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News, Journalism & Broadcasting

Two centuries of local papers, from the Hillsborough Recorder to the Daily Tar Heel, and the broadcasters who followed.

In briefThe Hillsborough Recorder began in 1820, the Daily Tar Heel and the Chapel Hill papers followed, WUNC-TV went on the air in 1955 and WXYC made the first internet radio simulcast in 1994. The records here are the papers, their editors and the broadcasters.

524 indexed works are connected with this theme. 7 held at OCPL →

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The Hillsborough Recorder of 1 March 1820.

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Periodicals 240Newspapers 136Histories 58Photographs & portraits 55Biography 11other types 49

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Colonial era (to 1775) 118th century 9Revolution (1775–1783) 719th century 35Civil War (1861–1865) 11Reconstruction (1865–1877) 320th century 85World War II era 8

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North Carolina (statewide) 248Orange County 181Chapel Hill 130Hillsborough 52City of Durham (neighboring) 25Research Triangle 12

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Making News

Bowers, Thomas A. · 2009

Thomas A. Bowers's history of a century of journalism and mass communication teaching at the University of North Carolina, published by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2009. It runs 282 pages with illustrations and portraits.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Journalism.

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A village voice : collected columns from the Chapel Hill news

Seymour, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1925-2020 · 2003 · Chapel Hill Press

Robert E. Seymour's columns for the Chapel Hill News, gathered into a 192-page book by Chapel Hill Press in 2003. The short pieces offer anecdotes and reflections on Chapel Hill history, local manners and customs, and North Carolina life. Seymour (1925 to 2020) was the longtime pastor of Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Journalists.

UNC Durham NC Cardinal CH Historical Society Library of Congress

The first 25 years : WCHL 1360

1978 · WCHL?

Anniversary booklet for the first twenty-five years of WCHL, the Chapel Hill radio station at 1360 on the AM dial, published in 1978. Topics include radio broadcasting and Chapel Hill history, with advertisements included. 20 unnumbered pages with illustrations and portraits.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Radio broadcasting.

NC Cardinal UNC Duke Durham

Celebrating 50 years on the air and 50 who made a difference : WCHL 1360

2003

Anniversary booklet marking fifty years of WCHL 1360, the Chapel Hill radio station, with profiles of fifty people from Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Published in 2003, 36 pages with portraits. Contributors include Roland Giduz, Jim Heavner, Jonathan Howes, Neil Offen and Rosemary Waldorf.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Radio stations.

UNC CH Historical Society

The origins of journalism education at UNC-Chapel Hill

Bowers, Thomas A., 1942- · 2009

Thomas A. Bowers gave this talk on the beginnings of journalism teaching at the University of North Carolina on October 15, 2009 in Wilson Library, part of the Gladys Hall Coates university history lecture series. It was printed the same year.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Journalism.

UNC

Goodbye Howell Hall.

Simpson, Richard Hunter · 1999 · R.H. Simpson

Richard Hunter Simpson filmed this seven minute farewell to Howell Hall in 1999. The film concerns the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, its buildings and its history, and the teaching of journalism in Chapel Hill. One videocassette, color with black and white sequences.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Journalism.

UNC
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100th anniversary.

1993

Centennial edition of the Daily Tar Heel, the University of North Carolina student newspaper, produced at Chapel Hill in 1993 to mark one hundred years of publication. Jen Pilla is named as centennial edition editor. Topics include the paper's history along with college student newspapers and periodicals in Chapel Hill, which makes the issue a source for the paper's own record.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Daily Tar Heel.

UNC

1360 WCHL : commemorating forty years of excellence

1993 · Village Sports, Inc.

An illustrated volume, with portraits, published by Village Sports in 1993 to mark forty years of WCHL, Chapel Hill's radio station at 1360 on the dial. Its writers were Jim Heavner, Roland Giduz, Jim Shumaker, Zora Rashkis, Dan Dunlop, George McCall, Lee Pace, Beth Tatum and Larry Stone.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Radio stations.

UNC

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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this theme. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled. Books marked Wider context cover the broader subject rather than this theme itself.

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  • Foundational · NC 975.656 GID Who's Gonna Cover 'em Up?!: Chapel Hill Uncovered--1950-1985 : Featuring the Newsman's Notepad Giduz, Roland · 1985

    Roland Giduz, a Chapel Hill newsman, gathers anecdotes and humor about the town from 1950 to 1985 in this 1985 book, subtitled Chapel Hill uncovered and featuring the newsman's notepad. Illustrated, with an index. Part of the Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection.

  • Foundational · NC 975.6 FOU Abstracts From Newspapers of Edenton, Fayetteville, & Hillsborough, North Carolina, 1785-1800 Fouts, Raymond Parker · 1984

    Raymond Parker Fouts abstracted the notices printed in the Edenton, Fayetteville and Hillsborough newspapers between 1785 and 1800, publishing the result through GenRec Books of Cocoa, Florida, in 1984, ii and 111 pages. The Hillsborough portion covers the Orange County seat in the first years after the Revolution.

  • Wider context · NC BIO GAMBILL GAM The Sages of Roney Street: And Other Joys, Large and Small Gambill, Jerry Gentry · 1996

    Jerry Gentry Gambill's newspaper columns, most first printed under his byline in the Durham Morning Herald and its successor, the Herald-Sun, between 1979 and 1992, gathered with other pieces and edited by John A. Gentry. Published in 1996 by University Editions of Huntington, West Virginia; 285 pages with illustrations.

  • Wider context · NC 929.375 MARRIAGE Marriage and Death Notices From Raleigh, N.C. Newspapers, 1796-1826 1977

    Two early Raleigh newspapers, the Minerva and the Star, supplied the marriage and death notices gathered here for 1796 to 1826, with a bride index for each paper's marriages. Jane Cutler Bahnsen, Elizabeth Henderson Cotten and Helen Dortch Harrison of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina prepared the indexes in the 1950s; Southern Historical Press published them in 1977, 164 pages. Some notices concern South Carolinians.

  • Wider context · NC 070.49 SPEAR Playing With Dynamite: The Story of One Newspaper Family in the South Spear, David M. · 2016

    David M. Spear tells the story of his family and The Messenger, the newspaper it published in Madison, in Rockingham County, North Carolina, during the twentieth century. The 299-page book has plates, portraits and a genealogical table on the endpapers; Gnomon Press published it for the author in 2016.

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The Hillsborough Recorder begins publication, 18201820–1879 · 27 events · Dennis Heartt began the Hillsborough Recorder in February 1820 and published it for nearly fifty years, a Whig paper before the Civil War whose shop also printed books, among them George Moses Horton's poems in 1845; William W. Holden learned printing there. Heartt gave up the paper in January 1869, and John D. Cameron, its editor from 1872, moved it to Durham in 1879.

