"Fredrick C. Redlich, m.d.--the man we honor today".

It is my privilege to open today's festivities. I would like to start by saying that Yale as we all know is a proud institution, and we are particularly and justly proud of our role as an educational center that prepares young academicians for careers as leaders in other universities. Today we celebrate our most recent and illustrious training success. As you know, Dr. Fritz Redlich has just been appointed Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and Associate Chief of Staff for Education at the Brentwood VA. And so begins his new and we think highly promising career there. We have to admit that his training and preparation here was rather protracted-35 years to be exact. I don't know how to explain it, whether he is an underachiever, a slow learner, or merely has low power drive and ambition. It is one of those unknown mysteries of our still very crude clinical science. He came here 35 years ago in 1942. After seven years of warm-up, going from Instructor to Associate Professor and then Professor of Psychiatry, for the next nineteen years, 1948 to 1967, he served as Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and then for five years, 1967 to 1972, as Dean of the Medical School. Then for four years, 1973 to 1977, he was Director of the Behavioral Sciences Study Center. These were 35 unusually full and successful and fruitful years. First, among his achievements as Chairman of the Department was the building of one of the leading multidisciplinary pluralistic departments of psychiatry in the United States, probably in the whole world for that matter-reflecting his exceptionally broad interests, ability to detect talent and promise, and his courage as an administrator and educator. Second, ten years ago, he established the Connecticut Mental Health Center which has turned out to be one of the leading if not the most effective and successful university affiliated mental health centers in the country. It is a model. Again this serves as testimony to his foresight, courage and dedication to social concerns and social action. Third, he launched innumerable younger colleagues on to successful careers. Fourth, he authored and edited critically important books, Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics with Dr. Eugene Brody; a text book, Theory and Practice of Psychiatry with Dr. Daniel X. Freedman; The Initial Interview in Psychiatric Practice with Drs. Merton Gill and Richard Newman; Social Class and Mental Illness with Professor August Hollinghead and innumerable papers. Fifth, he played a leading role nationaUy in development of a scientific psychiatry as well as a practical clinical psychiatry concerned with social and ethical as well as traditional