Now the School of Journalism, this structure was built as Chemistry Hall
and later used for pharmacy. It commemorates the pharmacy school's
founder and dean for thirty years, Edward Vernon Howell, who was called
"the most distinctive personality Chapel Hill has ever known." After two
short-lived attempts by the Unversity to create a pharmacy department,
Howell was persuaded in 1896 to leave his retail drug business in Rocky
Mount to begin work with seventeen students in a single lecture room, with
a yearly budget for library books and periodicals of $3.00 and a salary
of $25.00 per month, plus a small commission for every student.
The history of Howell Hall is taken from:
The First State University: A Walking Guide, by Marguerite E.
Schumann, (1985) p.9.
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