Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-27
TO HONOR
AL|EN|ST'S RECORD
. DR.. William A. White, rs
Years Hospital Head, to Be
Guest at Celebrations.

A quarter of century as superin-
tendent of st. Elizabeths Hospital will
be recalled when DR.. William A. White,
the noted alienist who heads the insti-
tuition, is honored at two celebrations
by his fellow workers and friends. The
celebration for the employees will be
held on the afternoon of october 3,
and on the night of November 10 a
dinner will be held at the Wardman
Park Hotel. at which some 1900 per-
sons, friends and acquaintance of DR..
White will be present to hear promi-
nent speakers laud the record that has
brought him into national and inter-
national prominence. Secretary West
and other prominent guests will be in
Vited to participate in the festivities.
The celebration at which the hospital
employees will honor DR.. White will
be held at $3.50 o'clock at the hospital
next Wednesday afternoon. Rear Ad-
miral E. r. Stitt, chief of the Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy
Department, who is president of the
board of visitors Of the hospital, will
preside at the ceremonies, at which DR..
Louis H. Taylor. also of the board, will
deliver an address and present DR..
White with testimonial volume. The
volume will detail the history of St.
Elizabeth's during the past quarter of a
century and emphasize DR.. Whites part
III the development.
Souvenirs to be distributed at the
ceremony will contain the program, a
list of the speakers, biography of DR..
White and his photograph and list
OF all employees who have been at the
hospital for 25 years or more. These
employees will form an honor guard to
conduct DR.. White to the platform at
the opening of the ceremony. Fifty
will form this honor guard All the
members of the board of visitors have
been invited to participate in the cere-
rnony.
$500 to Be Invited.
A corps of physicians and other en-
ployeS at st. EliZabeth'S are now hard
at work to insure the success of the
celebrations, and Dr.. Herbert c. Wool
ley is chairman of the general commit
tee in charge. DR.. Ernest E. Hadley,
chairman of the invitations committee,
said today that some 500 invitations
will go out next week and that friends
and acquaintance of DR.. White are
urged to get in touch with the hospital
Immediately, so that invitations may
be secured and they may not be dis
appointed
LII waiter freeman is chairman of
the committee on decorations and SOU
venirs, Drs. Watson W. Eldridge and
Roscoe Hall are joint cllairmen of the
committee on the dinner celebration
and Monte Sanger is chairman of the
committee on finances. DR.. Nolan
Lewis is chairman of the program
committee.
The career Of DR.. White that will be
honored in conjunction with the silver
anniversary celebration of his coming
TO st. Elizabeths Hospital had its be-
ginning on January "a, 1870, for then
he was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He
was a student at Cornell from 1885 to
1889 and took his NJ D. from Long
Island Medical College in 1891, George.
town University conferred upon him an
a. M. in 1925 for his notable advances
IN the treatment of mental and nervous
diseases. oA'
DR.. White was appointed superin-
tendent OF st. Elizabeth's Hospital or
october l, 1903, after having served as
assistant physician at the Bingannton
N Y, State Hospital from 1892 to
Professor and Lecturer.
DR.. White has supervised the admin
lstratlon of treatment to the Govern
ment's patients at st. Elizabeth's Hos
pltal. the miniature town of nearly