Papers from Wayne Williams while he was writing "Beginning of the School of Medicine at East Carolina University". Includes typescripts from interviews Williams conducted, newspaper articles about history of hospital, information on Pitt County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees and Foundation, general source material on nursing, and drafts of book.
Wayne Williams graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He served as Vice Consul at the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong. Upon his return to the United States, he worked as a medical illustrator at Duke University and at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He was director of the Center for Medical (now Health Sciences) Communication. In 2000, Williams wrote A Tradition of Excellence, highlighting the first fifty years of Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Williams died 2010 September 13 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Papers from Wayne Williams while he was writing "A Tradition of Excellence: Pitt County Memorial Hospital's First Fifty Years". Includes typescripts from interviews Williams conducted, newspaper articles about history of hospital, information on Pitt County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees and Foundation, general source material on nursing, and drafts of book.
2002 January 14, (unprocessed) 4 cubic feet; this collection containts files relevant to Beginning of the School of Medicine at ECU, 23 files of various publications and research (1905-2001) used in writing the PCMH book, including newspaper articles, interviews, annual reports, scrapbooks, Board of Trustee Minutes, financial statements, copies of the publication "VIP", galley proofs of PCMH a Tradition of Excellence and other miscellany including a second box of floppy disks. Gift of Wayne Williams.
Gift of Wayne Williams
Processing revised by Ashley Williams, 2015
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Pitt County Memorial Hospital Papers (LL 02.09), The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Oral History Collection (LL 02.03), The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.