Paul Randolph Farnsworth (1899-1978).

This obituary for Paul Randolph Farnsworth (1899-1978) notes his accomplishments in the psychology of music at Stanford, his iconoclastic behaviorism, his work on the historical philosophical underpinnings of the various schools of psychology, and his publication with sociologist Richard La Piere of the textbook Social Psychology. After World War II, Farnsworth was elected president of APA Division 10 (Psychology and the Arts), and from 1956 to 1968 he was editor of the Annual Review of Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Bruce Victor Moore (1891-1977).

Bruce Victor Moore was the first person to receive the PhD in industrial psychology in America. It was awarded to him in 1921 by the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie-Mellon University. Moore was born in Kokomo, Indiana, on September 9, 1891. Prior to his work at Carnegie Tech, he received an AB and an MA in psychology from Indiana University, taught high school for two years, and started further graduate work at Columbia University. This was interrupted by World War I. He was one of the first enlisted men in the U.S. Army's Division of Psychology, where he was assigned as a psychologist at Walter Reed Hospital. Following the war he went on to Carnegie Tech, which quickly became a center for industrial psychology. In 1920, while completing his graduate work, Moore was made assistant professor of psychology at the Pennsylvania State College (now University). By 1928 he had attained the rank of professor and had been appointed head of the Psychology Department. He served very efficiently as an administrator until his first retirement in 1952. Following his retirement from Penn State in 1952, Moore joined the central office staff of the American Psychological Association, where he served for seven years as the Executive Officer for the Education and Training Board. His excellent work there was a measure of his outstanding administrative talents. Next he was invited to be a visiting professor of psychology at the University of Miami, specifically to assist in the development of the graduate program. He remained at Miami for three years, 1959-1962; during the final year he served as department head. His last 15 years were spent in State College, Pennsylvania, where he died on November 14, 1977. Moore was moderately tall, slight of build, quiet in manner, persistent in his motivation, steadfast in meeting his responsibilities, and universally respected. His two marriages were very successful and brought him security and happiness. The first, to Elsie Kohler in 1924, terminated in her death in 1967 and gave him one daughter, Mary Ellen Moore Kinnaird. The second was in 1969 to Winona Morgan, a fellow child psychologist who still resides in State College. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Solomon Diamond (1906–1998).

Presents an obituary for Solomon Diamond. Diamond was born in New York City in 1906, and his education and early career were in New York. His PhD was in social psychology. As a historian, he was deeply involved in the somewhat rarified world of very early scientific psychology, and prescientific psychology, and was also committed to counseling psychology (a field of application) and to personality (the empirical-theoretical basis for the application). At California State University, Los Angeles, he was active in university governance and the American Association of University Professors, activities that were part of a lifetime commitment to progressive causes. In 1965 he was a charter member of the APA Division of the History of Psychology (26) and a charter member of the board of advisors of the Archives of the History of American Psychology. The APA Division of the History of Psychology elected him president-elect in 1971-1972. Diamond passed away in 1998. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Starke Rosecrans Hathaway (1903–1984).

Presents an obituary for Starke Rosecrans Hathaway. Hathaway obtained both his undergraduate and master's level training with James P. Porter at Ohio University in Athens. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology in 1927 and his master's degree in 1928. Porter persuaded him to remain in Athens as an instructor in psychology and physiology; by 1929 he held the rank of assistant professor. Hathaway's original interests in engineering persisted; he perfected and marketed a chronoscope, a psychogalvanometer, and electrical stimulation and recording devices for the study of neural processes. It is interesting to recall that one of the first uses to which Hathaway had put his psychogalvanometer was as a lie detector in helping police in Athens to solve a murder case. Hathaway's contributions to clinical psychology were recognized at the national level by the APA's Division of Clinical Psychology, which conferred its Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in 1959 and elected him as its president in 1963. Elected to Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa, an ABPP diplomate in clinical psychology, he was awarded honorary doctorates by Ohio University in 1966 and by Ohio State University in 1972. His honors were capped in 1977 when the APA conferred its award for Distinguished Contribution for Applications in Psychology. Hathaway retired from the University of Minnesota in 1971. He died at his home in Minneapolis on July 4, 1984. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

James F. T. Bugental (1915-2008).

