Word: pritchard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kellogg appointed as general director of the Foundation Dr. Stuart Pritchard, onetime president of the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. Pritchard went to work in seven counties near Battle Creek† First he persuaded these counties to establish health departments, with the Foundation footing most of the bills. He saw that youngsters got medical examinations and treatment (free, when necessary), that mothers had doctors to help deliver their babies, that sanitary engineers told people how to dispose of their sewage. But he soon concluded that this sort of thing was like patching a rusty roof...
...improve the schools, however, Dr. Pritchard saw that he had to educate the adults who ran them. So he provided tuition in universities and psychiatric clinics for groups of teachers, supervisors, school board members, ministers, newspaper editors, physicians, nurses, dentists, veterinarians. The Foundation also offered to help build new schools. At first the inhabitants voted down these offers, were apathetic to this attempt to lift the general level of living of the whole community. But gradually the Foundation saw to it that the schools acquired toilets and electric lights, better instruction and medical attention, and in general the darkened communities...
Last September, believing that the time had come to find out how fully the seven counties realized the measure of their improvement, Dr. Pritchard sent to 80,000 voters a report and a ballot. The ballot asked voters whether they were willing to tax themselves 25? per capita to continue their health departments, relieving the Foundation of part of its burden. Last week the votes were counted...
...drive continued in high gear, John F. Pritchard, Law School chairman, announced that $925 in cash and $160 additional in pledges has been collected so far. Nearly $4500 is still expected...
Nobody's Captain (Mon. 9 p. m. MBS). Football drama by Yale Post-Graduate Student Edwin Burrows, presented by Yale Professor Walter Pritchard Eaton's class in radio writing...