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fortune of meeting Dr. John A. Ferrell, associate director of the Rockefeller Founda tion, international health division, and discussing with him the merits of the two bills.
"Dr. Ferrell expressed the opinion that we were 15 years ahead of the rest of the country and that we should keep at it, for eventually victory is sure to come our way.''
The article continued that Mangold had talked with Dr. Ira V. Hiscock of Yale Univer ity who was on the APHA Committee of Administrative Practice. Hiscock had also encouraged the California Sanitarians to continue to introduce bills to the legislature. They did in both 1933 and 1935 but were still unsuccessful. Then began the long hard truggle. At first, according to Jimison, little attention was paid to the Sanitarians; they were considered a harmless group and given a pat on the back by officials who thought they would not last long. But, when they started those bills and came so near getting them through, some public health officials began opposing the organization, stating that they were a "bunch of radicals." Many of the original members of the group would recall the trials and disappointments encountered. "Progressive sanitarians," said Jimison, "felt a keen need of training, and the need for an opportunity to discuss their problems with other sanitarians." Meetings were held in various cities of Southern California during the six years following formation of the association. The meetings were mostly of an educational nature, where members and outside speakers presented papers on public health education. From 1928 to 1941 inclusive, the University of Southern California held a one week Institute of Government, and sanitarians saw the opportunity for education in the program. Southern California members of the National Association of Sanitarians inaugurated a section for sanitarians in this institute in June 1938. These were the first in-service training courses for sanitarians and the sanitarians were granted leaves to attend. The Institute was discontinued due to World War II. In the summer of 1936, a special training course for sanitarians was given at the University of California in Berkeley in conjunction with Stanford University and the California Agricultural School at Davis. Forty-five sanitarians from the nine western states and Hawaii took the course; many who were not members of the California associa tion then joined. The Association had been in existence seven years and had accomplished some of its objectives, when, because of the many inquiries received from all over the country and the increase in membership from outside the state, it was the consensus that a national organization could accomplish much more than one restricted to one state. s s
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION - 1937
At a meeting in Long Beach, California on June 25, 1937, therefore, the organiza tion known as the California Association of Sanitarians was changed by resolution to the National Association of Sanitarians. It was incorporated on November 5, 1937 under the laws of the State of California. Herbert A. Jewett of the Los Angeles County Health Department was its first president. THUS we begin the 50 Years of the National Association.
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