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  1. Provincial Congress at Hillsborough orders its journal printed by James Davis The congress meeting at Hillsborough directed that its proceedings be delivered to James Davis, the province's printer and a delegate for the town of New Bern, who was desired to print them and send a copy to each member. It also named a committee to state and settle his account for services done as printer to the province. People: Willie Jones, Thomas PersonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Minutes of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, August 20 to September 10, 1775
  2. The Assembly names Thomas Davis state printer and tells him to set up his press at Hillsborough On the last day of the session Davis was appointed public printer and directed to establish his press in Hillsborough as soon as he could, to print the state's laws and legislative journals there.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 63
  3. The North Carolina Gazette begins publication at Hillsborough The North Carolina Gazette of Hillsborough, apparently the county's first regular newspaper, appeared in 1785. The only surviving copy with an imprint, dated February 16, 1786, was printed by Robert Ferguson for Thomas Davis.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 124
  4. William Woods Holden is born near Hillsborough William Woods Holden, later editor of the North Carolina Standard and governor, was born near Hillsborough to Thomas Holden and Priscilla Woods. His grandfather had moved to Orange County to farm, and from age six he was raised by his stepmother, Sally Nichols Holden.Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Holden, William Woods
  5. The Hillsborough Recorder begins publication Dennis Heartt began publishing the weekly Hillsborough Recorder in February 1820, at three dollars a year. The paper ran until 1879, and its surviving issues are a main record of nineteenth-century Hillsborough and Orange County. People: Dennis HearttDigitalNC: The Hillsborough Recorder, March 1, 1820 (Vol. 1, No. 4)
  6. The Hillsborough Recorder moves its office west of the market house The Hillsborough Recorder moved its printing office to the house opposite Dr. Smith's office, about 150 yards west of the market house. People: Dennis HearttHillsborough Recorder, November 22, 1820, p. 3
  7. The Hillsborough Recorder calls slavery a misfortune and urges colonization Editor Dennis Heartt wrote that slavery harmed the state but argued against freeing people to remain in North Carolina. He proposed sending free Black people to Africa at public expense and asked the legislature to act. People: Dennis HearttLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 103-104
  8. The Hillsborough Recorder shop prints The Discipline of Friends and A Solemn Address to Youth Besides the weekly paper, Dennis Heartt's Recorder office printed pamphlets. Two surviving titles from 1823 are The Discipline of Friends, for Quaker use, and A Solemn Address to Youth. People: Dennis HearttLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 127
  9. William W. Holden serves as an apprentice printer at the Hillsborough Recorder At about age ten Holden was apprenticed as a printer's devil to Dennis Heartt, editor of the Hillsborough Recorder, who was responsible for his early education and political views. He struck out on his own at about sixteen, working first for the Milton Chronicle. People: Dennis HearttSearch the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Holden, William Woods
  10. The Recorder shop prints Letters on Popular Education The Hillsborough Recorder office printed Letters on Popular Education Addressed to the People of North Carolina in 1832. People: Dennis HearttLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 127
  11. The Recorder prints a county meeting's warning to abolitionists An Orange County meeting adopted a report warning "northern fanatics" not to stir up the enslaved and predicting lasting hostility between the sections if abolitionists pressed on. Its fourteen-man committee included Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, John U. Kirkland, Dr. Edmund Strudwick and the paper's own editor, Dennis Heartt, as a secretary. People: Frederick Nash, William A. Graham, Hugh Waddell, John U. Kirkland, Edmund Strudwick, Dennis HearttBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 49
  12. Hillsborough elects Dennis Heartt magistrate of police and seven town commissioners Hillsborough voters chose Dennis Heartt, editor of the Recorder, as magistrate of police for the coming year and elected seven town commissioners, among them Dr. Edmund Strudwick, John Scott, William H. Phillips and Stephen Moore. People: Edmund Strudwick, Stephen MooreSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 12, 1836, p. 3
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  1. The Hillsborough Recorder proposes a convention of North Carolina editors Dennis Heartt's Recorder proposed that the state's newspaper editors meet in convention at Raleigh on the first Monday in September to agree on rules for their trade; within two weeks the Raleigh editors took up the proposal and invited their brethren. People: Dennis HearttSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, June 9, 1837, p. 3
  2. A memorial against dividing Orange County circulates in the Hillsborough Recorder A memorial to the General Assembly from inhabitants of Orange opposed to division, printed in the Recorder while it went round for signatures, held that a large county was harder for any family, town or company to control and would keep the tax rate low, and asked the legislature not to disturb the county's ancient relations.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 18
  3. The Recorder begins reprinting Herman Husband's account of the Regulation Dennis Heartt began reprinting in the Recorder, from the Greensborough Patriot, Herman Husband's rare account of the Regulation in Orange so that subscribers could read and keep it, praising the Regulators' spirit of liberty. The Patriot's copy had come through the Rev. Mr. Caruthers from a Regulator's granddaughter living in Indiana. People: Dennis Heartt, Herman HusbandSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 8, 1844, p. 3
  4. The 1850 census finds Dennis Heartt's printers and apprentices living at Heartsease The 1850 census listed editor Dennis Heartt's household at Heartsease with his two daughters, his son Edwin with his wife and small daughter, two young printers, and four boys aged eleven to eighteen entered as students who were probably apprentices at the Hillsborough Recorder. People: Dennis HearttNC State Historic Preservation Office: Heartsease, National Register nomination (OR0009), p. 5
  5. Dennis Heartt takes his son Edwin A. Heartt into the Recorder With the issue that closed the paper's thirty-first volume, Dennis Heartt took his son Edwin A. Heartt into the business, and the Hillsborough Recorder was thereafter published by Dennis Heartt & Son.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 5, 1851, p. 3
  6. The Hillsborough Recorder calls for a plank road from Hillsborough to Milton An editorial regretted that no one had asked the last legislature to charter a company to build a plank road from Hillsborough to Milton by way of Roxboro or Yanceyville. It hoped a stock company would form under the general act of 1850-51 while a charter was sought.Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 184
  7. Dennis Heartt is replaced as Hillsborough postmaster by James M. Palmer Dennis Heartt, editor of the Recorder and a Whig, was removed as postmaster at Hillsborough under the Pierce administration and succeeded by James M. Palmer, who signed the town's list of uncalled letters on October 1, 1853. Heartt marked his removal with a mock farewell in verse to the Postmaster General. People: James M. PalmerSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 5, 1853, p. 3
  8. The Hillsborough Recorder enlarges and keeps its Whig flag Dennis Heartt's Recorder came out about five columns larger at no increase in price. Announcing the change, the paper welcomed the principles of the new American or Know-Nothing party but said it would not strike the Whig flag for any new party. People: Dennis HearttSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 30, 1855, p. 2
  9. Edwin A. Heartt, the Recorder's junior partner and secretary of the town and county boards, dies Edwin A. Heartt, son and partner of Recorder editor Dennis Heartt, died in late August. The Court of Wardens, whose secretary he was, the Hillsborough town commissioners, whom he also served as secretary, and Eagle Lodge No. 71, where he was an officer, passed resolutions of mourning.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, September 12, 1855, p. 3
  10. J. M. Henderson begins publishing the Chapel Hill Weekly Gazette J. M. Henderson, lately editor and publisher of the Concord Gazette, began the Chapel Hill Weekly Gazette, a paper neutral in politics and given to literature, science, news, markets and agriculture, at two dollars a year.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, April 29, 1857, p. 2
