MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
P C M H H I S T O R Y C O L L E C T I O N C O N T E N T S
Since its founding in 1951, Pitt County Memorial Hospital has been of central importance to the history of health care not only in Pitt County but throughout eastern North Carolina as well. The historical significance of the Hospital continues to increase as its leadership role in regional health care evolves. The History Collections of the William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library is proud to archive materials relevant to the history of this great institution.
Some texts and images are available electronically at this web-site. All other texts and images referred to here are housed in the History Collections of the William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library. Finding aids and indexes attached to the following descriptions indicate the physical location of the material.
This site and the indexes presented here were prepared during the fall of 2001. Materials that have been added to the collection since that time may not be referenced here. For information about or access to materials added after 2002, please contact the Library’s History Collections.
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Community Relations
Mrs. Billie Jean Trevathan of PCMH Community Relations gathered this impressive collection of material during her 20-year tenure at the Hospital. Included are PCMH publications, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and photographs concerning Hospital development between 1942 and 2001. Currently, there are twelve boxes of material from Community Relations. The Office of Community Relations became the Office of Government Relations in 2001.
Medical Center News and Information
Medical Center News and Information materials fall into two categories. The first is comprised of photographic negatives and slides representing events and people connected to ECU School of Medicine and Pitt County Memorial Hospital (1977-1997). The second category of material is comprised of news releases from Medical Center News and Information (1980-1988) relevant to events and people at the Hospital and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, and to health concerns across North Carolina. As of September, 2001, there are 33 boxes of material in the collection from Medical Center News and Information.
Sitterson, T. B. "Buck" Collection
T. B. "Buck" Sitterson served as an administrator at Pitt County Memorial Hospital from 1968 until 1999. He was first the Hospital's Business Affairs Manager and Comptroller and later served as Vice President of Risk Management and Outreach. This collection contains Buck Sitterson's scrapbook concerning the 1968-1970 PCMH building campaign. It also contains the only known copy of "Movin On," a PCMH in-house newsletter from 1977 documenting the move from the Fifth Street Hospital to the new facility on the corner of Stantonsburg Road and Moye Boulevard in Greenville.
Wayne C. Williams is the author of the book, PCMH, A Tradition of Excellence, published in 2001 to commemorate Pitt County Memorial Hospital's 50th anniversary. This collection contains Mr. Williams' manuscripts as well as material that he gathered while doing research for the book.
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Additional Materials
Materials from various Hospital sources are contained in this collection. Among these are interview transcriptions, images, and other documents used in the production of the book, PCMH, A Tradition of Excellence. Also included are issues of the Hospital publication, VIP, as well as examples of other PCMH publications from 1971-2000.
