Messenger-Inquirer/1960/Mental Health Group Of Women's Club To Meet Friday At Lunch

Mental Health Group Of Women's Club To Meet Friday At Lunch. The Kentucky Commissioner of Mental Health, Dr. Harold L. McPheeters, will speak Friday at luncheon of the mental health of the Owensboro Woman's Club. The group will meet at the Owensboro Country Club. Dr. McPheeters, who lives in Louisville, was appointed commissioner in January 1957 by former Governor A. B. Chandler and reappointed by Governor Combs last February. He came to Kentucky April 1955 as Assistant Commissioner of Mental Health. He had been assistant psychiatrist in a Schenectady, New York hospital. Besides his state job, Dr. McPheeters is an assistant professor of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville. A native of New York City he was educated in the public schools there, then attended the University of Kentucky. He holds a B.A. from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania and an M.D. from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. In connection with the U. of L. School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, he was a resident for three years in Norton Memorial Infirmary. He served in the U. S. Navy as a psychiatrist from 1952-1954. He has published two articles in the Journal of the Kentucky State Medical Association, one about state hospital discharge procedures and another about psychiatry. Dr. McPheeters, 37, is married and has four children.