McCollum, Robert Wayne, 1925-2010
Dates
- Existence: 1925 - 2010
Biography
Born Jan. 29, 1925, Robert McCollum is a native of Waco, Texas. He received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University in 1945 and his MD degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1948 and a diploma in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1958. He was a captain in the Army Medical Corps during 1952-54 with a special MASH unit in Korea. Most of his medical career was as a teacher, administrator and researcher at Yale University School of Medicine. He was a professor of epidemiology at Yale from 1965 until 1982 and chairman of the department of eopidemiology and public health at time of his Dartmouth appointment in 1982. He served Dartmouth from 1982 as Dean of the Medical School and Professor of Community and Family Medicine. Dr. McCollum retired as dean in 1990 and retired from teaching in 1995.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Nomination of Nelson A. Rockefeller to be the Vice President of the United States
Robert Wayne McCollum (1925-2010), teacher, administrator and researcher at Yale University School of Medicine. The collection contains material relating to his work with the House Judiciary Committee during the hearings on the nomination of Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President in 1974.
Oral history interview with Robert W. McCollum
Robert W. McCollum, Dean of the Medical School, Emeritus; Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Emeritus, Dartmouth College. Oral history interview documenting his deanship of Dartmouth Medical School.
Robert McClory congressional papers
Robert McClory (1908-1988), politician. Attended Dartmouth College from 1926-1928. The collection contains primarily printed materials related to legislation of particular interest to McClory.