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232 Yale University Obituary Record
(Ruggles) Beers of Buffalo, N Y. Mother, Ida (Cooke) Beers; daughter of
Nathaniel Minturn and Harriet (Schroeder) Cooke of Marietta, Ga. Yale
relatives include Samuel E. Merwin (M.A. Hon. 1904) (uncle), Caroline
E Dudley, ^-'79 Art (cousin); and William C. Beers, '95 S. (brother).
Hillhouse High School, New Haven Select course; business manager
Yale Record Senior year; chairman Class Book historians; on Triennial
Committee, member The Colony and Berzehus.
Clerk in office of collector of taxes, New Haven, 1897-98 and Bankers
Life Insurance Company, New York City, 1899-1900; associated with
N. F Hoggson [Noble Foster, '88 S.] & Company, Inc, contractors and
interior decorators, New York City, 1904-07, suffered a mental breakdown in 1900 and from 1900 to 1903 was under treatment in various public and private hospitals; in 1908 wrote A Mind That Found Itself An
Autobiography, describing his experiences in institutions for mental cases;
founder Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene 1908, the first organization of its kind for combating mental diseases and promoting mental health
(executive secretary 1908-14, vice-president 1939-43, honorary member
1934-43), founder The National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Inc.,
1909 (secretary 1909-39, honorary secretary 1939-43), The American
Foundation for Mental Hygiene 1928 (secretary 1928-43), International
Committee for Mental Hygiene 1930 (general secretary 1930-43), and
International Foundation for Mental Hygiene 1931 (secretary 1931-43);
an organizer Canadian Mental Hygiene movement 1918 and Advisory
Council on Mental Hygiene, Territory of Hawaii, 1931; on executive committee of Committee on Organization, First International Congress on
Mental Hygiene, Washington, 1930, and secretary-general of the Congress,
general secretary Second International Congress on Mental Hygiene, Pans,
1935, visited Great Britain, France, and Belgium in interests of international mental hygiene movement 1923, 1927, 1932, 1937; on national
advisory committee Institute of Human Relations, Yale; an amateur artist,
he won second prize for his oil painting, A Meadow in Maine, at Amateur
Art Show, New York Yale Club, 1936; M.A. Hon. Yale 1922; Chevalier
Legion d'Honneur (France) 1933; honored by publication of Twenty-five
Years After—Sidelights on the Mental Hygiene Movement and Its
Founder (1933), honorary member British National Council for Mental
Hygiene, American Psychiatric Association, and American Orthopsy-
chiatnc Association, member National Institute of Social Sciences
(awarded gold medal for "distinguished services rendered to humanity"
1933) and St John's Church (Episcopal), New Haven.
Married June 27,1912, in New Haven, Clara Louise Jepson (Smith Coll
ex-9%, Yale School of Music ex-'06), daughter of Benjamin Jepson (M.A
Hon 1912) and Mary Louise (Wiswell) Jepson, and sister of Arthur W.
Jepson, '89 S , and Harry B Jepson, '93. No children
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1940-1945 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1940-1945 |
| Call Number | Yb 65 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
| Type | Periodical |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
| Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
| Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
| Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
| Title | Page 232 |
| Transcript | 232 Yale University Obituary Record (Ruggles) Beers of Buffalo, N Y. Mother, Ida (Cooke) Beers; daughter of Nathaniel Minturn and Harriet (Schroeder) Cooke of Marietta, Ga. Yale relatives include Samuel E. Merwin (M.A. Hon. 1904) (uncle), Caroline E Dudley, ^-'79 Art (cousin); and William C. Beers, '95 S. (brother). Hillhouse High School, New Haven Select course; business manager Yale Record Senior year; chairman Class Book historians; on Triennial Committee, member The Colony and Berzehus. Clerk in office of collector of taxes, New Haven, 1897-98 and Bankers Life Insurance Company, New York City, 1899-1900; associated with N. F Hoggson [Noble Foster, '88 S.] & Company, Inc, contractors and interior decorators, New York City, 1904-07, suffered a mental breakdown in 1900 and from 1900 to 1903 was under treatment in various public and private hospitals; in 1908 wrote A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography, describing his experiences in institutions for mental cases; founder Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene 1908, the first organization of its kind for combating mental diseases and promoting mental health (executive secretary 1908-14, vice-president 1939-43, honorary member 1934-43), founder The National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Inc., 1909 (secretary 1909-39, honorary secretary 1939-43), The American Foundation for Mental Hygiene 1928 (secretary 1928-43), International Committee for Mental Hygiene 1930 (general secretary 1930-43), and International Foundation for Mental Hygiene 1931 (secretary 1931-43); an organizer Canadian Mental Hygiene movement 1918 and Advisory Council on Mental Hygiene, Territory of Hawaii, 1931; on executive committee of Committee on Organization, First International Congress on Mental Hygiene, Washington, 1930, and secretary-general of the Congress, general secretary Second International Congress on Mental Hygiene, Pans, 1935, visited Great Britain, France, and Belgium in interests of international mental hygiene movement 1923, 1927, 1932, 1937; on national advisory committee Institute of Human Relations, Yale; an amateur artist, he won second prize for his oil painting, A Meadow in Maine, at Amateur Art Show, New York Yale Club, 1936; M.A. Hon. Yale 1922; Chevalier Legion d'Honneur (France) 1933; honored by publication of Twenty-five Years After—Sidelights on the Mental Hygiene Movement and Its Founder (1933), honorary member British National Council for Mental Hygiene, American Psychiatric Association, and American Orthopsy- chiatnc Association, member National Institute of Social Sciences (awarded gold medal for "distinguished services rendered to humanity" 1933) and St John's Church (Episcopal), New Haven. Married June 27,1912, in New Haven, Clara Louise Jepson (Smith Coll ex-9%, Yale School of Music ex-'06), daughter of Benjamin Jepson (M.A Hon 1912) and Mary Louise (Wiswell) Jepson, and sister of Arthur W. Jepson, '89 S , and Harry B Jepson, '93. No children |
