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Christopher C. Fordham III earned a certificate in medicine at UNC in 1949, was dean of its School of Medicine from 1971 to 1979 and chancellor at Chapel Hill from 1980 to 1988, when faculty research funding grew from 56 to 105 million dollars. The biotechnology building was named Fordham Hall in 1988.
Source: UNC News Archives: Christopher Fordham, UNC's sixth chancellor, dead at 81
Also found in catalogs as Christopher C. Fordham.
1926–2008 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
Groundbreaking for the George Watts Hill Alumni Center at UNC-Chapel Hill on 13 May 1989. The group includes Ralph Strayhorn, George Watts Hill, Doug Dibbert, trustees chairman Robert C. Eubanks and Tom Lambeth, with Paul Hardin and Christopher C. Fordham also pictured. Hugh Morton photograph.
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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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: 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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III posed with the scholar Robin Hadley in 1985. A single print among the UNC Faculty and Administration photographs of the Chapel Hill Historical Society, CHHS.002.
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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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Fordham, Christopher C., III (Christopher Columbus), 1926-2008.
An interview with Christopher C. Fordham III, recorded in 1984 and connected with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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