Coy Cornelius Carpenter
M.D. (April 24, 1900 – November 7, 1971), was first
dean of the School of Medicine of
Wake Forest University from 1936 to 1967 and vice president for health affairs from 1963 to 1967. He guided the school through the transition from a two-year to a four-year program and the move from
Wake Forest to
Winston-Salem in 1941. He also authored ''The Story of Medicine at Wake Forest University'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970). He resided in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine is the medical school of Wake Forest University, with two campuses located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. It is affiliated with Atrium Health Wake Forest ...
's
Coy C. Carpenter Library and Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives are named after the Coy Carpenter and his wife, Dorothy (Mitten) Carpenter.
[The A. N. Marquis Company: ''Who's Who in the South and Southwest'', Chicago, Ill., 1952, p. 128.]
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20th-century American educators
People from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Wake Forest University faculty
1900 births
1971 deaths
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