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Mental Health Group Names Meeks Honorary Drive Chair
Max Meeks, furniture executive and radio personality, is named honorary chairman of the High Point Mental Health Association's membership drive starting May 1 for National Mental Health Month. The group, founded 1967 at 202 Boulevard, runs a speakers bureau, radio program on WMFR, and community aid programs including Umstead Hospital and L. Richardson Psychiatric Unit support, Christmas gifts for Guilford County patients, a Phoenix Club rehab group, and arts programs in nursing homes. Current officers include Mrs. Kenneth B. Geddie Jr., president, Dr. Bernard Fitzgerald, vice president, Mrs. Harold Leach, secretary, John C. Pierce, treasurer, with Mrs. Fred A. Thomas III as executive director.
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Max Meeks
High Point Mental Health Assn
Boulevard
Association
WMFR
Umstead Hospital
L. Richardson Psychiatric Unit
Guilford County
Umstead
High Point City Lake
Phoenix Club
Associaton
High Point
Arid
Kenneth B. Geddie Jr
Bernard Fitzgerald
Harold Leach
John C. Pierce
Fred A. Thomas III