  11. The Recorder cuts the size of its sheet for lack of paper With paper scarce and much dearer, the Hillsborough Recorder came out on December 25 on a smaller sheet of poorer paper, promising to cut advertising rather than reading matter, and announced it would skip the next week's issue for the printers' holiday. People: Dennis HearttSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 25, 1861, p. 3
  12. The Recorder endorses Vance but refuses to print soldiers' charges against Holden Dennis Heartt printed resolutions from the men of Dickson's Battery backing Governor Vance but left out two: one that denounced W. W. Holden and one he read as scorning every man not in the army as a coward. He wrote that Holden sought an honorable peace and that no evidence made him a traitor, and he kept that stand when Raleigh papers objected. People: Dennis Heartt, W. W. Holden, Zebulon B. VanceHillsborough Recorder, April 20, 1864, p. 2
  13. Dennis Heartt leases the Recorder to James M. Turrentine for Dennis Heartt, in failing health, leased the Hillsborough Recorder for the coming year to James M. Turrentine, who became its editor and publisher and promised a conservative family paper, while Heartt kept his interest and its profits and stayed on to supervise.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, December 21, 1864, p. 2
  14. A Black newspaper editor from Baltimore canvasses Hillsborough for subscribers George T. Cook, a Black editor from Baltimore, spent a day in Hillsborough about December 1, 1866, taking subscriptions for his paper among Black residents, and on December 3 wrote from Hillsborough to the Bureau that Guilford County's courts dealt unjustly with Black people. The assistant commissioner's office, which thought him a sensationalist, asked Lt. Isaac Porter about him; Porter replied on December 18 that he had not met Cook and knew of the visit only from Black residents.Freedmen's Bureau, North Carolina Field Offices, Hillsboro: Letters and Endorsements Sent and Received, Vol. 128, transcription p. 72
  15. Dennis Heartt gives up the Hillsborough Recorder after nearly fifty years In the Recorder of January 11, 1869, Dennis Heartt announced that his connection with the paper would end with that number, thirteen months short of fifty years after its first issue. An 1899 history of the paper says he sold it to Capt. C. N. B. Evans of the Milton Chronicle.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Hillsborough Recorder, January 11, 1869, page 2
  16. C. N. B. Evans closes the Milton Chronicle and joins the Recorder C. N. B. Evans, who had closed his Milton Chronicle, became associate editor and publisher of the Hillsborough Recorder with his son, Capt. T. C. Evans.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, January 26, 1870, p. 2
  17. Kirk's militia arrests Josiah Turner Jr. at Hillsborough On August 5, 1870, a detachment of Kirk's state militia seized Raleigh Sentinel editor Josiah Turner Jr. at the Hillsborough depot, took him by rail to Company Shops and then held him with Kirk's other prisoners in the Caswell County courthouse at Yanceyville. U.S. District Judge George W. Brooks ordered him discharged on August 19, 1870, on his habeas corpus petition. The impeachment article and the trial testimony name the officer as Lieutenant J. W. Hunnicutt, sent from Company Shops with about ten men by Lieutenant Colonel Burgen, and Judge Brooks ordered Kirk to pay the costs. People: William W. Holden, Josiah Turner Jr.Internet Archive: Trial of William W. Holden, Governor of North Carolina, vol. 1 (1871)
  18. Josiah Turner Jr. of Hillsborough testifies before the Senate committee on Southern outrages Josiah Turner Jr., Conservative editor of the Raleigh Sentinel, who kept his family home at Hillsborough, testified under oath before the Senate select committee in Washington on February 24, 1871. He said he had known nothing of the White Brotherhood until the habeas corpus hearings at Raleigh in the summer of 1870, put the toll in Orange at four men hanged and one shot, besides five whipped, and called the violence a war between two secret societies, the Klan and the Union League. Asked whether he had told James E. Boyd of Graham to let the Klan ride before an election, he denied it. People: Josiah Turner Jr.U.S. Senate, Select Committee, Report on the Alleged Outrages in the Southern States (1871), p. 349
  19. John D. Cameron becomes editor and publisher of the Recorder John Donald Cameron took over the Recorder from the Evans family, who kept only their Milton Chronicle. His masthead in January 1879 read 'J. D. Cameron, Editor and Proprietor', New Series Vol. 7, Old Series Vol. 58.DigitalNC: The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.) Historic Issues
  20. The Plant newspaper is published at Durham The Plant, a newspaper edited by a Mr. Green, was being published at Durham, now Durham County.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, February 21, 1872, p. 3
  21. The Recorder moves its office to the southeast corner of the courthouse square The Hillsborough Recorder moved its office to the southeast corner of the courthouse square in Hillsborough, skipping its issue of October 20 during the move.Hillsborough Recorder, October 27, 1875, p. 3
  22. The Durham Herald begins publication A new weekly, the Herald, issued its first number at Durham by late March; by May the Recorder counted it the third paper then published in Orange County, alongside the Recorder and the Durham Tobacco Plant.Search the index · Hillsborough Recorder, March 29, 1876, p. 3
  23. Joseph A. Harris publishes the Chapel Hill Ledger Joseph A. Harris began printing the Chapel Hill Ledger in a small wooden shop on the south side of East Franklin Street. He stopped publishing it in 1880. People: Joseph A. HarrisSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 135
  24. Charles B. Aycock edits the Ledger in Chapel Hill Aycock, then a university student, took over as editor of the weekly Chapel Hill Ledger in 1879, succeeding Cornelia Phillips Spencer. The paper ran until 1880.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Ledger, November 1, 1879, p. 2 (masthead)
  25. Cornelia Phillips Spencer edits the Chapel Hill Weekly Ledger For some months in 1879 Cornelia Phillips Spencer edited the Chapel Hill Weekly Ledger, with students R. P. Pell and Francis D. Winston as assistants. The book calls her the county's only woman editor; Charles B. Aycock took over from her. People: Charles B. Aycock, Francis D. WinstonSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 127-128
  26. John D. Cameron moves the Recorder from Hillsborough to Durham, ending fifty-nine years of publication in the county seat Cameron carried the paper fifteen miles east to the tobacco town, where it continued as the Durham Recorder, published every Wednesday. The last issue under the Hillsborough title in the digitized run is March 5, 1879; the first Durham issue there is July 2, 1879.DigitalNC: The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.) Historic Issues
  27. The Orange County Observer begins publication at Hillsborough Joseph A. Harris started the Orange County Observer at Hillsborough in October 1880 as its publisher and one of its editors, numbering it a new series of a paper established in 1878. The paper ran until about 1917. People: Joseph A. HarrisSearch the index · DigitalNC: Orange County Observer, October 23, 1880, p. 1 (masthead: Established in 1878, New Series, Vol. I, No. 3)
  28. A new storehouse on Churton Street opens with Hayes's drug store and the Observer office A new two-story storehouse on Churton Street, north of Jones's store, was made ready for use at the start of September 1883. W. A. Hayes moved his drug store into the ground floor, and the Orange County Observer moved its office and press to the second story, where it stayed for the rest of the year. People: Joseph A. HarrisSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 1, 1883, p. 3
  29. Cornelia Phillips Spencer turns her daughter's letters from Europe into a newspaper series While June Spencer toured Europe on a family legacy in 1884, her mother used June's daily letters home as the basis for a series, "Letters from a Young Lady," printed under June's name in the North Carolina Presbyterian. The editor had sent fifty dollars before June sailed, the only pay the series brought. People: June Spencer LoveSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 219
  30. Hillsborough elects editor Joseph A. Harris mayor Hillsborough voters chose Joseph A. Harris, editor of the Orange County Observer, as mayor, with A. W. Graham, James Webb Jr., W. H. Newman, George C. Corbin, W. E. Steward, J. W. Hooker and D. M. Laws as commissioners. The outgoing mayor, Corbin, had declined to run again. People: James Webb Jr., George C. CorbinSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 9, 1885, p. 3
