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The Coy C. Carpenter Personal Collection

Size: 5 cubic feet

Restrictions: Three cubic feet of the collection are available to the public upon completion of an interview with the Archivist.   The remaining 2 cubic feet are restricted.          

Preservation: Staples and paperclips have been removed. Materials have been placed in alkaline folders.

Number of boxes: 5        

Provenance: Dr. Carpenter’s widow,  Dorothy Carpenter, gave the collection to the  Archives in  1979.  In 1994 the material items were donated to the Archives by Dr. Harry Carpenter, Coy Carpenter’s son.

Biography: Coy Cornelius Carpenter, M.D. was born April 24, 1900 and died November 7, 1971.  Dr. Carpenter graduated from Wake Forest College two-year medical school in 1922. He graduated from Syracuse Medical School in 1924 and received his certification in Atomic Pathology in 1936. After two postgraduate years at Syracuse as Instructor in Pathology and Clinical Medicine, he returned to North Carolina where he assumed the responsibilities for the administration of the medical school at Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, North Carolina in 1930. He became the founding dean of The Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was dean from 1936 to 1963, when he became Vice-president for Medical Affairs, a post he continued until his retirement in 1967. When he was selected to fill this newly created post, he had been dean the longest of any medical school dean in the United States. During most of his term he also served as administrator, fundraiser, pathologist, and teacher. Dr. Carpenter formulated various programs, considered innovative at the time, in medical education. He established the Private Diagnostic Clinic and also served as Medical Director of North Carolina Baptist Hospital until 1953. As a Fulbright lecturer in Pathology, he spent 1953-1954 at Fouad University and Ibrahim University in Cairo, Egypt. Later he served as a consultant Medical Education for the International Cooperation Administration in South Vietnam. He was a Captain in the Medical Corp for the North Carolina National Guard from 1928 to 1938. His colleagues said of him, ". . . he was one of the true innovators in American Medical Education."

Scope of the Collection: The Coy C. Carpenter Collection consists of various materials ranging from personal correspondence to photographs to institutional brochures. The collection contains some materials generated from Wake Forest College in Wake Forest, however most of the materials are from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem.

Series Descriptions:

I.   The series labeled correspondence has been arranged alphabetically and chronologically from 1933 to 1934.   There are 133 files in this series.

II.  The second series consists of the papers generated from a meeting held at Wake Forest College on Cancer.  The renowned Joseph Bloodgood, cancer specialist, was a guest.  This series contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs, and other documents related to the planning of the meeting.

III.  The Newspaper clippings and publications are simply items Carpenter clipped that document various happenings at Wake Foes College in Wake Forest and Winston-Salem.

IV.  The operational files for the Wake Forest College include such items as the first five-year report to the President, bank statements, deeds, statements for loans and grants, and solicitations for donations for a portrait of Dr. Thurman Kitchin.

V.   This series consists of two speeches Carpenter gave on two different occasions.

VI.  The material objects were given by Mrs. Carpenter and her son Harry Carpenter, M.D. They include an academic robe, the first doctor’s bag owned by C.C. Carpenter, passports, a journal, a pen, medical instruments, and a charm bracelet given to Dorothy by Coy.

VII.  This entire series deals with the book written by Coy C. Carpenter, The Story of Medicine at Wake Forest University, and includes the original manuscript, correspondence relating to the book, and two letters by the editor.

VIII. The photographs are of a variety of subjects and size. Most all of them contain the likeness of Dr. Carpenter.

IX.  Deans (restricted)

X.   Memoirs (restricted)

Inventory:

Series I: Correspondence

 

Box 1: Correspondence A-Z, 1933-1934 Box 2: Correspondence A-Z, 1935-1939

 

Series II: North Carolina Medical Society Meeting on Cancer

 

	Box 3: Letter Governor Hoey
		Committee on Cancer, NC Medical Society, WFU, October 18, 1933 Correspondence with J.W. Cox, Cancer Clinic, 1933 Cancer Clinic Joseph Colt Bloodgood American Society for the Prevention of Cancer,  1933 Letter from person with Cancer

