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Obituary
San Francisco Chronicle
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2002

Warren Vaughan Jr.
A Mental Health Pioneer

By Ryan Kim
CHRONICLE STAFF WRITER

Warren T. Vaughan Jr., a psychiatrist and community mental health pioneer, died Jan. 29 of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 81. Dr.Vaughan was born in Richmond, Va., into a prominent medical family and spent much of his life working to advance community mental health. He attended Harvard University and Harvard Medical School along with his three brothers.

During World War II, Dr. Vaughan began his medical career serving in a neuropsychiatry unit and later concentrated in the field of psychiatry. In the early 1950s, he was appointed director of Massachusetts Division of Mental Hygiene, clinical director of the chlldren's unit at the Metropolitan State Hospitai in Waltham, Mass., and assistant professor of mental health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

In 1959, Dr. Vaughan began working as director of mental health programs for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in Boulder, Colo. Two years later, Dr. Vaughan moved to San Mateo, where he established a psychiatrist practice and also served as director of the Napa State Hospital's Children's Unit.

Dr. Vaughan worked to establish a community mental health center and psychiatric treatment service in the Penninsula General Hospital in Burlingame. He later served as president of the Northern Califomia Psychiatric Society and served in the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.

He is survived by his wife, Clarice Haylett Vaughan; five children, Richard H. Vaughan of Redwood City, Jennifer A. Vaughan of Waiuku, New Zealand, Warren Taylor Vaughan III of Appleton, Maine, Christopher K. Vaughan of Redwood City and Todd J. Vaughan of San Rafael; and four grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held this summer.

Obituary
February 13, 2002
(www.AlmanacNews.com)

Warren Taylor Vaughan, Jr
41 Stonegate Road
Portola Valley, CA 94028

Born August 24, 1920 Boston, MA
Died January 29,2002 Portola Valley, CA

Dr. Warren T. Vaughan, Jr., psychiatrist and community mental health pioneer; friend and counselor to public and private patients alike, died at home on January 29 in Portola Valley, California. He was 81. The cause of his death was pulmonary fibrosis complicated by long-standing coronary artery disease.

Dr. Vaughan's life-long commitment to community mental health started during his World War II army service. After graduating from Harvard College and Medical School, he was commissioned and volunteered to serve in a neuropsychiatry unit. On completion of his tour of duty, he undertook formal training in psychiatry, and psychosomatic medicine, followed by fellowships in child guidance, and a research community mental health project in Wellesley, Mass. In the early 1950s he was appointed director of Massachusetts’ Division of Mental Hygiene, clinical director of the children's unit at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham, Mass., and assistant professor of mental health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was also associate director of a task force on Patterns of Patient Care, for the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health. He particularly prized his activity with the Joint Commission, since its deliberations provided the blueprint for the National Community Mental Health Center Act.

Dr. Vaughan transferred to Boulder Colorado in 1959 for a two-year stint as director of mental health programs for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. During this period he designed an accredited summer internship program for college students to gain hands-on experience working in mental health facilities. That innovative and successful program continues to this day. It was in the course of his WICHE work that he met his future wife, Dr Clarice Haylett, of San Mateo, California

In 1961, Dr. Vaughan moved to San Mateo where he established a part time psychiatry practice and commuted to serve as director of the Napa State Hospital’s Children's Unit. He modeled his private work along the lines of a classical public child guidance clinic and incorporated psychologists and social workers into his treatment team, and research and training into their operations. He was committed to consultation and collaboration with schools and other people-serving agencies, and served as a consultant to many public and private local agencies in San Mateo and later in Santa Clara counties. Until his last few weeks he continued his work with the Gardner Health Clinic in San Jose. He greatly admired the staff and services provided by this multicultural clinic.

After coming to San Mateo he continued his commitment to program development, and facilitated obtaining both construction and staffing grants to establish a community mental health center and inpatient psychiatric treatment service in the Peninsula General Hospital in Burlingame, California. (This was truly innovative at a time when seriously mentally ill patents went either to private sanatoria or to State asylums.) This model of public-private collaboration led him to obtain another grant to establish a Center for Collaborative Study of the Financing and Delivery of Mental Health Services.

During the 60s and 70s he also became increasingly concerned with the broader socio-cultural issues of world peace and interracial harmony. He developed a proposal for a world “Brotherhood” movement which led to his participation as a task force leader in the metropolitan planning branch of the Episcopal Diocese of California.

Throughout his professional life he was involved in many medical, psychiatric, and social support organizations and was a past president of the Northern California Psychiatric Society. He especially enjoyed his committee work in the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He increasingly believed in the importance of active advocacy on behalf of the mentally ill, and applauded the work of Alliance for the Mentally Ill , an outgrowth of the San Mateo founded Parents of Adult Schizophrenics organization.

He also continued his University teaching affiliations, having held successive appointments on the faculties of Harvard, University of Colorado, and Stanford.

Dr. Vaughan was born into a prominent medical family in Richmond, Virginia in 1920. His grandfather, Victor C. Vaughan, was Dean of the Medical School at the University of Michigan from 1891 to 1921 and President of the American Medical Association. His father, Warren T. Vaughan, Sr., was an allergist and President of the American Academy of Allergy. Dr. Vaughan was second in a family of four brothers, all of whom attended Harvard College and then Harvard Medical School in sequential years. His older brother, Victor C. Vaughan, 3rd, who died last year, became a well-known professor of pediatrics. His younger brother, John H. Vaughan of La Jolla, CA, became a professor of immunology and rheumatology, and David D. Vaughan became an allergist, practicing in Richmond, Virginia.

His beloved wife, Clarice Haylett Vaughan, is a retired psychiatrist and community health advocate. She attended Stanford University and Stanford Medical School, and was active in the San Mateo Community Mental Health program when they met and married in 1960. She had been Director of the Marin County Health Department in the 50’s and, after studying adult and child psychiatry, served as as staff, chief of service, and finally as medical director of the Medical Director of the San Mateo County Dept. of Mental Health until she retired in 1985. They had two children, Richard H. Vaughan, Redwood City, CA and Jennifer A. Vaughan, Waiuku, New Zealand. Richard is a cellist and public schools music teacher, and Jenny a show horse breeder and trainer. By his previous marriage to Cecil Knight Vaughan (deceased) Dr. Vaughan had three children: Warren Taylor Vaughan III, of Appleton, ME, Christopher K. Vaughan of Redwood City, CA, and Todd J. Vaughan of San Rafael, CA. He is also survived by four granddaughters: Elizabeth H., Rosalind C., Evelyn M., and Aurora L.