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I want to share with you my reminiscences of Hala* at the Mass. General of Stanley Cobb between 1940 and 1944. Some of you were there at that time, and many others of Hala's friends and colleagues. Suzanne was there in medical social work and Louise as Head Psychiatric Social Worker. Greg Rochlin was there. And Eveoleen Rexford and Dorothy McNaughton came regularly to conferences from the Judge Baker where they were in training. Eleanor Pavenstedt was Head of Child Psychiatry. Phyllis Clothier Wislocki was on the staff and was shortly to be joined by Lucy Jessner. Tola Rank regularly attended conferences. Peter Knapp, Jim Skinner and George Carter were there as Harvard medical students. Dutch Ludwig was in military service with the MGH unit. And of course, Molly Putnam was there. She was the personal link with the past, daughter of Dr. James Jackson Putnam, who had sponsored Freud and introduced psychoanalysis to the MGH in 1909. Later in the 1930s, Molly went to Vienna to be analysed by Hala and thus established the link between the magic of Vienna and the magic of psychiatry at the MGH. One further link to Dr. Putnam was Sarah Evarts. She had been a friend of his, then a social worker with him, later a friend of Stanley Cobb and his first head psychiatric social worker. She had her analysis with Hala after Hala came to this country.
To see Hala at the MGH, one had to feel something of that special atmosphere created by Stanley Cobb and the excitement generated by psychoanalysis. If a great educator can be defined as facilitating the personal and professional development of those around him, Stanley was a great educator. His character can perhaps be best illustrated by the following anecdote. When Jung came to Boston, he stayed