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Show Clyde W, Gooderham Wins Award From Medic Assn. Clyde W. Gooderham, veteran executive director of the Utah State Board on Alcoholism, has been named recipient of the annual an-nual award of Merit of the Utah State Medical Association. ""The presentation of the bronze plaque was made at the annual press, radio and television dinner din-ner of the Council of the Utah State Medical Association held at the Alta Club. . Dr. U. R. Bryner, president of the State Medical Association, cited Mr. Gooderham "for your outstanding contribution to the field of medical care, for your cooperation in, and knowledge of medical problems, which have assisted materially in helping to raise the standards of medicine better medical care for the people peo-ple of the state." Lauding the director of the State Board of -Alcoholism for "yeoman service," Dr. Reed S. Farnsworth of Cedar City, past president of USMA, pointed out that only in recent years has alcoholism al-coholism been viewed and treated treat-ed as a disease. He termed Utah efforts under the leadership of Mr.Gooderham among the most far reaching of any in the nation to solve an important health problem. Mr. Gooderham was the sixth winner of the award. Other recipients re-cipients have been Mrs. Maude D. Porter of Ogden; Dr. Carl F. Frishknecht of Utah State University, Uni-versity, Logan; Otto Wiesley, State Industrial Commission; former Gov. J. Bracken Lee and Salt Lake Tribune medical editor edi-tor William C. Patrick. |