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Dr. Morton Kramer, one of the country's first mental health bio-statisticians and a world-renowned authority on scientific psychiatry while at the Johns Hopkins University, died August 17,1998. Dr. Kramer, 84, of Pikesville was a professor in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Hopkins from 1976 to 1984, and professor emeritus upon his retirement. From 1949 to 1976, Dr. Kramer was chief of the biometrics division of the National Institute of Mental Health in Rockville. While there, he created a voluntary national reporting system on mental health problems that helps guide national policy on mental health. He was instrumental in the application of biostatistics and epidemiology in research of prevention and control of mental disorders. In 1977, Dr. Kramer was appointed to several task force panels of the President's Commission on Mental Health to identify the range and magnitude of mental health problems nationally. Dr. Kramer received numerous awards for his work and research, including the Distinguished Service Award from the national Public Health Service; the Rema Lapouse Award from the American Health Association; the Health for All Award from the World Health Organization; and an award from Harvard University for his contributions to psychiatric epidemiology and biostatistics. |
 CROSSING THE BAR SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar. Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
