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Contains clippings, correspondence, notes, reports, programs, brochures, meeting minutes, and short writings. Files document building plans, curriculum, conferences, graduation, symposiums, and the development of the Medical Center and various departments of the School of Medicine. Also included are notes, programs, and menus from Woodhall's travels. Memorabilia is annotated from 1957 to 1974. Materials range in date from 1930 to 1978.

Materials largely pertain to the development of curriculum, regulation, continuing education of surgeons, the administration of Duke University Medical Center, and Woodhall's involvement in professional groups and societies. Major subjects in this series include Association of American Medical Colleges, Veterans Administration Committee, the Cushing Society, Fallout Preparedness Committee, Health Planning Council for North Carolina, Journal of Neurosurgery, the Medical Center Library, long range planning, North Carolina Atomic Energy Advisory Committee, Research Triangle Institute, and the Veteran's Administration hospitals. Major correspondents include R. Taylor Cole (provost), Everett Hopkins of the Office of Institutional Advancement, and Douglas M. Knight (president). Materials range in date from 1949-1976 with the bulk dating from 1960 to 1968.

Contains correspondence with Philip Handler, former professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University. Materials range in date from 1959 to 1982.