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In June 1919 Harry Woodburn Chase was chosen to succeed Edward
Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina. The
two were a study in contrasts. Graham was a southerner whose father
had worn Confederate gray. Chase was a New Englander and suspected
of being a Republican. Chase had advanced academic degrees,
including an earned doctorate, while Graham's title was honorific.
Chase was quiet, almost shy, and he best expressed his thoughts in
the written word. Graham was an accomplished writer but also a
superb public speaker whose friends had a political career charted
out for him until his death at 42 years of age, a victim of the
1918 influenza pandemic. The university trustees chose Chase to
succeed Graham after two more highly favored candidates were
disqualified at the last minute. A young man-Chase was 36 at the
time-he wasn't expected to stay in Chapel Hill all that long. He
remained for a little more than a decade and in that time he
oversaw the transformation of the institution and introduced it to
a national audience. Chase built upon Graham's ambitions for the
university that its work extend beyond the campus to reach citizens
all across the state. Graham first kindled this fire for a new
mission among the undergraduates he met in his classroom in the
decade before he became president in 1914. One of those acolytes
was his younger cousin, Frank Porter Graham, who called him the
greatest teacher he had ever known. Chase gathered his
administration behind this spirit of service and moved the
university into a new era. If one man had not followed the other,
the university would have been a different place. Taken together,
the presidencies of Graham and Chase turned a relatively small
institution founded in the liberal arts into an institution worthy
of its name, the University of North Carolina.
In this collective biography spanning four generations, Howard
Covington explores how one prestigious family shaped the
development of Piedmont North Carolina, particularly the city of
Durham. Covington examines the lives and legacies of George
Washington Watts; his son-in-law, John Sprunt Hill; and Hill's son,
George Watts Hill, and grandson, George Watts Hill Jr., analyzing
the personalities, beliefs, relationships, and life forces that
propelled these four men to become leading figures of their
generations.
Perhaps best known for such family businesses as Central Carolina
Bank, the Carolina Inn, and Watts Hospital, and for their
partnership in the American Tobacco Company, Watts and the Hills
were also advocates for education, fair banking, credit unions, and
health insurance. Active in both local and statewide politics, they
worked for major infrastructure changes, including a better highway
system and the development of Research Triangle Park, and all left
lasting legacies.
Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a
transformational change. When he graduated from college in 1953,
African Americans like him could only hope that the future would be
different from the past. At the close of his public career in 2001,
he was chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court - the head
of the state's third branch of government. Throughout their lives,
Frye and his wife, Shirley, were in the vanguard of the advances
that shaped the lives of African Americans. His election to the
state legislature in 1968 was the beginning of steady, determined
efforts to expand opportunities for African Americans in politics,
business and society at large. This book traces, along with his,
their careers as well and explores the growing participation of
African Americans in the civic, political and social life of North
Carolina.
The Good Government Man captures the life of Albert Coates
(1896-1989), the founder and first director of the Institute of
Government at the University of North Carolina, and an exciting,
transformative era in the history of UNC. Inspired by visionary
President Edward Kidder Graham--whose death during the influenza
pandemic of 1918 devastated the campus--Coates adopted as his life
mission his hero's dream of the university in service to the state.
With raw determination, stubborn independence, and sheer audacity,
Coates created the Institute of Government, now School of
Government, to prepare elected officials, government employees, and
private citizens for public service. Covington's clear-eyed account
presents Coates in all his guises. Passionate and persuasive on the
stump, he tirelessly recruited anyone who would listen to his cause
including state and university leaders who would prove essential to
the ultimate success of the Institute. To admirers, he was a genius
of striking originality. Like many with a strong sense of mission,
he could also be exasperatingly insistent on getting his way in all
matters, great or small. His story, however, is unarguably an
important one, and the value of the institute he founded, the first
program of its type in the nation, is inestimable. | The Good
Government Man captures the life of Albert Coates (1896-1989), the
founder and first director of the Institute of Government at the
University of North Carolina, and an exciting, transformative era
in the history of UNC.
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