William Bevan (1922-2007).

Presents an obituary for William Bevan, one of the 20th century's most honored psychologists. Bevan died at the age of 84 on February 19, 2007, at the Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. His death concluded a courageous, 18-year struggle with the aftereffects of a serious stroke. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Toni Bernay (1936-2007).

Presents an obituary for Toni Bernay. Bernay died in Los Angeles on April 30, 2007, after a brief but valiant battle with a recurrence of lymphoma. She was a leader among practitioners, a visionary who inspired advocacy for psychology, women, and cancer patients. Upon her death, her colleagues described her as "a forceful advocate," "a dynamite lady who has been a wonderful mentor," "a powerful force for women's rights," and "a vibrant presence who empowered women in the profession." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Irving Emanuel Alexander (1922-2007).

Presents an obituary for Irving Emanuel Alexander. Irving Emanuel Alexander had an original mind and an integrity of character that made him sui generis. It is thus fitting that he played a major role in advancing the idiographic study of lives. On January 3, 2007, Irving died of cardiac arrest while attending a Duke basketball game. His wise and gentle spirit will be sorely missed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rudolf Julius Arnheim (1904-2007).

Presents an obituary for Rudolf Julius Arnheim. Arnheim died on June 9, 2007, in Anne Arbor, Michigan, at the age of 102. His wife (née Mary Frame) died in 1999. He is survived by his stepdaughter Margaret Nettinga, of the Netherlands, two grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. His life spanned the social cataclysms that swept the last century. Of Jewish descent, he first fled the Nazis and then the Italian fascists before he came to America from England in 1940. On this continent, his skills as a scholar and teacher brought him much success. He applied his formidable knowledge of philosophy, literature, art history, and perceptual psychology to central questions about the visual arts. His work has fundamentally influenced practitioners in many related fields: the psychology of art, art history, aesthetics, art education, and the study of popular culture. His books and essays are known around the globe. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Clara Mayo (1931-1981).

Obituary [Clara Mayo; 1931-1981]. When she died, Clara Mayo's teaching, researching, writing, and administering were very much in motion. Her primary goal, as always, was to understand and alleviate prejudice, sexism, and racism. Clara Mayo was a complete teacher, an indefatigable colleague, and a collaborator par excellence. In all three she urged us to be committed, and she showed us how to think and act with subtlety, passion, detachment, verve, and yes, with fun. Clara Mayo was committed to intellectual adventure and social justice, and in that she saw no contradiction and no end. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Maurice Ray Denny (1918-2001).

Memorializes Maurice Ray Denny, known for writing and editing books on comparative psychology. These books directed psychologists toward a better understanding of the role of evolutionary theory in psychology. He also had a continuing interest in improving the lives of of developmentally delayed people through learning theory. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary for Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007).

Presents an obituary for Rudolf Arnheim. That Rudi was going to become a psychologist was not preordained, let alone that he would become the most important psychologist of art of the 20th century. Indeed, his father was a manufacturer of pianos and the expectation was that Rudi would enter the family business. Recoiling at this preordination, Rudi attended the University of Berlin, where he studied philosophy, psychology, music, and art. He had the good fortune to work with Max Wertheimer, perhaps the most gifted and imaginative of the three founders of Gestalt psychology. Rudi's doctoral dissertation, submitted in 1928 when he was but 24, was an empirical study of what could be learned from handwriting analysis. Thus Rudi began a lifelong fascination with how one perceived the visual world and how the act of perception is infused with--and inseparable from--cognition and the making of meaning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Brian Mullen (1955-2006).

Presents an obituary for Brian Mullen. In a field that values empirical precedent and established paradigms, Brian Mullen's career was one of passion and originality. He was motivated by pure intellectual curiosity; the recognition he received for his pioneering work in archival methodology, meta-analysis, and group processes and relations was secondary. His contributions to the field of social psychology were unique and will be enduring. His 1985 book with Robert Rosenthal, BASIC Meta-Analysis: Procedures and Programs, is a classic. In 2006, he was identified as the 15th most cited scholar in social psychology textbooks. Brian died of cancer on May 4, 2006. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Neil Riley Bartlett (1917-2008).

Bartlett, professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, died at the age of 91. Neil had a long, distinguished, and varied career in psychology, serving as president of two divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA): the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2) in 1967 and the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26) in 1993. He was a fellow of Divisions 3 (Experimental Psychology) and 26 and also a member of Division 19 (Society for Military Psychology). He served on the APA Committee on Undergraduate Education from 1956 to 1959 and was chair of the APA Policy and Planning Board in 1963. In 1979, Neil married longtime family friend Olive Gallant Hudson, who survives him. He is also survived by three of his four sons, David, William, and Thomas; two stepsons and a stepdaughter; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hans Hugo Selye (1907-1982).

