SUPERINTENDENTS' TIME LINE

Dr. Vernon Branham
1935 --
1947
Lloyd E.Whipple
1947 --
1950
Wilson
Dunn
1950-53 --
1956-63
Fred Brumell
1953 --
1956
Henry Murphy
1964 --
1967
1932
Construction
begins;
facility
opens
11/12/35.
57 total
staff
Woodbourne
Institution
for Defective
Delinquents
renamed
Woodbourne
Correctional
Facility
Farming
expands.
---
'56 - '63:
New inmate
library,
school,
C-block added
Construction
of roads
progresses,
rock crusher
providing
material &
inmates
the labor
The last
super-
intendant under
"old" corrections;
D-Block
added.

James J. Morrow
Director,* NACC
1967-71
Robert H. Kuhlmann
Director,* Superintdnt
1971-85
Carl
D.
Berry
1985 --
1993
Robert Hanslmaier
1995 --
1996
John P. Keane
1997 --
present
The
era of
the
Narcotics
Addiction
Control
Commission
begins
DOCS
return,
Sullivan
takes farm;
new admin.
building;
hospital,
gym expand.
GY dorm
added.
Sullivan
transfers
Boskett
1st ACA
accredit-
ation.
Eastern
transfers
visually &
hearing
impaired;
NYS first
double
celling.
Hanslmaier
conference
room,
2 cell suit decided
for DOCS, Osborne
Society.

* Webmaster note: Unless otherwise cited, the title going with the name is Superintendent. As cited, during the Narcotics Addiction Control Commission era, the title with the name is Director. One person began as Director but became Superintendent (Kuhlmann). One person served twice as Superintendent (Dunn).

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