Arizona sun., 1962-11-01
Action For Mental
Leaders To Meet

Tucson, Arizona, October q
(SpeciaD - Volunteer leaders OF
civic organizations from the
Western states including Alaska
have registered for the regional
leadership conference on Action
for Mental Health to be held here
November IL.
William F. Hall, Phi. D., Phoenix,
president of Arizona Association
for Mental Health, will call the
conference to order at 1:3O pm.
Thursday. November l, at the Ra-
mada Inn, Tucson, Arizona.
The meeting, first to be held in
the West, is sponsored by the
National Association for Mental
Health. 1t is designed to translate
into community and state action
recommendations of the Joint Com
mission on Mental Illness and
Health. The commission was es-
tablished in 1855 by unanimous
act of both houses of Congress to
study what is generally regarded
as the nations Number 1 Health
problem, mental illness. There are
as many mentally i'll people, in
cluding children, in U. S. Hospitals
at any one time as with all other
diseases combined, including can
Ger, heart disease, and tuberculo-
sis.
Conference keynote speaker will
be Charles Schlaifer, nationally
known leader in mental health and
social welfare organizations. Head
of his own advertising agency
in New York and California, Sch
laifer was in charge of promotion
and distribution of the motion
picture, "The Snake Pit" An hon.
orary fellow of American Pyschi-
atric Association, he served as
Secretary-treasurer of the Joint
Commission from its founding to
the present.
Mental Illness, its prevention
and cure, is a total community
problem" Schlaifer says. "It is
not just up to the professionals and
experts in the field but it is the
responsibility of every citizens
group and every healthy member
of our society"
His subject for the Keynote ad-
dress is 1.-THE END OF THE BE-
GINNING: A Blueprint for Mental
Health
Other speakers on the program
include DR.. Katherine Brownell
Oettinger, chief of the U. S. Chill
dren's Bureau, Department of
Health, Education and Welfare,
on "The Impact of Mental Illness
on the American Family" A ma
tional board member of leading
social welfare organizations, DR..
Oettinger was formerly dean of the
school of Social Welfare at Boston
University.
Palmer Hoyt, editor publisher
of The Denver Post, will speak on
"Arousing the Community to Ac-
tion.''
A symposium on why the care
of the mentally i'll has Jagged in
the U. S. will be led by DR.. Nicho-
las P. Dallis of Scottsdale, Arizona,
creator of cartoon strips Judge
Parker" and REX Morgan, MI" >;
Ralph Littlestone of the California
Dept. of Mental Hygiene, Dr.
Joseph H. Treleaven, mental
health services administrator Of
the state of Oregon and DR.. Boris
Zemsky, chief of staff, Palo Verde
Hospital, Tucson.
Three panelists will report ex.
amples of effective cooperative
action in their communities. Mrs
Richard Isaacson will tell of the
leadership of Junior League of Sail
Lake City in working for communi
ty mental health services and leg
islation in Utah. Richmond w
johnson will discuss assistance o.
Sertoma Club of Tucson in fund
raising campaigns for the loca
mental health association.
Maree Stuber, columnist, adver
tising copywriter and conSultan
in the fashion field, will report OF
the fashion therapy program il
) California mental hospitals spon
sored by the San Francisco chap
ter of The Fashion Group, Inc
; She is regional director, of the or
ganization made up of women ex
/, ecutives in the fashion business
, In the closing session delegate
! will meet in ten small groups head
: ed by so selected leaders, and dis
: cusS improving state hospitals, ex
: panding community treatment ia
2 ciIities, developing rehabilitation
and after care services for re