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Cecil G. (Cecil George) Sheps

1913–2004 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services board ends its contract with University Health Services Meeting in closed session, the board of the federally funded Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services voted to end its contract with University Health Services on November 30 and hire its own medical staff. Project director Paul Alston said the University had sought control of the two most advanced clinics, at Haywood-Moncure and Prospect Hill; Vice Chancellor Cecil G. Sheps said control was never formally discussed. People: Cecil G. (Cecil George) Sheps Place: Orange and Chatham counties · Also named: Paul AlstonSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1972, p. 1
  2. Governor Holshouser and Senator Howard Baker address a revenue-sharing conference at the Carolina Inn On June 25 and 26 the UNC Office of Continuing Education in Health Sciences held a conference at the Carolina Inn on using general revenue sharing for human services, for officials of six southeastern states, with Senator Howard Baker, Governor James Holshouser, Atlanta Vice-Mayor Maynard Jackson and Mayor Howard Lee among the speakers. Lee outlined Chapel Hill's housing loan trust fund there. People: Howard N. Lee, Cecil G. (Cecil George) Sheps Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: James E. Holshouser Jr., Howard Baker, Maynard Jackson, James HolshouserSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 28, 1973, p. 1
  3. UNC renames its Health Services Research Center for founder Cecil G. Sheps Chancellor Paul Hardin presided as the University's Health Services Research Center was renamed the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, for the physician who founded it in 1968. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan gave the keynote address and praised the Division of Health Affairs and UNC Hospitals for going smoke-free. People: Cecil G. (Cecil George) Sheps Place: University, Chapel Hill · Also named: Paul Hardin, Louis Sullivan · Also mentions: UNC HospitalsSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, June 20, 1991, p. 1

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Department of City and Regional Planning of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill collection of Soul City (N.C.) materials, 1962-1991

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of City and Regional Planning · 1962

Material on Soul City, the new town in North Carolina promoted by Floyd B. McKissick, gathered between 1962 and 1991 by the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC. Five linear feet, about 4,000 items, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5469. Subjects include Eva M. Clayton, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, planning faculty including Edward J. Kaiser and David R. Godschalk, and African American business and civic leadership.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Sheps, Cecil G. (Cecil George), 1913-2004.

UNC

Vice Provost for Health Affairs records, 1932-2005 (bulk 1950-2000).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Vice Provost for Health Affairs · 1932

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: Sheps, Cecil G. (Cecil George), 1913-2004.

UNC

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