December 27, 1937

Thomas Parran

Surgeon General

U. S. Public Health Service
Washington, De Ce

My dear Doctor Parrant —

You will recall, I am sure, our conversation
after you had delivered your very remarkable address
at the University of Kentucky last year in regard to
the need for improvement in our mental hysiene pro-
grem in Kentucky.

Governor Chendler expressed e great deal of
interest in the problem at the time, and since, with
the fine cooperation of Dr. Treadway, the associa~
tion interested in psychiatry in Kentucky, 40” committee
for mental hygiene and the American Psychiatrie Associa-
tion, he has inaugurated a program which will require
several years for completion.

In the development of his plans, he has had the
particularly enthusiastic support under the lesder-

ship of Honorable Barry Bingham, publisher of the
Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, and of practi-

eally all of the looal press in the State.

The State Medical Association has unanimously
epproved the development of the program and elected
Dr. W. Ey Gardner, the State's most outstanding

psychiatrist, as ites president-elect, at ite recent
session.

Governor Chandler has been especially favorably
impressed by the remarkable success of the U. $. Pub-
lie Service Hospital, No. 1, at Lexington. I have had
the privilege of conferring with him during the last
few days, and he is particularly anxious to se-
cure the leadership of Dr. Lawrence Kolb
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for the next year or two, in the perfection of this
program. .

This suggestion has met with the enthusiastic
approval of everyone interested in the subject. The
Governor has asked me to say to you thet he will turn
the matter of selection of personnel over entirely to
Dr. Kolb, as well as the guidance of the entire program.
If it is found to be necessary, he will do whatever is
needed to give Dr. Kolb such assistance as will enable
him to undertake this addition to the very great bur-
den he is now carrying; so that he can continue success~
fully to administer the program in the Hospital at
Léxington. |

Before writing this letter, I commnicated with
Dr. Kolb so aa to be asgueed that the submission of
Governor Chandler's request to you would be acceptable
to hin.

Thanking you for the consideration I know you
will give to a development that can mean so much, not
only to the people of Kentucky, but toe every other
State in the Union, I am,

Sincerely,

A. T. MoCormack, M. D.
State Health Commissioner

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