Aids Retarded. Children

JaFor his forty years of service to the mentally retarded, Dr. Harry C. Storrs '07, senior director of the Letchworth Village School, was honored by the Welfare League for Retarded Children at a luncheon in New York, November 24. The Letchworth Village School, whose 3,800 patients make it the largest state-supported institution of its kind in the United States, has gained worldwide recognition for its unique and successful approach to the treatment of the mentally defective.

Dr. Storrs joined its staff in 1912 when he went to assist the late Dr. Charles S. Little '91, who instituted the school's program. Planned as a normal village community with occupation the keynote, Letchworth Village has become a model famous throughout the world, largely as a result of the inspiration and effort of the two Dartmouth physicians.

Dr. Storrs, a native of Hanover, interned at the Mary Hitchcock Hospital and served for a year on the staff of the Maine State School for the Feebleminded before joining Dr. Little as first assistant physician in Thiells, N. Y. In 1930 when the Wassaic State School, Wassaic, N. Y„ was being built, Dr. Storrs was asked to help supervise its construction and to act as the first superintendent. In 1937 he returned to Letchworth as Dr. Little's successor.

The author of numerous articles on scientific subjects, Dr. Storrs was formerly president of the American Association on Mental Deficiency and is now vice-president. His two sons, Richard '39 and Robert '40, are doctors; and his brother Adna D. Storrs '99, proprietor of the Dartmouth Bookstore, is well known to alumni and undergraduates.

DR. HARRY E. STORRS '07