{HOME} {BERTNASH.ORG}	:: THE BEGINNING continued Psychologist M.J. Horowitz, a graduate student who was also on the staff of the KU Health Service, provided an afternoon of testing each week for Clinic clients. First to hold the psychiatric social worker position was Juliette Clapp, an experienced social worker with an M.A. degree from Washington University. She received $315 per month in 1950. In an article in the Lawrence Journal-World, Clapp emphasized another aspect of the free clinic, “Prevention of mental ills, not necessarily the cure, is the primary objective of any mental health clinic.” By 1955, the Clinic was seeing on average, 1,100 people a year. In 1959, the Clinic had outgrown its location and moved to the Jennie Watt house, 342 Missouri. The home had been refurbished with help from the Lawrence Lions, other service clubs, and their auxiliaries. The Clinic hired Gary Lee, a psychiatrist trained at the Menninger Clinic and Topeka State Hospital. Lee’s salary was set at $9,000 for three-quarters time. In 1961, Lee proposed a change in the name of the Bert Nash Clinic to Lawrence-Douglas County Mental Health Center. By the end of the year, Lee got his wish, rationalizing that “it is no longer only a clinic, but a center for psychiatric activities, and that it is not primarily a child guidance organization, but one offering services to all ages.” continue on to RENOVATION 1965-1980		:: Sandy Binns, daughter of Bert Nash clinical psychologist William A. Binns poses with psychiatrist L. Willard Shankel, director of the Clinic, to demonstrate the increased emphasis the Clinic placed in 1957 on treatment of children with behavior disorders. (Courtesy LJW and the Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries) :: The Jennie Watt house, 342 Missouri – refurbished with help from the Lawrence Lions, other service clubs, and their auxiliaries – became home to the Bert Nash Clinic in 1959. (Courtesy LJW and the Kansas Collection, University of Kansas Libraries)

 

 

 

 

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