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Psychiatry Seminar Begins Today

Madison Hall is beginning a
weekly seminar on Mental Health
to be held every Tuesday afternoon
at 4 p.m. in the conference room of
Madison Hall.

The seminar will concentrate on
the interests of students involved in
community service projects helping
psychiatric patients. However, any
interested student is welcome. The
seminar will be lead by Richard W.
Garnett, Jr., M.D.

Dr. Garaett graduated from the
University in 1936 and from the
University Medical School in 1940.
He interned at Emory University
Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

After two years of sea duty in
the Navy, he was first assigned to
the training program in Psychiatry
at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in
Washington, D.C.; then to the Naval
Hospital in New Orleans and finally
to the Military Government School
at Stanford University with emphasis
on anthropology.

Following this, he spent nine
months in the Marianas and Marshall
Islands with medical responsibility
for the military and native
population. Upon completion of his
residency in psychiatry at the
University in 1949, he joined the
faculty of the University Medical
School where he became involved
in community and state mental
health problems and programs.

In 1963, he studied Social
Psychiatry in Great Britain, Holland
and France on a World Health
Organization fellowship. He has
served on the State Commission to
revise the laws relating to mental
illness and mental health, and on
the Executive Committee of the
State Mental Health Study Commission.

Currently, Dr. Garnett is Director
of the Mental Health Clinics,
and Director of Community Psychiatry
at the University. He has
served as consultant to Western
State Hospital and to V.A. Hospitals,
and consultant to the Student
Health Department.

He serves on the Charlottesville-Albemarie
Mental Health Services
Board and the Board of the
Mental
Health Association.

The seminar will begin at 4 p.m.
today. The Office of Community
Service especially urges volunteers
to attend the first meeting.