Presents an obituary for Hans Hugo Selye (1907-1982). Hans Selye died on October 16, 1982, in Montreal, where he had worked for 50 years. Despite illness in his last years, he continued his writing and lecturing. Selye was unforgettable, even to people who heard him give only one of his superb lectures. Endowed with enormous energy, charm, intelligence, imagination, and a fierce determination to succeed in the course that he had set for himself, by the 1950s Selye was recognized as one of the driving forces in modern endocrinology, and he established what has become known as the field of stress research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Evelyn Lee (1944-2003).

Presents an obituary of Evelyn Yee-Wai Miu Lee Fong. She was born on June 25, 1944, in Macau, China, and died in San Francisco on March 26, 2003. This obituary describes her contributions to the field of psychology, and the concept of cultural competence in particular. The ideas of cultural competence in mental health services and cultural diversity in the workforce as means to reduce health care disparities among ethnic minorities have increasingly influenced health care policy at governmental, professional organizational, and provider levels. Although people from many disciplines and cultural backgrounds have contributed to this paradigm shift over the past 25 years, among those from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, Evelyn Lee was one of those pioneering spirits who was widely respected and loved as a clinician, administrator, teacher, author, community advocate, and humanitarian. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Robert E. Lana (1932-2006).

Presents an obituary for Robert Lana. Lana, a professor for 39 years at Temple University, died on October 17, 2006, of respiratory and cardiac problems. A leading social psychologist, Bob had retired from Temple in 2005. Born in Union City, New Jersey, on August 9, 1932, he received his bachelor of arts from Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey (1954) and his doctorate from the University of Maryland (1958). His doctoral dissertation was published in Psychological Bulletin (1959) and was awarded first prize in a national Psi Chi competition. Lana is survived by his wife Jean, his daughter Renata, and a grandson, Luca. His doctoral students include many eminent psychologists, who join his family and colleagues from around the world in mourning the death of a distinguished and charming scholar. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Alberta Engvall Siegel (1931-2002).

Reports the death of Alberta Engvall Siegel (1931-2002). The author discusses her contributions to the field of psychology as well as her various personal and professional accomplishments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Donald Merle Baer (1931-2002).

Reports the death of Donald Merle Baer (1931-2002). The author discusses his contributions to behavior analysis as well as his various personal and professional accomplishments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

David Powell Weikart (1931-2003).

Obituary for David Powell Weikart (1931-2003). Among other things the obituary notes that Dave Weikart worked for the Ypsilanti (Michigan) public schools from 1957 to 1970, first as special services director and school psychologist, then as research and development director. He founded the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation in 1970 as an independent, nonprofit research and development organization in Ypsilanti and served as its president and board chairman until he retired in 2000. The High/Scope Foundation is well known for its educational model in which both teachers and students take initiative and responsibility for learning and in which children engage daily in High/Scope's plan-do-review process of intentional learning. Dave first developed this model in his summer camp for adolescents. In the United States and in other countries, he then applied the High/Scope model to preschool programs, home visit programs for infants and toddlers and their mothers, elementary schools, and programs for adolescents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Isidor Chein (1912-1981).

Presents an obituary for Isidor Chein. During his distinguished career Isidor Chein made significant contributions in many areas of psychology. He devoted himself especially to the study of four topics: attitude change in the context of intergroup relations, group identification among members of minority groups, the psychology of opiate addiction, and a philosophy of science for psychology. Following his death on April 18, 1981, a memorial symposium was held at the 1981 APA convention. In his comments, a colleague and close friend pointed to the quality that most of his friends and associates would agree best describes the essence of Chein's work. "If there is a single Word that I can use to characterize so complex an enterprise as Isidor Chein's psychological outlook," he said, "that word is humanism." Chein's legacy to psychology was indeed enriched by the centrality of this quality in his own life and career. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Sol L. Garfield (1918-2004).

Presents an obituary of Sol Louis Garfield. He was born January 8, 1918, in Chicago and died suddenly of a heart attack on August 14, 2004, at the age of 86. He was one of the preeminent clinical psychologists of the 20th century. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Judson Seise Brown (1910-2005).

This is an obituary for Judson Seise Brown, professor emeritus of behavioral neuroscience at the Oregon Health & Science University, who died in Portland, Oregon, on August 28, 2005, at the age of 95. Brown was highly regarded for his rigorous, analytical, and innovative approaches to fundamental empirical and conceptual issues in the field of motivation. During his long career, he published many seminal articles on emotion, frustration, approach-avoidance conflict, the measurement of conditioned fear, and various other acquired drives. In addition to his basic research achievements, Brown made many important professional contributions during his long career, including serving as president of the Midwestern Psychological Association and the Division of Experimental Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), as well as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Psychonomic Society. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Estefania Aldaba-Lim (1917-2006).

Presents an obituary for Estefania Aldaba-Lim. Psychology mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished colleagues. Estefania (Fanny) Aldaba-Lim died on March 7, 2006, at her home in Manila, Philippines, at age 89. A lifelong advocate for mental health, responsible parenthood, and improving the lives of women and children, she rose to rare stature in her country and internationally, reaching well beyond psychology into public service. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)