  31. The revived Hillsboro Recorder moves Dennis Heartt's old press into its office The new Hillsboro Recorder reported that it had just moved the press and some wood type Dennis Heartt brought from Connecticut for the first Recorder of 1820 out of a Hillsborough cellar, where they had sat since 1867, and into its own office. People: Dennis Heartt, Frederick N. Strudwick, Calvin E. ParishDigitalNC: The Charlotte Democrat, October 14, 1887, p. 1
  32. Hillsborough elects Joseph A. Harris mayor With no opposing ticket and only about half the registered voters taking part, Hillsborough elected Joseph A. Harris, editor of the Orange County Observer, as mayor, with A. W. Graham, James A. Cheek, Henry Richards Jr., A. J. Ruffin, John Rosemond, James Webb Jr. and Jesse Hedgpeth as commissioners. The new board took office May 7 and chose Thomas D. Tinnin clerk and John Laws treasurer. People: Allen Jones Ruffin, James Webb Jr.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 7, 1887, p. 3
  33. Frederick Strudwick co-owns and edits the Hillsborough Recorder On 10 August 1887 Strudwick and C. E. Parish became co-owners and editors of the Hillsborough Recorder. Their first issue promised a firm and conservative stand on matters of public welfare and a thoroughly Democratic line in politics. Strudwick left the paper after the issue of 8 March 1888. People: Calvin E. ParishSearch the index · NCpedia: Strudwick, Frederick Nash
  34. F. N. Strudwick withdraws from the Hillsboro Recorder F. N. Strudwick, who had become co-owner and editor of the revived Hillsboro Recorder in 1887, withdrew from the paper.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 17, 1888, p. 3
  35. Fire destroys the Parish and Berry buildings and the Recorder printing office in Hillsborough A fire before dawn burned Postmaster Harry L. Parish's brick building, which held the post office, his store and the Hillsboro Recorder's printing office, then spread to the three-story Berry building next door. The Recorder lost its press, type and subscription books. People: Calvin E. ParishSearch the index · DigitalNC: Orange County Observer, December 1, 1888, p. 3
  36. Students start the Chapel Hillian newspaper A student paper called the Chapel Hillian appeared, edited by F. H. Argo and S. A. Ashe Jr. It gave way to two rival papers, the White and Blue of the non-fraternity men and the Tar Heel of the fraternity men, and the Tar Heel outlasted its rival.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 454
  37. The Orange grand jury indicts Durham editor Hackney for libeling Sheriff Hughes After the Durham Recorder printed a false report that Judge Armfield had jailed Sheriff John K. Hughes over the revenue officers' case and that the prisoners had jumped bail, the Orange County grand jury returned a true bill for libel against its editor, Hackney.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 22, 1890, p. 2
  38. Hillsborough re-elects Mayor Joseph A. Harris and chooses a seven-man town board Harris, the editor of the Observer, won the Monday town election as mayor. The new board was James Webb Jr., James A. Cheek, S. J. Lynch, H. N. Brown Jr., H. L. Faucette, O. D. Hooker and T. C. Hayes. People: James Webb Jr.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), May 9, 1891, p. 3
  39. The Orange County Observer moves its office to rooms over Joseph A. Harris Jr.'s store The Orange County Observer moved its printing office in late January 1892 to new quarters over Joseph A. Harris Jr.'s store, opposite the court house.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 16, 1892, p. 3
  40. The Tar Heel publishes its first issue The first issue of The Tar Heel, volume 1, number 1, appeared on Thursday, February 23, 1893, as a weekly published under the auspices of the University Athletic Association, with Charles Baskerville as editor in chief. The student paper took the name The Daily Tar Heel in 1929. People: Charles BaskervilleIn the index: Daily Tar Heel · The Tar Heel, February 23, 1893, p. 1 (DigitalNC)
  41. The Chapel Hill News, forerunner of The News of Orange County, begins publication The weekly that became The News of Orange County began in Chapel Hill in October 1893 as The Chapel Hill News. Renamed The News, it moved to Hillsboro between 1936 and 1941 and took the title The News of Orange County in 1944. The paper still dates its founding to 1893.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill News (Chapel Hill, N.C.), 1893-189?, title record
  42. The Alliance Weekly, published at Hillsborough, stops The Alliance Weekly, published at the Farmers' State Alliance headquarters in Hillsborough, was discontinued; its editor said it had run at a loss since the first of the year.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 10, 1896, p. 3
  43. Former Recorder owner John D. Cameron is buried at St. Matthew's Col. John D. Cameron, the newspaperman who had owned the Hillsboro Recorder, died on December 9 and was brought to Hillsborough for burial in St. Matthew's churchyard, where Bishop Joseph B. Cheshire and Rev. S. Paxson Watters read the service. People: Joseph Blount CheshireSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), December 16, 1897, p. 2
  44. The Yackety Yack replaces the fraternity-sponsored Hellenian as UNC's yearbook The Hellenian, the yearbook put out by the fraternities, gave way in 1901 to the Yackety Yack.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, National Register nomination (OR1744), p. 13
  45. Josiah Turner Jr. dies at his Hillsborough home Josiah Turner Jr., former Confederate congressman and editor of the Raleigh Sentinel, died at his home in Hillsborough and was buried in the churchyard of St. Matthew's Church.Search the index · NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Turner, Josiah, Jr.
  46. Phillips Russell graduates from the university and helps found the Golden Fleece Russell edited the student paper the Tar Heel and was one of the founders of the honorary society Golden Fleece before graduating in 1904.Search the index · NCpedia: Russell, Charles Phillips
  47. The Durham Recorder hails "Progressive Hillsboro" and the mill town at its depot A Recorder article pointed to Hillsborough's new buildings, macadam roads and growing textile trade, and to a large mill that had raised a settlement around the depot called West Hillsboro. The authors think the mill meant was the Eno Cotton Mill, since Bellevue was not yet running.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Bellevue Manufacturing Company, National Register nomination (OR1745), p. 14
  48. Alumni begin publishing the Alumni Review The alumni launched the Alumni Review, issued monthly during the college year, with Dean Edward Kidder Graham as an associate editor; his piece in the first issue memorialized his teacher Thomas Hume. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Thomas HumeSearch 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. 11
  49. Branson's University News Letter publishes its first issue E. C. Branson's University News Letter, a weekly one-page sheet packed with facts about North Carolina gathered by him and his students, first appeared in mid-November 1914 with a run of four thousand copies. Its items were widely reprinted by the state's papers, and circulation grew to fifteen thousand. People: John Sprunt 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), p. 101
  50. Edwin Greenlaw becomes managing editor of Studies in Philology Greenlaw took over the university's journal Studies in Philology in 1915 and reorganized it as a quarterly.Search the index · NCpedia: Greenlaw, Edwin Almiron
  51. Three weekly newspapers are published in Orange County The county's weeklies in 1915 were the Orange County Observer and the Hillsboro Enterprise at Hillsborough and the Chapel Hill News.Search the index · M. C. S. Noble (University of North Carolina Bureau of Extension), The Teaching of County Geography (1915), scan p. 28
  52. Lenoir Chambers is hired to teach journalism and run the University news service Chase recruited Chambers, a newspaperman then still in France, to teach a journalism course and manage the University's news service, arranging the job through his father while Chambers was crossing the Atlantic. People: Harry Woodburn ChaseSearch 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. 196
  53. Louis Graves becomes the university's first journalism professor Louis Graves came back to Chapel Hill in 1921 as the University of North Carolina's first professor of journalism. He resigned in 1924 to give his time to his newspaper.Search the index · NCpedia: Graves, Louis
  54. The Chapel Hill Weekly publishes its first issue Louis Graves published the first issue of his newspaper, the Chapel Hill Weekly, on March 2, 1923. He owned and edited it until 1954.Search the index · NCpedia: Graves, Louis
  55. Gerald W. Johnson heads the university's newly independent journalism department After Louis Graves left in 1924, the university expanded journalism into an independent department with Johnson, an editorial writer, at its head. He left for the Baltimore Evening Sun in 1926. People: Louis GravesSearch the index · Carolina Story: Gerald W. Johnson (1890-1980)
