Notes and News

The appointment of Dr. Arthur G. Rodgers as director of Binghamton State Hospital was announced by Dr. Newton Bigelow, Commissoner of Mental Hygiene. Dr. Rodgers succeeds Dr. Hugh S. Gregory, retiring director, and will take office January 1. He will go to Binghamton from Central Islip State Hospital, where he has been assistant director since December 1931.

Dr. Rodgers was born in Watervliet in 1892. In 1915 he graduated from Albany Medical College and began internship at Troy Hospital, since named St. Mary's, in Troy. He entered state service at Willard State Hospital in 1916, and the following year became a staff member at Hudson River State Hospital.

From March 1918 until June 30, 1919 Dr. Rodgers was in military service, a captain in the U. S. Army attached to the 62nd division of the British Army serving in France and Belgium, and with the Army of Occupation in Germany. For a period following his war service he conducted a private practice in Troy, until in December 1921 he joined the medical staff at Veterans Administration hospitals, first in Philadelphia and later in New York City. He returned to state service as assistant physician at Hudson River State Hospital, remaining there until his appointment as assistant director of Central Islip State Hospital in 1931.

Dr. Rodgers is a diplomate in psychiatry of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a fellow of the American Geriatrics Society, and a member of state and local medical societies.

The appointment of Myron J. Rockmore, a psychiatric social worker to serve on the staff conducting a study of the release of mental patients for the New York State Mental Hygiene Council, was announced by Charles L. DeAngelis, chairman of the council. The study was undertaken recently at the request of Governor Thomas E. Dewey.

Mr. Rockmore will assist Dr. Daniel Blain, medical director of the American Psychiatric Association, who is serving as psychiatrist in charge, i