Abstract

EXCELLENCE:M. DAVIES,Association 121st annualPH.B.paid meeting tribute in New to its Executive York in 1965,Psychiatric at itsAssistant, Austin M. Davies, the salutation said in part:to setin motionprospered under his skillful management. We shall ever remember him affectionately as Ambassador Par Excellence to the leading hostelries of the Nation in negotiation of our comforts, as genial host at our. .Association a ten-foldto lofty position in American life. His growth in our membership. Our Journalmeetings.of himqualities.“(He was) a shrewd guardian of our accounts-a champion of the individual member and a friend, mentor and counselor along the way.” These words of praise, added to a tribute paid him in 1957 at the end of his 25th year of service plus an editorial by Dr. C. B. Farrar in the May 1957 issue of the Journal, add up the visible appreciation of a grateful association. But in addition there is much more appreciation which is unexpressed, it isfelt, by young psychiatrists he has helped and by sick people who skilled hands. When Austin began his work with the Association, Dr. Farrar it had no office and no full-time employees. From 1932 to 1937 were put intothe Nationalus,Committee for Mental Hygiene gave the organization