Earl Warren and the State Department of Mental Hygiene
Subtitle: and related material
By: Earl Warren; tape-recorded interview conducted in 1970-1971 by Gabrielle Morris for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1981 :
Contributors: Morris, Gabrielle S.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Earl Warren Oral History Project (Bancroft Library)
Published: 1970
Subjects: Warren, Earl, 1891-1974; Bell, Theodore A; Hume, Samuel J. 1885-1962; Tallman, Frank Ford; Hume, Portia Bell; Hume, Samuel J. 1885-1962; California. Dept. of Mental Hygiene; Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute; University of California, Berkeley; Mentally ill -- Care -- California; California -- Politics and government
Description: Contents: Frank F. Tallman: Dynamics of Change in State Mental Institutions. Regarding his service as director of the Department 1949-1953 and innovations in state hospital policy and program. Appended: copies of vitae, speech, article, etc. Portia Bell Hume: Mother of Community Mental Health Services. Regarding her involvement in the development of mental health services; early days of Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute; role as director of community services in State Department of Mental Hygiene; passage of Short-Doyle Act; political career of her father. Theodore Bell; her husband, Samuel J. Hume and his association with the University of California, Berkeley, as faculty member and director of the Greek Theatre.
Table of contents: value: Tallman interviews, Oct. 20-21, 1970. Reel 1: track 1: 1035 ft., track 2: 509 ft. Reel 2: track 1: 1038 ft., track 2: 731 ft.; value: Hume interviews: Reel 3: July 14, 1970. Track 1: 1004 ft., track 2: 680 ft. Reel 4: July 21, 1970. Track 1: 1039 ft., track 2: 1033 ft. Reel 5: Oct. 12, 1971. Track 1: 1032 ft., track 2: 1041 ft. Reel 6: Oct. 12, 1971. Track 1: 989 ft., track 2: blank. Interview notes also available.; value: Phonotapes: