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                         RECORDS OF THE
                      MEDICAL ALUMNI OFFICE

                             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

     This records group contains copies of materials used by
Elizabeth Majette Parker in compiling the Centennial Alumni
Directory for the School of Medicine of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Before the Directory could be compiled,
however, it was necessary to determine what constituted an
alumnus of the medical school at Chapel Hill--that is, whether
students who attended the one- and two-year courses in medicine
from 1880 to 1952 were in fact alumni of the School of Medicine,
and whether students who received their medical degrees at the
University Medical Department at Raleigh, 1901-1910, also
qualified as alumni.

     Prior to the Centennial celebration of the School of
Medicine, during the period when alumni records were being
computerized, it was decided that all students who had completed
the one- and two-year medical courses, as well as those who
received their degrees in Raleigh, would be considered alumni of
the medical school and would be listed as such in the alumni
records and in the Centennial Alumni Directory.  The decision was
based on the precedent established in 1954, when Certificates in
Medicine were awarded retroactively to students who had completed
the one- or two-year medical courses prior to 1942, the first
year Certificates in Medicine were given.  It was also decided to
include students who had studied medicine privately in Chapel
Hill while attending the University in 1879-1880.

     The records contain Elizabeth Parker's summary explanation
of the decisions discussed above, as well as the supporting
documentation for the decisions.  They also include the sources
used in compiling the Centennial Alumni Directory of the School
of Medicine. The records are contained in one box and are
arranged to conform with the summary explanation, which cites the
various exhibits listed below.

Box 1:
     Folder 1: Elizabeth Parker's summary explanation of the 
                    history of medical alumni records

     Folder 2  (Exhibit A): Dr. Issac Manning's class lists 
                    (updated by other deans) 1879-1943
               (Exhibit B): Medical Alumni Directory, 1880-1965  
                    (two copies annotated by Miss Parker)
               (Exhibit C): Copies of correspondence concerning 
                    retroactive granting of Certificates in
                    Medicine to students who attended the one-
                    and two-year medical programs at UNC-CH,
                    1880-1942

     Folder 3  (Exhibit D): Items relating to the history of the 
                    School of Medicine: Minutes of meetings,
                    notes, etc. relating to the Certificate in
                    Medicine
               Copies of pages from University catalogs listing 
                    medical students
               Copy of Hubert A. Royster's "Historical Sketches 
                    of the University of North Carolina Medical
                    Department at Raleigh"

     Folder 4  (Exhibit E): Enrollment summary and computer 
                    printout (annotated)

     Folder 5: Sources for revision and correction of Medical
                    Alumni Directory and compilation of
                    Centennial Alumni Directory
               Roster of medical students, n.d.
               Clipping from Alumni Review listing medical
                    alumni, 1930?
               Alumni of the School of Medicine, 1880-1950
               Medical Foundation, Alumni Districts, 1954

     Folder 6: Three notebooks of Dr. Manning's listing students

     Folder 7: Computer printout containing complete list of 
                    medical alumni (annotated)