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THE MENNINGER FOUNDATION1 was organized and incorporated under the laws of Kansas in April, 1941, with headquarters in Topeka. The purposes of this new nonprofit psychiatric foundation are fourfold:
1Provision for psychiatric education, especially the training of young physicians in psychiatry. The shortage of well-trained psychiatrists will presently become acute in relation to the requirements of World War II and the postwar period.
2Stimulation of research in psychology and psychopathology.
3Making psychiatric treatment available to patients in the low income bracket.
4Prevention of mental illnesses, especially through development of child psychiatry and the application of psychiatric knowledge to the education and rearing of children.
In addition to local officers, the trustees of the Foundation are: Dr. Winfred Overholser, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Albert Lasker, New York and Chicago; Dr. John C. Whitehorn, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Mrs. Lucy Stearns McLaughlin, Santa Fé, New Mexico; Dean J.