George Watts Hill [SEP] father
John Sprunt Hill and Annie Louise Watts, George Watts Hill grew up in Durham and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Commerce in 1922 and law degree in 1924. At UNC he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He married Ann Austin McCulloch on September 30, 1924. Following a ten-month honeymoon around the world, the couple made their home in Harwood Hall, the mansion that his grandfather, George Washington Watts, had built.
George Watts
. George Watts Hill and Frank Hawkins Kenan were both instrumental in the creation of DA's Upper School. Kenan, whose children had attended Calvert Method School and later Durham Academy, made an anonymous gift of $1 million to build the Upper School campus. George Watts Hill established an endowment for Durham Academy to which Kenan later contributed nearly $3 million.
In 1977 George Watts Hill, Fred Brooks and Bill Friday founded the Learning Development Center (now known as The Hill Center), for children with learning differences.