Manning Hall

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1. 1922-1923 Murphey, Saunders and Manning halls are designed in the university's building office On the east side of the new south quadrangle, H. P. Alan Montgomery, architect in the university's building office under Thomas C. Atwood, laid out a smaller court of classroom buildings, with McKim, Mead and White as consulting architects: Murphey Hall for languages and literature, Saunders Hall (now Carolina Hall) for history and social science, and Manning Hall, with an Ionic portico and cupola, for the law school. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash, Thomas C. Atwood NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 53 · Also: UNC Names in Brick and Stone: Grimes Residence Hall; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Arthur C. and Mary S. A. Nash House nomination
2. June 13, 1922 University trustees name the new law building for John Manning At their June 13, 1922 meeting the university trustees approved naming the new law building for John Manning. The School of Law moved into Manning Hall before the fall 1923 semester. Names in Brick and Stone: Manning Hall
3. Spring 1924 Albert Coates revives the Law School Association Coates brought back Efird's association and used it to bring state supreme court justices, judges and lawyers to Manning Hall to lecture, to run moot courts across all three classes, and later to equip a model law office. People: Walter Clark Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 64
4. January 23, 1925 Manning Hall is dedicated as the law school's new home Supreme court justices, superior court judges, lawyers and alumni, 200 or more, came for the dedication and lunched at the new Carolina Inn with John Sprunt Hill as host. People: John Sprunt Hill 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. 281 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 29, 1925, p. 3
5. February 8, 1927 A portrait of Judge William Horne Battle is dedicated in Manning Hall A portrait of William Horne Battle, one of the founders of legal education at the University, painted by Mrs. Arthur C. Nash and given by his grandsons, was dedicated in Manning Hall. Frank Spruill made the presentation and President Chase accepted it; two elderly Black men who had known the judge, Bill McDade and Green McDade, were in the audience. The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 11, 1927, p. 3
6. By June 1928 A model law office and courtroom are fitted out in Manning Hall Through the Law School Association, Coates had lawyers around the state pay for a model courtroom and a practice law office stocked with real forms, so students could join theory to practice. Coates had put $2,600 of his own money into the office over four years. People: Albert Coates, Robert W. Madry Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 88 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 8, 1928, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 17, 1928, p. 1
7. September 8-10, 1931 Coates opens his first statewide school for law officers in Manning Hall About fifty police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, clerks and judges, growing to seventy-five or more, met for three days under the police chiefs' association, described as the first meeting of city, county, state and federal officers under one roof. The university's extension division and the same association had already run a ten-day police school in Chapel Hill in August 1929. Governor Gardner called it the most promising movement the university had begun. People: Henry Horace Williams, O. Max Gardner, J. C. B. Ehringhaus Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 107 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 16, 1929, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 11, 1931, p. 8
8. by July 20, 1934 Law professor Atwell C. McIntosh is named Kenan professor of law emeritus Atwell Campbell McIntosh, on the law faculty since 1910 and author of the standard treatise on North Carolina practice and procedure, withdrew from active teaching as Kenan professor of law emeritus; the Weekly called him the first faculty member made an emeritus professor on the Kenan foundation. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 20, 1934, p. 1
9. 1949 Henry Brandis becomes dean of the UNC law school Brandis, the Institute's first associate director, was promoted from professor of law to dean in 1949. Under him the law school and the Institute drew closer, with Institute staff teaching Coates's classes when he was away. People: Henry P. Brandis Jr. Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 218
10. March 13, 1969 State troopers clear Manning Hall on Governor Scott's orders About 75 state troopers ringed Manning Hall, the striking food workers' headquarters, on the afternoon of March 13 after Governor Bob Scott ordered it vacated. Students left before police arrived, and a crowd of up to 1,000 then rallied on the steps of South Building. People: J. Carlyle Sitterson The Daily Tar Heel, March 14, 1969, p. 1
11. September 23, 1987 Frank Wilkinson returns to speak in Manning Hall Wilkinson, then 74, spoke in Manning Hall on FBI surveillance and U.S. policy in Central America at an event sponsored by the Carolina Committee on Central America. People: Frank Wilkinson The Daily Tar Heel, September 24, 1987, p. 2

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