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Collection Number: 40116

Collection Title: School of Medicine Centennial Committee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1976-1979

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Size 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 600 items)
Abstract The Centennial Committee was appointed in April 1976 by the Dean of the School of Medicine to plan the observance of the school's centennial in 1979. For two years following its organizational meeting in June 1976, the committee worked to produce a program that included a series of lectures on the history of medical education, a celebration of North Carolina Memorial Hospital's silver anniversary, the appointment of distinguished professors, and the selection of distinguished service award recipients. The program culminated in a convocation in February 1979. Later a centennial alumni directory and a history of the School of Medicine were published. Records include correspondence and other files pertaining to the work of the committee in planning the School of Medicine's centennial observance. Also included are copies of the centennial history and alumni directory and published copies of the lectures.
Creator University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine. Centennial Committee.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives.
Language English
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[Identification of item], in the School of Medicine Centennial Committee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40116, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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On 14 April 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 chaired 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.

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Records include correspondence and other files pertaining to the work of the committee in planning the School of Medicine's centennial observance. Also included are copies of the centennial history and alumni directory and published copies of the lectures.

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