
{"id":2941,"date":"2008-07-06T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2008-07-28T06:25:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:25:03","slug":"thorp-takes-the-reins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/07\/06\/thorp-takes-the-reins\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorp takes the reins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/thorpmayorsuttons.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/thorpmayorsuttons.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thorpmayorsuttons\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2942\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nChancellor Holden Thorp had a hectic first few days on the job, huddling with faculty members, convening his inaugural meeting with the chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cabinet, having breakfast with student leaders and picking up the key to South Building from his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, his schedule took him off campus and onto Franklin Street for lunch with Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy at Sutton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Drug Store.<\/p>\n<p>While waiting for his lunch date to arrive, Thorp took in the street scene and received a number of hearty congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>He reports that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moved into his office, but that he and the family plan to take their time moving out of their Carrboro home and into the chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quarters. He also reports no lack of Carolina Blue ties, which seem to be a popular gift to give a new chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime Sutton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pharmacist John Woodard popped out to shake his hand and told the new chancellor that his appointment was a rarity in the town.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153First time we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever had a search [for a chancellor] where everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thorp smiled and told Woodard he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do his best not to mess that up. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Kirk Ross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Holden Thorp had a hectic first few days on the job, huddling with faculty members, convening his inaugural meeting with the chancellor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cabinet, having breakfast with student leaders and picking up the key to South Building from his predecessor. On Wednesday, his schedule took him off campus and onto Franklin Street for lunch with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}