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Isaac Hall Manning

Isaac Hall Manning joined the UNC medical faculty in 1901 as professor of physiology and was dean of the School of Medicine from 1905 to 1933. He applied a quota limiting Jewish applicants and resigned the deanship in 1933 when President Frank Porter Graham ordered a rejected Jewish applicant, Morris Krasny, admitted.

Source: NCpedia: Manning, Isaac Hall (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, revised 2021)

1866–1946 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Isaac Hall Manning, Yackety Yack, 1927
Isaac Hall Manning, Yackety Yack, 1927

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StorylineThe Hospital Saving Association, 1935–19511935–1951 · 4 events · The Hospital Saving Association of North Carolina, known as the Chapel Hill Blue Cross plan, grew out of a 1933-1934 study of hospital care for people of small means. Incorporated in March 1935 with Dr. Isaac H. Manning, the longtime medical dean, as president, it set up headquarters in the South Building and began enrolling members in 1936. By 1938 membership was near 60,000. That April it was among the first hospital insurance plans approved under the American Hospital Association's new standards, and the only approved plan in the state. In 1951 it moved to large new quarters on West Franklin Street, and by the late 1960s it had become Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

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  1. 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, Isaac Hall Manning, Richard H. Lewis, David Gaston Worth Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 313
  2. 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. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: School of MedicineSearch the index · NCpedia: Manning, Isaac Hall
  3. Orange County physicians reorganize the county medical society Meeting at the court house in Hillsborough on August 27, 1903, with Dr. Hubert A. Royster of Raleigh explaining the state society's plan, the county's physicians organized the Orange County Medical Society, with Dr. Isaac H. Manning president and Dr. C. D. Jones secretary, to meet quarterly. A county medical society had already petitioned the legislature in 1897. People: Isaac Hall Manning, Clarence Dupre Jones, Hubert Ashley Royster Place: Court house, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), September 10, 1903, p. 3
  4. 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. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Manning, Isaac Hall
  5. 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. Lewis, Richard Henry Whitehead Place: Caldwell Hall · Also mentions: Caldwell HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 731
  6. 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. Lewis Place: UNC School of Medicine, Chapel HillSearch 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
  7. 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: William Few, Harry Woodburn Chase, Isaac Hall Manning, Cameron Morrison Place: Governor's Mansion, Raleigh · Also mentions: Watts HospitalSearch 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
  8. 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
  9. 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. The Chapel Hill Weekly reported on September 29, 1933, that he had resigned as dean of the medical school and that Charles S. Mangum had taken his place; it gave no reason. People: Frank Porter Graham Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Morris Krasny, Charles S. MangumSearch the index · Carolina Story (UNC): Morris Krasny, Jewish Life at Carolina · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 29, 1933, p. 1
  10. 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 incorporated in March 1935. Dr. Isaac H. Manning, longtime medical dean, was its leading figure and its president from the start. By September 1935 it had its headquarters in the South Building in Chapel Hill, with Felix A. Grisette as executive manager, and it began enrolling members in 1936. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Felix A. Grisette · Also mentions: Hospital Saving AssociationSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), pp. 164-165 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 16, 1935, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 13, 1935, p. 2; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 1, 1938, p. 6
  11. The Hospital Saving Association buys a lot for its own building in Chapel Hill With membership near 60,000 and a staff of 20, the Hospital Saving Association bought the northwest corner of Rosemary lane and Henderson street from the Orange County Building and Loan Association. It planned a Colonial-style brick building, about $30,000 for lot and building together, to replace crowded rooms in the John McCauley building. People: Isaac Hall Manning Place: Rosemary lane and Henderson street, Chapel Hill · Also named: John McCauley · Also mentions: Hospital Saving AssociationSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 1, 1938, p. 1
  12. The Hospital Saving Association wins American Hospital Association approval The Chapel Hill-based Hospital Saving Association of North Carolina was among the first hospital insurance plans approved under the American Hospital Association's new standards, and the only approved plan in the state. People: Isaac Hall Manning Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 22, 1938, p. 1
