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Charles Thomas Woollen (1878–1938) served the university for decades as registrar, purchasing agent, proctor, business manager and comptroller, and was the first director of the university band from 1903 to 1919. In 1937 the university named its new gymnasium for him.
Source: The Carolina Story: Charles Thomas Woollen (1878-1938) and Woollen Gymnasium
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The Charles T. Woollen Gymnasium at Chapel Hill, published by the Graycraft Card Company of Danville, Virginia, and undated. Chapel Hill and Orange County are the place terms attached.
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Woollen Gymnasium at the University of North Carolina, on a North Carolina News Company postcard. The caption says the building cost $650,000, was dedicated in 1938 and bears the name of Charles T. Woollen, the university's controller for many years. Undated.
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Picture: Charles T. Woollen, 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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