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Also found in catalogs as Christopher C. Fordham.
1926–2008 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Christopher C. Fordham III → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
10 works about Christopher C. Fordham, III (Christopher Columbus) are indexed here, as are 4 works by Fordham.
Works about or by Christopher C. Fordham, III (Christopher Columbus). Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.
Christopher C. Fordham's manual of bedside examination, clinical and laboratory, published by the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina in 1969. The preface describes it as a short account of the methods taught at the school, and it deals with handbooks on medical history taking and the teaching of medicine at Chapel Hill.
An interview with Christopher C. Fordham III, recorded in 1984 and connected with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Radio coverage by WUNC of University Day on 14 October 1980, when University of North Carolina system president William C. Friday installed Christopher C. Fordham III as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill. Part of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection.
Papers of Christopher C. Fordham III (1926-2008), roughly 4,600 items in two and a half linear feet running from the 1940s to 2006, in the University Archives at UNC, 40348. Fordham served in the Office of the Chancellor at Chapel Hill, and topics include university administration and planning, medical education in North Carolina, and minorities in higher education.
Episode of the North Carolina People television program, broadcast in 1988 by North Carolina Public Television as program number 1750 and recorded here as a 29 minute videocassette. The guest is Christopher C. Fordham III, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
Chancellor's office records from the tenure of Carol L. Folt at Chapel Hill, 2013 to 2018, 8 linear feet in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40024. Topics include university administration and educational fund raising, curriculum planning, health occupations schools and medical education, and race relations and college integration in North Carolina. Holden Thorp and Christopher C. Fordham also appear.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
Dwane Powell's News and Observer cartoon of 22 December 1982 takes up the Morehead Planetarium, church and state, and UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III. Kept in folder 1982-09 of his syndicate copies and clippings.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
Photographs produced by the Photographic Services unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library between 1976 and 2003, about 2,500 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Includes a run of copy negatives, 1977 to 2006. Subjects include William Aycock, Doris Betts, Reynolds Price, Dean Smith, William S. Powell and Hugh Morton.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
A long run of chancellor's office records at Chapel Hill, 1965 to 2018, about 13,200 items in 16.5 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 70122. Subjects include the chancellors in turn, from J. Carlyle Sitterson and Nelson Ferebee Taylor through Christopher Fordham, Paul Hardin, Michael Hooker, William McCoy, James Moeser and Holden Thorp to Carol Folt.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
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: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
Walter Reece Berryhill (1900-1979) taught in the School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. His papers, 1919 to 1979, hold about 6,500 items in 10.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4174. The papers cover medical education and student medical care at the university. Correspondents include William C. Friday, Albert Coates, Luther Hodges and Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
Medical school administration at Chapel Hill: dean's office records dated 1905 to 2020, the bulk between 1952 and 1996, about 133,300 items in 169.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40118. Subjects include deans including W. Reece Berryhill, Isaac M. Taylor, Christopher C. Fordham and Stuart Bondurant, and take in North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the Area Health Education Centers Program and the Lineberger Cancer Research Center.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
Betty Mushak's 1984 profile of Christopher C. Fordham III, the physician who served as chancellor at Chapel Hill, described in the title as head of the state's first university.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
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