Marty Mann

Marty Mann, the founder and executive director of the National Council on Alcoholism (now the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence or NCADD), was a world authority in the health field of alcohol addiction. Her own recovery from alcoholism, begun in 1939, led to her long interest in treating and educating the country about the disease.

As the director of the NCADD, Mann educated medical professionals, social workers and clergy about alcoholism; established an alcohol center in every state; and provided treatment for alcoholic patients in hospitals and clinics. She addressed joint sessions of the state legislatures in South Carolina, Michigan and Utah and gave more than 200 lectures each year. At the request of the U.S. State Department, she was also an official delegate to the 23rd International Congress on Alcoholism in Switzerland.

Trained at the Yale School of Alcohol Studies, she was a fellow of both the American Public Health Association and the Society of Public Health Educators. She also acted as a special consultant to the director of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and was a member of the Silver Hill Foundation, a private psychiatric hospital in Connecticut.

In 1980, two weeks after speaking at Alcoholics Anonymous’ international convention in New Orleans, she suffered a stroke at home and died at the age of 75. After her death, a long tribute to her was read in the Congressional Record of the U.S. Senate.

BLACKWELL RECIPIENTS

• January 22, 2015
  Dr. Janet L. Yellen

• November 10, 2013
  The Most Reverend Doctor Katharine Jefferts Schori

• October 27, 2011
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver

• April 23, 2009
  Rabbi Sally J. Priesand

• April 24, 2008
  Dr. Wangari Maathai Sc.D.'94, P '94, P '96

• April 27, 2007
  Dr. Priscilla A. Schaffer '64, Sc.D. '94

• September 7, 2004
  Bishop Barbara Clementine Harris

• September 9, 2003
  Loretta C. Ford

• September 4, 2001
  Madeleine K. Albright

• May 15, 1998
  Billie Jean King

• February 10, 1996
  Wilma Mankiller

• September 23, 1993
  Barbara Jordan

• September 27, 1991
  Margaret Chase Smith

• February 22, 1991
  Dr. Antonia C. Novello

• February 19, 1988
  Barbara Aronstein Black

• October 9, 1985
  Cicely Saunders

• March 8, 1985
  Sandra Day O’Connor

• February 11, 1984
  Hannah Holborn Gray

• February 26, 1982
  Agnes George de Mille

• February 15, 1980
  Mary Douglas Leakey

• September 30, 1977
  Mary S. Calderone

• October 3, 1975
  Antonia Brico

• Janurary 23, 1974
  Frances Keller Harding

• May 28, 1973
  Judith Graham Pool

• June 8, 1972
  Marian Anderson

• April 10, 1972
  Mary Lasker

• June 13, 1971
  Mina Rees

• June 14, 1970
  Helen Brooke Taussig

• June 15, 1969
  Georgiana Sibley

• June 16, 1968
  Constance Baker Motley

• September 8, 1967
  Catharine Macfarlane

• July 10, 1966
  Fe del Mundo

• June 13, 1965
  Annette LeMeitour-Kaplun

• June 14, 1964
  Margaret Mead

• June 9, 1963
  Marty Mann

• June 10, 1962
  Frances Perkins

• June 18,1961
  Leona Baumgartner

• June 12, 1960
  Miki Sawada

• June 14, 1959
  Elisabeth Luce Moore

• September 27, 1958
  Gwendolyn Grant Mellon