A plan that Eileen Garrett had outlined in the 1930s for a nonprofit foundation came about in the 1950s. So with the assistance of her long-time friend, the Honorable Francis Payne Bolton, the Parapsychology Foundation was born. The ideas for structuring of the Foundation were formed easily because Garrett knew exactly what she wanted from this new entity: First, I envisaged the necessity of finding resources that could provide grants to those who sought after a wider horizon in reading. Second, this would involve a library and a public relations setup to answer the demand for literature and eventual study for those who might be ready to work in a parapsychological atmosphere. Finally, there would be the need to bring scholars together from different countries for discussion, as well as the need to keep contacts alive if eventual advancement of the theoretical discussion were to result in action. (Garrett, 1968, pp. 158-159) And what Garrett wanted, Garrett achieved. On December 14, 1951 the Parapsychology Foundation was incorporated. As president of the Foundation, Garrett presided over 19 international conferences, provided funding for countless projects, traveled extensively to various research facilities, and published a series of monographs, a newsletter, an international journal, and a bimonthly periodical. Her goals were realized! But such a summary does not do justice to the impact that the Foundation has had on the parapsychological community. The grant program has aided in some of the finest investigations in the field. A few examples may help illustrate the point. Early evidence of the experimenter effect in psi testing was the result of investigations conducted by Dr. Carroll B. Nash in the 1950s supported by a grant from the Foundation. His article, "The Effect of Subject-Experimenter Attitudes on Clairvoyance Scores," received the William McDougall Award in recognition of an outstanding publication in parapsychological research. It is often forgotten that the research by Professor Hornell Hart on apparitions and out-of-the-body experiences, published in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research in 1956, was originally funded by the Foundation. Garrett's interest and subsequent generousity was not confined to those with an active interest in parapsychology. For example, the experiments with enzymes conducted by Sr. Justa Smith in 1967 were underwritten by the Foundation. Garrett also did not confine her support to efforts aligned with her own beliefs. Dr. Ian Stevenson (1971) illustrates this well: What committee would have given me a grant to go to India in 1961 to study reincarnation cases? But Eileen Garrett did. She had heard of a case that had come to attention there and she knew of my interest in the subject. So she took the initiative and offered me a grant to go to India even though she herself was opposed to the idea of reincarnation. (p. 340) Along with individual researchers the Foundation supported the efforts of organizations. As a matter of fact, one of the first recipients was the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University. The Foundation from time to time had extended its support to the Laboratory, as well as to special investigations conducted by individual members of the staff. Among them were Dr. Karlis Osis, Dr. J.G. Pratt, Dr. Louisa Rhine, Dr. Robert Van de Castle, and Ms. Rhea White. In 1961, a grant was given to Dr. Montague Ullman, then Director of the Division of Psychiatry at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, for a pilot study to investigate possible areas of telepathic contact between participants in a dream state and agents attempting to communicate specific emotionally charged matter. Garrett also continued to explore the realms of her own consciousness. On one excursion to the Caribbean she went to hati where she became very interested in voodoo and was welcomed to participate in a number of the rituals. In the 1950s, she willingly took part in experiments with LSD with the hope of understanding and comparing the mediumistic experience with drug-induced states. In fact, she went so far as to devote two conferences, in 1958 and 1959, to the subject in order to explore the areas of psychedelics and pharmacology in more depth. Throughout her tenure as president of the Foundation, Garrett remained active. Though during her later years, her declining health and near crippling arthritis forced her to curtail her workload somewhat. In 1970 a conference was held at the European headquarters, Le Piol. Garrtetts health was poor, but she rallied enough to attend every session of the conference. And what a successful meeting it was! But the strain and excitement were apparently too much for Garrett because a week later, while reading in the garden of her villa, she lost consciousness. On September 15 she died.