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Lawrence K. Frank, director of the Caroline Zachry Institute of Human Development, New York City, and Catherine MacKenzie, parent-child editor of the New York Times, will share the fourth annual Lasker Award of $1,000 of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Dr. George S. Stevenson, the Committee's medical director, announced.
Presentation of the 1947 Lasker Award for outstanding service to the nation's mental health, was given this year for “contributions to popular adult education in mental health, especially concerning parent-child relationships.”
Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles, superintendent of the Butler State Hospital, Providence, R. I., has been elected president of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, it was announced by Dr. George S. Stevenson, medical director. Dr. Ruggles succeeds Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post, who resigned when appointed president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Officers re-elected were Dr. James R. Angell, educational counselor, National Broadcasting Co.; Dr. Leonard G. Rowntree, director, Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research and research clinician, Philadelphia General Hospital; Dr. William L. Russell, consulting psychiatrist, New York Hospital; and Dr. Frank Fremont-Smith, medical director, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, as vice-presidents; Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, secretary; and A. L. van Ameringen, president of van Ameringen-Haebler, aromatic essentials, as treasurer.
A book designed to serve as a guide for every citizen concerned with the operation of mental institutions in his state, has been published by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Dr. George S. Stevenson, Medical Director, announced. It is entitled, “The Mental Hospital, a Guide for the Citizen,” and