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Clipping from The State Newspaper, 1954, announcing that contracts were let with the Atlantic Building Company for auditorium buildings at both the Columbia State Hospital campus and State Park campus.

Clipping from The State Newspaper, 1955, which talks about the open house at the State Hospital campus. Article mentions the ongoing construction of the new auditorium/library building.

Article about the dedication ceremony for the Benet Auditorium and Horger Library on the State Hospital campus. Inclues image of the four principles of the different hosptal department, including William S. Hall.

Continued from the article of Governor Byrnes talk to the General Assembly, Byrnes states "the State hospital is Problem Number 1 for this legislation session." Byrnes presents the facts about patient to staff ratios( one doctor for every 445…

"The committee recommended a $3,000,000 appropriation to replace the condemned Taylor Building, housing 270 'highly exciteable' patients at the State Hospital, and to provide a central kitchen at the institution."

Governor Byrnes and around one hundred people from the General Assembly toured the state mental hospital, their "problem number 1." On the tour Governor Byrnes noted overcrowded living conditions, patients without clothing, a lack of elevators, the…

"Governor Byrnes yesterday signed into law the act generally termed the "mental health bill" which revised and modernized laws relating to the hospitalization, detention, guardianship, care and treatment of the mentally ill and the mentally…

"Dr. Beckman's position of State director was created by a new mental health act passed by the 1952 South Carolina General Assembly." Dr. Beckman "will have direct supervision over the mental health clinics of South Carolina, and he will be…

The article in The State newspaper highlights the nearly complete rehabilitation of the Mills Building and construction of a modern addition, connected to the east wing on the south elevation. The article reveals that the building was purchased under…

Chaplain J. Obert Kempson (left) and Dr. Williams S. Hall, State Commissioner of Mental Health and Superintendent of State Hospitals participate in a cornerstone ceremony for the Chapel of Hope.