Harold W. Brown

Life and Orange County connections

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1. September 1937 Parasitologist Harold W. Brown joins the University's public health division Harold W. Brown, who had been with the United States Public Health Service and stationed at Savannah, joined the faculty of the University's division of public health under Milton J. Rosenau that fall, as it enrolled 42 students. People: M. J. (Milton Joseph) RosenauSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 10, 1937, p. 1
2. November 1938 to early 1939 Harold W. Brown of the public health faculty builds a red brick house on Laurel Hill Road Dr. Harold W. Brown, the parasitologist who joined the public health faculty in 1937 and was dean of the School of Public Health from 1941 to 1943, built a two-story red brick house, designed by Watts Carr, that mixes Colonial Revival and Cotswold features. His two-year-old son Bill laid the cornerstone on November 14, 1938, and the Weekly spoke of the Browns' new home by March 1939. The Fletcher M. Greens bought it in 1943, when Brown left for Columbia. People: Harold W. BrownSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District, National Register nomination (OR0303), p. 7 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 8, 1939, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 22, 1938, p. 6; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 18, 1938, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 2, 1938, p. 6
3. by April 1939 A survey of 661 Orange County schoolchildren finds hookworm rare Dr. Harold W. Brown and A. J. Sheldon of the University's public health division examined 418 white and 243 Black Orange County schoolchildren and found only one hookworm infection, which they credited to the county's clay soil. They found roundworm (ascaris) in 29 children, most of them Black, and their report attributed this to soil pollution and the lack of proper sanitary facilities for Black families. The Weekly said no such survey had been made in the county before. People: William P. Richardson, Harold W. BrownThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 14, 1939, p. 1
4. June 7, 1941 Trustees make Harold W. Brown dean of the School of Public Health The trustees appointed Dr. Harold W. Brown, a parasitologist on the faculty since 1937, dean of the School of Public Health in place of Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, the school's first dean, who kept the post of director. At the same meeting Robert H. Wettach succeeded M. T. Van Hecke as dean of the law school. People: M. J. (Milton Joseph) Rosenau, Robert H. Wettach, Harold W. BrownSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1941, p. 1
5. fall 1942 Lucy Morgan starts the health education program at the School of Public Health Three young women on State Board of Health fellowships enrolled in health education at Chapel Hill in the fall of 1942, and Rosenau asked for Dr. Lucy S. Morgan, a Public Health Service educator then working in Fayetteville, to build the curriculum. With twenty W. K. Kellogg Foundation scholarships, the first class of public health educators numbered twenty-five in the spring of 1943. People: M. J. (Milton Joseph) Rosenau, Harold W. BrownSearch the index · Robert Rodgers Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989 (1990), scan p. 52
6. June 9, 1942 Twenty public health nurses graduate from the University Twenty registered nurses who had studied since the fall under Ruth Hay and Margaret Blee received their diplomas at the University commencement, the class the Weekly called the first in public health nursing ever trained in North Carolina. Some had done their field work with the Orange-Person-Chatham health department, and later in June the University's department of public health nursing was accredited by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing. People: M. J. (Milton Joseph) Rosenau, Harold W. BrownSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 26, 1942, p. 1
7. June 23, 1943 Doris Duke Cromwell goes to work as a laboratory technician in the University medical building Doris Duke Cromwell, often called the richest woman in the world, began full working days as an unpaid technician under Dr. Harold W. Brown of the School of Public Health, making blood counts for research on tropical diseases. When the work paused in July, Brown denied a Durham report that publicity had driven her away. People: Harold W. BrownSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 25, 1943, p. 1
8. by July 23, 1943 Dr. Harold W. Brown resigns as dean of the University's School of Public Health Brown, on the faculty since 1937 and dean since 1941, resigned effective October 1 to join the tropical medicine section of Columbia University's school of public health. People: Harold W. BrownSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 23, 1943, p. 1
9. by October 15, 1943 Milton J. Rosenau resumes the deanship of the School of Public Health Dr. Milton J. Rosenau became dean of the University's School of Public Health again after Dr. Harold W. Brown, who had resigned the deanship in the spring to accept an offer from Columbia, agreed to stay on the faculty for the fall term. Rosenau reported the school's largest enrollment yet. People: Harold W. BrownSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 15, 1943, p. 4