeks. By the end of Superintendent Williams's term in 1977 it had grown from a partial program to one serving all five-year-olds. People: George F. Williams Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 139
3. 1969 Orange High School is enlarged with new buildings Six years after it opened as the county's consolidated high school, Orange High near Hillsborough added buildings in 1969 under the new superintendent George F. Williams. People: George F. Williams Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Orange HighDigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 170
4. 1971 Orange High School gets a gymnasium The Orange High gymnasium, the fourth building on the campus plan, is dated 1971 under Superintendent George F. Williams. People: George F. Williams Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: Orange HighSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 170
5. 1974 Orange County builds Grady A. Brown Elementary School The county put up Grady A. Brown Elementary, a centrally heated and air-conditioned K-5 building of about 67,800 square feet on a 20-acre site near Hillsborough, designed by Croft Inc. under Superintendent George F. Williams. People: George F. Williams, Grady A. Brown Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 166
6. 1975 Central Elementary School in Hillsborough gets a large addition Ten years after the first building went up, the county added about 18,700 square feet to Central Elementary under Superintendent George F. Williams, bringing the school to roughly 44,600 square feet. People: Archie Royal Davis, George F. Williams Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 166
7. 1975-76 Orange County Schools reorganize into K-5 elementary schools with a middle school and junior high In 1975-76 the county dropped the two-grade elementary centers of 1969, returning to elementary schools of kindergarten through fifth grade, with grades 6-7 in a middle school and 8-9 in a junior high. People: George F. Williams Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 145
8. April 1976 Superintendent George F. Williams defends the demerit system at Stanford Junior High A Concerned Parents Group met in Hillsborough to protest suspensions under the demerit system at C. W. Stanford Junior High and voted to take its case to the school board and, failing that, to court. George F. Williams defended the system as fair while saying alternatives were under discussion. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · North Carolina Anvil (Durham): Hillsborough Parents Rap Demerit Rule, April 24, 1976, p. 1
9. 1977 Stanford Junior High School gets a small addition A 4,300-square-foot addition was made to Stanford Junior High in 1977 under Superintendent George F. Williams. People: George F. Williams Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 169