  56. The Orange Printshop moves into a new brick building off Rosemary Street The Orange Printshop, which printed Louis Graves's Chapel Hill Weekly, moved into a new brick building made for it on the lot behind Patterson Brothers drug store. It added new presses and machinery with the move. People: Louis GravesSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Tar Heel, September 27, 1924, p. 4
  57. The Student Council removes the Carolina Magazine editors over the story 'Slaves' Just as classes began, the council voted to remove the editor and assistant editor for printing a story with a hint of interracial sex. On appeal, a faculty committee Chase appointed called publication bad taste and poor judgment but not misconduct, and set the council's action aside. Durham textile executive Kemp Lewis protested; Chase defended the committee. People: Harry Woodburn ChaseSearch 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. 361-362
  58. A temporary radio station, WKBG, begins a week of broadcasts from the Pickwick Theatre A traveling station set up on a stage in front of the Pickwick screen to broadcast music and talks by students and townspeople for a week, opening with the village ministers on a Sunday evening. People: Luther James PhippsSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 1, 1927, p. 1
  59. George Lawrence describes the county home near Efland in the Chapel Hill Weekly George Lawrence described the county home two and a half miles north of Efland: two narrow brick buildings, probably of 1824, heated by fireplaces and lit by kerosene, with no plumbing. It held 19 residents and two prisoners, and white and Black residents ate in separate rooms. People: George H. LawrenceSearch the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 26, 1928, p. 5
  60. The Chapel Hill recorder's court is established The new court heard all misdemeanors from Chapel Hill Township every Tuesday, with a judge elected by town voters and a clerk and prosecutor named by the aldermen.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 219
  61. The Tar Heel becomes the Daily Tar Heel The commencement issue of June 7, 1929, was the first published as The Daily Tar Heel, after a plan to turn the tri-weekly Tar Heel into a daily went to the Student Activities Committee. Regular daily publication began with the new volume on September 20, 1929.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 7, 1929, page 1
  62. The Daily Tar Heel counts 31 fraternities with over 900 members and $500,000 in property By the end of the 1920s about a quarter of UNC students belonged to one of thirty-one national fraternities, whose houses and land were valued at around half a million dollars.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, National Register nomination (OR1744), p. 14
  63. The Daily Tar Heel raises a relief fund for Orange County's poor As hard times reached the county, the student paper asked students and townspeople for gifts. From January 31 through May 12, 1930, it collected $202.73, enough to give food to more than forty families.Search 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. 410
  64. Phillips Russell returns to Chapel Hill to teach creative writing After years as a newspaperman in New York and London, Russell came back in 1931 and taught writing at the university for twenty-five years, first in the English department and then in the School of Journalism. The Atlantic Monthly called his class, often held outdoors under the trees, one of the four best in the country.Search the index · NCpedia: Russell, Charles Phillips
  65. Contempo and the Intimate Bookshop begin in Chapel Hill Milton Abernethy, Anthony Buttitta and three other young men distributed the first issue of Contempo, a four-page review of ideas and personalities, in Chapel Hill on April 27, 1931. They also ran the Intimate Bookshop from a dormitory room; by June it had moved above the Cavalier Cafeteria, and Contempo was later headquartered there. People: Milton AbernethyIn the index: Intimate Bookshop (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · The Daily Tar Heel, April 28, 1931, page 1: New Literary Organ Appears on Campus
  66. The Institute of Government stages a statewide radio swearing-in of new county officers Working with Raleigh station WPTF, Coates had a five-station network carry the oath-taking of incoming sheriffs, commissioners and other county officers, with speeches by governor-elect J. C. B. Ehringhaus and his Republican opponent Clifford Frazier. People gathered in courthouses across the state to watch and listen, and Coates billed the night as the Institute's formal launch. People: Albert CoatesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 127
  67. Popular Government becomes a monthly magazine With new gifts from Winston-Salem backers and Ceasar Cone and some subscription income, Coates moved the Institute's journal from quarterly to monthly, with advertising to help pay for it. Each monthly issue sold for ten cents and carried a courthouse or other government building on its cover. People: Albert CoatesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 148
  68. Walter Spearman joins the UNC journalism faculty Spearman, a 1929 UNC graduate and former Daily Tar Heel editor, returned to Chapel Hill after five years at the Charlotte News to teach journalism at the university.Search the index · Carolina Story: Walter Spearman (1908-1987)
  69. Earl Wynn starts radio production for the Playmakers In the fall of 1939 the Playmakers began radio work under Earl Wynn, and their 'Carolina Playmakers of the Air' grew from local programs to a national network series. A campus radio studio was set up in 1940.Archibald Henderson (ed.), Pioneering a People's Theatre (1945), scan p. 18
  70. UNC Press editor William Couch builds a brick and stone house on Laurel Hill Road William Couch, editor of the University of North Carolina Press and brother of botanist John N. Couch, built a two-story brick and stone Colonial Revival house with a two-story gallery, designed by William Sprinkle. People: William Van SprinkleSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District, National Register nomination (OR0303), p. 8
  71. Ralph H. Graves is buried in Chapel Hill Ralph H. Graves, a New York editor and newspaper syndicate agent born in Chapel Hill, died at his home in Garden City, Long Island, on December 1, 1939. After a funeral there, a burial service was held at the Chapel Hill cemetery on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 5. People: Louis Graves, Ernest GravesSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 8, 1939, page 2 (Ralph Henry Graves)
  72. Louis Graves starts a newspaper campaign to give Franklin Street a Williamsburg look Feeling the business district looked shabby beside the new campus, Chapel Hill Weekly editor Louis Graves began praising Colonial Williamsburg's shops in editorials. Joseph Hyde Pratt, John M. Booker, W. D. Carmichael Jr., Collier Cobb and George Watts Hill backed the plan, and architect Archie Davis gave the planning commission watercolors showing owners how to remodel. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, William D. Carmichael Jr., George Watts Hill, Archie Royal Davis, John M. Booker, Collier Cobb Jr.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 68
  73. The Chapel Hill Weekly prints a special edition for the farm war campaign, sent to every rural family On May 8, 1942, the Chapel Hill Weekly put out a special edition backing the county's neighborhood-leader campaign, and a sample copy went to every rural family in Orange County. Stories in the county's papers that spring covered the leaders, edible soybeans, scrap and war bonds; the Mebane Enterprise printed the leaders' names on April 30.Search the index · U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service, Orange and Lee Counties, North Carolina, Demonstrate How Neighborhood Leaders Can Help in Securing Participation of Rural Families in Agriculture's Wartime Programs, Extension Service Circular 387 (1942), scan p. 13
  74. Chapel Hill aldermen elect Robert W. Madry mayor The board of aldermen unanimously elected Robert W. Madry, director of the University news bureau and an alderman, as mayor to succeed John M. Foushee, who had moved out of town after ten years as mayor. The Weekly believed no one in the University's service had headed the town government before.Search the index · Chapel Hill Weekly: "Madry Is Mayor; A New Alderman Is to Be Chosen" (July 10, 1942), p. 1
  75. Reader's Digest profiles Albert Coates and the Institute of Government Roving editor J. P. McEvoy visited Chapel Hill that summer, and his article, titled 'Don't Shoot Your Sheriff: Teach Him,' ran in the October issue. It brought Coates speaking invitations from several states and an offer from founder DeWitt Wallace to pay him to tour the country, which Coates declined.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 197
  76. W. B. Thompson sells the Chapel Hill News, which becomes the News of Orange County W. B. Thompson, who had published the Chapel Hill News since its start, sold it in 1944 to J. Roy Parker. The paper was renamed the News of Orange County.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 128
