R. B. House's paper regarding Frank Porter Graham, 1962-1974

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Summary

Creator:
Hill, G. Maurice, 1905-1975, collector. and House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-
Abstract:

Audio tape recordings of interviews, some with typed transcripts, scattered correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous materials about Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972), president of the University of North Carolina, 1930-1949, and U.S. senator, 1949-1950, collected by G. Maurice Hill, businessman of Morganton, N.C., as he prepared to write a book about Graham. Interviewees include Archie Daniels, Mark Ethridge, Miguel Elias, Robert B. House, William C. Friday, Collier Cobb, and Lucy Morgan. In addition to Graham, topics discussed in interviews include other aspects of the University of North Carolina, North Carolina and national politics, and education in North Carolina.

Extent:
140 items (3.0 linear feet)
Language:
Materials in English
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Background

Biographical / historical:

G[eorge] Maurice Hill, the son of Lucy Callahan and Robert Martin Hill, was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, in 1905, graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1925, and worked for the Utilities Division of the University from 1926 until 1934 when he became special assistant to University President Frank Porter Graham, a position he held until 1941 when he became associate director of the Institute of Government as well as a member of the Office of Price Administration. He worked for a year at Broughton Hospital in Morganton, North Carolina, and then in 1944 moved to Drexel Furniture Company where he was elected president in 1960. In 1965 he became president of the company's parent company Drexel Enterprises.

When he retired from Drexel Enterprises in 1970 he began work on a book about Frank Porter Graham under whom he had worked at the University. This collection, which he assembled for the book he was unable to complete before his death in 1975, includes scattered correspondence, 1962-1972, about his research; tapes and transcripts of interviews with Graham himself and with Graham's friends, colleagues and family; articles about Graham written by Hill for the Charlotte Observer; preliminary outlines for Hill's book and letters from the Charlotte Observer concerning the publishing and writing of the book; typed copies of selected articles from the Charlotte Observer, 1919-1921; and miscellaneous notes and materials including a proposal for an unrelated novel.

Scope and content:

Audio tape recordings of interviews, some with typed transcripts, scattered correspondence, writings, and miscellaneous materials about Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972), president of the University of North Carolina, 1930-1949, and U.S. senator, 1949-1950, collected by G. Maurice Hill, businessman of Morganton, N.C., as he prepared to write a book about Graham. Interviewees include Archie Daniels, Mark Ethridge, Miguel Elias, Robert B. House, William C. Friday, Collier Cobb, and Lucy Morgan. In addition to Graham, topics discussed in interviews include other aspects of the University of North Carolina, North Carolina and national politics, and education in North Carolina.

Acquisition information:

Received from Mrs. G. Maurice Hill, Sr., Chapel Hill, N.C., in August and December 1976, and November 1980.

Processing information:

Processed by: Ellen Neal, 1976; Carolyn Roff, July 1986

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Gergana Abernathy, July 2016

Updated by: Anne Wells, February 2018

Sensitive materials statement:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the R. B. House's paper regarding Frank Porter Graham #4101, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
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