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which will provide a base to study the origin, prevention and better treatment of dental disease, and a near doubling by 1970 of the teaching program and teaching facilities of the School.

During 1961-62, Dr. Brauer began to implement the plans for the establishment of the research center. In May 1961, he submitted to the United States Public Health Service a grant request for construction funds totaling $492,000. In August 1961, a distinguished team of scientists representing the United States Public Health Service visited the University to consider the merits of the request. In December 1961, the U. S. Public Health Service notified Chancellor Aycock that the full request for $492,000 had been approved, an award almost unique for schools of dentistry. This award was clearly based on the recognized quality of the U.N.C. School of Dentistry as developed by Dr. Brauer.

With one-half of the necessary construction money in hand, Dr. Brauer set about to obtain the other half. Working with and through the dental profession of North Carolina, Dr. Brauer secured individual contributions totaling $325, 000 during a fundraising drive in the spring of 1962. This financial contribution is a most unusual demonstration of support of a strictly research venture by practicing dentists. The results of the campaign are all the more notable when one considers that the young School of Dentistry at U. N. C. has not had time to produce a sizeable alumni group to whom it can turn for help.

During 1961-62, Dr. Brauer held key committee assignments or consultantships with (a) the American Association of Schools of Dentistry, (b) the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, (c) the American Dental Association, (d) the Department of Defense, (e) the U. S. Army and (f) the U. S. Public Health Service. It is partly by working with and through leaders in these organizations that Dr. Brauer is exerting such a large personal influence on national and international developments in the field of dentistry.

Though his professional commitments are numerous and take him far afield, Dr. Brauer is known best in Chapel Hill as a quiet and modest worker, a devoted family man, an active Rotarian and a strong supporter of the Methodist Church. Dr. Brauer is a member of the board of directors of the Methodist Foundation of North Carolina, Inc., and vice-chairman of its Department of Gifts and Wills. He is one of the original founders of the organization, formed in 1955, and has been one of those responsible for more than 600 wills and trusts now directed to the Foundation for the building and support of Methodist colleges, for local and general church support, for ministers' retirement funds, for patient support in hospitals, for a children's home and for a retirement home. The Foundation and its work have received national attention.

Any one of the above activities warrants special recognition. The sum total of these, viewed in the context of the incalculable benefits that they have brought to the people of North Carolina and, indeed, people everywhere, has caused your Committee to feel that Dr. John Charles Brauer is worthy to receive the Oliver Max Gardner Award for the year 1963.

Respectfully submitted,

Frank Hull Crowell
Luther Hamilton
J. Hanes Lassiter
Dr. John Gilmer Mebane
C. M. Vanstory, Jr.
Mrs. George Wilson, Chairman