Volume 08: September 10, 1962–May 25, 1964

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$5,100,000 under U. S. Public Law 88-129 for the $8,500,000 Basic Science unit, and our request has to compete with requests from a large number of universities. We must act quickly and broadly. This means more planning dollars and more men than we now have; otherwise we lose our opportunity. I cannot stress too much the vital need for the above three-pronged Master Planning. We will be looking more and more to the matching Federal funds, and more detailed plans are a prerequisite.

"We are particularly fortunate in that Dr. Clark, Division Administrator, is a member of the recently appointed 15-man National Advisory Council for Education for the Health Professions which helps administer Public Law 88-129.

Health Planning Council

"On recommendation of the U. S. Public Health Service a Health Planning Council is now being organized in Durham, Orange and Wake Counties as a pilot project in comprehensive areawide health planning. The three county governments, medical societies, industry, and Duke and UNC at Chapel Hill are cooperating in an effort to do long range planning to meet the existing inadequacy of health care in the Research Triangle area. This study program is meaningful not only because the Council can be the prototype for other areawide planning groups through North Carolina, but more particularly for the University since Memorial Hospital is the only hospital in Orange County.

Division of Health Affairs Organizational Structure

"The organizational structure of the Division, unique in this part of the southeast, has been under attack from some members of the Medical School faculty and administration. Remember that the Medical/Health Center at Chapel Hill is one of only seven such centers in the United States having all six units. Duke has only the usual three Medical School, Nursing School and Hospital units.

"During the May 11, 1964 meeting of the Trustees Committee on Health Affairs Chancellor Aycock was requested to give his opinion on the organizational structure with which he has worked intimately since 1955. May I quote from the May meeting minutes - the Chancellor stated it was his judgment that the existing administrative structure was more feasible at this time than any alternative arrangement that he could envision. The Division Advisory Board is essential as the coordinating focus for the five Schools concerned. The Chancellor continued that it is imperative that the Division of Health Affairs maintain a separate budget system, coordinated through the Divisional Administration. The N.C. Memorial Hospital, although administratively within the School of Medicine, must serve as the teaching laboratory for other professional groups as well. The basic science departments of the School of Medicine provide instruction essential to the other units. An alternative to the existing system might require the creation of parallel and competing departments. He concluded that he had no suggestions for any change at this time.

"Your Trustees Committee concurs in the Chancellor's opinions.

Chancellor Aycock's Leadership.

"I cannot close this report without recording the strong leadership Chancellor Aycock has given the Division of Health Affairs during the past eight years. His grasp of the essential problems and the potentialities of this complex Division with its 1577 full-time students (not counting Extension, summer school and special students), 375 full-time and 160 part-time faculty, over 1500 supporting personnel, $18,000,000 annual operating budget covering teaching, research and patient care programs, has been outstanding. His patience has been long-suffering, he has listened and then acted with precision and sound judgments. We will miss his thoughtful and forceful leadership.

"Your Committee believes that the Division of Health Affairs, despite its growing pains, has been developing along sound lines. Many of its programs have achieved national and international recognition. After fourteen years

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ELECTION OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

The Chairman pointed out that the terms of three members of the Executive Committee would expire on July 1st and he called for nominations from the floor.

Mr. Ferebee nominated Mr. G. N. Noble, Mr. Wade Barber and Mr. R. A. Maynard to succeed themselves for another six-year term on the Executive Committee. Mr. Yarborough moved that nominations be closed, and Messrs. Noble, Barber and Maynard were unanimously elected.

Memorial Resolutions

Mr. Kenneth S. Tanner, 1890-1963

Mr. William P. Saunders read the following resolution in memory of Mr. Kenneth S. Tanner which was adopted by standing vote:

Robert Frost, the great American poet, says in substance that a liberal education should train a person to know his business and make good at it. It should increase his knowledge of himself and of his fellow man and his knowledge of the spirit. Frost is an artist in words and receptive to all the arts. He says that the function of the liberal arts in education is not to train professional poets and prose writers or professional musicians, painters, and sculptors. Its purpose is to train practical men of affairs and touch them with a life-long delightful concern with these arts. From this delightful concern, he says, comes ideas, ideals, and purposes that enrich his work in his business and practical affairs.

Robert Frost died in 1963. In that same year Kenneth Spencer Tanner died in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. For every day of his seventy- three years he lived by insights akin to those of the great poet. They made his life a joy to himself and a blessing to his fellow man.

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, he was the son of Simpson Bobo and Lola (Spencer) Tanner. His two brothers and sister were, in order of birth: Sara (Mrs. R. H. Crawford), Simpson Bobo Tanner, Jr., and Jesse Spencer Tanner.

