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Chapel Hill High School - Class of 1968
by Charly Mann
Martha Mullen Steve Mayberry
The 1968 Chapel Hill High School Class was the first fully integrated class that had attended all three years of high school together. The class was made up of an array of exceptional individuals who had endured and enjoyed one of most turbulent and revolutionary years in history.
Bill Bischoff Donna Huff
Just months before the graduation, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis. In the Vietnam War, which every male attending CHHS graduated faced serving in, North Vietnam had launched the Tet Offensive in January which turned the tide of the war for the North.
Rodney McFarling Dockery Roberts
1968 also marked the beginning of something called the Generation Gap. Never before had there been such a wide difference of tastes in music, politics, fashion, and culture between the youth and their parents. This diversity was magnified because this was also the largest generation in American History, known as the baby boomers. A significant part of these baby boomers rebelled against the social norms of the previous generation, and that was seen on a daily basis on the streets of Chapel Hill.
Saundra Farrington Ron Mayse
1968 was personified by The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album which was released in the early summer of 1967, and became the must revolutionary and influential album in history. It was the top selling album in Chapel Hill for the rest of 1967 and early 1968.
West Mattis Macneil Poteat
Comments:
Chapel Hill Tiger
4:37 PM Fri 12/4/2009
I guess you knew what you were doing when you put Dockery next to Rodney.
Jimmy Merritt
10:36 AM Thu 12/3/2009
I hope you start doing features like this with updated information on what these people are doing now.
Terry W
9:19 AM Wed 12/2/2009
Thanks for this piece on Chapel Hill. I attended Chapel Hill Schools from the 4th to 10th grade, and wish I had been able to continue, but my family moved. I would have been part of this class.
Are you going to publish pictures of other members of this class sometime. I would love to see more.
Robert H
11:16 PM Tue 12/1/2009
She's married to Steve Harward and they live west of Carrboro.
Sandy Shaw
9:12 PM Tue 12/1/2009
Does anyone know what became of Donna Huff?
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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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What a wonderful walk down memory lane-I'd like to know how to get in tough with Martha Mullen.