Bingham Hall

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1. 1929 The university names Bingham Hall for Robert Bingham In 1929 the university named Bingham Hall on its Chapel Hill campus for Robert Bingham, class of 1857, an alumnus who often spoke at campus events and helped reopen the university in 1875. People: Robert Worth Bingham NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Bingham, Robert
2. by March 29, 1929 Bingham Hall opens as home of the School of Commerce UNC's new classroom building at the south end of the campus below Murphey Hall opened at the start of the spring quarter, and D. D. Carroll's School of Commerce moved into it. The three-story building held 13 classrooms, laboratories, 20 conference rooms and a 250-seat auditorium and cost about $160,000; the school then enrolled 560. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1929, p. 8
3. February 3, 1930 Textile manufacturer Bernard M. Cone speaks at Chapel Hill against mill unions Bernard M. Cone, head of the Cone mills in Greensboro, told a full auditorium in Bingham Hall that mill earnings were too low to raise wages, that the trouble was too few hours rather than too many, and that he opposed the unionization of textile workers and a proposed survey of the industry. The School of Commerce had invited mill men of several points of view. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 7, 1930, p. 4
4. July 1-15, 1931 Fourteen teachers complete an adult illiteracy course at the University The University extension division and the state Commission on Adult Illiteracy held a two-week course in Chapel Hill on teaching adults to read, taught by Eva Edgerton of the High Point night schools, with a demonstration class planned near town. Twelve women and two men completed it to work among the state's estimated 236,000 adult illiterates. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 31, 1931, p. 6
5. July 5-9, 1937 The University holds its third conference on the conservation of marriage and the family Ernest R. Groves directed the third annual conference, which brought authorities on marriage and family life to Chapel Hill, and the Weekly reported it as the only project of its kind in the world. Groves warned that the subject's sudden popularity in schools risked exploitation and said the University would soon offer courses to train its teachers. People: Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 16, 1937, p. 1
6. July 12-16, 1937 The University holds a conference for North Carolina bankers Two hundred and twelve bankers, sixteen of them bank presidents, spent five days of very hot weather in ten hours of daily sessions on credit analysis, investments, trusts and service charges, at a conference sponsored by the North Carolina Bankers Association, the University and the State Banking Department. It grew out of the association's study of the state's banks over ten years, and the Weekly called it the only conference of its kind in America. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 23, 1937, p. 6
7. October 10, 1937 Quakers begin a weekly Friends meeting for worship in Bingham Hall A Friends (Quaker) meeting for worship began gathering at 11 o'clock each Sunday morning in room 113 of Bingham Hall on the University campus, open to all who were interested. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 8, 1937, p. 5
8. mid-February 1939 East-end homeowners organize against routing a new Chapel Hill to Durham highway past their homes Residents of Chapel Hill's east end, among them medical dean Dr. William deB. MacNider and Professor E. T. Browne, met in Bingham Hall and prepared a petition to the State Highway Commission against bringing a proposed four-lane Durham 'boulevard' into the village along the present road through their neighborhood, after a man understood to represent the Commission asked owners to sign away strips of their yards. Many citizens favored an entry by North Columbia Street, and the state's locating engineers began studying that route within days. People: William de Berniere MacNider The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 17, 1939, p. 1
9. December 10-12, 1958 Telephoned bomb threats empty Saunders and Bingham halls at the University After two calls on a Wednesday night warned of bombs at Chapel Hill High School and Bingham Hall, two more calls on Friday brought searches of Saunders Hall, home of the history department, and of Bingham Hall; classes in both buildings were called off and no bombs were found. The paper tied the hoaxes to a series of bomb threats across North Carolina. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 18, 1958, p. 1

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