Curing Sick Minds

"Exhibition of Art by the Mentally 111 in Metropolitan Hospital Wins Praise." That's a three-column head line in the March Ist Boston Evening Transcript. The story pictures several works indicating how the mentally ill are returning to health through painting, sculpture and carving. It was the first exhibition of art done by the patients, but the course was instituted some time ago by Dr. Roy D. Halloran, Superintendent of the Metropolitan State Hospital at Waltham, Mass.

"What's the story back of the story-whp's who and why?" we queried. Our Class investigator returned later, all fagged out from counting handsome buildings and tramping around 400 acres of grounds, walks and gardens. "Here's an airplane view," he says. "Looks like a good big college campus, doesn't it? Most modern equipment of its kind—there's a lot of millions in those buildings. Why, they've got 2000 patients out there, schizophrenics, paranoics, all kinds. There are 415 employees, from the topper to the last guy who manicures the lawns; a medical staff of ten, .257 nurses and specialists in social service, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, laboratory technicians, clerical force, cooks, carpenters and scrub-women, not counting a consultant medical staff of 16. The boss out there put together a 400 bed medical center which has been approved by the American College of Surgeons for the past four years—they told me it was the first State mental hospital in New England to be so rated."

"Cut the World's Almanac stuff" says I, "Did you meet the works}" "No" says the sleuth, "they said he was addressing a medical society down town, something weighty, and he can reel it off three nights a week.

So we hit upon the 1941 edition of "Who's Who in Massachusetts." There he was: Halloran, Roy Dennis, M.D. We browsed in yards of research achievements, papers, speeches, titles, and associations, all in ten dollar medical dictionary language—we understood every word, of course—we salvaged about ten per centthe easy ones, and here they are: Physician; psychiatrist; Superintendent, Metropolitan State Hospital .... Collaborated in founding of Research Dept., Boston State Hospital, 1925 .... Ass't to Commissioner of Mental Diseases, ig2g-'33. . . . First Supt. and organizer, Metro. State Hospital, 1933 to date. . . . Founder and Director, Waltham Child Guidance Clinic, 1936

Founder and Director, Post-Graduate Seminars in Neurology and Psychiatry, 1936. . .. . Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Tufts College Medical School, 1939 to date Diplomat of American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Reelected President, Occupational Therapy Ass'n, 1940-41 President, New England Society of Psychiatry, 1940-41 Member of Civil Service Panel for selection of R. I. Hospital Superintendent, 1940 Member of two Architectural Juries on Psychopathic Hospital Construction Theses (M. I. T. 1940. .. .appointed to Mass. subcommittee of Cooperating Agencies for Education in Mental Hygiene Author of numerous articles in state and national medical journals. .... President, Belmont Rotary Club, 1940-41.

That was enough. By now we could call him Hal, and touch the old guy for a buck. Still, we couldn't find anything worth while this fellow had done. Then our sleuth pulled out some columns from a college magazine. "Look," he says, "he and his wife June, went to the 20th reunion. Here they are again, going coast to coast behind a football team in '3B. He's reported in the stands or in the gang every time the team lines up, or his classmates get cozy." Then I noticed what college all these yarns about Dr. Halloran were related to. Oh, well! Why didn't the Transcript say so? Then you'd know the story would have to come out this way.

Fund, Contributors for 1940 Contributors: 185 (75% of graduates). Total gifts: $3,133 (95% of objective).

