William de Berniere MacNider

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1. 1905 William de Berniere MacNider organizes UNC's first Department of Pharmacology MacNider, a Chapel Hill native and 1903 graduate of the medical school's first class, organized the university's first Department of Pharmacology and led it as professor. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: MacNider, William de Berniere
2. 1918 Trustees name the first five Kenan professors The trustees adopted President Edward Kidder Graham's recommendations for the new Kenan professorships, funded under the will of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham. Venable was named Kenan Professor of Chemistry, with H. V. Wilson, Edwin Greenlaw, William MacNider and William Cain. People: Francis Preston Venable, Edward Kidder Graham, H. V. Wilson, Robert Worth Bingham, Edwin Greenlaw, William de Berniere MacNider Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William MacNider, William Cain, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler BinghamSearch the index · UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: Chronological List of Events
3. October 23, 1918 The Tar Heel counts some 300 student cases and three deaths as the three-week campus quarantine eases Confined to the campus for three weeks, the Student Army Training Corps men had their first leave on Saturday, October 19, under orders not to leave town. The paper counted about 300 cases among the students, three deaths and 35 still in the college infirmary, credited the second-year medical students with keeping the toll low, and noted that both of the university's physicians, Dr. Mangum and Dr. MacNider, had fallen ill. People: William de Berniere MacNider, Charles Staples Mangum Place: Chapel HillThe Tar Heel, October 23, 1918, p. 1
4. March 17, 1919 The State Board of Health proposes a course for health officers and public health nurses at the university After the 1918 influenza epidemic and the poor condition of army recruits, the legislature paid for a campus health officer, and Dr. William deB. MacNider won over Dr. Benjamin E. Washburn of the State Board of Health to a joint training plan. The board's tentative report offered the university a postgraduate course for health officers and public health nurses; President Harry W. Chase welcomed it, but the plan stalled for lack of money and faculty support. People: William de Berniere MacNider, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Benjamin E. WashburnSearch 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. 22
5. September 21, 1927 Chapel Hill parents and the school board settle the dispute over double sessions Parents of first and second graders protested the school's change from a single morning session to a double session and objected to a circular from Superintendent E. R. Mosher calling the school the training school of the University's school of education. After a heated public meeting in the school auditorium on September 19, a committee of six named by W. S. Roberson met the school board on September 21 and agreed that children whose parents chose could attend a single session ending at 12:30, with music and handiwork left to the afternoon. People: W. S. Roberson, William de Berniere MacNider Place: Chapel Hill school, Chapel Hill · Also named: E. R. MosherSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 23, 1927, p. 1
6. by November 14, 1930 Dr. William deB. MacNider wins the New York Academy of Medicine's Gibbs prize The New York Academy of Medicine named Dr. William deB. MacNider the 1930 recipient of its Gibbs prize, sending $1,000 for research. The award recognized his laboratory work in Chapel Hill on chronic kidney disease, which the money was to continue. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 14, 1930, p. 1
7. By September 1933, until 1937 Charles S. Mangum serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine Charles Staples Mangum took Isaac Hall Manning's place as dean of the university's medical school by late September 1933, after Manning resigned, and led it until 1937, when William de Berniere MacNider succeeded him. People: Charles Staples Mangum, Isaac Hall Manning, William de Berniere MacNider Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Isaac Hall Manning's History of the U.N.C. School of Medicine, 1879-1937; 1940 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 29, 1933, p. 1
8. June 1937–June 1940 William de Berniere MacNider serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine MacNider succeeded Charles Staples Mangum, who had asked to be relieved, as dean of the medical school in 1937: the trustees' executive committee recommended him late in May and the full board was to act on June 4. He resigned the deanship in 1940 to return to research; the Weekly reported his resignation on June 7, and W. Reece Berryhill became acting dean on July 1. People: Charles Staples Mangum Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: W. Reece BerryhillSearch the index · NCpedia: MacNider, William de Berniere · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 4, 1937, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 24, 1937, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 7, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 5, 1940, p. 3
9. November 22, 1937 The University chooses the site for its new medical building After an inspection by the faculty buildings and grounds committee under W. C. Coker, the competition-winning architects Atwood and Weeks, and consulting architect Arthur C. Nash, the University fixed the site on the wooded crest east of the Pittsboro highway near University Drive. Work on the foundations was expected to begin about February. People: William Chambers Coker, Arthur Cleveland Nash, William de Berniere MacNider Place: East side of the Pittsboro road near University Drive, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 26, 1937, p. 1
10. April 1938 Dr. William deB. MacNider is elected to the National Academy of Sciences Dr. William deB. MacNider, dean of the University medical school, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining H. V. Wilson as the second member of the faculty in the Academy. People: H. V. Wilson Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University medical schoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 29, 1938, p. 1
11. October 24-26, 1938 The National Academy of Sciences holds its fall meeting at Chapel Hill The National Academy of Sciences met for three days in Venable Hall, its first meeting in the South, the Weekly said, with about thirty of the nation's leading scientists reading papers; the University gave a dinner at the Carolina Inn and Duke a luncheon and campus tour. William deB. MacNider and H. V. Wilson, the only Academy members in North Carolina, took part with many other faculty members, and MacNider's paper on how kidney cells change their structure with age drew an Associated Press story. People: William de Berniere MacNider, H. V. Wilson, R. E. Coker Place: Venable Hall, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 28, 1938, p. 1
12. by December 9, 1938 A state commission recommends a four-year medical school, its majority favoring Chapel Hill The commission Governor Hoey appointed to study medical education recommended that the state establish a four-year, degree-granting medical school with a 300-bed hospital, at about $1,500,000 plus $200,000 a year, as part of the University. Its majority, among them chairman T. W. M. Long and William deB. MacNider, dean of the two-year school, wanted it added to the plant at Chapel Hill; Odus M. Mull and Dr. B. J. Lawrence dissented in favor of another place where an unnamed donor was said to be ready to give. People: William de Berniere MacNider, Clyde Roark Hoey Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: T. W. M. Long, Odus M. Mull, B. J. LawrenceSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 9, 1938, p. 1