| Title | William H. Jones, Superintendent (1927-1932) |
| Creator | William H. Jones |
| Alt. Creator | University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| Subject | Keyword : William H. Jones ; University of North Carolina at Asheville ; education ; chancellors ; superintendents ; Buncombe County Public School System ; Buncombe County Junior College |
| Subject | LCSH : Jones, William H. University of North Carolina at Asheville -- Asheville, NC |
| Description | Chancellors/Presidents/Chief Executive
Officers Files. Records created and collected by the first administrative officer of Biltmore Schools, or Buncombe County Junior College. Jones was the Superintendent of the Buncombe County Public School System and was instrumental in the creation and the administration of Biltmore Junior College, which was the result of a merger with the College of the City of Asheville in 1930. The collection contains correspondence related to matters of personal concern to Jones and collected materials related to the administration of the Public School System, the Buncombe County Junior College and, later, Biltmore Junior College. |
| Publisher | D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Contributor | Office of the Chancellor |
| Date | 2003-05-06 |
| Type | Collection ; Text ; Image |
| Format | |
| Source | UA21.001 |
| Language | en=English |
| Relation | None |
| Coverage | 1927-1932 ; Asheville, NC |
| Rights | No restrictions Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Donor | n/a |
| Acquisition | Accession UA-21-001 probably acquired from Administrative offices. Date of acquisition is unknown. |
| Citation | William H. Jones, Superintendent (1927-1932), D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804. |
| Processed by | Special Collections staff, 1998-11-04 ; 2001 ; 2003 |
| Last updated | 2006-04-17 |
| Biography | An educator and administrator in Buncombe
County Schools, William H. Jones is best known for his roll as the first
chief executive officer for Buncombe County Junior College, which would
eventually become the University of North Carolina- Asheville. In
1927, Jones was slated to become principle of the new Biltmore High
School; however, A.C. Reynolds, the current superintendent of schools,
changed Jones' title to superintendent of Biltmore schools, a move which
placed Jones in charge of Biltmore Elementary School, Biltmore High
School, and the soon-to-be completed Buncombe Country Junior High
School. During Jones's tenure, Buncombe County Junior College was
renamed Biltmore Junior College in 1930. Jones remained as superintendent until 1932. [Source: Highsmith, William Edward. The University of North Carolina at Asheville: the First Sixty Years, Asheville: The University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1991.] |
| Series | Only a small number of records have survived from the early days of the Biltmore Schools or Buncombe County Junior College. Most of the files created during the years Jones was Superintendent were probably lost in the many institutional transitions or were retained by the Buncombe County Public Schools System. |
| 1: PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE 1927-1932 | |
| 2: SUBJECT FILES | |
| 3: COLLECTED MATERIALS | |
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