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.
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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.
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.
Isaac M. Taylor serves as dean of the UNC School of MedicineTaylor 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 BerryhillSearch the index · Carolina Story: Isaac Montrose Taylor (1921-1996) and Taylor Hall
Memorial Hospital ends racial segregationAfter 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 TaylorDigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, May 5, 1965, page 1
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Read contemporary evidence:State Archives catalog: 104 collections naming Isaac TaylorState Archives of North Carolina
Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
Search beyond the index:NC LIVE: prepared search for Isaac Montrose TaylorNC LIVE
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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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