CARROLL HALL
[Note: the following is information was collected from two sources: The First State University: A Walking Guide written by Marguerite Schumann and published by the North Carolina Press first in 1972 then in a revised edition in 1985; and Light on the Hill by William D. Snider and published in 1992 by the University of North Carolina Press.]
Carroll Hall (the central building facing Manning Hall across Polk Place), built in 1953 to train business executives in UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Business Administration, was redesigned and expanded in 1971 to accommodate the special needs of the M.B.A. program.The new extension was on the west side of Carroll Hall (facing a tree-lined parking lot). With expansive glass surfaces at various levels and skylights, this addition was in stark contrast to the east side (main entrance) with its classic columns that look across formal walks and plant beds. In essence, the addition appeared to wrap around Carroll Hall giving the impression of a building within a building. It was named for Dudley DeWitt Carroll, founder and for thirty years (1919 to 1949) dean of the School of Commerce and a Kenan professor.
In 1953 the School of Business Administration established an executive development program based on similar ones at Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, and Northwestern. This brought groups of top business managers from major businesses and industries across North carolina to the campus for an intensive six-month period of intermittent study. Dr. Willard Graham, manager of a similar course at the University of Chicago, became director.
By 1955 friends of the school had established a business school foundation, and prominent business corporations, among them Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, Burlington Industries, R.J. Reynolds, and Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, had endowed chairs. In 1956 Maurice W. Lee became dean, the business school had 750 undergraduate students, and 48 business leaders were emrp;;ed om ots executive development program.
In July 1999 under the leadership of Dean Richard Cole, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication moved from its former quarters in Howell Hall to the multi-million dollar refurbished Carroll Hall. A brief history of the School can be found at this URL: http://metalab.unc.edu/jomc/general/common/history.html
Dudley DeWitt Carroll
July 28, 1885 - November 30, 1971[Note: the following is exerpted from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: volume 1 A-C, edited by William S. Powell and published by University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill.]"Carroll, a college professor and dean, was born in the Mizpah communicty of Stokes County, the son of Dewitt Valentine Carroll and Sallie Ann Lewis. He was educated at the Mountain View Institute, Guilford College (A.B., 1907), Haverford College (A.B., 1908) and Columbia University (A.M., 1916).
"Dean Carroll, as he was known to almost everyone, was vitally involved in academic and public affairs for a span of almost half a century. He began his career as principal of Mountain View Institute (1908-9); then he was instructor in social sciences at Guilford College (1909-11), dean of Guilford College (1912-14), and assistant professor of economics at Hunter College (1915-18).
"Carroll taught in the summer session at The University of North Carolina in 1917, and one of his students Lenoir Chambers (later editor of the Greensboro Daily News and the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot and Pulitzer Prize winner), brought him to the attention of President Edward Kidder Graham. Graham offered Carroll a position, but because he was under contract to Hunter College for the following year, Carroll could not accept until the fall of 1918; then he was appointed professor of economics. The following year he became dean of the School of Commerce (later Business Administration), a position he held for thirty-one years. During his service in Chapel Hill, Carroll was at one time or another a member of almost every faculty committee, as well as the Chancellor's Advisory Committee. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and in 1955 was named Kenan Professor of Economics and elected chairman of the faculty, the highest honor his colleagues could bestow upon him. The trustees named the main building of the School of Business Administration Carroll Hall. Few persons have exerted stronger influence upon the faculty and students of the University of North Carolina than Carroll over his long tenure. His approach was always to obtain results and to reduce to a minimum or avoid totally the red tape too often found in academic communities.
"In 1938, when it was obvious that developments in Europe would lead to the greatest holocaust the world had known, Carroll, Dorothy Thompson, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise advocated and got an open door policy for oppressed minorities who wished to seek refuge in the United States. When the Selective Service System was instituted, Carroll was named chairman of the Orange County Draft Board, even though he was a devout Quaker.
"After the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, when Orange County voted wet, Carroll was named chairman of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of Orange County. It was the general feeling that this board was perhaps the best managed in the state and that Carroll, who had never had a drink of whiskey, saw to it that alcohol would not be abused and that the profits from the system would be channeled without delay to the public schools.
"Carroll's public service did not end with the control of alcohol and the management of conscription, both distasteful to his Quaker principles. An important figure in the business affairs of Chapel Hill and the county he was director of the Orange County Building and Loan Association from 1920 to 1950 and chairman of its board of directors from 1937 to 1950. He was active in the Society of Friends and was instrumental in developing a flourishing society in Chapel Hill; he acquired property for the society and directed the construction of the meeting house. He was a trustee of Guilford College from 1918 to 1946 and chairman of its board from 1933 to 1946. He retired from the university faculty in 1960.
"Carroll, on 27 June 1918, married Eleanor Dixon Elliot. They had four children: Dudley Dewitt, Jr., Marshall Elliott, Eleanor Hillyard Carroll Roberts, and Donald Cary. A memorial service was held in the Friends Meeting House, 11 Dec. 1971."
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