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Isaac Montrose Taylor

Isaac Montrose Taylor (1921–1996) was dean of the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill from 1964 to 1971, after joining its faculty in 1952. Enrollment, faculty and research funding grew under him, and a building program began; Taylor Hall, completed in 1969, honors him.

Source: Carolina Story: Isaac Montrose Taylor (1921-1996) and Taylor Hall

1921–1996 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Isaac M. Taylor, Yackety Yack, 1942
Isaac M. Taylor, Yackety Yack, 1942

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  1. Isaac M. Taylor joins the new Department of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine Taylor, a 1942 Carolina graduate with a Harvard medical degree, returned to Chapel Hill in 1952 at the invitation of medical dean Reece Berryhill as one of the first members of the medical school's department of medicine. People: W. Reece Berryhill Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Reece BerryhillSearch the index · Greensboro News & Record: Former dean of UNC School of Medicine dies at 75
  2. Isaac M. Taylor serves as dean of the UNC School of Medicine Taylor succeeded W. Reece Berryhill as dean in 1964. Student enrollment, faculty and research funding grew during his deanship, and a ten-year capital building program began that produced Berryhill Hall, the first phase of the Health Sciences Library, and the Brinkhous-Bullitt and Burnett-Womack Buildings. People: W. Reece Berryhill Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Berryhill Hall, Health Sciences LibrarySearch the index · Carolina Story: Isaac Montrose Taylor (1921-1996) and Taylor Hall
  3. Memorial Hospital ends racial segregation After a federal inspection team found the hospital out of compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chancellor Paul F. Sharp announced it would take immediate steps to obey the law. The hospital had assigned patients to rooms by what it called cultural background, and room assignments now had to be made without regard to race. People: Paul F. Sharp, Isaac Montrose Taylor Place: Chapel HillThe Daily Tar Heel, May 5, 1965, p. 1
  4. Taylor Hall is completed and named for Dean Isaac M. Taylor The University completed a medical school building in Chapel Hill in 1969 that honors Isaac Taylor, then dean of the School of Medicine. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Isaac Taylor · Also mentions: School of MedicineSearch the index · Carolina Story: Isaac Montrose Taylor (1921-1996) and Taylor Hall
  5. Dean Isaac M. Taylor resigns from the UNC School of Medicine to return to teaching Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson announced that Dr. Isaac M. Taylor, dean of the School of Medicine since 1964, had resigned the deanship to return to teaching in the Department of Medicine. Taylor was to stay on as dean until June 30, 1971. People: Isaac Montrose Taylor, J. Carlyle Sitterson Place: School of Medicine, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, October 20, 1970, p. 1

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Taylor family papers, 1950s-2000s

Taylor (Family : Taylor, James Cole, 1855-1925) · 1954

Papers of the Taylor family, associated with James Cole Taylor (1855-1925), covering the 1950s through the 2000s. Eight hundred items in two linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4873. The papers include Christmas cards and concern social life among university faculty and in Chapel Hill. Isaac Montrose Taylor, 1921 to 1996, is named.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Taylor, Isaac Montrose, 1921-1996.

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Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1905-2020 (bulk 1952-1996)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Medicine. Office of the Dean · 1905

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Taylor, Isaac Montrose, 1921-1996.

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Picture: Isaac M. Taylor, Yackety Yack, 1942. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1942 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive

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