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Guy B. Phillips Junior High School 1965 to 1966
These are the Guy B. Phillips Junior High School of Chapel Hill Cheerleaders of 1965 to 1966.
From left to right are: Ann Holland, Debbie Moss, Missy Julian, Becky Fuller, Betsy Huntington, Settle Roberts, and Becky Riggsbee. Standing is Sue Donovan.
Mrs John's 9th Grade Home Room - Room #109, Guy B. Phillips Junior High School of Chapel Hill 1965 - 1966
Top Row l to r: Fred Croft, Wendy Daniel, Alice Dawson. Middle row: Becky Fuller, Kirt Gestsinger, Christine Gierasimowicz, Richard Harned. Bottom Row: Fran Head, Missy Julian, Kathy Kemp, Abby MacKinney
Mrs Abernathy's Eighth Grade Homeroom - Room #118, Guy B. Phillips Junior High School of Chapel Hill 1965 - 1966
Top Row l to r: Beth Neville, Craig Newman, Debbie Padgett, Johnny Parrish. Bottom Row: Settle Roberts, Lynn Silver, Al Smith, Zorie Smith
Comments:
susan dail
10:14 AM Sun 1/31/2010
The group photo of the cheerleaders from Guy B. Phillips Jr. High School, 1965-1966 incorrectly identifies Becky Riggsbee as "Susan Riggsbee". We grew up together and were around each other quite a bit and someone switched our names.
Frieda Ellis Harden
3:26 PM Mon 11/16/2009
Great job, Charly! Thanks so much for this very comprehensive look back...
L Chambers
11:30 AM Fri 11/13/2009
I graduated from Phillips in 1998. It was a great school then, and it looks like that tradition started long before I was born.
Guy B, Phillips - Class of 1967
3:21 PM Thu 11/12/2009
I forgot how good I looked in the eighth grade. Thanks for posting. I lost this yearbook more than thirty years ago.
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Chapel Hill is located on a hill whose only distinguishing feature in the 18th century was a small chapel on top called New Hope Chapel. This church was built in 1752 and is currently the location of The Carolina Inn. The town was founded in 1819, and chartered in 1851.
What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well or the bell or the stone walls. or the crisp October nights. No, our love for this place is based upon the fact that it is as it was meant to be, The University of the People.
-- Charles Kuralt
Dark Side of the Hill -- Pink Floyd, the creators of the most popular album in history, Dark Side of the Moon, took the second half of their name from Floyd Council, a Chapel Hill native, and great blues singer and guitarist. He once belonged to a group called "The Chapel Hillbillies".
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There would probably be no Chapel Hill if the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees in 1793 had not chosen land across from New Hope Chapel for the location of the university. By 1800 there were about 100 people living in thirty houses surrounding the campus.
The University North Carolina's first student was Hinton James, who enrolled in February, 1795. There is now a dormitory on the campus named in his honor.
The University of North Carolina was closed from 1870 to 1875 because of lack of state funding.
William Ackland left his art collection and $1.25 million to Duke University in 1940 on the condition that he would be buried in the art museum that the University was to build with his bequest. Duke rejected this condition even though members of the Duke Family are buried in Duke Chapel. What followed was a long and acrimonious legal battle between Ackland relatives who now wanted the inheritance, Rollins College, and the University of North Carolina, each attempting to receive the funds. The case went all the way to the United States Supreme Court, and in 1949 UNC was awarded the money for the museum. Ackland is buried near the museum's entrance. When the museum first opened, in the early sixties, there were rumors that his remains were leaking out of the mausoleum.
The official name of the Arboretum on the University of North Carolina campus is the Coker Arboretum. It is named after Dr. William Cocker, the University's first botany professor. It occupies a little more than five acres. It was founded in 1903.
Chapel Hill's main street has always been called Franklin Street. It was named after Benjamin Franklin in the early 1790s.
Chapel Hill High School and Chapel Hill Junior High were on Franklin Street in the same location as University Square until the mid 1960s.
The Colonial Drug Store at 450 West Franklin Street was owned and operated by John Carswell. It was famous for a fresh-squeezed carbonated orange beverage called a "Big O". In the early 1970s, I managed the Record and Tape Center next door, and must have had over 100 of those drinks. The Colonial Drug Store closed in 1996.
Sutton's Drugstore, which opened in 1923, has one of the last soda fountains in the South. It is one of the few businesses remaining on Franklin Street that was in operation when I was growing up in the 1950s.
Future President Gerald Ford lived in Chapel Hill twice. First when he was 24, in 1938, he took a law couse in summer school at UNC. He lived in the Carr Building, which was a law school dormitory. At the same time, Richard Nixon, the man he served under as Vice President, was attending law school at Duke. In 1942, Ford returned to Chapel Hill to attend the U.S. Navy's Pre-Flight School training program. He lived in a rental house on Hidden Hills Drive.
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I was attending GBP in 1970 when the Kent State shootings occured. There was an after lunch protest in the bus parking lot in support of the murdered students. Alas, I was too chicken to take part in the protest because I heard that the school would suspend students if they didn't return to classes. Instead I watched from the safety of a classroom.
The civics teacher did attend the protest, in order to keep the students "safe". He was eventually fired in part BECAUSE of the protest. (I can't remember his name at the moment, but the man was a major influence on my activist political life..he took my class to see the movie "Johnny Got His Gun" which forever turned me against war).
I have always been proud of the fact that my junior high protested Kent State when the Chapel Hill High didn't.