James F. T. Bugental died peacefully at age 92 at his Petaluma, California, home on September 18, 2008. Jim was a leading psychotherapist and a founding father, with Abraham Maslow and others, of humanistic psychology, or the "third force" (in contrast to psychoanalysis and behaviorism). Jim was also the creator, along with Rollo May, of existential-humanistic psychotherapy. Jim was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Christmas Day in 1915. Jim earned his doctorate in 1948 from Ohio State University, where he was influenced by Victor Raimy and George Kelly. After a brief time on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) faculty in psychology, Jim resigned in 1953 to found the first group practice of psychotherapy, Psychological Service Associates, with Alvin Lasko. With Abraham Maslow and others, Jim was a cofounder of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JHP) and the Association for Humanistic Psychology in 1961. Jim also wrote many books on the topic of psychotherapy during his lifetime. Jim was a great and bold spirit--his many writings and teachings are cherished today widely, and the field of psychology is much richer for his efforts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Joseph Tiffin (1905–1989).

Presents an obituary for Joseph Tiffin. Joseph Harold Tiffin (he didn't like the "Harold" and never used the "H") was born in Falls City, Nebraska, on July 4, 1905, grew up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and received his bachelor's degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of South Dakota in 1927. As a newlywed, he entered graduate school at the University of Iowa where he was an Eastman Fellow, received both his master's and PhD (1930) degrees under Carl Seashore, and was a fellow of the National Research Council before becoming a member of the University of Iowa psychology faculty in 1931. As Seashore's student and colleague he developed an intense interest in psychophysics and sensory/motor phenomena. (He was the first to photograph the human vocal chords in action.) In the early stages of as-yet-undiagnosed Parkinson's disease, he retired as Professor Emeritus of Industrial Psychology at Purdue University in 1971. Joe and his wife, Mary Edith Straight, moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to be near their daughter and her family. Mary Edith died in 1985, following which Joe was moved to a nursing home. He died March 1, 1989. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Irving J. Saltzman (1923-2000).

Memorializes Irving J. Saltzman, known for his work as chair of the Department of Psychology at Indiana University. He guided the department through a time of major change in education and in psychology. He promoted an atmosphere that was particularly beneficial to new faculty at a time when the loyalty of faculty was decreasing and the professionalization of psychology was increasing. He was a tenacious proponent of his department, and led by example, saying that he could not expect others to do what he was unwilling to do himself. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Richard A. Pasewark (1927-2007).

Richard A. Pasewark was born on October 21, 1927, and died on February 2, 2007, at home in Oak Harbor, Washington, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Richard received his bachelor's degree from City College of New York (1949) and his master's (1950) and doctoral (1957) degrees in psychology from New York University. He joined the Wyoming Division of Mental Health in 1957 and by 1959 became its director, the first psychologist in history to become a director of a state division of mental health. In 1961 he joined the faculty at the University of Wyoming (UW), where he remained for 33 years, giving tirelessly of himself to the department, students, faculty, university, and region. No one has had a greater impact on the face of psychology in Wyoming than Richard, who helped to develop licensing laws, commitment procedures, definitions of mental illness, and other legislation related to the practice of psychology. He was instrumental in obtaining grants and establishing community mental health centers and other service organizations throughout the state. In addition to being actively involved at the community, state, regional, and national levels, Richard was also a respected scholar and author of more than 125 publications, 15 grants, and numerous presentations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Frederick A. Mote (1907-1982).

