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the building and were pleased to find me, but not nearly as glad as I
was to see them. They were actually excited about the prospect of a
full-time research program, wanted to know our plans, and told me
of theirs. Evarts was in the middle of the second year of residency at
the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic (New York Presbyterian Hospital);
Semmes had an NIMH fellowship at a New York University laboratory.
They had both worked at the Yerkes Laboratory of Primate Biology
and had visited the Queen Square Hospital in London. They hoped
we would have positions for them in 1954.
I returned after the New Year holiday to find a sheaf of letters and a
list of telephone numbers from men who wished to serve their obligated
duty in the PHS. Since our program could not provide only one year of
credit toward board certification, I had decided to accept no one with
fewer than two years of residency. An M.A. or a Ph.D. would be a strong
recommendation; for others I would depend on my evaluation and
records of clinical competence. Three psychiatrists met the first criterion:
Louis S. Cholden with an M.S. in psychology from the Menninger
Clinic in Topeka, Kansas; Lyman Wynne with Ph.D. prelims in sociology
and psychiatric training at Harvard University; and Norman Goldstein
with an M.S. in biochemistry who had worked in both the internal
medicine and psychiatry division of the Mayo Clinic. Cholden and
Wynne were assigned to the Adult Psychiatry Branch and Goldstein
was assigned to the Psychosomatic Medicine Branch. A colleague from
Chestnut Lodge, Jarl Dyrud, refused my invitation but arranged a meet
ing with Morris B. Parloff (then at the Phipps Clinic at the Johns
Hopkins University) and Roger McDonald (then a PHS officer). Happi
ly, both accepted the appointments–Parloff in the Laboratory of
Psychology and McDonald in the Psychosomatic Medicine Branch.
Richard Bell, a psychologist in Bobbitt’s Professional Services Branch
interviewed all applicants interested in psychology and was himself
appointed to the Laboratory of Psychology.
As my roster of appointments was almost completed, Evarts called
from New York to report that he had been called up for obligated service
and had been rejected by the PHS because of a heart murmur, but he
had been accepted by the Army. The Administrative Officer was able to