Fred Mayes, MD

Dean, 1963 – 1972

The context for Mayes’ becoming dean was the turbulent 1960s, in which great social upheaval was just beginning.

A memorial plaque calls Mayes “a gentle architect of change…a bridging force between values of the past and demands of the future.”

A teacher, practitioner, and state health officer with a master’s from Harvard, MAYES oversaw, as dean:

EXPANSION of the environmental sciences and engineering and biostatistics departments under chairs H.G. Baity and Bernard Greenberg
ESTABLISHMENT of the Carolina Population Center
OUTREACH of the epidemiology department, through the Evans County [Georgia] Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Study and other research, that began to show the relationship of exercise and nutrition to health and address health disparities