STEPHEN JEWETT, A PSYCHIATRIST (original) (raw)
STEPHEN JEWETT, A PSYCHIATRIST
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April 27, 1971
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Dr. Stephen P. Jewett, a lead ing psychiatrist here before his retirement 10 years ago to West Falls, N. Y., died there yes terday at the age of 87.
Dr. Jewett was the founder and became first director of the department of psychiatry at New York Medical College in 1941. He had served as dean of the New York Post‐Graduate Center for Psychotherapy and had been an alienist for the prosecution in the Ruth Snyder Judd Gray murder trial in 1927.
A skiing enthusiast, Dr. Jew ett had been active in rejuven ating the Bousquet skiing area in Pittsfield, Mass. He continued to ski at an advanced age and said of the sport:
“It's very good for your health, both mentally and phy sically.”
Born in North Waterford, Me., on Sept. 1, 1883, a May flower descendant, Dr. Jewett graduated from Clark Univer sity in 1906, and from New York Medical College in 1910 and took post‐graduate work at Columbia. He practiced in Buffalo from 1912 to 1916 and was attending physician, psy chiatric service, at Bellevue Hospital here from 1916 to 1922.
Dr. Jewett had also served on the staffs of Flower‐Fifth Avenue Hospital, Metropolitan Hospital, Bird S. Coler Hospital, Riverside Hospital and East View Pavilion here, Paterson (N. J.) General Hospital, and. Kings Park State Hospital. He once said in an address:
“The hospital should consider the whole man, including his mind and emotion, rather than merely his organs. Its medical conception of the individual should be extended to include everything that affects the pa tient.”
He held honorary degrees from New York Medical Col lege and Clark University.
Surviving are a son, Stephen P. of Boynton Beach, Fla.; four daughters, Mrs. Jere Donovan of New York, Mrs. Betty J. Hayes of Kingston, N. Y., Mrs. Annette Mullen of New York and Mrs. Richard B. McCor mick of West Falls, and 11 grandchildren.
A memorial mass will be held tomorrow at 11 A.M. in St. George's Roman Catholic Church, Jewettville, N. Y.
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