  77. Newspaper describes the work of Orange County's public health nurses A News of Orange County piece described the county public health nurses' duties: school inspections, immunization against diphtheria and smallpox, well-baby clinics twice a month, a monthly maternity clinic, tuberculosis and venereal disease clinics, orthopedic referrals, and the wartime maternity and infant care program for servicemen's wives.DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, January 25, 1945, p. 2 (editorial on county public health nurses)
  78. The Saturday Evening Post profiles Coates as 'The Ugly Duckling at Chapel Hill' Warner Olivier's article cast Coates as the law school's misfit who had overcome objections to build an Institute admired around the country. It opened with a photograph of Albert and Gladys Coates in front of the Institute building. People: Gladys Hall CoatesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 204
  79. Popular Government resumes regular publication under William Cochrane After a three-year gap and a single issue in 1945, the Institute's magazine came out nine times a year from January 1946, edited by Cochrane. He also managed the Institute's daily business until he left in 1955 for Senator Kerr Scott's staff. People: Albert CoatesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 206
  80. Joseph Felmet is tried in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court on the bus seating charge and sentenced to the roads Felmet's trial, put off in May while Bayard Rustin and Igal Roodenko were tried, was held in Chapel Hill Recorder's Court on June 24, 1947. He was sentenced to the county roads, appealed to Superior Court and posted a $50 bond. People: Bayard Rustin, Andrew Johnson (Journey of Reconciliation), Igal RoodenkoSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, December 4, 1948, page 4
  81. The News of Orange County is sold to E. J. Hamlin In 1948 the News of Orange County changed hands again, passing to E. J. Hamlin.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 128
  82. Orange County sets up a county recorder's court Under a 1949 act, the commissioners created a recorder's court for the six townships outside Chapel Hill, sitting every Monday, with the clerk of superior court as its clerk.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 219
  83. UNC trustees create schools of social work and journalism In 1950 the Board of Trustees established a School of Social Work and a School of Journalism, and renamed the School of Commerce the School of Business Administration.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 153
  84. John Ehle teaches in UNC's radio, television and motion pictures department Ehle, an Asheville native who came to Chapel Hill after infantry service in World War II and graduated from UNC in 1949, taught in the university's Communications Center, later the Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures, from 1951 to 1963. He published his first books while teaching there.Search the index · UNC Libraries: John Ehle Papers, 1918-1993 (#04555), finding aid
  85. Kay Kyser retires from show business and settles in Chapel Hill Kay Kyser left radio and television and returned with his wife Georgia to Chapel Hill, where he lived on East Franklin Street for the rest of his life.Search the index · UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: The "Ol' Professor" of the "Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
  86. Glenn Harden is elected the first woman editor of the Daily Tar Heel In a campus runoff on April 18, 1951, Glenn Harden, an independent coed candidate, beat Don Maynard about two to one for the editorship of the Daily Tar Heel for 1951-52. Pamela Dean, who puts this in 1950, notes that she was the first woman to head any of the campus publications, though a woman had been nominated to edit the Carolina Magazine in 1933.Search the index · Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 19
  87. The News of Orange prints a photograph of a Ridge Road School classroom An article on newer classroom methods in the county's Black schools ran a picture of Ridge Road pupils adding to a bulletin board, a few months before the school closed. It is the only historic photograph of the interior that has been found.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 8
  88. Kay Kyser helps raise the money to put WUNC-TV on the air Kay Kyser toured the state with William C. Friday and Billy Carmichael Jr. to raise money for UNC's educational television station, which went on the air from Chapel Hill in January 1955. People: William C. Friday, William D. Carmichael Jr.Search the index · Our State: The 1950s: UNC On The Air
  89. Robert F. Schenkkan becomes director of the university's educational television venture After the FCC granted the Consolidated University of North Carolina an educational television license, Schenkkan became director of the new venture, which went on the air as WUNC-TV from the Communication Center in Chapel Hill on January 8, 1955.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1928-1980
  90. WCHL begins broadcasting WCHL, Chapel Hill's new commercial radio station, went on the air in January 1953 at 1360 on the dial with 1,000 watts, broadcasting from sunrise to sunset from a site on the Durham highway. General manager Sandy McClamroch ran it with partners Roy E. Fullen and Lonnie Dark; its first broadcast was set for January 18.Search the index · Chapel Hill Weekly (January 16, 1953): WCHL's First Broadcast
  91. The News of Orange prints the first picture of the Cedar Grove Negro School A front-page photograph presented the new school as a major piece of the county's three-year building program. The story listed seven classrooms, a library, an office, a heating plant, two toilets and a multipurpose room used from the start as four classrooms.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 20
  92. Vermont Royster wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing Vermont C. Royster, a UNC graduate, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for his regular editorials in The Wall Street Journal.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Pulitzer Prize Given To Two Ex-UNC Men (May 6, 1953)
  93. Louis Graves sells the Chapel Hill Weekly After 31 years as its editor and owner, Louis Graves sold the Chapel Hill Weekly in 1954 to the Chapel Hill Publishing Company. He stayed on as contributing editor through 1960.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Louis and Mildred Graves Papers, 1814; 1876-1992
  94. Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar edit the Daily Tar Heel UNC students Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar were listed together as editors of the Daily Tar Heel in the spring and fall of 1955.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1955, page 2
  95. WUNC-TV begins broadcasting WUNC-TV began broadcasting from Chapel Hill on January 8, 1955.Search the index · PBS North Carolina
  96. Hilliard Caldwell writes the Negro Community news column for the Chapel Hill News Leader Caldwell was named as correspondent at the head of the column, which carried news of Black Chapel Hill and asked Lincoln High School graduates to send in their college addresses for the next week's issue.Search the index · DigitalNC, Chapel Hill News Leader, September 1, 1955, page 6
  97. The Chapel Hill News Leader suspends publication The semiweekly Chapel Hill News Leader announced in its January 29, 1959 issue that it was stopping publication. The paper had gone into receivership.Search the index · DigitalNC: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 2, 1959, p. 1
  98. McClamroch is sworn in as mayor and Joe Page is named to his aldermen seat McClamroch and three re-elected aldermen, Adelaide Walters, Paul Wager and Hubert Robinson, were sworn in at the Monday night meeting of the Board of Aldermen by Recorder's Court Judge William Stewart. The board named businessman Joe Page to the unexpired two year aldermen's term McClamroch left on becoming mayor, and elected Mrs. Walters mayor pro tem. People: Paul W. Wager, Hubert Robinson, Adelaide WaltersSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 11, 1961, page 1 (Joe Page Gets Appointment To Board Of Aldermen)
  99. Sandy McClamroch is elected mayor of Chapel Hill without opposition McClamroch ran unopposed for mayor in the May 1961 town election. Before the vote he took questions from residents at a public meeting at the Negro Community Center sponsored by the Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration and the Civic Club, and on a WUNC radio panel, saying he wanted to improve the town's public relations and would discuss merging Chapel Hill and Carrboro.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 20, 1961, page 1 (McClamroch In As Mayor; Seven Running For Board)
