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Lasker Awards for outstanding service in mental hygiene conferred on W. Horsley Gantt, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Rev. D. R. Sharpe, President, Ohio Mental Hygiene Association, and Walter Lerch, reporter on the Cleveland Press; presented by Dr. James R. Angell, Public Service Counsellor, National Broadcasting Company, and Dr. Samuel W. Hamilton, Advisor, Mental Hygiene Division, U. S. Public Health Service, at annual luncheon of National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Thursday, October 31, 1946.
The Lasker Awards for two types of outstanding service in mental hygiene were conferred Thursday, October 31, on Dr. W. Horsley Gantt, of the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; Rev. D. R. Sharpe, President of the Ohio Mental Hygiene Association and Walter Lerch, reporter on the Cleveland Press at the annual luncheon meeting of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in the Hotel Pennsylvania.
One award of $500, for experimental investigation into behavior deviation, was presented to Dr. Gantt by Dr. James R. Angell, Vice President of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and Public Service Counsellor of the National Broadcasting Company. Dr. Jules Masserman, of the Division of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, received honorable mention.
The other award of $500, for efforts to improve hospital care for mental patients, was conferred jointly on Dr. Sharpe and Mr. Lerch by Dr. Samuel W. Hamilton, Advisor, Mental Hygiene Division of the U. S. Public Health Service and President of the American Psychiatric Association. Albert Deutsch, feature writer on P. M., received honorable mention.
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