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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 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed works are connected with this person.
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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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Taylor, Isaac Montrose, 1921-1996.
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.
Why this is here: 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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