Marion White McPherson (1919-2000).

Memorializes Marion White McPherson for her many contributions to psychology. In 1965, McPherson and her psychologist husband, John A. Popplestone, created a national archive to preserve the papers of eminent psychologists, the raw data important to historians and other scholars who would seek to tell the story of psychology and its relationship to other sciences, to other professions, and to American history. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lee Meyerson (1920-2002).

Reports the obituary of Lee Myerson (1920-2002), founding member and past president of the American Psychological Association's Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology) and the founding editor of its journal, Rehabilitation Psychology. Myerson devoted most of his career to the amelioration of personal and social issues associated with having a disability. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Kenneth Irwin Howard (1932-2000).

Memorializes Kenneth Irwin Howard for his many contributions to clinical psychology. Throughout his career, Howard and his colleagues produced an impressive corpus of empirical work illuminating psychologists' understanding of psychotherapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Robert W. White (1904-2001).

Memorializes Robert W. White for his major contribution to the holistic personologic tradition in psychology. He also played a signal role in replacing the narrow drive-reduction conception of human motivation characteristic of both neobehaviorism and psychoanalysis with perspectives that include provision for intrinsic motivation with human agency. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1913-1999).

Memorializes Benjamin Samuel Bloom for his many contributions to educational psychology. Bloom spent most of his academic career conducting research and designing educational programs based on the belief that virtually any student can learn what he or she is expected to learn to a high standard if proper learning conditions are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Carmi Harari (1920-2003).

Obituary for psychologist Carmi Harari (1920-2003). Among other things the obituary notes that, Harari was a noted psychoanalyst, clinical and forensic psychologist, disability examiner, and prolific workshop leader worldwide on issues of peacemaking and political psychology. He was an active officer and member of many international psychology groups, including the Psychologists for Social Responsibility, the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, the National Accreditation Association for Psychoanalysis, the Council of Representatives of the APA (1974-1994), and the Committee on International Relations in Psychology. He served as president of the International Association of Applied Psychology, president of the New York State Psychological Association, and president of the Rockland County Psychological Society. Harari was an APA fellow in eight divisions, including Clinical, Psychotherapy, and Independent Practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Nadine Murphy Lambert (1926-2006).

Nadine M. Lambert was born in Ephraim, Utah, on October 21, 1926, to Rulon and Maude Murphy. She died on April 26, 2006, from injuries suffered in a car accident on her way to work, when a runaway truck struck her vehicle. At the time, she was traveling a route she drove daily for more than 40 years from her home in the Berkeley hills to her office at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a professor in the graduate school and a senior mentor at the Graduate School of Education's joint doctoral program in educational leadership. A tireless contributor to academic life, Nadine served as a member and chair of the Graduate Council, the Committee on Educational Policy, the Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction, and the Academic Senate at Berkeley. Nadine joined APA in 1956 and became a Fellow of Divisions 15 (Educational Psychology) and 16 in 1974. She was either the chair or a member of 14 APA committees or boards during her career. Nadine authored or co-authored more than 150 articles, chapters, and books on the application of developmental psychology to the educational process. Nadine published widely used instruments in school psychology such as the Process for Assessment of Effective Student Functioning (1979), the American Association on Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale (1981, 1993), and the Children's Attention and Adjustment Survey (1992). Her vision regarding primary prevention, the protective power of schooling, the importance of understanding the processes involved in consultation, and the significance of comprehensive training standards for professional psychology will shape the practice of school psychology for years to come. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Helmut E. Adler (1920–2001).

Presents an obituary for Helmut E. Adler, a warm and gentle scholar who packed several full-time careers into his life as a psychologist. In addition to being a superb undergraduate teacher, he conducted research in comparative psychology and wrote on the history of psychology. Details on his life, career, accomplishments, and contributions to the history of psychology are provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Herbert Loeb Friedman (1936-2000).

Memorializes Herbert Loeb Friedman for his many contributions to the psychology of adolescent health and development. One of his major contributions was his forceful advocacy of a broad behavioral and social perspective to complement the traditional medical focus of the World Health Organization, with which he was affiliated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Gardner Lindzey (1920–2008).

