Gordon Gray Papers, 1919-1982

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Gordon Gray Papers, 1919-1982

1919-1982

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Gordon Gray (1909-1982) was a lawyer,politician, public servant, newspaper publisher, radio and television station owner,and president of the University of North Carolina, 1950-1955. The collection consists of personal papers, office files,organizational records, photographs, and other material of Gordon Gray. Included iscorrespondence concerning Gray's newspaper, radio, and television interests inWinston- Salem, N.C.; his connections with Wake Forest College, Bowman Gray MedicalSchool, and the University of North Carolina; the trial between Piedmont PublishingCompany and Charles ( ) Rogers and his wife, Mary Pickford; and family, civic,and other business matters. The collection is especially rich concerning Gray'sinterest in historic preservation. His work with the Young Democratic Clubs of NorthCarolina, the Commission on the Financing of Hospital Care, and his terms in theNorth Carolina state senate are also represented. Volumes include scrapbooks,letters of appreciation, and appointment books. Buddy

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Piedmont Publishing Company (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

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Piedmont Publishing Company was formed in 1937, in Winston-Salem, N.C., with Gorgon Gray (1909-1982) as president, when he purcahsed newspapers The Daily Journal and The Winston-Salem Sentinel from Owen Moon (1872-1947). The Company published The Twin City Sentinel (afternoon), The Winston-Salem Journal (morning), The Journal and Sentinel (Sunday)....

Young Democratic Clubs of North Carolina

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Bowman Gray School of Medicine

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Democratic Party (N.C.)

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During the 1960 election, the North Carolina Democratic Party was led by Bert L. Bennett, state executive committee chairman, and operated out of headquarters in Raleigh, N.C. Democratic candidates for whom the state party campaigned in 1960 included John F. Kennedy for President of the United States and Terry Sandford for Governor of North Carolina. From the guide to the Democratic Party Campaign Headquarters Records, ., 1960, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. S...

Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979

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Actress; interviewee married Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Charles (Buddy) Rogers. From the description of Reminiscences of Mary Pickford : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419352 Star of the silent screen, Mary Pickford, called America's sweetheart, was perhaps the most famous actress of her day. From the guide to the Mary Pickford scrapbook, 1915-1917, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Divisio...

Rogers, Buddy, 1904-1999

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Wake Forest University

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National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States

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Gray, Gordon, 1909-1982

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Gordon Gray (1909-1982), government official, publisher, and educator. A graduate of the Yale Law School, Gray began his professional career as an attorney with a New York Law firm. In 1935, however, he returned to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to practice law. At approximately the same time, he acquired financial interests in the publishing and broadcasting fields. As operator of radio station WSJS and publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal and the Twin City Sentinel, Gray eventually abandoned...