1917

Adams, Robert E. Aldrich, Donald B. Allen, Raymond N. Allison, William H. Anderson, Arnold E. Barber, Payson T. Barrows, Walter A. Bartlett, Howard S. Baxter, Raymond H. Bidwell, Harold F. Birtwell, William M. Black, Angus C. Blood, Philip W. Bonnell, Willard E. Boynton, Robert C. Britton, Ralph R. Brooks, Donald Brown, Mott D., Jr. Burleigh, John R. 'l4 Buxton, Robert B. Carr, Houghton Chadbourne, Ralph P. Chesley, John G. Clark, George E. Clark, Thomas R. Clarke, Harold V. Cocks, Ralph J. Cofran, Clarence W. Cone, Leon J. Cornelius, Laurence A. Cotton, Thomas L. Cunningham, Louis Currier, George C. Davis, Aaron W. Davis, Bradley N. Dewey, Edward R. Donehue, Francis M. Duhamel, Arthur 0., Jr. Dupuis, Almanzor L. Durkee, James T. Dutton, Leon G. Earle, Edgar C. Eaton, William C. Edgerton, Alson B. Emerson, Sumner B. Emery, Forrest S. Emery, Joseph W.1 Ludgate, Bruce A., Jr. Lynch, Ralph McCulloch, Norman E. McGowan, Edwin W. Maclntyre, Arthur P. MacKillop, Samuel R. Mac Martin, John E. Marr, Russell W. Marschat, Richard A. Mason, Harold W. Melvin, Parker L. Merrill, Howard F 3 Merrill, Roger Miller, Rudolph N. Montgomery, Geo. S., Jr. Montgomery, J ames, Jr. Mudgett, Elliot B. Murphy, Cornelius F. Murray, S. Clifford Nourse, Laurence G. Nuese, Robert E. Olds, Everett L. O'Leary, Donald J. O'Neill, Thomas S. Osborn, Paul G.1 Paine, Robert G. Palin, Milburn R. Reade, Leonard J. Reycroft, Wendell G. Richardson, Guy L. Richmond, Donald Riley, Charles A. Robie, Everett E. Rubel, James L. Saladine, John W. Saline, Samuel Sanborn, Ralph Sault, Raymond G. Sayre, Ford K. '33 Scott, Robert D. Scudder, Winthrop R. Searles, Herbert L. Sewall, William Shaffer, Howard M. Shattuck, Gerald A. Shea, Leonard A. Sherburne, Maxwell G. Sherman, Laurence G. Shiels, Albert, Jr. Sisson, Walter C. Smith, Deering G. Emmons, Albert W. Englehorn, Elmer H. Erb, William B. Evans, Philip G. Ferguson, Walter G. Fisher, Russell S. Fitch, Willis S. Fleming, William D. Ford, Hobart Fowler, Henry G. Fox, James A. Gale, Burton L., Jr. Gates, Fred W. Gee, Fred W. Gerrish, Bernard O. Gile, Archie B. Gilmore, Charles M. Goodwin, Fred P. Gray, Elmer J. Green, Irving I. Hager, Fred A. Halloran, Roy D. Hammond, E. Kendall Hardy, C. James2 Harris, Daniel L., 2nd Hartshorn, George E. Healey, Maurice T., Jr. Hickmott, Allerton C. Hill, Lee F. Holden, Kenneth W. Holt, Harold W. Howe, Luman B. Howland, Percy H. Husk, Frederick R. Hutchins, Mosher S. Kent, Kenneth R.1 King, William T. Kingsbury, Stanley M. Koeniger, Karl W. Kuech, Julius F. Lagay, Frank L. Langmead, Edmund C. Leighton, Frederic W. Litchard, Donald B. Lockwood, Lawrence Lonnquest, Theodore C. Loudon, Henry A. Smith, Reginald Smith, Sherman L. Smith, Victor C. Smith, Vincent K. Sperry, Irving L. Steiger, Chauncey A. Stevens, Leslie B. Stewart, William H. Stickney, Robert C. Stillman, Harold D. Stillman, Karl G. Stockwell, Howard A. Stone, Charles L. Stone, Roger P. Stout, Arthur D. Streeter, Percival Sturgess, Albert H. , Sturtevant, Warner B. Swett, Gilbert N. Switzer, James M. Thielscher, Karl L. Thompson, Errol M. Thompson, Willis D. Tobin, Harold J. Towler, Eugene D. Tracy, Gordon S. Trenholm, Derrill deS. Trier, Paul W. Valentine, Carroll E. Vaughan, Alden G. Walker, Harold S. Walters, Waltman Watkins, Maurice C. Wells, Ralph A. Wheelock, John F. White, John W. Whiton, Sylvester G. Wiesman, Edward A. Willis, Russell L. Wolff, Charles, 3rd Wright, Henry C. Wyeth, William H. lMemorial gift from aclassmate.2Memorial gift from hisbrother, Mr. Robert C.Hardy '25.sMemorial gift from hisclassmate, Mr. Thomas L.Cotton.

EUGENE DAVIS TOWLER '17 ABOUT TO CARRY OUT AN IDEA WHILE BECALMED To THE EDITOR: If you look closely at the enclosed snapshot you will conclude it is as neat a bit of pornographic photography as ever popped out of a hypo. It would be no trouble at all to make up a lurid story, but the picture speaks for itself. E. Davis Towler '17, the Advertising Tycoon, is seen emerging from the companionway, clad in a broad, anticipatory smirk. His two visible companions, whose attention has been diverted by the helmsman, apparently little suspect what is in store for them. Your nervous photographer, amazed at what was going on before his very eyes, dared not wait another second before clicking the shutter for fear of the wrath of Mayor LaGuardia, Nemesis of Literature in the Lighter Vein. The beaming blond in the right—or starboard—foreground is, fortunately enough, Lucille Towler, legally related to Gene. The seagoin' outfit in the port corner covers a cute little pack age whose name is withheld lest the entire class of Wellesley, 1918, jump at a wholly unwar- ranted conclusion and spoil the next reunion for her. HOWARD M. PARK 'I8-

DR. ROY D. HALLORAN

Class Agent.