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The following Honorary Degrees to be awarded at the University Day Exercises, October 12, 1964:


Kemp Malone Doctor of Letters
Berthold Louis Ullman Doctor of Letters
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the Committee:

Wyatt R. Aydlett
Dr. J. Gilmer Mebane
Kemp B. Nixon
Claude W. Rankin
T. Henry Redding
H. P. Taylor
James L. Pittman, Chairman.

Mr. Pittman moved that the above recommendations for honorary degrees be approved. The motion was duly seconded and the report and recommendations were unanimously adopted.

O. Max Gardner Award Committee

Mrs. Wilson, Chairman of the O. Max Gardner Award Committee, made the following report and moved its adoption:

The O. Max Gardner Award Committee met on February 10 to consider nominees for the Award for the year 1964. The task, as in former years, was the difficult one of fixing upon one name from among many whose merit is beyond question and whose worthiness has been attested in well documented statements by the faculty committees. We only wish that there were a dozen Gardner awards, or at least three!

The person whom your committee has decided to recommend this year is in the harvest years of a distinguished career in medical education. He is the Dean of the Medical School at Chapel Hill, Dr. Walter Reece Berryhill. Dr. Berryhill is a native of North Carolina and a graduate of the University of North Carolina in the class of 1921. He received his medical education at the University of North Carolina and at Harvard University where he took the M. D. degree in 1927. Following internship in Boston City Hospital, Dr. Berryhill returned to Chapel Hill and served for two years as Acting Associate Professor of Physiology in the Medical School. He then became Resident in Medicine in Lakeside Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1933 he came back to Chapel Hill to stay. He was appointed Chief Physician and Director of the Student Health Service. At the same time he resumed his career as a teacher in the School of Medicine. In 1941, at the age of forty-one, he became Professor of Clinical Medicine and Dean of the School of Medicine which at that time was limited to the two-year program of basic medical sciences.

In the first decade of his deanship, Dr. Berryhill faced the task of directing the affairs of the medical school in such a way that instead of following other two-year schools to extinction it would become the basis for expansion into the full four-year program with appurtenances of hospital and clinical programs. This goan was achieved in 1952 with the establishment of the four-year medical school and hospital as the main element in a far-reaching program for hospital construction and general improvement of the resources of education, research and service in all of the health services for all the people of North Carolina.

In the decade since 1952, Dean Berryhill has presided over a vastly enlarged medical establishment and, owing in a large measure to his leadership and resourcefulness and uncompromising standards of

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