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RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, death came to Dr. W. T. Harris at the age of fifty-three
years at his home in Troy, Montgomery bounty, North Carolina, on the
morning of the 21st day of October, 1953, from a heart attack which he
suffered several days earlier; and

WHEREAS, for twenty-five years he held the implicit confidence of his
many patients and the affection of a host of friends as the indefatigable
medicine and humorous man who ministered to their health and stimulated
their joviality; and

WHEREAS, he ranked high in his noble profession of medicine which he
adorned by his high standard of ethics, unusual ability, and the discharge
of his duties as a doctor, which he held and regarded as a sacred trust;
and

WHEREAS, he was devoted to his family, his country, and his church,
and gave much of his time and talents in civic and community improvements
and welfare; and

WHEREAS, he was the very soul of loyalty to the Greater University of
North Carolina, he having studied at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill prior to finishing at the Medical College of Virginia in 1925;
and

WHEREAS, he served with great honor and effectiveness as a Trustee
of the Greater University of North Carolina over a period of several years
next before and up to the time of his death, and he enjoyed the esteem and
affection of the other Trustees with whom he served and who suffer a great
sense of grief at his death; and

WHEREAS, members of the Board of Trustees of the Greater University
of North Carolina join their many fellow citizens who mourn the passing of
an esteemed and cherished friend and wish to pay tribute to his memory and
high standing as an able doctor and public spirited citizen:

RESOLVED, THEREFORE, BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE GREATER UNIVERSITY
OF NORTH CAROLINA THAT:

1. The Board of Trustees give expression to its sense of loss of a
warm friend and doctor and an outstanding citizen;

2. That the Secretary is hereby directed to spread this resolution
on the minutes of the Board of Trustees and send a copy as a sincere
expression of our sympathy to Mrs. Harris, widow of our deceased member.

W. P. Saunders, Chariman
Robert E. Little
Wilbur H. Currie

Special Committee

MEMORIAL
WILLIAM CLINTON HARRIS

In the death of William Clinton Harris on November 2, 1954, North
Carolina lost one of the most remarkable men of his generation. For forty-two years he had served as a Judge - fifteen years in the City Court of
Raleigh, and twenty-seven years in the State Superior Court.

Occasionally, a, man appears on life's stage who seems to be endowed by
nature with some outstanding personal attribute to such a high degree that
he is thereby set apart from his fellows. Such a man was William Clinton
Harris.

His capacity for understanding people was so pronounced that spectators
were often amazed by its revelation from day to day in the routine conduct
of his courts. To those who observed him in action, it appeared that no one