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Henry T. Clark Jr.

Henry T. Clark Jr. was administrator of the University of North Carolina's Division of Health Affairs, later titled vice chancellor for health affairs, from 1950 to 1965, responsible for the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health and pharmacy and for North Carolina Memorial Hospital.

Source: UNC Libraries: Henry T. Clark Papers, 1920s-1998

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1917–2008 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Henry T. Clark Jr. heads the university's Division of Health Affairs Clark became the first permanent administrator of the Division of Health Affairs, created in 1948, with charge of the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health and pharmacy and of North Carolina Memorial Hospital. His title later became vice chancellor. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: North Carolina Memorial HospitalSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Office of the Vice Provost for Health Affairs of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1932-2005
  2. North Carolina Memorial Hospital is dedicated Exercises at Chapel Hill on April 23-24, 1953, dedicated North Carolina Memorial Hospital and marked the new four-year School of Medicine and the schools of dentistry and nursing. The hospital had opened in September 1952. People: W. Reece Berryhill, Henry T. Clark Jr. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: North Carolina Memorial Hospital, School of MedicineLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 164

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Some observations of a fraternity advisor

Clark, Henry T., Jr. (Henry Toole), 1917-2008 · 1961 · UNC Faculty Club

Henry T. Clark, Jr.'s remarks on serving as a fraternity advisor, published by the UNC Faculty Club in Chapel Hill in 1961. Topics include faculty advisors and Greek letter societies at Chapel Hill, so the talk records how one faculty member saw fraternity life on the campus at the start of the 1960s.

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Memorandum for Dr. Henry T. Clark, Jr., administrator, Division of Health Affairs

Brauer, John C. (John Charles), 1905-1971; Clark, Henry T., Jr. (Henry Toole), 1917-2008 · 1953

John C. Brauer (1905 to 1971) addressed this 1953 memorandum to Henry T. Clark, Jr. (1917 to 2008), administrator of the Division of Health Affairs at the University of North Carolina. The word Copy stands at the head of the title. Topics include the School of Dentistry at Chapel Hill and dental clinics in the state. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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Henry T. Clark papers, 1920s-1996.

Clark, Henry T., Jr. (Henry Toole), 1917-2008 · 1924

Medical administration is the thread through the papers of Henry T. Clark Jr. (1917-2008), 1920s to 1996, about 31,000 items in 42 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4791. Subjects include the Division of Health Affairs at Chapel Hill, the American Hospital Association, the Society of Medical Administrators, Project Hope, the Connecticut Regional Medical Program, Strong Memorial Hospital, Tuskegee Institute and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with student social life also entered.

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About Henry T. Clark Jr.

Henry Toole Clark, Jr., M.D. : an oral history

Weaver, Frances A. · 1999 · The Program

An oral history of Henry Toole Clark Jr., 1917 to 2008, recorded by Frances A. Weaver and published in Chapel Hill in 1999. It concerns Clark's work with the Division of Health Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University Hospital.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Clark, Henry T., Jr. (Henry Toole), 1917-2008.

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Vice Provost for Health Affairs records, 1932-2005 (bulk 1950-2000).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Vice Provost for Health Affairs · 1932

Health affairs at Chapel Hill from 1932 to 2005, most of it between 1950 and 2000: about 147,600 items in 185 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40110. The records concern the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the Carolina Population Center and the Child Development Institute, with Henry T. Clark, Cecil G. Sheps and Christopher C. Fordham named.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Clark, Henry T., Jr. (Henry Toole), 1917-2008.

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Miscellaneous Collection

State Archives of North Carolina. Private Manuscripts Archivists · 1689

The State Archives' Miscellaneous Collection: letters, deeds, land grants, surveys, wills, leases and other single items dating from 1689 to 2017, some as photocopies or transcripts from other repositories. Writers and subjects vary widely, governors and generals among them, and Orange County figures among the many places touched.

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