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excellence, it is a vastly improved one as well.

We cannot measure quantitatively the benefits to the people of the State which have resulted from the development of a nationally preeminent University Medical Center in Chapel Hill. Neither can we guage precisely the part of any individual in it; fir it has been the work of many heads, and hearts, and hands. But we recognize in the solid distinction of its faculties, and of its teaching and research and results, the distinctive mark and character of Reece Berryhill.

The O. Max Gardner Award is to be bestowed upon that member of the faculty of the consolidated University of North Carolina who during the current scholastic year has made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the human race. Dean Berryhill during the current scholastic year brings to culmination a lifetime of eminence in teaching and administration and twenty-three years of labor in raising to maturity and national recognition the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. That in the long years to come the health and welfare of the State will continue to benefit from his achievement is assured by the fact that of the 541 graduates of the School who have completed their future professional training and national service approximately ninety percent are now engaged in medical practice within North Carolina.

Mr. Chairman, the Committee heartily recommends that Dr. Walter Reece Berryhill be the recipient of the Oliver Max Gardner Award for 1964.

C. M. Vanstory, Jr. .
Frank Hull Crowell
Luther Hamilton
Dr. Rachel Davis
James C. Farthing
Mrs. George Wilson, Chairman

Mr. Moore seconded the motion of Mrs. Wilson for the adoption of the Gardner Committee report, and it was unanimously adopted.

The meeting then adjourned.

Arch. T. Allen [signature]
Secretary