Presents an obituary for Gardner Lindzey, who was a major influence on the discipline of psychology in at least four different areas: social psychology, personality psychology, behavior genetics, and the history of psychology in autobiography. He conceptualized each of these fields in ways that stimulated their growth for over four decades and that provide challenges for contemporary psychologists. Gardner Lindzey was born on November 27, 1920, in Wilmington, Delaware, and died in Palo Alto, California, on February 4, 2008. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Marion White McPherson (1919–2000).

Presents an obituary for Marion White McPherson, who had a long and fruitful career in child clinical psychology and the history of psychology, cofounding an archives for American psychology, and authoring numerous articles and books. Details on her work history, education, accomplishments, and contributions to the history of psychology are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Patricia Cain Smith (1917-2007).

Provides the obituary for one of the field of industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology's most eminent scholars and practitioners, Patricia Cain Smith, professor emerita of psychology, Bowling Green State University, who passed away on October 26, 2007. Pat is remembered for her sense of humor, her passion for clarity in thinking and writing, and her contagious enthusiasm for discovery and the achievement of true understanding. She has left a lasting legacy that has made the world, and especially the world of work, a better place. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Arthur A. Lumsdaine (1913–1989).

Arthur Allen Lumsdaine, who died on May 1, 1989, made major contributions to social and educational psychology. He was part of the post-World War II wave of experimental psychologists who moved psychology in new, widely applicable directions. In social psychology, he helped open up the experimental investigation of attitude change. Later in his career, he recognized the potential of teaching machines and programmed instruction and furthered their development. Art was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as of the American Psychological Association (APA). He served as a member of the APA's Board of Scientific Affairs (1967-1970), was President of the Division of Educational Psychology (1968-1969), and was an Associate Editor of Contemporary Psychology for eight years. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Paul Vincent Gump (1920-2003).

Presents an obituary for Paul Gump, who died on November 13, 2003, in an auto accident near Lawrence, Kansas. Although Paul Gump received his graduate education in traditional experimental and clinical psychology, his research career was devoted to documenting the power of the concrete, immediate context in determining human behavior. Paul's pioneering work on school size and student involvement, documented the advantage of small schools over larger schools in involving students in active, responsible positions in school life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mary Hawley McCaulley (1920-2003).

Presents an obituary for Mary Hawley McCaulley, who passed away on August 26, 2003. Dr. McCaulley was widely recognized for her work as the clinical psychologist who spearheaded the effort to establish empirical support for the typology theory articulated by Carl Jung and two American educators, Isabel Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs. The assessment instrument developed to promote applications of Jung's typology theory is known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and McCaulley collaborated with Myers to create the first MBTI computer scoring program. Dr. McCaulley's priorities were education, counseling, multicultural personality assessment, leadership development, career planning, and psychometrics for the MBTI. (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)     

Obituary: Willard Clifford Olson (1899-1978).

Willard C. Olson, former dean of the School of Education of the University of Michigan, died at the Huron Valley Lodge and Nursing Home, not far from his Ann Arbor residence, October 30, 1978. His survivors include his wife, the former Violet Hunt Pickard, a daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Hayes, five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, a brother, and a sister. His death followed a long siege of Parkinson's disease. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Michael Argyle (1925-2002).

This obituary reviews the life and work of social psychologist Michael Argyle (1925-2002). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mary Cover Jones (1896–1987).

This articles provides an obituary for Mary Cover Jones, 1896-1987. Her contributions to the field of developmental psychology are listed by the authors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Felix E. Goodson II (1922-2007).

Provides an obituary for Felix E. Goodson II, a psychologist who focused mainly on evolutionary psychology and who passed away on May 17, 2007. In his teaching and writing, Felix emphasized the historical and theoretical roots of psychology, as can be seen in the four chapters he wrote for Theories in Contemporary Psychology (2nd ed., 1976), co-authored with Melvin Marx. His book The Evolutionary Foundations of Psychology: A Unified Theory (1973) grew out of almost two decades of seminars and empirical studies with DePauw students and colleagues. However, his magnum opus, 30 years in the making, was The Evolution and Function of Cognition (2003), published when Felix was 81 years old, 18 years after his formal retirement. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)