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25th Harvard Reunion, 1965, Submitted Bio

25TH ANNIVERSARY REPORT
WARREN TAYLOR VAUGHAN, JR., M.D.
HOME ADDRESS: 2684 Lexington Ave., San Mateo, Calif.
OFFICE ADDRESS: 30 S. El Camino, San Mateo, Calif.

PREPARED AT: St. Christopher's School, Richmond, Va.
YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1937-1940-DEGREES: S.B.cum laude, 1941(42); M.D., 1943

MARRIED: Cecil Todd Knight, Dec. 19, 1942 (divorced 1958);
Clarice Helm Haylett, Aug. 16, 1960.
CHILDREN: Warren Tavlor, 3d, Aug. 31, 1944;
Christopher Knight~ Oct. 20, 1945;
Todd Jameson, Oct. 31, 1949;
Richard Haylett, Aug. 20,1962;
Jennifer Anne, Nov. S, 1963

HARVARD BROTHERS: Victor Clarence Vaughan, 3d, '40, -M.D., '43;
John Heath Vaughan, '43, M.D, '4S;
David DuPuy Vaughan, M.D., '46.

OCCUPATION: psychiatrist.

OFFICES HELD: Assistant in psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, 1947-50;
Assistant professor of mental health, Harvard School of Public Health, 1959;
Associate clinical professor of psychiatry, University of Colorado Medical School, 1959-61.

MEMBER OF: American Psychiatric Association; American Public Health Association;
American Academy of Child psychiatry; Group for Advancement of Psychiatry; The
Mid-Peninsula Chamber Music Fortnightly; The Ray and Clare Stern Health Club.

PUBLICATIONS: A number of articles, monographs, chapters on mental health and child psychiatry.

I WAS one of those persons in 1940 who left college after three years to enter medical school. We were swept up by the fast moving events of World War II, so that by 1945 1 was a captain in the Army Medical Corps practicing psychiatry. In retrospect, all of this was too much -not enough time for reflection, integration of experience, deepening of self-knowledge, and understanding of conditions around me. I suspect that I am not alone among those who would not recommend accelerated programs to others.

As an anthropology major in college I learned some things about people and how to study them. I took this interest on into medical school, becoming particularly interested in psychiatry. Upon leaving the Army in 1946, I entered psychiatric residency training which led me into specialization in child psychiatry and mental health practice. In 1949 1 joined the inter-disciplinary research group at Harvard School of Public Health, founded bv Dr. Erich Lindemann, which established a laboratorY in Wellesley, Massachusetts, for community mental health research. My interests increasingly turned to the new field of mental health practice, and from 1952 until 1959 1 was director of the Division of Mental Hygiene in Massachusetts and assistant professor of mental health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Professionally, these were rich years, working with others across the nation in reshaping and modernizing both mental health and clinical psychiatric practice. For me these years were capped by a two-year assignment as psychiatrist on a nationwide study team for the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, the group which developed the blueprints for the new Communitv Mental Health Center legislation sponsored by President Kennedy.

In 1959 1 accepted a position as director of the Mental Health Program of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. I spent two years in this work, which was a fascinating extension of the community organization work in which I had previously been involved at the community and state levels. Now the organizational work was at a regional level, where. by means of an interstate compact agency serving the thirteen western states, we are able to develop new interests and new programs in training and research in the mental health field. The mental health field has had chronic manpower shortage as well as shortage in funds and facilities. Perhaps the most exciting project on which I worked while in Boulder was the summer, work-study program for college students. We developed a plan whereby college students might work in public and private mental health facilities during the summer in combination with university summer school courses for credit. This program is now firmly established throughout the 'West, with hundreds of young people coming into various hospitals, clinics, and special schools each summer.

In 1960 I was remarried, to Clarice Haylett, psychiatrist and public health officer who was working in the San Mateo, California, mental healrh program. After a year in Colorado, we moved to San Mateo, where we could hope to have a family life, impossible with the travel requirements of the WICHE job. We have a full family and professional fife at this time and are very pleased with how things are working out. Our two active preschoolers, Richard, aged three, and Jennifer, aged two, keep us on our toes.

At the time of writing this report in early November, we are about to travel east to visit my brothers, attend meetings, and see son Todd who is a junior at the Barlow School in Amenia, New York. My two oldest are of college age. Chris is a junior at the University of Colorado, while Tay, who has been at Oberlin, is now having a year in Germany.

I believe that my three brothers and I are the onlv four brother ever to have gone through Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. We all were involved in the war acceleration. With the admission problems and changes in focus of both the College and the Medical School in the past decade, it is quite unlikely, I think, that this will be done again. My life around Harvard in the fifties and my two years in Boulder have convinced me that the ideal life is to be found in an academic community. Clarice has similar views. We are already looking forward to retiring from the fast-moving and hectic pace of private practice to the more leisurely paced setting ofthe college community, which offers satisfactions in teaching and research as well as in stimulating and gratifying interchanges with students and colleagues.