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to organize and incorporate. The doctors' advice was to incorporate because they foresaw the wisdom of conducting clinics. Anybody who conducts a clinic or any kind of a medical operation has to be incorporated in the State of New York. That was the doctors' advice - to incorporate. They formed a committee to organize. Then they organized. We had a constitution and everything drawn up and all that you have to have in order to incorporate. Some lawyer husband produced the constitution, the charter and the articles of incorporation. We incorporated the Maternity Center Association.

The doctors interested were Dr. Ralph Lobenstein, Dr. Edgar, who was the principal attendant at the Lying-In Hospital, which was that big hospital on Second Avenue and about 10th Street. I don't know where it's gone now, but it's been absorbed into one of these great medical centers. It's the oldest lying-in hospital in New York. There were other physicians, but I can't remember their names. Those two were the ones I dealt with most.

I was the Executive Director of this organization until I became a member of the State Industrial Commission. I remained on the Board of Directors for years and years and years. I think I'm an honorary Vice President now. During the year and a half I was Executive Director we were organizing and doing propaganda work. We were bringing in all the physicians