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Medical Center Study Committee

"Administrator Clark and Medical Dean Berryhill are members of
the new Medical Center Study Committee authorized by the 1963
Legislature to study the need for and feasibility of establishing a new
Medical Center for training of doctors, nurses, technicians and other
medical personnel at Charlotte or elsewhere in North Carolina. The
Committee should report on the need of an additional Medical Center
after hearing of plans of existing centers, considering should a new
center be built outside the immediate context of a major university,
financing and other questions. The report of the Committee will be
presented to the 1965 Legislature and the recommendations will be
of extreme interest to the University and the State.

Medical School Dean

"Dr. Berryhill, recent O. Max Gardner Award recipient, is retiring
August 31, 1964 after over twenty years as Dean of the Medical School.
A faculty committee has screened over 100 names and is hopeful of
making a recommendation for a successor in the very near future.
The Trustee Committee May minutes report Chancellor Aycock as
recommending that sound judgment and broad vision be the primary
criteria in the new Dean - one who has made no prior commitments.
Dean Berryhill built marveloously well - competence, judgment and
vision must again be sought for a fresh start.

Planning for the Future
"University Planner Tuttle has kept the Committee informed of
facility plans totaling over $40,000,000 proposed over the next ten
years:

Ambulatory Wing, planned in three stages. Stage I - 215,000 sq.ft.,
$7,500,000 to house the exploding diagnostic laboratories, emergency
services, outpatient facilities and a clinical research unit. Four
stories in height, on the south side of Memorial Hospital, so designed
that six additional floors may be later added in Stage II, thereby
increasing bed capacity to 550. Stage III is planned for a few years
later to increase beds to 800.

"The 1963 Legislature appropriated $2,500,000, Federal funds have
been requested of $2,500,000 through the Medical Care Commission,
and $4,500,000 is being sought from private contributions and other
special funds to pay for Stage 1. Occupancy is programmed for spring
of 1967.

"Basic Science Educational Unit and Division Library, $8,438,000,
250,000 sq. ft., is tentatively located north of the present clinic and
is in the schematic functional planning stage. Operated by the Medical
School but teaching most other Health Affairs students during their
first two years of study, the addition is the key to a proposed increase
in Medical School classes from 68 to 100, Dentistry from 50 to 75
students, as well as increases in Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health.

"Long Range Facility Planning was actively carried on in the Division
during 1900-1963 under the professional guidance of James Souder,
nationally known Medical Center Planner. Todd Wheeler of Chicago
and New York is now completing Ambulatory working drawings. Todd
Wheeler, incidentally, is also Architect for Duke University's reported
$55,000,000 Medical Center expansion program.

"A crying need however exists for the renewal of a broad continuing
program of Master Planning - Program, Architectural and Financial -
in order that the greatest efficiency, orderliness and space may be
obtained for the least expenditure of funds. Little is now being done
at the moment due to lack of the funds required. Good planning never
ends, continuing planning is the cheapest money one spends in the
long run.

"Master Planning in far greater detail is now a critical necessity
because of the passage of recent Federal legislation which requires
that well developed building plans be submitted with each request for
matching Federal funds. The University is currently requesting