Evening star., 1939-10-15
Big Halloween Celebration
Only . Partial Solution.
Plans are progressing at a fine
rate for what promises to be
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rage Ns1UJ
are adopting little ones may have
every reasonable doubt removed as
to their intellectual capacity.
OF growing value is her work
with the crippled children's clinic,
where her tests are requested by
physicians to help determine the
amount of special mental abilities
or disabilities. Their results often
aid in suggesting a satisfactory plan
for the afflicted child in connection
with remedial plans to aid his physi-
cal handicaps.
Her concise summaries and evalu-
Ations in connection with her mental
measurements are considered mod
els of discerning Judgment and meet
with general appreciation and praise.
Her hesitant queries years ago as
to how she might be of service to
this community lead her to Mrs. r..
Thomas West, one of Washington's
broadly visioned social service work.
ers, who was then director of the
Board of Children's Guardians
Come down and work with us" was
Mrs. Vests instant response to the
would-be recruit, whom she detailed
as an investigator for the board.
First Venture Success.
The memory of her first assign
inent still fingers with Mrs. Bloc
dorm. It had to do with accompany
ing Juvenile Court representative
who was serving an attachment on
an obviously feeble-minded mother
for refusing to surrender three sadly
neglected and abused children into
the custody Of the court, then pre-
sided over by the late Judge Sellers.
The Juvenile Court man and the
brand-new Board of Children's
Guardians investigator successfully
rescued the children, but only after
they had narrowly escaped hot
frying pan hurled at them by the
mother.
To further deplorable conditions
encountered upon her rounds, prac-
tically all of them alien to her own
station in life, she managed to dis
play a sympathetic understanding
which might prove helpful in cor
recting the circumstances funda-
mentally responsible for them.
Then followed courses in normal
psychology at the George Washing
ton University and study in abnor-
NAL psychology and psychiatry at
the University of California under
the famous DR.. Olga M. Bridgman.
At the University of California in
Berkeley she also did field work at
the ductless gland clinic of the
university's hospital, the Hahneman
Children's Hospital, the San Fran
cisco Juvenile Court and the Ber-
kelley Health Center. Her success
led to her being asked to remain as
q psychologist at the Berkeley Health
Center.
Returning to Washington, she was
invited to give her services as vol
unteer psychologist at Gallinger
Hospital, the Juvenile Court, the
Hillcrest City Orphanage and the
Washington Home for Foundlings.
Sees Courage in. Job.
OF her own work Mrs. BIoedorn
says: TT is one of the widest and
most interesting fields of service in
the City of Washington. I have
never contributed to it as much as
I have received. Unless you have
worked with the brave souls who
make up portion of the patient
clientele at Gallinger, it is impossi-
bic to realize the magnificent battle
they make against tremendous odds.
Theirs is often courage that Is
sublime, for many times they are
the city's misf1ts, who are very
lonely with only our public agencies
In lieu of the friends to whom you
and I are able to turn in the emer-
gencies and crises of our lives"
Mrs. Bloedorn has one son, by her
marriage to the late A. Robert Ell
more, George Sutherland Elmore,
who is law student.
She is member of the Ladies'
Board of the George Washington
University and of the Monday Eve
ming Club and a director of the
board Of the Children's Protective
Association. This association makes
Q special effort to settle children's
problems in their homes without re-
course to the Juvenile Court. She
Is also member of the American
Association for the Study of the
Feeble Minded.
Her garden and two captivating
cocker spaniels named Honey Bee
and Major are two of the extra
curricular activities she delights in
Is her especial home pursuits, In
addition to entertaining the host Of
congenial friends she and DR.. Bloc
dorm share In common.