Charles T. Woollen

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1. 1903–1919 Charles T. Woollen becomes the first director of the university band Charles T. Woollen, a university administrator, became the first director of the university band in 1903 and led it until 1919. The band first performed at a university baseball game in 1904 and was giving concerts on the Alumni Building steps by 1906. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Alumni BuildingSearch the index · The Carolina Story: Charles Thomas Woollen (1878-1938) and Woollen Gymnasium
2. Spring 1918 University janitors organize with the Industrial Workers of the World Black janitors at the university formed an affiliate of the IWW and weighed a strike for higher wages as the spring term closed. Business manager Charles T. Woollen answered that he would hire a new crew from Durham, and the effort faded. That fall all the campus help lost their jobs when the SATC took over the buildings. People: Charles T. Woollen Place: UNC, Chapel HillHoward 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. 359-360
3. September to December 1918 The Students' Army Training Corps takes over the campus Registration, put off to September 24 and 25, opened a year run by the army: dormitories became Barracks 1 through 8, Swain Hall the Mess Hall, and the year was cut into twelve-week quarters with classes grouped by age. About seven hundred enrolled, nearly all of them required to take a course on the issues of the war, and the commander worked from the Sigma Chi house. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Charles T. Woollen Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Swain HallSearch 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), p. 170
4. June 1919 UNC trustees turn the campus's growth southward and call for a landscape plan Planning for 1,500 students the next year, the trustees combined their committees on buying land and on buildings, authorized them to hire a landscape engineer to draft a development plan, and decided that new building should move toward the south end of the campus rather than into four dormitories proposed for the north end. They also voted a monument over the graves of President and Mrs. Graham. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Charles T. Woollen, John Sprunt Hill, J. Bryan (John Bryan) Grimes, James Alexander Gray Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 26, 1919, p. 1
5. June 1920 Trustees order a building plan for 3,000 students At commencement Chase told the trustees the University had hit its limit, with laboratories running three shifts and 500 teachers turned away from summer school, and the visiting committee called the dormitories unsafe and unsanitary. The board told Chase to list what an enrollment of 3,000 would need. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Charles T. Woollen Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch 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. 217-218
6. 1921 L. B. Rogerson joins the University and sets up its accounting and budget systems L. B. Rogerson came to the University in 1921 and installed its accounting and budget systems under the direction of Charles T. Woollen, the University's business manager. He was later the University's auditor and then its assistant controller and business manager at Chapel Hill. People: L. B. Rogerson, Charles T. Woollen Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 3, 1943, p. 1
7. by January 31, 1924 The University completes the South Road behind the campus Business manager Charles T. Woollen's new map of the University grounds showed the South road behind the campus, connecting the Pittsboro-Pinehurst and Raleigh roads, completed and in use, with a stretch behind the cemetery from the new athletic building to the Country Club road still to be built. People: Charles T. Woollen Place: Behind the campus, between the Pittsboro and Raleigh roads, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Country ClubSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 31, 1924, p. 1
8. by October 2, 1924 The Carolina Power and Light Company finds gas service for Chapel Hill too costly for now After a canvass of the town and campus, the Carolina Power and Light Company's Durham manager reported that extending gas mains from Durham to Chapel Hill would cost about $122,000 and that the expected revenue would not justify it, though the company had not finally turned the idea down. People: Charles T. Woollen, James Munsie Bell Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 2, 1924, p. 1
9. between May 31 and June 3, 1926 The University faculty approves an Athletic Council to run college sports In the week before the 1926 commencement the University faculty approved a plan putting all athletics under a new Athletic Council of three faculty members, three alumni and three students, with the director of athletics and the graduate manager as members ex officio. Because the Southern Conference required faculty control, the faculty members, with the president, held a veto over the council's acts; the council held its first full meeting in October 1926 with A. W. Hobbs as chairman. People: Robert A. Fetzer, Charles T. Woollen Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: A. W. HobbsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 4, 1926, p. 1
10. late May 1927 Concrete pouring begins on the Kenan Stadium stands With the excavation slowed some six weeks by unexpected rock, the contractors began pouring the concrete seats of the east stand, and by mid-June were laying 500 seats a day toward a total of 24,000. The athletic authorities set October 15 for finishing the whole job, in time for the Thanksgiving game with Virginia. People: Charles T. Woollen Place: Kenan Stadium, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 3, 1927, p. 1
11. September 24, 1927 William R. Kenan Jr. sees the stadium and adds $28,000 to his gift William Rand Kenan Jr. came to Chapel Hill on September 24 and saw for the first time the stadium he gave the University in memory of his parents. Before leaving he added $28,000 to his original $275,000 to pay for the field house at the south end and other features not in the first plan, bringing the gift to $303,000. People: William Rand Kenan Jr., Charles T. Woollen, Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 30, 1927, p. 1
12. July 31, 1929 The Summer School board lets students wear pajama suits about the campus On July 31, 1929, about twenty summer-school students who had begun wearing pajama-style suits on campus and in the village paraded before the Summer School's administrative board in the South Building, which saw no objection so long as nothing offended decency. The fashion followed editor Louis Graves's long campaign for cooler men's summer clothes and W. O. Saunders's pajama walk in Elizabeth City. People: Louis Graves, R. B. House, Charles T. Woollen, Addison Hibbard Place: South Building, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 2, 1929, p. 1