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                         RECORDS OF THE
             SCHOOL OF MEDICINE CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

                             in the
             University Archives and Records Service
           University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                    Wilson Library, CB# 3926
                   Chapel Hill, North Carolina
                           27514-8890

                          November 1992

     On April 14, 1976, Christopher C. Fordham, Dean of the
School of Medicine, appointed a committee to plan appropriate
observances to mark the 1979 centennial of the beginning of
medical education in Chapel Hill.  The Centennial Committee was
headed by Dr. William McLendon and included faculty, staff,
alumni, and students.  For two years following its organizational
meeting in June 1976, it worked to produce a program that
included a year-long series of lectures on the history of medical
education, the issuance of a centennial coin, the observance of
North Carolina Memorial Hospital's silver anniversary, the
appointment of Alumni Distinguished Professors, and the selection
of distinguished service award recipients.  The program
culminated in a University-wide convocation in February 1979. 
Also in 1979 a two-volume history of the School of Medicine was
published under the title Medical Education at Chapel Hill.  It
included The First Hundred Years and the Centennial Alumni
Directory.  In addition, many of the centennial lectures were
published in the North Carolina Medical Journal.

     For more information on the preparation of the Centennial
Alumni Directory, see also the Records of the Medical Alumni
Office in the University Archives.

     The archival records of the Centennial Committee are
arranged as follows:

     Committee Correspondence, General, 1976-1979
     Committee Meeting Minutes, 1976-1978
     Program Activities:
          Alumni Day (February 9, 1979), 1977-1979
          Alumni Distinguished Professorships, 1978-1979
          Centennial Coin, 1978-1979
          Convocation (February 10, 1979), 1977-1979
          Faculty-Alumni Distinguished Service Awards, 1978
          Honorary Degree Nominations and Awards, 1977-1979
          Lecture Series, 1976-1978
               (See also Publications below)
          Nathan A. Womack Surgical Society Meeting, 1978-1979
          North Carolina Memorial Hospital Silver Anniversary 
               (September 1977), 1976-1977
          Publications:
               General, 1976-1979
               Medical Education at Chapel Hill:
                    Centennial Alumni Directory, 1976-1979
                    The First Hundred Years, 1978-1979
               North Carolina Medical Journal (publication of 
                    lectures), 1978-1979