 

Series III: Newspaper Clippings and Publications

 

	Box 4: Early Days and move to Wake Forest
		At Wake Forest and Early Days in Winston-Salem New Campus Biblical Recorder and Program 1943 Medical Alumni News Article 1950s Trustee Actions on College Clippings – Growth and honors at the Medical School Dr. Thurman Kitchin Clippings Dr. Carpenter Clippings Clippings and Realia Clippings 1940s and 1950s Clippings 1940s Clippings 1948 Clippings 1950s Clippings 1950s Clippings 1960 Medical Alumni News 1967 Magazine Articles 1960s and 1970s Retirement and Portrait Presentation Clippings 1970 Clippings 1971 Wake Forest Magazine 1950 Wake Forest Magazine 1961 Wake Forest Magazine 1970 Wake Forest Magazine 1971 Reprints – Coy C. Carpenter North Carolina Medical Journal 1971

 

Series IV: Operational Files at Wake Forest College

 

	Box 5: Stationery – Wake Forest College and Coy C. Carpenter
		Dr. Kitchin’s portrait – Solicitations for Donations Carpenter Medical Center Publications and copy of organization and policies handbook Deeds – contains photographs Wake Forest College  Loans and Grants Annual Report to the President, 1968 Business Documents – WFU

 

SeriesV: Speeches

 

	Box 5: Speech Wingate College 1962
		Academic Transplant

 

Series VI: Material Items

 

	Box 6: Passports
		Journal Pen Medical Instruments Charm Bracelet Doctor’s Bag Scrapbook
	Box 7: Academic Robe

 

Series VII: The History of Medicine at Wake Forest

 

	Box 8: Original Manuscript
	Box 9: Book Reviews
		Book Reviews The History of Medicine at Wake Forest Letters from the editor Correspondence pertaining to book

 

Series VIII: Photographs

 

	Box 10
		File 1: Architect’s Drawing 1950 Architect’s Rendering of Medical School 1940 Watlington Hall Aerial view of Medical Center 1970s CCC with 2 gentlemen 1941 Dedication of School Babcock Auditorium inside Babcock Auditorium outside CC age circa 50s CCC age circa 60s Groundbreaking with Harry S. Truman File 2: Groundbreaking 1940 Architect's Drawing, 1940 Certificate - Charge to study development of medical school Harold Tribble – WFU president Manson Meads – Dean of the Medical School Founders of the Medical School CCC with dog (boxer) James Gray Thurman Kitchin Camera-ready shot for money drive From Newspaper Clipping James Ralph Scales – WFU Board of Trustees of WFU Graylyn William Amos Johnson Medical Building Infirmary on old Campus Gym – Wake Forest Campus Housed Labs Heads of Clinical Department 1/29/38 File 3: Carpenter with doctor 1940s Unknown Woman "Cliff and Dean" 1959 Coy and Dorothy, Christmas Party Dorothy February 1966 Carpenter with Members of club on RMS Queen Mary Architect’s drawing of medical school 1940s Women playing bridge Photos of portraits of CCC's parents Clippings Coy and Dorothy Coy Carpenter's father Coy Carpenter's mother Graduation night 1950s Bowman Gray School of Medicine Gets Award from Navy Carpenter and Dr. Jorgl Mardouls, Santiago, Chile Carpenter Family – 2 poses Dorothy and Coy in Egypt Drs. Johnson, Carpenter, Doffrawayne, Blackmon, September 13, 1967 Beach party – Jamaica 1963 Carpenter 1970s Carpenter 1960s File 4: Hospital Hong Kong Framed Caricature of CCC with Bricks in the School

 

Series IX: Deans (Restricted)

 

Box 11

 

Series X: Memoirs (Restricted)

 

Box 12

 

Series XI:   

 

Correspondence North Carolina Society Meeting on Cancer at Wake Forest Newspaper Clipping and Publications Operational Files for Wake Forest College Speeches Museums and Personal Items The History of Medicine at Wake Forest Photographs Deans (Restricted) Memoirs (Restricted)