U Expert On Drug Use Dies

Word has been received here of the death Sunday in Cincinnati, Ohio, of Dr. John C. Pollard, 45, professor of psychiatry in the University of Michigan Medical School and an internationally known authority on drug abuse. Dr. Pollard, a member of the U-M faculty for the past 12 years, died of a heart attack soon after giving a lecture on drug abuse at a Community Drug Clinic in the Ohio city. He lived at 3240 W. Huron River Dr. in Ann Arbor. In addition to being a professor in the U-M Medical School, he was also a senior member of the Adolescent Service of the Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) and a research psychiatrist in the Mental Health Research Institute. Active in the local Drug Help, Inc., a non-profit service to help persons with drug problems, he was widely known for his lectures on drug abuse and for helping young people with drug addiction. Steven Schwartz and Matthew M. Lampe, Drug Help officers, said in a joint statement today: "Dr. John related' to young people in the community I with trust, and they returned that trust. "He was one of the few professional men who was willing to taiajdsks backing new kinds of youth aVB As one of the founders of Drug H5i was the first physician to support that service. "His participation was not limited to merely backing; nor did he assume control; but worked along with others, whether at a rock festival, a drug education lecture or a meeting of professionals." Dr. John A. Gronvall, dean of the U-M Medical School and director of the Medical Center, said, "Dr. Pollard was both a I sensitive psychiatrist and a concerned I human being who had as great an I insight into the world today as any I member of our faculty." The chairman of the U-M psychiatry I department and director of NPI, Dr. I Albert J. Silverman said, "John was a I dedicated scholar who gave fully of I self. One of the country's outstanding I experts on drug abuse, he worked with I young people as teacher and physician, I and richly deserved the warmth and respect accorded him by them." Dr. Pollard was born on July 19, 1926, in Southport, England. He received bachelor's, master's and doctor of medicine degree from the University of London, and before coming to the U.S. in 1955, served in Britain's Royal Army Medical Corps from 1952-1954. He was chief of medical service at the British Military Hospital in Berlin, and medical officer to the Allied Prison for Major War Crimináis, Spandau, in Berlin. He was a consultant to the local Catholic Family Service, the Northville State Hospital, the Girls' Training School in Adrián, the Peace Corps, and drug abuse committees at several colleges and universities across the nation. He was a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and a member of I numerous medical, psychiatrie and scientific societies in the U.S. and England. Survivors include his wife, Joan; his I mother, Mrs. George Pollard of London, I England; two sons, Alison, 12 ,and I ip, 8; a daughter, Robin, 17, all at I home, and a brother, George, in London. I Funeral services will be held at 1:30 I p.m. Wednesday at Ann Arbor's St. I drews Episcopal Church, with the Rev. I Daniel Burke officiating. Friends may I cali at the Staffan Funeral Home until I noon Wednesday. ï Memorial contributions may be made I to the John C. Pollard Children's I tional Fund, in care of Attorney Paul I Lieberman, trustee, 111 S. Main, Ann I Arbor, 481O8.______MJ