History - 1956

The 1956 Annual Conference of the Minnesota Association was held in Worthington.  Howard Winholtz, Administrator of the Worthington Clinic, was Chairman.

The Mesaba Clinic Clinic in Hibbing and the Oxboro Clinic in Bloomington were founded in 1956.

Mr. Winholtz, in his letter of Jan. 29, 1992, also writes as follows "I remember attending a national meeting in New Orleans, with Bob Roesler and Put Kingsbury from the Mayo Clinic.  This took place during my tenure at the Worthington Clinic which was March 1951 to March 1957."  This leads us and the Minnesota  delegation of 15 (out of a total registration of 210) to the 30th Annual Conference of NACM in New Orleans in 1956.

John Gill of the Street Clinic in Vicksburg, Miss., was president of NACM when its 1956 conference was convened in New Orleans.  Some subjects discussed at this conference included a clinic organization handbook which was developed by the Clinic Organization Committee headed by Clyde T. Hardy, and a clinic manager's manual which was developed by a committee chaired by Judd Green.

The highlight of the conference was the First Convocation of the American College of Clinic Managers (ACCM).  This new organization was launched in February 1956 in Kansas City under the leadership of ACCM President Harold Heberlein, Vice President Harold E. Scherer, Secretary Woolsey and Treasurer Zeiter.

Among the first fellows inducted into the College were six Minnesotans:  Rudolph Burnett Benson, Elizabeth Cox Brummett, Robert P. Kingsbury, Clarence L. Martinson, George Washington Scherer and Harold R. Ullrich.

The conference proceedings recognize Robert Newell as the "Chairman" of the Midwest Section.  In keeping with this, he was Chairman of the Midwest Institute held at the University of Minnesota in May 1956 on the subject of human relations.  A registration of 82 was achieved for that institute.

The Western Section conducted an institute at UCLA in September 1956 on financial and human problems of clinic organizations.  Registration for this institute was low.

It was noted that the Western and Southern Sections were having very popular conferences which probably tended to detract from attendance at institutes.

We noted also, incidentally, that Edward B. Stevens of the Western Clinic in Tacoma,  Wash., was identified as President of the Western Section in 1956.

Geraldine Kadelbach was manager of the Litchfield Clinic from 1956 until her death in 1991.  She was succeeded by Jan Tacheny in 1991.  The clinic probably began operating as a group practice in about 1956, pulling together some practices which began as early as the 1930s and 1940.  Lifespan Inc. purchased the Litchfield Medical Clinic in 1987.