Marion Edwena Kenworthy, M.D., 1891-1980

Kcnworthy,M.D.,1891-1980illustrates retirement her love of from theIbert Deutsch describes an incident in Marion E. Kenworthy’s life that perhaps best life and of living things. In his biographical article given in honor of Dr. Kenworthy’s York School of Social Work at Columbia University, Deutsch writes:It isn’t customary to raise real, live pigs in a swank, upper Fifth Avenue apartment. Dr. Marion Edwena Kenworthy’s neighbors might have lifted eyebrows had they suspected that the tall, angular, blue-eyed . .. psychiatrist had converted one of the bathrooms of her . . . apartment into a little home for a little pig named Winnie, after Winston Churchill. . . . Yet the tale of Winnie . . . illustrates several facets of a remarkably integrated personality, a living example of mental health in motion. Winnie was the runt of a huge litter . . . on Dr. Kenworthy’s Bedford Village farm. It was . . . puny, [and] its prospect for survival was . . . dim . . . . [She] brought it to her New York apartment . . . and . . . gave it tender care till it was out of danger, then returned it to the farm . . . . The incident reflects Dr. Kenworthy’s love for living things-plant, animal, or human-her instinct for doctoring, her basic optimism, her readiness to accept a challenge in the face of heavy odds. Far from being eccentric, she is an archetype of the down-to-earth, matter-of-fact pragmatic American. (I) The story of...