Manteno
State Hospital Superintendents
Dr. Ralph T. Hinton
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Superintendent
July
1, 1930
November
3, 1939 |
Superintendent
of Elgin State Hospital 1911-1914 and 1917-1930
"This
hospital will develop if present plans are carried out,
into one of the most modern not only in the State but
in the nation. It not only will be one of the
largest but one of the best equipped."
- Dr. Ralph T. Hinton |
Dr. Walter H. Baer
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Superintendent
1939
-1942
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One
of 22 psychiatrists to attended
the first meeting of the Illinois Psychiatric Society
on Oct. 18, 1938, at the Palmer House (Chicago).
President of the Illinois
Psychiatric Society, (date unknown). |
Dr.
Edward Ross
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Superintendent
1942
- 1945
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Dr.
Edward Ross, Managing Officer of the Alton State Hospital,
succeeded Dr. Walter H. Baer, Managing Officer, who left
for Military Service April, 1942. |
Dr.
Walter H. Baer
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Superintendent
1945
- 1947
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Dr. Alfred P. Bay
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Superintendent
1947
December
15, 1953
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Dr.
Alfred P. Bay was a graduate of the University of Illinois
and the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
He was coauthor of "Therapy By Design: Implications
of Architecture for Human Behavior", by Good, Siegal
and Bay, 1965. This book describes one of the
first research projects to study the effect of the architectural
environment on human behavior.
Superintendent
of Topeka State Hospital, Topeka, Kansas, January
9, 1954 - July 1, 1970.
Vice
President of the American Psychiatric Association
1962-1963
President of the Illinois Psychiatric Society,
(date unknown). |
Dr.
Charles Bush
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(Acting)
Superintendent
December
15, 1953
April
24, 1954
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Dr. Richard J. Graff
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Superintendent
April
15, 1954
August
5, 1966
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Dr. Martin C. Koenig
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(Acting)
Superintendent
August
6, 1966
February
28, 1967
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Mr. Harold C. Piepenbrink
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Superintendent
March
1, 1967
August
31, 1970
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Later
president of the Association of Behavioral Healthcare
Management (ABHM). (Harold C.Piepenbrink Award for outstanding
service in the field of Mental Health Administration named
after him.) |
Mr. John Collier
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Superintendent
September
1, 1970
September
30, 1974
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Mr. Jon Steinmetz
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(Acting)
Superintendent
October
1, 1974
February
28, 1975
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Later,
facility director at the Chicago Read Mental Health Center. |
Mrs.
Ella Curry, R.N.
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Superintendent
March
1, 1975
March
15, 1978
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Mrs.
Ella Curry, Park Forest, superintendent of Manteno State
Hospital by the director of mental health and developmental
disabilities. She has been director of subregion 12 of
the department at the Tinley Park Mental Health Center.
She is probably the first Black woman to head a major
mental health facility in the United States.
Illinois Periodicals Online http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ii7505157.html
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Mr.
Jon Steinmetz
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(Acting)
Superintendent
March
16, 1978
June
25, 1978
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Dr. Claude Rousch, Th.D.
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(Acting)
Superintendent
June
26, 1978
July
30, 1978
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Claude
Rousch served as Protestant chaplain at MSH since June
1956 and was listed in the 1965-66 "Who's Who in
American Education". Rousch's 5 degrees symbolized
over ten years of college and graduate study. Both
his master's and doctor's (Th.D.) were earned in pastoral
psychology, with the latter from the graduate school of
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Chicago.
- Manteno State Hospital News, December
15, 1965 |
Dr.
Claude Rousch Th.D.
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(Acting)
Superintendent
July
31, 1978
June
30, 1983
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Mr.
Ian Aitken
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Superintendent
July
1, 1983
December
31, 1985
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The
Menninger Clinic 1996-Present
Currently,
President and CEO of The
Menninger Clinic
Photograph and more info on Mr. Aitken at:
http://www.menningerclinic.com/about/leadership.htm
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