Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-01-16

NTo. LuScuc LlipIerb
tional Capital area which replaces
the old Community Chest.
1t is also a member of the Mont
gomery Health Council. Through
its 80 directors, the Planned Par
enthood League is also represent
ed on all of the other county
health and welfare agencies.
In addition the League works
closely with the county public
health department in offering its
services. Last Fall Mrs. Liipfert
organized the first Institute for
Health and Welfare workers.
This succeeded in it's purpose of
informing the county professional
people of the services offered by
Planned Parenthood and the rea-
sons behind them.
The League operates two birth
control clinics in the county; one
in Rockville at the county build
ing on the second and fourth
Tuesdays from 10 AM to noon
and one at the Silver Spring
Sadie Gladwyn Memorial clinic
from 6 to s Pm. every Wednes-
day.
1t has also been offering pre-
marital counseling at the Silver
Spring clinic since last Spring.
In 1857, there were 224 patients,
SO of whom We're new-an in
crease over 1856 which had 206
patients, &c of them new.
The Montgomery League, or
ganized 20 years ago, is one of
the 122 affiliates of the Planned
ParenthOOd Federation of Ameri-
ca.
Traditionally, it was formed at
the request of the former health
officer, DR.. v. L. Ellicott. to OPP
crate clinics on child spacing for
lower income families.
A major policy change APP
proved last year was the removal
of a top limit on income which
until then had been the unrealistic
and limiting figure of $4,000 a
year, for prospective patients.
The salary and educational ma
terials for a Health Educator to
tell the Planned Parenthood story
to the young married couples and
low-income rural families in our
expanding county is new goal
this year.
Mrs. Liipfert who has done vol.
unteer work in the clinics since
coming to the county ten years
ago tells a dramatic story to
point up the need for a Health
Educator.
On her 32nd birthday she met
a woman patient at the clinic who
was also 80 years old. In contrast
to the youthful, attractive Mrs.
Liipfert, this woman was old be-
yond her years with gray hair, no
teeth and 10 children.
She had Just learned about
Planned Parenthood but too late!
She had already started her 18th
child which was fated to be the
death Of her.
What price human misery! This
family has already cost the coun-
ty over 100000.
The professional workers also
count the cost in statistics on
juvenile delinquency of unwanted
children and the broken lives of
TB or mental patients who are
in no condition to bear children
but do.
Then there are the countless
others who will never become
statistics but just lead lives OF
quiet desperation" from having
too many children too soon.
This, then, is the story which
the Planned Parenthood League
is striving to tell.
AS for Mrs. Liipfert's own
story, she is a lawyer, married
to a lawyer, and comes from a
family of lawyers. Born Anne
Turney, she is a native of st.
Louis, Mo-, educated at Sweet
Briar and Vanderbilt Law School,
and an expert in transportation
law.
She and her husband work for
the law firm Of Turney and Turn
ey in the District. They have two
sons, John, 10 and Christian, 6. 1t
viii be the countys loss when the
Lllpferts move to San Francisco
next June.