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  1. The Chapel Hill-based Hospital Saving Association ends 1938 with 83,436 members Executive director Felix A. Grisette reported that the Hospital Saving Association, headquartered in Chapel Hill, had 83,436 members at the end of 1938, 46,518 of them added that year, in groups in 90 counties; 3,570 members were Black, and textile workers led all occupations. In its three years it had paid hospital bills for 9,425 members, saving them $394,769, and it ranked eighth in net enrollment among 53 plans recognized by the American Hospital Association. People: Isaac Hall Manning Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Felix A. Grisette · Also mentions: Hospital Saving AssociationSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 10, 1939, p. 3
  2. Isaac Hall Manning retires from the medical faculty After leaving the deanship Manning stayed on as professor of physiology until June 1939, when he left active service on the medical faculty and was retired as Kenan professor emeritus. The Old Chapel Hill Cemetery tour gives 1940. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Old Chapel Hill CemeterySearch the index · Town of Chapel Hill: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Tour, Isaac Hall Manning · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 16, 1939, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 24, 1939, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1940, p. 2
  3. The Chapel Hill-based Hospital Saving Association pays out its millionth dollar The association paid its 1,000,000th dollar for members' hospital care in a check to the Moore County hospital at Pinehurst. It had paid hospitals $1,008,411 in the four years and four months since it began, $214,566 of it in the first five months of 1940, and had 127,000 members; Dr. Isaac H. Manning was president and E. M. Crawford executive director. People: Isaac Hall Manning Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: E. M. CrawfordSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 31, 1940, p. 3
  4. Former students present a portrait of Dr. Isaac Hall Manning to the medical school A portrait of Isaac Hall Manning, dean of the medical school through his 37 years on the faculty and now Kenan professor emeritus of physiology, painted by John P. Hansen of New York and given by physicians he had taught, was unveiled in the library of the new medical building on October 11. Dr. W. Raney Stanford of Durham presented it and President Frank Graham accepted it before delegates to the state meeting of the American College of Physicians. People: Frank Porter Graham Place: Library, medical building, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. Raney Stanford, Frank GrahamSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1940, p. 2
  5. The Chapel Hill-based Hospital Saving Association reaches 205,000 members The Hospital Saving Association of North Carolina, the state-wide Blue Cross plan with its main office in Chapel Hill, had 205,000 members, against 17,000 at the end of its first year, and had paid $3,200,000 to hospitals on 100,000 claims. Dr. Isaac H. Manning became chairman of the board and medical director, and Robert Lassiter of Charlotte president. People: Isaac Hall Manning Place: Hospital Saving Association office, Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robert LassiterSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 22, 1943, p. 3
  6. 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. Place: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, South Road (NC 54) and Country Club Road, Chapel HillSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, National Register nomination (OR0496), p. 23

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Frank Porter Graham, Isaac Hall Manning, and the Jewish quota at the University of North Carolina Medical School

Halperin, Edward C. · 1990

Edward C. Halperin's article on the quota that limited Jewish students at the medical school of the University of North Carolina, and on the parts Frank Porter Graham and Isaac Hall Manning played in it, a chapter in the history of discrimination in medical education in the state. Published in 1990, pages 385 to 410, with illustrations and portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Manning, Isaac Hall, 1866-1946.

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Patterson's General Store Ledger

Store, Patterson's General · 1910

Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Manning, Isaac Hall, 1866-1946.

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Collier Cobb Photographic Collection, circa 1890s-1920s

Cobb, Collier, 1862-1934 · 1894

Collier Cobb (1862-1934) taught at the University of North Carolina and made photographs there from the 1890s into the 1920s. Approximately 500 items in seven linear feet, P0013 in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC. Subjects include campus buildings, the Old Well, alumni, employees, and faculty, with portraits including Wilson Caldwell, Harry Woodburn Chase, R. D. W. Connor, and Frederick H. Koch.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Manning, Isaac Hall, 1866-1946.

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