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An August 8 obituary on Dr. Dana Farnsworth, former head of University Health Services, included a quote from Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, which was improperly attributed. Wacker gave the quote in question to The New York Times, and the article should have noted that.
Dana Lyda Farnsworth, professor of hygiene emeritus and former head of University Health Services (UHS), died Saturday at a convalescent home in Watertown, Mass. He was 81.
Farnsworth was a major pioneer in university health programs. He was the first to recognize the need for mental health services among college students, and the first to institute a university health system that met the needs not only of students, but of faculty and staff as well. He introduced...
University mental health services spreadrapidly across the Farnsworth's 1964 discoverythat one of every 10 students had emotionalproblems severe enough to merit therapy.Farnsworth's expanded general health offeringswere slower to catch on, said Warren E. Wacker,current director of UHS. Wacker called Farnsworth"probably the most outstanding person in thedevelopment...
During Farnsworth's tenure as director, UHS hadsuch extensive facilities that it was oftenreferred to as the Farnsworth Hilton, Wacker said.