Document Y5L178B58BzzrGg87eM7LDo8

June 28, 1951 Mr. John P. DeCamp Director of Public Relations Dear John: I send you herewith a few paragraphs on the lettering Laboratory. Incidentally it Is not a Foundation, at least, in the sense that it has - any funds which reproduce themselves in any manner such as endowment funds. I hope this will 3erve your purpose. You may wish to shorten it further, although I suspect that that may not be too easy. Sincerely yours. RAK ef Enc. Pobert A.' Kehoe, M. :m lettering &abO?&&0S$r' '.n -.lie 3uar front of Preventive j-Sediela and Industrial nanlt!* college of Bedlelne* University of c tnclaaati . A ABftil roa.n*e.lt unit, nftparte^ % funde .snuggli# 'by an industrial organisation for tbs investigation of a epociiio &robli of industrial and public health* began Its .wortc la tbs I^byslolQgy Department of tin College of Uedlciae-of tha vtolverelty of Cincinnati in ly$5. *t expansion of the original wmk to. include additional problem la tin field, of industrial health creates need for addi tional facilities* 'Which could, not be furnished by the University, but .vote provided at the expense of several industrial organizations, ' which contributed jointly tbs m%m of to build and equip a laboratory in which itm worte could b@ <im* -l!hle latjomtory was called tm Kettering laboratory of Applied Physiology* under vhio& naaae It carried on 1? worK an a eeparate unit of orgitaisoci research in the Medical college until 3ft9* whes It mm asslgsmted vith the Pspartsest of Preventive Medicine in the ifeKUoal School to create the Department of preventive fSedldne and Industrial malzh* At that time the original nasi of the laboratory was hortened to that of "he Etteria$ laboratory* Qrt^doally founds and supported by fund contributed by industry * `vm Kettering latoogatoty baa continued to grc through additional funde famished by industrial organisations. which brought to it problems for investigation c m etna of isoney vitfc vhlcfc to defray tin cost- of such investigation* isore than seventy-five large aa ell Industrie have possared. each investStations independently or jointly* and. some sf thee have supported such varfe uninterruptedly for a number. of year. Goveraoeiital agencies* such a the Atomic Kb 0015147 N20274.01 e Energy Ckmmlmim* ttm Tmmmmm Valley Authority and i'm Mr form*. b*v# epmefered investigation# asdi i feu other ,ttn of tis@ apsri* asaBdi---iiork have bees financed in part or vijolly by ot^ar gavH2 ittgttfti 0m$^: ocf- fund#. afts> lbs*a*V MBoa^iag of ** iipfeesatary# along vita tm eoapletlajot of a snail addition fa 1941# an additional.wing nas added to the original butLdtng in 1943*49# the total ocatribatioaa for these purposes- mounting- appeOKlaately to $SiW,joa.op# isade jointly by the prlaolpsl industrial gpcmtors of the lavestigatiV'# progress* 'S'fce funds provided trm time to tiae ror ouiMicg apd fixed equiPBteat were contributed outright to tb University for this purpose. ?be annual airport of the Laboratory# on -the other raM* has Mess isalntaiJam by funds advanced am eonaanted for specific investIgaUons * the mm of vhlch .represents ti3 aml budget for all expense* Specific projects are undertaken oa the basis of agreements stored Into hetvsea tbs appropriate of fleers of industrial organimtioas am the Board of Sfrectors of the university* la swell agyements t'm public responsibilities am academic rights of the diversity are sot forth and protested# and -hose of the sponsor are defined to such extent as Me represent* ti.ee say think desirable or mommas* 2a natters of policy am rserforoance * the Laboratory# being an Integral pare of a ftcdleal college# undertake# to In principle# it# relationship# with it# sponsors on snob- the mm baste as that of physician m patient # while concerning itself solely with setters cf nodical and hygienic significance* The results of the clinical* hygiealo a*** escperbaeatal work are published at the discretion or the staff of ?ho Laboratory* KE" 0015148 3. Ttsi Laboratory, is its tided into sootiosss m dmsieas. ^theological# SiasssteaX, fathological and. clinical* fbs staff of taor t-tjaa mm &Mr& pershe ccssposed' of. pbyhoiaas* physiologists # paettttglata* chsaxsts* engineers* U&pmttmm * and a variety' of trained tcotaleal .and saoretarlftl assistants* Xn 19^? turn prgmicoda program of graduate 'minim itt- ialwtr&al indicia# to tise fem of tt Institute of Indus trial Haaltfc* under tt acadeho authority of tts graduate School of .^rfcs and Setof tm University* the Collogos of law* rneineeriag ad Business Adtaini stmtion ooatritjut to a cows of instruction vhXcs& is set up prodcniaately in the SediciaX College * "/tas eotsrs* leads tout# Begres of Bootor of Industrial fe&loin ft aspens of t;ii professional training is. born also iff industry * through : bo allocation of imm coats an overhead charges agaiant " tse e^poriaental progress. iirouga tiwm developments vm Kettering Lai?omtory Ms booses a center for r?#aroii# ooimilt&tioa fcorviee * and professional training in iL field of industrial health. fo ttm extent that ' problems Balating to industrial health | also .involve the public basal th*. both direotly- and indiraatly# the field of investigation 1 expanded* at flues* late that of tbs public imltis# KE 0015143