Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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PUBLIC HEALTH WHITTIER STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT (Left to right) DAVIS, NABOISEK, CATH. T HROUGH a myriad of activities the De¬ partment of Public Health Practice reaches into the local community helping to improve the public’s health and enlarging the experi¬ ence of its students. Practical evidence of the Department’s continuing community interest is ROXBURY COMMUNITY COUNCIL (Left to right) REED. HENRY, BLAKENEY, DiCICCO, AMOROSO. the Harvard Field training Unit at the Whittier Street Health Center where, under Dr. Reed’s administrative and demographic eye, students benefit from Well Child teaching clinics, inde¬ pendent case studies and observation of a new local health council. The two research projects in Mental Health, Dr. Simmon’s study of the status of psychiatric rehabilitation of mental patients who have returned to their homes and the Family Guidance Center directed by Dr. Caplan are a medium for teaching and com¬ munity service. The required basic course in Public Health Practice la, lb, in which students are first saturated with Dr. Paul ' s Ecology and later inculcated with the team approach, is followed by the well known 10 c, d. Here, class members are intensively indoctrinated with the theory and practice of Public Health Nursing by Miss Varley, Health Education by Miss Roberts and Social Work by Miss Rice. Dr. Leavell, Dr. Mayes, and many visiting lecturers analyze health problems and public problems from the community point of view, with special em- Colleges and Universities do not exist to impose duties but to reveal choices. A. MacLeish 22

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F OR Dr. Stuart and the Maternal and Child Health team, time, space and people are a continuity. Relativity is a reality. The longi¬ tudinal studies of child growth and develop¬ ment, nearing completion after twenty years, illustrate the importance of research composed in the key of C: consecutiveness, consistency and comprehensiveness. The problems of care for mothers and children (fathers, too) were presented to the students by Drs. Stuart, Kirk¬ wood, Stitt and Miss Rice through the medium of growth studies, the Family Health Clinic at the Lying-in Hospital and the Whittier Street Clinics. Mrs. Burke presented new information concerning the influence of nutrition on preg¬ nant mothers. Translation of this knowledge on maternal and child health to successive classes is encouraging students to play their part in attaining a well born” world. DR. STUART MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he tvill not depart from it. Proverbs Seated (left to right) RICE, STUART, BURKE. STITT. Standing (left to right) KIRKWOOD, WATTENBERG, CYR. BUTLER, SORENSEN, VALADIAN. 2 L

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PRACTICE Men are wise in proportion not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. B. Shaw phasis on administration. As the students go into the field to participate in actual group studies, the Aristotelian adage becomes a reality; the thing you would do after you have learned it, you learn by doing it. Within this Department are two compara¬ tively new degree programs: one especially de¬ signed for health educators and one for social workers. Here the behavioral sciences are stressed in such stimulating courses as Dr. Caplan’s Psychosocial Problems, Dr. Rosen¬ berg’s Group Dynamics and Miss Rice’s Re¬ habilitation Seminar. Group cohesiveness for self protection is the by-word in Dr. Hamlin’s challenging class in Legal Problems of Public Health. Comprehensive Medical Care with Dr. Goldman, Chronic Disease with Dr. Snegireff, Geriatrics with Dr. Ryder and Dental Public Health with Dr. Dunning still do not com¬ plete all the areas covered by the Department of Public Health Practice. It is to be regretted that there is not enough time for a major in Public Health Practice Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold resistless day And count in fair. A. Earhart Seated (left to right) ROBERTS, MAYES, VARLEY. Standing (left to right) FLASH, SNEGIREFF, PHILLIPS, CAPLAN. even to sample the wealth and variety of avail¬ able material. One is glad that colleges and universities do not exist to impose duties but to reveal choices and one hopes that the multi¬ plicity of life will lead not to fragmentation but to unification. DR. GOLDMANN WITH ADVISEE 23