Murphey 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. February 1927 Howard Mumford Jones opens the Bull's Head Bookshop in Murphey Hall English professor Howard Mumford Jones announced the Bull's Head Book Store, a non-profit shop for modern novels and short stories in his office at 214 Murphey Hall. It later moved to the YMCA building, the ground floor of the university library and, in 1968, the Daniels Building. The Tar Heel, February 12, 1927, p. 1
3. by November 15, 1935 Chapel Hill becomes headquarters for two Federal Theatre Project regions Frederick H. Koch announced that Chapel Hill would house the directors of two regions of the Federal Theatre Project, Koch for Virginia and the Carolinas and John McGee for six states of the Deep South. The WPA fitted up an office for them in Murphey Hall with two full-time secretaries. People: Frederick H. Koch The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1935, p. 3
4. February 8-10, 1972 The BSM holds its first Black History Week Over three nights the Black Student Movement held its first Black History Week: a Gospel Choir concert in Great Hall with a talk by C. G. Newsome, the new chaplain to Black students; films on liberation movements with a discussion; and a closing talk in Murphey Hall by Dr. Grady Davis of Fayetteville State University and Durham's Union Baptist Church. Attendance was small. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 1972, p. 1
5. March 25, 1982 Tony Brown keynotes the School of Social Work's third Black Experience Workshop Television journalist Tony Brown told a mostly Black audience at the open forum of the School of Social Work's third annual Black Experience Workshop that Black people must believe in themselves and keep Black colleges open. The workshop on communication followed on March 26 in the Carolina Union. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), April 13, 1982, p. 6
6. spring 1983 UNC's Classics Department lists a course on homosexuality in the ancient world The Department of Classics announced a new honors course for fall 1983, Love Within the Sexes in Greco-Roman Society, to study ancient attitudes toward homosexuality in literature, philosophy and art, with some attention to women, the family and education. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 1983, p. 3
7. by October 7, 1999 Students Seeking Historical Truth post signs calling Saunders Hall a Klan memorial A newly formed student group, Students Seeking Historical Truth, hung signs labeling Saunders Hall with KKK, Murphey Hall "Hitler Hall" and the Steele Building "David Duke KKK" to draw attention to the university's racist past; members called William L. Saunders a Klan leader. University police took the signs down and called it vandalism. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), December 1999, p. 7
8. February 1, 2005 The GLBT-SA questions student body president candidates at its forum in Murphey Hall More than 50 students filled a Murphey Hall classroom for the GLBT-Straight Alliance's third annual forum for student body president candidates, who were asked about Safe Zone training, gender-neutral bathrooms and adding gender identity to the nondiscrimination policy. The group endorsed Tom Jensen; Seth Dearmin won the run-off on February 15. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), February 2005, p. 8
9. January 28 to February 1, 2008 Jimmy Creech opens the GLBT-SA's Ally Week in Murphey Hall Former Methodist minister Jimmy Creech, a UNC alumnus from Goldsboro, spoke in Murphey Hall to open an Ally Week that also offered Safe Zone ally training, a film, a panel on harassment, an interactive coming-out scene and an ally reception. Lambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), March 2008, p. 12

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