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Southbury Training School

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Agency Web page

Statutory Authority :
1935, Special Act 506.

Agency History :

1935, Board of Southbury Training School appointed.
1938, January, construction begins.
1940, school is dedicated. First patients admitted Oct. 15, 1940.
1959, administratively, Southbury is transferred to the Dept. of Health, Office of Mental Retardation, per 1959 P.A. 148.
1975, administratively, Southbury is transferred to the new Dept. of Mental Retardation, per P.A. 75-638.

Published Histories :

Armstead, George B. The State Services of Connecticut. Published under the direction of the Committee on Public Information and the House Committee on Publications of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. 1946. pp. 179-186 [CSL Call Number ConnDoc G25 ar]

Southbury Training School. [Southbury, Conn. The School, 1980] [CSL Call Number ConnDoc So87 so]

Angelastro, Michael. "Southbury Training School (1927-1940)." Master’s Thesis, SCSU, 1965. [Available at Southern Connecticut State University]
 
Coleman, Laurence J. "Tracing the Implementation of the Training Program at Southbury Training School, 1940-1946." Master’s Thesis, SCSU, 1965. [Available at Southern Connecticut State University]

Agency Documents and Records in the State Library Collections :
Check the State Library catalog, CONSULS, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library :

Southbury Training School (Southbury,Conn)

Annual Reports are located in :

Digest of Administrative Reports to the Governor. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc F40 d]

State Archives Record Group :  RG 170 (Dept. of Mental Retardation)

List of Superindentents/Directors :

Names	Years of Service
Ernest N. Roselle	1940-July 1956
Bert W. Schmickel	1956-1959
Frank Giliberty, Acting	1960
Frank Giliberty	1961-1976
Michael J. Belmont	1977-1985
Robert G. Griffith	1986
Steven D. Staugaitis	1987-1988
Thomas J. Howley	1989-1995
Charles Hamad	1996-1999
Charles Hamad, George Moore	2000 (Co-Directors)
Fritz Gorst	2001-Present

Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 8/2008.