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Legacies Project Oral History: Marlene Laws
Marlene Laws grew up in Detroit and graduated from Sidney D. Miller High School in 1958. She served in the military at Fort Sam in Houston, Texas from 1960 to 1962. Upon returning to Michigan, she was a nurse at Pontiac State Hospital for two years. Laws dedicated 43 years of her career to the United States Postal Service as a clerk and then as a Human Resources specialist. She and her former husband Kenneth had one daughter, Dr. Dawn N. Laws. Marlene Laws passed away on February, 4, 2017.
Marlene Laws was interviewed in partnership with the Museum of African American History of Detroit and Y Arts Detroit in 2010 as part of the Legacies Project.
Overloaded Mental Hospitals - Michigan Mental Hospitals Tragically Overloaded
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Overloaded Mental Hospitals - Program Suffers From Depression
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Overloaded Mental Hospitals - Mental Hospitals Of Michigan Require 5,572 More Beds
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Overloaded Mental Hospitals - Patients Unable To Enter Hospitals Lose Chance Of Cure
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Overloaded Mental Hospitals - Heavily-Populated District Crowds State Institution
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Overloaded Mental Hospitals - Six-Year Project Mapped Out For Mental Hospitals
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Overloaded Mental Hospitals - New York Votes Hundred Million For Hospital Buildings
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Day Room At Pontiac State Hospital Photographer: Eck Stanger
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1937
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Work Both Curative And Helpful Photographer: Eck Stanger
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1937
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Ann Arbor News, February 26, 1937
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Work Both Curative And Helpful - Tasks performed by patients in Michigan state hospitals have a double value -- primarily they are intended to benefit the patient and to help toward his recovery or to make his condition more "comfortable." In the second place they have, in many cases, a productive value, saving the state many thousands of dollars in the upkeep of the institutions. Here patients in the industrial department at Pontiac State hospital are engaged in caning chairs. Patients make rugs, curtains, table spreads, and various articles that help to make living rooms, dining rooms and dormitories more pleasant.
Ann Arbor News, February 26, 1937
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Work Both Curative And Helpful - Tasks performed by patients in Michigan state hospitals have a double value -- primarily they are intended to benefit the patient and to help toward his recovery or to make his condition more "comfortable." In the second place they have, in many cases, a productive value, saving the state many thousands of dollars in the upkeep of the institutions. Here patients in the industrial department at Pontiac State hospital are engaged in caning chairs. Patients make rugs, curtains, table spreads, and various articles that help to make living rooms, dining rooms and dormitories more pleasant.
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