David Schenck

A member of the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Community Relations, set up to deal with issues raised by the sit-ins. Schenck was the second-youngest mayor in the city's history, taking office in 1961 while still in his early 30s. He was a member of one of the city's most prominent families, and his namesake, Judge David Schenck, led the movement to create a park at the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

Schenck was a Duke University graduate, a Navy veteran and did graduate work at UNC-Chapel Hill. He also did missionary work in Peru. He created the Greensboro Youth Planning Board and the Youth Council, following a teen party at the O. Henry Hotel, at which a group of high school students were arrested for drinking. He was vice president of Wachovia Insurance Agency and only 43 at the time of his death from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1970.