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The death of Margaret W. Gerard on January 12, 1954 was a great loss to the psychiatric profession and to her colleagues at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. The Institute staff has established the Margaret Gerard Memorial Fund to be used for research and training in the psychoanalysis of children. Friends and associates of Margaret Gerard who may wish to contribute to this Fund should send their gifts to the Institute, 664 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 11, Illinois.
A group of twenty-four of the child psychiatrists of the Chicago area have formed the Chicago Council of Child Psychiatry. The purpose of the organization is to further the exchange of information and ideas in the field of Child Psychiatry and those fields pertaining to the promotion of Mental Health of Children. The Council will seek to encourage support and development of those community resources and services contributing to these aspects of Child Welfare. Officers elected for 1953-1954 are: Dr. George J. Mohr, president, Dr. Eugene I. Falstein, vice-president (and president-elect), and Dr. George L. Perkins, secretary-treasurer. Other persons on the executive committee for the same period are: Dr. Irene Josselyn, Dr. Sophie Schroeder Sloman and Dr. Harry Segenreich.
The State Mental Health Commission's new pilot study to determine the extent to which severely mentally retarded children can be educated and trained will be directed by Dr. G. Orville Johnson, according to an announcement by Commissioner Newton Bigelow, M.D.
The study which Dr. Johnson will direct was made possible by a Legislative appropriation of $50,000. It is an outgrowth of preliminary findings in a study made by the Mental Health Commission. The staffs of the Department of Education and the Department of Mental Hygiene will work with Dr. Johnson, the Commissioner indicated, in the planning of the new study.
The study will be cond