This obituary describes the career and contributions to psychology of Frederick A. Mote, PhD. Dr. Mote received his PhD from Brown University, where he returned from teaching psychology at the University of Connecticut to work on a National Defense Research Council contract until the end of World War II. In his position as senior psychophysiologist he was involved in development of new selection and classification tests for navy personnel, as well as with research on application of stereoscopic perception in design of equipment for navy operators. During these years he was also doing fundamental research on the role of reinforcement in acquisition and extinction of simple instrumental responses in animals--research which eventuated in a series of publications, some with his colleague and good friend, Frank Finger. After the war, Dr. Mote reentered academic teaching where he was promoted to professor at the University of Wisconsin in 1952 and conducted studies on determinants of dark adaptation in human vision. In 1955, Dr. Mote became chair of the Psychology Department, and served through 1959. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Glenn Ewen MacDonald 1925-1978.

Presents an obituary for Glenn Ewen MacDonald, who died on July 24, 1978. Dr. MacDonald was a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, where he spent nearly half of his life teaching. Beside his teaching, research, and administrative duties at the University, he served as both Vice-President and President of the Ontario Educational Research Council, was one of the founders and President of the Ontario Council of Academic Psychologists, and helped to found and was the first Chairman of the Experimental Division of the Canadian Psychological Association. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Robert Ward Leeper (1904-1986).

Robert Ward Leeper grew up near Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town where most of his classmates and friends were from the families of recent immigrants from many European countries. From childhood on, Leeper assumed that he was to contribute to the world's welfare. He chose his graduate school as carefully as he had chosen work experiences and entered Clark University in 1927. He received his MA degree in 1928 and his PhD in 1930. In 1930, at the depth of the Great Depression, Leeper was successful in finding a position at the University of Arkansas, where he spent the next three years. In 1933- 1934 he worked with Karl Lashley in Chicago on a National Research Council fellowship. In 1937, Leeper settled down at the University of Oregon, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. His contributions to psychology included ideas that were precursors of the cognitive learning theories that prevail today and a continuing attack on the concept of emotion as disorganized behavior. In addition, Leeper served as president of the Oregon Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, Division 1 of the American Psychological Association, and as a member of various committees and boards. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Alan Kent Malyon (1941–1988).

Alan Kent Malyon was born on April 12, 1941, in East Chicago, Illinois and died of lung cancer on December 26, 1988 in Los Angeles. He graduated from San Jose State University in 1964 and completed his PhD in clinical psychology at Texas Technological University in 1974. After working for three years in medical psychology as a senior clinical psychologist at the City of Hope National Medical Center, he began a full-time clinical practice in Los Angeles. From 1977 to 1981, he served as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California School of Medicine. Since 1981, he was an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also served as a clinical supervisor in the Psychology Clinic. Malyon was a diplomate in clinical psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Fred L. Strodtbeck (1919-2005).

This obituary is about Fred L. Strodtbeck, who was a professor emeritus of sociology and psychology at the University of Chicago. Fred began his faculty career at Yale, moving to Chicago in 1953, where he remained continuously except for one year at the University of Michigan and another year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California. Although identified as a social psychologist, throughout his career Fred was fully engaged in the challenging interdisciplinary perspective propounded by the Department of Social Relations. Fred took pride in the accomplishments of his many students. His tutelage was emotional as well as intellectual, as he was mindful of those two dimensions that informed so much of his small-groups work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Appointment of new editor.

The Executive Committee of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Society (Division 24 of APA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Teo as the fifth editor of Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (JTPP). Thomas Teo received his doctorate of philosophy from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, Germany. He is now Associate Professor in the History and Theory of Psychology Program at York University, Toronto. His research in historical and theoretical psychology is based on critical-hermeneutic analyses. He has also published on the transformation of psychology in nineteenth-century German philosophical psychology and on the history of race psychology and scientific racism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Institutional affiliations of contributors to scholarly and professional activities in counseling psychology: 1980–1983.

