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I owe my spiritual awaking to my dear friend MARY KAY FROST when we first meet in Detroit, Michigan in 1972. Following is a brief history of some of the things she accomplished. As an attractive 25 year old Canadian, Mary Kay Frost, Miss Canada of 1952, became a respected judge of the Miss Universe Beauty Pageants, and served throughout the 1950's. When she died Wednesday, February 21, 2001 at age 72, Miss Frost was a recognized leader in the American Mental Health field honored in "Who's Who in America" and "The World's Who's Who of Women". She succumbed to cancer in Bon Secours Hospital, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, following 13 years of medical treatments. Miss Frost earned her credentials during 1964 to 1989 at the world-famous Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, Michigan, when it was Michigan's primary mental health research training and treatment center. Miss Frost was the Chief Research and Administrative Assistant in the Clinics Department of Psychobiology. Working with Dr. D. F. CaIdweII, in the 1975 diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, Miss Frost became a cofounder of Lafayette Clinic's Sleep Center - the first in Michigan and one of the first in the United States. Before Lafayette Clinic closed in a statewide reduction of mental health facilities in 1992, it was treating varied ills of 23,000 outpatients annually. Mary Kay Frost was born in Windsor, Canada, educated in local schools and first employed in the Toronto Dominion Bank. Later, she joined City National Bank in Detroit employed there for ten years. Deciding upon a career change, Miss Frost attended Wayne State University, majored in psychology, then accepted an offer from Lafayette Clinic. At the Clinic, she co-authored research papers in areas of substance abuse and schizophrenia, nutrition and sleep, published in national and international mental health journals. She became a frequent guest of radio and television talk shows, speaking on sleep and sleep disorders. Miss Frost became a popular interview subject for daily and special newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. In 1981 she received the State of Michigan Employee s Award for outstanding service. In addition to leadership roles in mental health, Miss Frost held an active interest in a variety of community and national organizations: National Travelers Aid, International Platform Association, Project Hope, League National Association of Polysomnography, 44Technologists, American Navcolepsy Association, Michigan Mental Health Society... Plus others. In her youth, Miss Frost was a coloratura soprano trained at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. She was a cofounder of the Windsor (Canada) Light Opera Association who celebrated their 50th. Anniversary in 1998. I thank her for all her spiritual lessons and am sharing with you a paper A Blueprint For Miracles she wrote in November, 1962.
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