On February 15, 1916, Mr. Tanner married Sarah Huger Bacot of Charleston, South Carolina. There were born to them three children: Kenneth Spencer, Jr. (A. B., University of North Carolina 1939; M.D. Harvard, 1943), Sarah Hugher (Mrs. Robert Haskins), and Ellen Bacot (died 1961).

Mr. Tanner had a full educational experience of public and private schools and colleges. His elementary education was in Charlotte City schools. He was prepared for college at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia. He attended North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received there the A. B. in 1911. He completed his formal schooling in 1912 with a year at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

He plunged at once into textile manufacturing, his life work, first in his father's business and, in 1920, on his own. In 1920 Kenneth Tanner founded the Stonecutter Mills Corporation. From 1920 to 1940 he was president of this corporation. From 1940 until his death he was active chairman of the Board. He was also board chairman of the Sterling Hosiery Mills. Other textile corporations he was connected with were the Caroleen, Cleghorn, Florence, Spencer and Spindale Mills, Elmore Corporation, Clover Mills, Spinner's Processing Company, Henrietta Mills, and Grace Cotton Mills.

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Mr. and Mrs. Tanner built their beautiful home in Rutherfordton and lived there all the remainder of their lives together. They participated in all constructive activities of the town and of Rutherford County. Mr. Tanner organized the Rutherford County Club. He was a trustee and a member of the Executive Committee of Rutherford Hospital. He was a faithful and working member of Saint Francis Episcopal Church, of which he was a vestryman and treasurer. He, with the other members of the Tanner family, gave Spindale House to the town. This is a community recreational center. He was a strong supporter of the public library.

Along with his business interests, Kenneth Tanner was most deeply concerned with education. His interest concerned the whole range of the process from the individual student to public and private schools, colleges, and universities. He was deeply read in the history and philosophy of education ranging from local to international objectives and experiments. He was a statesman in educational policy. In particular he was a faithful and constructive trustee of the University of North Carolina as a whole. He served on the Code Committee of the Board of Trustees, on the Building Committee of the University at Greensboro. He was a director of the North Carolina Textile Foundation and of the Business Foundation. He was an educational philanthropist. He set up the Stonecutter Foundation which furnished loans to students. He made many personal grants to the University of North Carolina for aid to students. In addition he made many informal loans and gifts to students. Of these there is no record except in the private knowledge of his family.

He loved to experiment with ways and means of insuring a gruitful educational oxperience to promising students. In 1935, when his son was a student in the University at Chapel Hill, Mr. Tanner built West House as a residence for him and three of his friends. When his son graduated, Mr. Tanner gave the property to the University.

While he was a student at Chapel Hill, Kenneth Tanner was deeply influenced by his great teacher, Edward Kidder Graham. He was determined to do something to stimulate and encourage similar fine teachers of undergraduates. Accordingly in 1952 he led the children of Lola Spencer and Simpson Bobo Tanner in setting up the Lola Spencer and Simpson Bobo Tanner Memorial Fund in the University at Chapel Hill. It is a permanent endowmen, wholly administered by the University with but one restriction; the income must be used to make awards to selected members of the faculty at Chapel Hill in recognition of excellence in inspirational teaching of undergraduate students, preferably with respect to their influence on first and second year students.

The Tanner Award is a substantial financial aid to the recipients. The distinction of winning it is a greater recognition. It has also been a great means of retaining at Chapel Hill these most valuable teachers. Since 1956 when the first award was given, the University of North Carolina has not lost one of these twenty-five teachers to another institution, though they have been much sought after by other universities. The winners to date are as follows:

1956 Boyd, Bernard H. (Religion) Caldwell, James R. (History)

1957 Basile, David G. (Geology) Geer, William M. (Social Science)

1958 Taylor, George V. (History) Radford, Albert E. (Botany)

1959 Knight, Samuel B. (Chemistry) King, James E. (History)

1962 Lasley, John W. (Mathematics) Ryan, Frank W. (History) Taylor, Ramson T. (Germanic Lang.) Wallace, Earle (Political Science)

1963 Mackie, Ernest L. (Mathematics) Geer, William M. (Social Science) previous winner, 1957. Dawson, R. H. (Political Science)

1964 Walker, Peter F. (History) Patterson, Daniel W. (English) Lapin, David T. (Economics) Hill, Samuel S. (Religion)

1960 Cameron, Edward A. (Mathematics) Engstrom, Alfred G. (French) Russell, Harry K. (English)

1961 Caldwell, James R. (Previous winner -1956) Cotton, Lyman A. (English) Daniel, George B. (French) Lehman, H. Eugene (Zoology)

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