"Nearly 150 members of the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences community turned out on Saturday, October 16, 2010 to celebrate the school’s history and to inspire direction for its future.... At the awards ceremony, the SPHHS honored . . . Dean Emeritus William A. Darity, Sr., founding dean in 1973 of the School of Health Sciences. As Dean Aelion remarked in her introduction, Darity first joined the staff at UMass Amherst in 1963 and helped to transform the Department of Public Health from three full-time faculty members into the SPHHS as we now know it." Univ of Massachusetts Amherst - Spring 2011 Alumni News (archived page courtesy of the Internet Archive's
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