Isaac Hall Manning

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1885 Alumni build the university's first gymnasium off university land After the dancing ban, a chartered Gymnasium Association sold $10 shares to alumni and built a hall 110 by 45 feet on its own land, rented to the university for exercise and used for the 1885 commencement ball. The building later became Commons Hall, the student dining hall. People: Julian S. Carr, Robert Bingham, David Gaston Worth, Isaac Hall Manning, Richard H. LewisSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 313
2. 1901 Isaac Hall Manning joins the UNC medical faculty Manning came to the School of Medicine in 1901 as professor of physiology and began teaching bacteriology in 1902.Search the index · NCpedia: Manning, Isaac Hall
3. 1905–1933 Isaac Hall Manning is dean of the UNC School of Medicine As dean for 28 years, Manning improved the school's departments, faculty, facilities and entrance requirements.Search the index · NCpedia: Manning, Isaac Hall
4. May 8, 1912 The medical building, Caldwell Hall, is dedicated On May 8, 1912, the university opened its new medical building and named it Caldwell Hall for its first president. Dr. Richard H. Lewis presented it for the trustees, and Venable and Dean Isaac H. Manning accepted it. People: Francis Preston Venable, Isaac Hall Manning, Richard H. LewisSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 731
5. June 13, 1922 Trustees vote to ask for a 200-bed teaching hospital in Chapel Hill A June 1 report by Dean Isaac H. Manning, Chase and Dr. Richard H. Lewis found the state 45th in hospital beds and short of doctors. Twelve days later the full board voted to ask the legislature for a 200-bed teaching hospital at Chapel Hill, a memorial to the World War dead, so the two-year medical school could grow to four years. People: Isaac Hall Manning, Harry Woodburn Chase, Richard H. LewisSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 249
6. December 19, 1922 Trinity's William P. Few proposes a joint medical school with UNC After the trustees' site committee split on December 16, Few met the committee at the governor's mansion and offered a four-year school with two years at Chapel Hill and two in Durham near Watts Hospital, backed by $1 million from each side and a Trinity endowment. Morrison endorsed it that night, but Baptist protest over church and state killed it within weeks. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Isaac Hall Manning, Cameron MorrisonSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 251-255
7. 1933 Dean Isaac Hall Manning resigns after President Graham overrules his Jewish quota Manning limited the admission of Jewish medical students. When Morris Krasny, a rejected Jewish applicant, appealed, President Frank Porter Graham ordered him admitted, and Manning resigned rather than change his decision. People: Frank Porter GrahamSearch the index · Carolina Story (UNC): Morris Krasny, Jewish Life at Carolina
8. 1935 Dr. I. H. Manning leads the founding of the Hospital Saving Association After a 1933-1934 study of hospital care for people of small means, the Hospital Saving Association of North Carolina, known as the Chapel Hill Blue Cross plan, was founded in 1935. Dr. Isaac H. Manning, longtime medical dean, was its leading figure and first president.Search the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 164-165
9. 1940 Isaac Hall Manning retires from the medical faculty After leaving the deanship Manning stayed on as a professor until he retired in 1940.Search the index · Town of Chapel Hill: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Tour, Isaac Hall Manning
10. 1946 Medical dean Isaac Hall Manning is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Isaac Hall Manning (1866-1946), the physician and medical school administrator who started Hospital Savings of North Carolina, the state's first medical insurance plan, was buried in the cemetery.Search the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 23