CAMPUS AND AREA Watkins clinic founder retires
University Daily Kansan, May 3. 1985
Page 8
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
Thirty six years after helping start one of the first full-service college mental health clinics in the country at Watkins Hospital, Sigmund Gundle is retiring to his private practice and teaching career.
Gundle still spends about 20 hours a week seeing patients at his private practice in Kansas City, Mo. During detreatment, he plans to maintain that patient and continue teaching residents at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka.
Under University policy, Gundle must retire because he is 70, the maximum retirement age for KU employees.
"Retirement will be good for me," he said this week. "As long as I keep a clear head, I will continue to teach. Twenty hours of patients isn't that much for me and teaching is just play — it's fun."
HIS ASSOCIATION with Watkins
began in 1949 after a two years of training at Meinenger.
"A resident who was working at Watkins told me about Watkins," he said. "It appealed to me.
"The University is a nice place to work," he said. "The atmosphere is very stimulating, aside from the actual work.
"There is a need for the mental health clinic because students run into simple and serious problems with their studies. They are depression and identity crisis."
College students are easier to treat, he said, because their illnesses have not been ingrained for a long time as in older patients.
Gundle worked full time at Watkins for five years before starting his private practice and teaching at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
THE FIRST YEAR, he was the only mental health staff member at Watkins. He served 130 patients that year.
The next year, 500 students went
through the treatment clinic. Another psychologist, a social worker and five residents were hired.
The service was well on its way to being rated with schools such as Yale University, Harvard University and St. John's Institute of Technology, he said.
Eight years later, Gundle returned to Watkins one day a week as a consultant in the mental health clinic.
For the last 23 years, Gundle has worked at Watkins, in his private practice and at the Med Center teaching residents.
Dean Kerkman, clinical psychologist at Watkins, said Gundle was devoted to his work and loved teaching.
"Dr. Gundle has a voracious appetite for work," he said. "Most of the time he doesn't take a lunch hour."
One of Gundle's contributions to student health was a survey of college health facilities in the United States and Canada.
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