  100. Hyconeechee Regional Library director David Flick writes a books column for the News of Orange County By January 1962 the News of Orange County was running "Between the Covers," a column of news and comment on books in the public library by the director of the Hyconeechee Regional Library. The North Carolina Library Association's 1962 directory lists David Flick as the region's director, at Yanceyville.The News of Orange County, January 11, 1962, p. 12: Between the Covers
  101. The Orange Printshop closes after 39 years The Orange Printshop, founded by Louis Graves in 1923 with the Chapel Hill Weekly, stopped work at the close of business on August 15, 1962. W. M. Pugh had run it as lessee since the 1940s, and the building had just been sold to the Bank of Chapel Hill.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, August 23, 1962, p. 5
  102. The Chapel Hill Weekly moves into the old Harris-Connors Chevrolet agency on West Franklin The town's weekly paper took over the space the Chevrolet dealer had left. Renamed the Chapel Hill Newspaper, it moved a few doors west in late 1973.Search the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 313
  103. Chapel Hill Recorder's Court fines the man who struck a student at the post office fast Judge William S. Stewart fined Milford Cordell Hill $50 and costs for striking Louis S. Calhoun Jr. at the scene of the fast on March 28, on complaints sworn out by the police officers who saw it.DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, April 10, 1964, p. 1
  104. Chapel Hill Weekly founder Louis Graves is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Louis Graves (1883-1965), founder, publisher and editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly, was buried in the cemetery.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 23
  105. John E. Greenbacker Jr. leads the Dialectic and Philanthropic literary society The federal court's findings in Dickson v. Sitterson list Greenbacker as president of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Society, one of the recognized student organizations whose officers brought the Speaker Ban suit. The Daily Tar Heel likewise named him as Di-Phi president among the ten student leaders who wrote to Chancellor Sitterson on March 1, 1966. People: J. Carlyle SittersonSearch the index · Justia: Dickson v. Sitterson, 280 F. Supp. 486 (M.D.N.C. 1968)
  106. John E. Greenbacker Jr. serves as associate editor of the Daily Tar Heel The masthead of the December 7, 1966 Daily Tar Heel lists Greenbacker as associate editor under editor Fred Thomas. He wrote signed opinion pieces, and a letter in the same issue takes issue with his Sunday column profiling the SDS leader Gary Waller. People: Gary WallerSearch the index · North Carolina Newspapers: The Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1966, page 2
  107. Charles Kuralt wins a Peabody Award for On the Road Kuralt received a personal Peabody Award for On the Road, his segment of Americana on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. He was then a CBS News correspondent based in New York.Search the index · Peabody Awards: Personal Award: Charles Kuralt for “On the Road”
  108. Jeff MacNelly draws editorial cartoons for the Chapel Hill Weekly UNC student Jeff MacNelly began drawing editorial cartoons for the Chapel Hill Weekly under editor Jim Shumaker, then left school to work for the paper full time. He modeled the editor in his later comic strip Shoe on Shumaker.Search the index · Cigar Aficionado: Quick On The Draw
  109. WCHL declines to publicize the Walk Against Hunger during the Community Chest drive General manager Jim Heavner, that year's chairman of the local Community Chest, said WCHL would not give public service time to the Walk Against Hunger because the station gave all its spots to the Community Chest during its campaign.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, November 21, 1969, p. 1 (WCHL Won't Publicize Walk)
  110. Woody Durham calls Carolina football and basketball on the radio Durham, a 1963 UNC graduate, was the radio play-by-play voice of Tar Heel football and men's basketball for 40 years, calling more than 1,800 broadcasts.Search the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: Woody Durham passes away at the age of 76
  111. UNC announces Vermont Royster will join its faculty as Kenan professor of journalism and public affairs The university announced that Vermont C. Royster, retiring as editor of The Wall Street Journal, would join the UNC faculty the next September as Kenan professor of journalism and public affairs. He taught journalism and political science in Chapel Hill until 1981.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Vermont C. Royster to join UNC faculty (January 7, 1971)
  112. Jeff MacNelly wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning Jeff MacNelly, a former Chapel Hill Weekly cartoonist then drawing for The Richmond News Leader, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning at the age of 24.Search the index · Cigar Aficionado: Quick On The Draw
  113. Charles Kuralt wins a second Peabody Award, for On the Road to '76 Kuralt received his second personal Peabody Award for On the Road to '76, a weekly CBS News series begun July 4, 1975, visiting places and events in each of the fifty states for the Bicentennial.Search the index · Peabody Awards: Personal Award: Charles Kuralt for “On the Road to ’76”
  114. WUNC-FM returns to the air as an NPR affiliate UNC's radio station WUNC, which had begun FM broadcasting in 1952 and had been silenced by equipment problems in the early 1970s, returned to the air from Chapel Hill on April 3, 1976, as a National Public Radio affiliate.Search the index · UNC University Archives: WUNC Records, 1929-2021, historical note
  115. Walter Spearman receives the Thomas Jefferson Award Spearman received the Thomas Jefferson Award in 1978, near the end of a teaching career in which students admired his defense of freedom of speech and of the press.Search the index · Carolina Story: Walter Spearman (1908-1987)
  116. Jeff MacNelly wins a second Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning Jeff MacNelly, a former Daily Tar Heel sports editor and Chapel Hill Weekly cartoonist, won his second Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning while at The Richmond News Leader.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Cartoonist MacNelly wins second Pulitzer (April 19, 1978)
  117. Edwin M. Yoder Jr. wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing Yoder won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing while editorial page editor of the Washington Star, where he worked from 1975 to 1981.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Edwin M. Yoder Papers, 1930s-1990s
  118. Sandy McClamroch helps found the Carol Woods retirement community McClamroch, by then a former mayor and the founder of WCHL, was instrumental in founding the Carol Woods retirement community in Chapel Hill in 1979.Search the index · Orange County Veterans Memorial: Roland (Sandy) McClamroch
  119. Philip Meyer returns to UNC as a Kenan Professor of journalism After running market research for Knight Ridder Newspapers from 1978, Meyer came back to Chapel Hill in 1981 with a Kenan Professorship at UNC. He later became the journalism school's first Knight Chair and taught until 2008.Search the index · UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media: Phil Meyer: 1930-2023
  120. Vermont Royster is among the first inductees of UNC's North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame The UNC School of Journalism began its Journalism Hall of Fame in 1981, inducting Vermont Royster, former editor of The Wall Street Journal, with Pete McKnight and Charles Kuralt. People: Charles KuraltSearch the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Journalism Days article (April 10, 1987)
  121. Shanklin's Press prints Irene Oliver Pender's History of Orange County Schools Shanklin's Press of Hillsborough, the Black-owned print shop run by the family of Thomas Shanklin, published Irene Oliver Pender's A History of Orange County Schools: 1752-1983. The shop began in the family home in the 1960s and later moved to Cornelius Street.Search the index · North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation (National Register documentation, about 2013)
  122. Vermont Royster wins the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary Vermont Royster, Kenan professor emeritus in the UNC School of Journalism, won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary for his weekly Wall Street Journal column "Thinking Things Over." It was his second Pulitzer, thirty years after the first.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): UNC graduate Royster wins second Pulitzer (April 17, 1984)
  123. Jim Heavner urges limits on sales at the UNC Student Stores In a Village Advocate column, Heavner, president of the Village Companies, asked the university to take a hard look at the Student Stores under the Umstead Act, calling them Orange County's largest retail store. Student body president Paul Parker and university officials defended the stores, which funded financial aid.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, December 4, 1984, p. 1 (Heavner item on the Student Stores)
