Notes

The SOCIAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION has made a grant of approximately six million dollars for psychiatric research to Yale University and requested the Corporation of Yale University to establish the Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry. The purpose of this new foundation is 'to support research into why people become mentally and emotionally ill, why they get well, how best to help them get well and how best to help them from becoming mentally and emotionally ill'. The distribution of this fund will not be confined to Yale University. Present plans contemplate that both income and principal will be expended in accordance with the stated purpose over a period of about twenty years.

At its initial meeting in New Haven, the Board of Directors discussed organization and general policy. It expressed interest in the training and support of competent investigators, in the development of appropriate methods of research, in encouraging the pursuit of significant problems and in the advancement of the basic behavioral and biological sciences as related to psychiatry.

The new foundation is to be administered by a scientific Board of Directors, not more than two of whom may be from one institution. The Directors appointed by the Yale Corporation are: Fredrick C. Redlich, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, Chairman; Charles D. Aring, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Cincinnati College of Medicine; John D. Benjamin, M.D., Research Psychiatrist, Child Research Council, University of Colorado; Vernon W. Lippard, M.D., Dean, Yale University School of Medicine; David Shakow, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois College of Medicine; George W. Thorn, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; John C. Whitehorn, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University. After the first-term appointment (two to five years), Directors will be elected by the Board for a term of three years but may not be re-elected within less