Walter Reece Berryhill Papers, 1919-1979

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Walter Reece Berryhill Papers, 1919-1979

1919-1979

Walter Reece Berryhill was director of student health services, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1933-1941, and dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1941-1964. The collection contains correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, and photographs of Walter Reece Berryhill. These papers reflect Berryhill's interests in family medicine, living diseases, medical education, North Carolina politics and history, and the University of North Carolina, especially the Medical School. Correspondence is primarily with physicians and medical educators including William Bosworth Castle, Jonathan Worth Daniels, Maxwell Finland, Kenneth Merrill Lynch, William DeBerniere MacNider, Alan Richards Moritz, and Robert Alexander Ross. Other correspondents of note are William LeGette Blythe, William Haywood Bobbitt, Albert Coates, Samuel James Ervin, Jr., Thad Eure, Christopher Columbus Fordham, III, William Clyde Friday, Luther Hartwell Hodges, Sr., Cornelia Spencer Love, and Thomas Jackson White, Jr. Also included are speeches, articles, and notes written by Berryhill mainly concerning medical education, the history of medicine at the University of North Carolina, and lung diseases. There are also materials relating to Berryhill's achievements and to the dedication of Berryhill Hall at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine as well as photographs of Berryhill, among other items.

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