Evening star., 1952-09-28
Pretty June Bingham JuggIes Two Careers
By lsobeiIe Shelton

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By lsobeIIe Shelton
Putting the final touches to a
book while riding in an airplane
several thousand feet above the
Arabian Desert is Just the latest
of a series Of two-handed feats
performed by pretty. brown
eyed resident Of Georgetown, june
Bingham.
In private life she is Mrs. Jona-
than Bingham. wife Of the deputy
administrator Of the point-four
program. She also is the mother
Of four energetic little Binghams,
Sherry. II: Mickey, 9: Tim, z, and
Claudia. S.
Mr.. Bingham Is the youngest Of
the seven sons Of former Senator
Hiram Bingham. Connecticut Re-
publican. Incidentally, four of the
sons are Republicans. while three,
including Jonathan. are Demo-
cratS.
; Careerwise, since her marriage In
1889 while still q junior at Bar
nard, Mrs. Bingham has worked
for two newspapers, written arti-
cles and playlets for the Treasury
Departments war bond drive. done
volunteer work for the youth divi-
sion Of the Office Of Civilian De-
Tense. written magazine articles.
two pamphlets and q book on
psychiatry, and delivered a scold-
ing lecture to q national conven-
ton Of psychiatrists. expressing
a layman's view of what's wrong
with psychiatry. (She told the
doctors laymen were scared to
death" Of them.)
The incident on the airplane is
illustrative Of the easy manner in
which Mrs. Bingham manages to
combine her obligations as career
woman and wife.
The flight was part Of an IL
week. 20.00O-mile trip which Mr..
Bingham made to inspect Point
-Four operations, mostly in the
Near and Middle East. They de-
cided to dip into the family say
ings so that Mrs. Bingham could
go along. too. The two just re-
turned to Washington last week.
DuoI Role
Mrs. Bingham's dual role has
continued all through her mar
riage. She graduated from Bar
nard just barely ahead of the
birth Of Sherry. C'It was touch
and go for a while between Sherry
and the comprehensive" she re-
calls. "but fortunately Sherry
was a few weeks late in arriving. y
She continued to work, on a
practically full-time basis, until
her fourth child was born. After
that she gave up going to an Office
every day, but continued to do a
good deal of writing from home.
1t was at this point. shortly
after the birth of Claudia, that
Mrs. Bingham turned her hand to
writing on psychiatric subjects.
Do Cows Hove Neurosis?
Her two pamphlets, which bore
the intriguing titles. do Cows
Have Neurosis?" and 'Do Babies
Have Worries?" were so successful
that they now are put out with a
preface by the United States Pub
lie Health Service, and have been
translated into German. japanese,
Hebrew and Spanish.
The pamphlets grew out of Mrs.
Bingham's offer to do some vol
unteer work for the Mental Hy-
giene Association Of Westchester
County, New York, where the FAM
lily was then living while Mr..
Bingham practiced law in New
York City.
She wrote fund-appeal letters at
first, starting them of with such
shockers as: Did you ever hear
a child awake screaming in the
Inight?"
Next the association asked her
to write up some case histories
taken from its files, as a further
way to raise funds.
II started to do it. and then all
Of a sudden ! realized how appal-
Iingly unequipped I was for this,
she says. my college major was
English literature. I'd had only
one course in psychology. I de-
cided even If it did raise money
for the Westchester County Men
tai Hygiene Association it simply
wasn't good mental hygiene"
So she sought out a competent
Ipsychiatrist. "who could give me
simple answers, that a laymar
could understand" to some of the
questions raised in the case his.
tories. It was out of this that the
two pamphlets grew.
The baby pamphlet discusses the
right" and wrong" kind Of
mother love and gives examples Of
each. It is literally sprinklec
with simple line drawings, exc.
cuted by the author.
One Of the psychiatrists told hel