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Dr. Menninger Observes 90th Birthday In Ground Breaking jTopeka, (UP)-Dr C. T Wenninger began fate Mtb- year yesterday by breaking ground for a $1,-500,000 addition to the lamed psychiatric clinic he founded to make sick people get well ”It was tbe only public Mrtnday aberyance for “Dr C. F., bead of the lamed Menninger family of doctors and chairman of the board □f the MenhLnger psychiatric foundation in Topeka, believed the nations largest resident training cent-jer for psychiatrists.jHis birthday observance Was hi line with Menninger s continued active Interest m the direction of the foundation and hospital and the work of their 400 employes, 1Mof whom are professionally trained m paycMatry, neurology, psychology and related fields.Dr. Menninger, born 90 year? ago a* Tell City, tad, ot German parents came west to instruct biology at Campbell college at Hoi col, Kan , after graduation from Central Indiana normal school In Danville in 18B2 Menninger returned to Kansas m 1889 after graduation from Hahnemann medical college m Chicago and began bis practice af medicine at Topelcs. in 1609 It was after a visit to the Mayo foundation in Bochestftr, Minn , 1B08 that Dr Menninger suddenlv announced to hJ.5 wife at breakfast4T know what we ttiit do with OUTbay* '*Our bci s Krf Menningor, Edwin and Bill, then were 14. 11 andeight years o!d In his Journal, Dr. Menninger noted how the Mayo doctors “work like a team and sick, people get well,p“It wilt take some time/’ hfe wrote,. g but these boys ujjl be doctors and we will h*\e our clinic here *'Karl and William Menninger fui* filled their father's draam. They graduated, respectively, from Harvard. medical school in 1919 and Cornell medical school in 1915 Edwin, his right arm shattered in a collage chemistry laboratory ex* ploalon, turned instead to journalismThe way the three Menninger doctors practiced medicine was iih-fashionable in Kansas in 1S20. Their patient* received not only physical eiamumtfou, Xrays and laboratory analyses, but unheard-or psychological and micrologics! examination Soon, however, patients came to I the Mewilngera from all over thef world In IMS come first expansion of the clinic, with addition of the Southsrd school and hospital for troubled children jThe Menninger foundation was J incorporated in lfiit. dedicated to | research, education and treatment In psychiatry.Land! of Peace and Plenty
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Great Bend Daily Tribune
Great Bend, Kansas, US
Sat, Jul 12, 1952
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