  124. Charles Kuralt gives the UNC spring commencement address Kuralt, who had edited the Daily Tar Heel as a student, returned to Chapel Hill to deliver the University's spring commencement address in 1985. He told the graduates that the influence of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill moves outward to the farthest corners of the state.Search the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: 225 years of Tar Heels, Charles Kuralt
  125. Jeff MacNelly wins a third Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning Jeff MacNelly, by then the editorial cartoonist of the Chicago Tribune, won his third Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.Search the index · Cigar Aficionado: Quick On The Draw
  126. Jeff MacNelly is inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame UNC's School of Journalism inducted Jeff MacNelly, then a two-time Pulitzer winner, and five other journalists into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame at a banquet at the Carolina Inn.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Hall of Fame to honor journalists (April 9, 1985)
  127. Doug Marlette wins the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning Doug Marlette won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for work he did at The Charlotte Observer and The Atlanta Constitution. By then he was working for the Constitution in Atlanta.Search the index · Poynter: Today in Media History: Who won the 1988 Pulitzer Prizes?
  128. Chuck Stone joins the UNC journalism faculty Stone came to UNC-Chapel Hill in 1991 and taught journalism there until he retired in 2005, holding the Walter Spearman professorship.Search the index · WUNC: Chuck Stone, UNC Professor And Pioneering Journalist, Dies
  129. Jeff MacNelly pledges $25,000 toward a UNC journalism professorship honoring Jim Shumaker Jeff MacNelly pledged $25,000 to the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication toward the James H. Shumaker Term Professorship. Shumaker had edited the Chapel Hill Weekly when MacNelly drew for it as a student.Search the index · Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Cartoonist plans to give money for endowment (January 9, 1992)
  130. WXYC makes the first internet radio simulcast WXYC streamed its radio broadcast over the internet on November 7, 1994. People: Paul JonesUNC
  131. Charles Kuralt receives the Charles Frankel Prize The National Endowment for the Humanities gave Charles Kuralt the Charles Frankel Prize, the award now called the National Humanities Medal, for chronicling American life for CBS News, above all in his On the Road reports.Search the index · National Endowment for the Humanities: Charles Frankel Prize
  132. Perry Deane Young writes a column for the Chapel Hill Herald Young, a Vietnam War correspondent and author, wrote a column for the Chapel Hill Herald from 1996 to 2003.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Perry Deane Young Papers, 1954-2004 (finding aid)
  133. The Village Companies sells WCHL to Curtis Media Group The Village Companies sold WCHL, then the smallest of its dozen or so media outlets, to Curtis Media Group, which paired it with Durham's WDNC and moved it out of Chapel Hill.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 2002, p. 9 (WCHL to Reconnect With Chapel Hill)
  134. The News and Observer runs a series on the end of the Hogan family dairy near Carrboro Sally Hicks's four-part series followed the Hogan family as they gave up their 450-acre dairy near Carrboro, long in the family, and turned it into a housing subdivision.Search the index · NC Historic Preservation Office: Richard L. Mattson, History and Architecture of Orange County (1996), p. 65
  135. Paul Jones becomes director of ibiblio.org at UNC After directing MetaLab from 1997, Paul Jones became director of ibiblio.org, the university's public digital library, in 1999. The same year he became a clinical associate professor in UNC's schools of journalism and of information and library science.Search the index · ibiblio.org: Paul Jones, Curriculum Vitae
  136. Doug Marlette teaches at UNC as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of journalism Hillsborough cartoonist Doug Marlette served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, teaching courses on the editorial cartoon and on humor writing.Search the index · The Carrboro Citizen: Doug Marlette dies in crash (July 12, 2007)
  137. Shannon Ravenel leaves Algonquin's editorial directorship for her own imprint Ravenel stepped down as editorial director of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill to choose books for Shannon Ravenel Books, an imprint within Algonquin, by then a division of Workman Publishing.Search the index · South Carolina Encyclopedia: Ravenel, Shannon
  138. Doug Marlette is inducted into the UNC Journalism Hall of Fame UNC's journalism school inducted Doug Marlette, then living in Hillsborough, into its Journalism Hall of Fame.Search the index · The Carrboro Citizen: Doug Marlette dies in crash (July 12, 2007)
  139. VilCom takes over WCHL's operations and brings the station back to Chapel Hill Curtis Media kept ownership, but Heavner's VilCom took charge of the station's operations, planned a move to VilCom Circle in Chapel Hill by November 1 and an all-news and talk format, and aimed to make WCHL again the reference point for news of Chapel Hill and Carrboro.Search the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 2002, p. 9 (WCHL to Reconnect With Chapel Hill)
  140. WCOM community radio begins broadcasting WCOM, a 100-watt low-power FM community station run by the nonprofit Public Gallery of Carrboro, first went on the air at 103.5 FM from Carrboro at 11:27 p.m. on September 29, 2004. Its founders included Jacques Menache and Ruffin Slater, and it first broadcast from a building at Weaver and Greensboro streets.Search the index · WCOM 103.5 FM: History of WCOM
  141. UNC holds the first Chuck Stone workshop for high school students The journalism school's Chuck Stone Program for Diversity in Education and Media held its first workshop for rising high school seniors in 2007, honoring the professor who had retired two years earlier.Search the index · UNC: Chuck Stone Program (home page)
  142. David Zucchino discusses Wilmington's Lie in UNC's Nelson Benton Lecture David Zucchino, a UNC journalism alumnus and former lecturer at the school, spoke about his book Wilmington's Lie, on the 1898 Wilmington coup, in the Carroll Hall auditorium.Search the index · UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media: Nelson Benton Lecture Series: David Zucchino '73 on Wilmington's Lie
  143. UNC names its athletics media center for Woody Durham UNC Athletics and the Rams Club named the media and communications center beside the Dean E. Smith Center the Woody Durham Media and Communications Center, with trustee approval, and recognized his family at halftime of the February 16 men's basketball game against Pittsburgh. People: Bubba CunninghamSearch the index · University of North Carolina Athletics: UNC Names Athletics Media Center To Honor Woody Durham
  144. Walter R. Mears dies in Chapel Hill Walter R. Mears, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press political reporter, died at his Chapel Hill apartment on March 3, 2022. He had made his home in Chapel Hill after retiring in 2001 and had taught journalism at UNC for a time. A memorial service was held in Chapel Hill on March 24.Search the index · WSLS (Associated Press): Pulitzer winner Walter Mears dies, AP's 'Boy on the Bus'
  145. David Zucchino teaches International Reporting at UNC as an adjunct instructor Two-time Pulitzer winner David Zucchino returned to UNC as an adjunct instructor to teach a course in international reporting, run as a working newsroom.Search the index · UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media: Pulitzer-winning correspondent David Zucchino '73 preps students for international reporting
  146. The News of Orange merges with the Mebane Enterprise Womack Publishing announced on January 3, 2024, that its weeklies The News of Orange County and the Mebane Enterprise would merge at the end of January. The combined paper, with a section for Mebane, covers Mebane, Hillsborough and Efland from the News of Orange office in Hillsborough, and the Mebane office closed.Search the index · The Daily Tar Heel: News of Orange County and Mebane Enterprise to merge at end of January (January 15, 2024)
  147. Chuck Stone receives a posthumous Pulitzer Prize special citation The Pulitzer Prize Board gave Stone, the former Walter Spearman Professor of journalism at UNC, a special citation for his civil rights reporting, his work as the first Black columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News and his part in founding the National Association of Black Journalists.Search the index · UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media: Chuck Stone awarded Pulitzer Prize citation

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