Used presentations at Division 17 programs of the American Psychological Association conventions, affiliations of authors of articles in the Journal of Counseling Psychology and The Counseling Psychologist, and Division 17 leaders to determine that the University of Maryland (College Park), Ohio State University, and the University of Iowa were the most highly active institutions in counseling psychology over the period 1980–1983. The size of the faculty and faculty rewards and pressures appear to be factors in determining ratings. Counseling psychologists in nonacademic settings are disadvantaged in making research contributions by these factors. Since most current counseling and clinical psychology graduate students are trained to be practitioners, it is suggested that research and professional leadership dimensions should be measured on their value to practitioners. It is further suggested that quality of supervision, knowledge of practitioner skills, and capacity to meet credentialing and/or licensing requirements should be included in evaluating graduate education in counseling psychology. (13 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Sidney Orgel (1926-2003).

Presents an obituary for Sidney Orgel (1926-2003). Bud, as everyone knew him, received his bachelor's degree from New York University in 1948. He completed his master's (1950) and doctoral (1956) degrees in clinical psychology at the University of Connecticut. Bud joined the staff of the Syracuse Veterans Administration Hospital in 1956 and then in 1968 moved to the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center to develop a Division of Clinical Psychology. He remained at Upstate for the rest of his career and in 1993 was appointed professor emeritus. The high esteem in which he was held at Upstate is reflected in his selection as acting chair of the Department of Psychiatry, a position he held from 1981 to 1985 and a rare position for a psychologist. It was at Upstate that Bud's unique talents flourished. His first accomplishment was the development of one of the country's outstanding clinical psychology internships. The training and education of psychologists became a passion for him. Interns adored him, not only because he was an outstanding supervisor, but also because his trainees knew that his goal was providing them with the best possible experience and training. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Robert I. Watson (1909-1980).

Presents an obituary for Robert I. Watson who died on September 15, 1980, in Gainesville, Florida, where he was adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Florida. He had moved to Gainesville in 1975 after retiring from the University of New Hampshire, although the use of the term retire in reference to Bob Watson is clearly inappropriate. If anything, his scholarly productivity only increased after giving up his administrative and faculty responsibilities at New Hampshire. During those last five years he wrote two books, revised a third, and had at least two more in preparation at the time of his death. Bob Watson was an excellent model both in his scholarly and professional pursuits; he will be remembered as one of the founders of the history of psychology movement in the United States and one of the most significant contributors to its literature. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Leonard D. Eron.

Leonard D. Eron, Editor of Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1973-1980), died May 3, 2007, of complications of congestive heart failure, at the age of 87. He also served as associate editor of the American Psychologist (1986-90), and president of the Midwestern Psychological Association (1985-86) and of the International Society for Research on Aggression (1988-90). Dr. Eron's research focused on the causes of aggression, conducting an influential 40-year longitudinal study, as well as many collaborative cross-cultural studies with scholars in Europe. His research on the impact of media violence on children's behavior has been widely recognized. During his years as a professor at Yale University, the University of Iowa, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Michigan, he left his mark on countless students who carry on his tradition of merging research with the public policy applications of psychology. He was a Fulbright Scholar twice, and a member of many professional and governmental panels, including the National Research Council Panel on Understanding and Control of Violence and the American Psychological Association's Commission on Violence and Youth, of which he was the Chair. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and a fellow of the Academy of Clinical Psychology, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1980 he was given the APA award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge; in 1995 he received the American Psychological Foundation's Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest; and in 2003 he received APA's award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology. (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)     

Bernard Lubin (1923-2003).

Presents an obituary for Bernard Lubin. The author states that Lubin was a professor, collaborator, colleague, and friend whose work in personality and clinical psychology continues to be influential. Lubin was born in Washington, DC, on October 15, 1923. He left high school before graduation to join the Merchant Marines, returning to educational pursuits following World War II. He earned his bachelor's (1952) and master's (1953) degrees at George Washington University and attained his doctorate in clinical psychology at the Pennsylvania State University (1958). He was a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), maintaining affiliation with a broad array of its divisions and initiatives. Lubin was designated Distinguished Senior Contributor in Counseling Psychology by Division 17 in 1995, received the Division 13 Harry Levinson Award for Excellence in Consultation in 1996, and received the Richard Wilkinson Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology from the Missouri Psychological Association in 1997. Lubin's life and many contributions are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)