Medicine: The Garden of Enid

She is a wife, a mother, and publisher and editor of Seventeen, but Enid A. Haupt, 53, is also a green-thumb gardener. When she visited Manhattan's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Enid Haupt marveled at its superb equipment and the dedicated ingenuity of its staff. But she bemoaned the fact that children may spend several months there completely cut off from nature. Why not, she asked Director Howard A. Rusk, give them a garden to work in?

Last week the institute, part of the N.Y.U.-Bellevue Medical Center, dedicated the Enid A. Haupt Children's Garden—promptly dubbed "the Garden of Enid" by Dr....

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