Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attendant doctors, these signs of mental healing are as important as the surgical gains. Although facial deformities are being improved, and the use of frozen hands and limbs gradually restored, plastic surgery can never totally efface the marks of the terrible seconds under the bomb. Shigeko and the others quietly accept this fact. Said one of the girls to an interpreter shortly before she was wheeled into the operating room: "Tell Dr. Barsky not to be worried because he cannot give me a new face. I know that this is impossible, but it does not matter; something has already healed...
Among the organizations they have approached is the Russell Sage foundation of New York, which recently made a grant to J. Lawrence Dohan '55, founder of the P.B.H. Mental Hospital program, for projected mental health study. The Committee is also soliciting the 51 million dollar Commonwealth Fund and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation...
Phillips Brooks House contributes $212 annually to the Mental Health Committee's budget, but this barely covers administrative expenses of the extensive program. Aun E. Rabinowitz '58, of the Executive Committee, said that a bus would cost $18 per day to rent and that as yet no financial means to cover the service had been apparent...
...Committee is also considering asking the Social Relations Department for "advice" on the problem. Though the Department has no funds directly applicable to the P.B.H. Mental Hospital program, some volunteers felt it may be able to influence a University or private donation...
...last year, Phillips Brooks House could boast that one out of every five undergraduates was contributing some of his time to the growing list of PBH activities. But despite this increase in student interest, the group's program faces damaging curtailment. As the plight of its Mental Hospitals Committee illustrates, PBH does not have a large enough annual income...