Did you know?

I learned some interesting facts when I compiled the School District’s history in 06-07.  I've added some new facts () and inserted sources.

• The townspeople of Chapel Hill voted to create the school district with a vote 78 in favor and 30 opposed.  Source: Hillife, Volume 1, 1925.
• The first principal of Chapel Hill High was a UNC student.  Source: Vickers, James. Chapel Hill: An Illustrated History, Barclay Publishers, Chapel Hill, NC, 1985.
• The district shut down for five weeks during the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918.  Source: www.docsouth.unc.edu/wwi/cameron/cameron
• In 1927, parents fought the increase of the school day for first graders to full day.  Source: CHCCS Board Minutes, 1927.
• In 1930 black citizens voted in a special election to tax themselves more to join the Chapel Hill school district.  The County District would have reduced the school year for the black schools from eight months to six months if those schools had remained under its jurisdiction.  Source: Gilgor, Bob. "Lincoln High School: Mighty Tigers" (Exhibit, Exhibit Text Summary, and Transcripts), 2001. Available for view on request at the Chapel Hill Museum.
• Chapel Hill High School shortened its school day during World War II to cope with the labor shortage caused by college students who went off to war.  Source: CHCCS Board Minutes, March 1943.
• Reverend J.R. Manley, still an active leader of the First Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, was the first black board member starting in 1957.  
• Carrboro hasn't always been a bastion of liberalism.  For proof see this July 1961 Chapel Hill Weekly Headline:"Historic Integration Plan Adopted for the Chapel Hill School District", subhead:"Residents from Carrboro Lodge Vigorous Protest."