Anne Anastasi.

Announces that Anne Anastasi has been chosen as the 1970-71 President-elect of the American Psychological Association. A summary of Dr. Anastasi's career achievements is provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Anne Anastasi (1908–2001).

Memorializes Anne Anastasi, an enduring figure in the areas of psychological testing and differential psychology. Anastasi served as president of the American Psychological Association (APA) as well as president of APA Division 1 (General Psychology) and Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics). Other milestones of her career are detailed briefly. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation Awards for 1976: Gold Medal, Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology, and the National Media.

On September 4, 1976, at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA) in Washington, D.C., the American Psychological Foundation (APF) announced the recipients of the Gold Medal Award, the Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology Award, and the National Media Awards. William Sevan, President of the APF, made the presentations. Arthur W. Melton received the Gold Medal Award. James V. McConnell was given the Teaching Award. National Media Award winners were Jonathan L. Freedman, Edward Edelson, Kenneth L. Woodward, and Lonnie Carton. Other members of the APF are George W. Albee (Vice-President), Boris E. Cherney (Treasurer), Charles A. Kiesler (Secretary), Anne Anastasi, Albert Bandura, Donald T. Campbell, Kenneth B. Clark, Kenneth B. Little, Wilbert J. McKeachie, George A. Miller, and Leona E. Tyler. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mary Henle (1913-2007).

An uncompromising advocate of academic rigor, and the last surviving second-generation Gestalt theorist, Mary Henle maintained the highest academic standards during a long career that was an inspiration to many of her colleagues. Her frequently cited publications are models of clear thinking and clear writing. She served as president of the Eastern Psychological Association (1981-1982) and of Divisions 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 1974-1975) and 26 (History of Psychology, 1971-1972) of the American Psychological Association (APA). She also served on such boards and committees as the APA Insurance Trust and made many presentations of carefully crafted papers at psychology conventions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation Awards for 1977: Gold Medal, Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology, and the National Media.

On August 27, 1977, at the annual meeting of the APA in San Francisco, the American Psychological Foundation announced the recipients of the Gold Medal Award, the Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology Award, and the National Media Awards. William Bevan, President of the APF, made the presentations. Daniel Katz received the Gold Medal Award; Fred McKinney was given the Teaching Award. National Media Award winners were Alice Lake, Peter Chew, Joel Greenberg, Ira Flatow, and WNEW-TV, New York. Other members of the APF are George W. Albee (Vice-President), Boris E. Cherney (Treasurer), Charles A. Kiesler (Secretary), Anne Anastasi, Albert Bandura, Donald T. Campbell, Kenneth B. Clark, Wilbert J. McKeachie, and Leona E. Tyler. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation Awards for 1978: Gold Medal, Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology, Unique Contribution in the Teaching of Psychology, and the National Media.

On August 29, 1978, at the annual meeting of the APA in Toronto, the American Psychological Foundation announced the recipients of the Gold Medal Award, the Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology Award, a special award for Unique Contribution in the Teaching of Psychology, and the National Media Awards. George Albee, President of the APF, made the presentations. Ernest R. Hilgard received the Gold Medal Award; Douglas K. Candland was given the Teaching Award; and Robert S. Daniel was the recipient of the Unique Contribution in the Teaching of Psychology Award. National Media Award winners were Robert M. Stern and William J. Ray, Emily Hahn, Elizabeth Einstein, Eric Braun, and Stephen Glauber and Dan Rather. Other members of the APF are Wilbert J. McKeachie (Vice-President}, Boris E. Cherney (Treasurer), Charles A. Kiesler (Secretary), Kenneth B. Clark, Anne Anastasi, Leona E. Tyler, Albert Bandura, Donald T. Campbell, and Theodore H. Blau. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Barbara Strudler Wallston (1943–1987).

Presents an obituary for Barbara Wallston. Wallston graduated from Cornell University in 1965 with a major in mathematics. In 1966 she obtained an MA in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Connecticut, and in 1972 she received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Wisconsin. She spent all of her 15-year career as an academic researcher at George Peabody College for Teachers of Vanderbilt University. For most of her professional life, much of Wallston's work focused on the development and utilization of the health locus of control scale that she devised with her colleague and former husband, Kenneth Wallston. The scale is now used throughout the world to measure people's beliefs about who or what controls their health status. She also worked in the areas of dual careerism, stereotyping, helping behavior, differential perceptions of women and men, and feminist methodology in psychology. Wallston's scholarly contributions to psychology were rivaled only by her record of service. She assumed a variety of leadership roles in several divisions of the American Psychological Association, and she was the recipient of the Carolyn Wood Sherif Lectureship Award for her achievements in and commitment to feminist scholarship, teaching, and mentoring and to professional leadership in feminist psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished contributions to applied psychology as a professional practice: Rogers H. Wright.

Presents the citation, biography, and bibliography for Rogers H. Wright, the 1985 recipient of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychology as a Professional Practice. Known by many as the 'Father of Professional Psychology,' Dr. Wright has been in the forefront of the struggle for recognition by Professional Psychology. Possibly the most important and powerful contribution that Dr. Wright has made was in co-founding and being the first President of the Committee for the Advancement of Psychological Professions and Sciences (CAPPS), the group that introduced Psychology into public policy advocacy. It was this group that brought the American Psychological Association into the public policy arena and led to the establishment of AAP and the various policy groups within APA that now play such a major part in APA's program. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Naomi M. Meara (1937-2007): Obituary.

Presents an obituary of Naomi M. Meara (1937-2007). The death of Naomi Meara brought to a close a distinguished career in counseling psychology. Her career was marked by her outstanding scholarship in ethical decision making for psychologists, by her leadership in the American Psychological Association (APA), particularly in APA Division 17 (Counseling Psychology), and by her compassion and caring for family, friends, students, and colleagues. She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law Joseph and Johanna Meara and by her much loved nieces and nephews--Joseph P. Meara, Karen Meara, Matthew Meara, Kevin Meara, Ellen Meara--and their families. She will be dearly missed by them and by a host of friends and colleagues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Donald L. Grummon (1917–1993): Obituary.

Memorializes D. L. Grummon, who was known for his psychotherapeutic research as well as for the development of the Counseling Center at Michigan State University. He was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 12 and 17) and was active in the Division of Counseling Psychology, where he served on the executive committee and chaired the membership committee, the fellowship committee, and the program committee. Grummon also headed a Peace Corps project in Nigeria. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation Awards for 1973: Gold Medal, Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology, and the National Media.

On August 28, 1973, at the annual meeting of the APA in Montreal, the American Psychological Foundation announced the recipients of the Gold Medal Award, the Distinguished Contributions to Education in Psychology Awards, and the National Media Awards. The presentations were made by Henry W. Riecken, President of the American Psychological Foundation (APF). Harry F. Harlow received the Gold Medal Award; James B. Maas and Frank J. McGuigan were given the Teaching Awards; and Gerald Jonas, ABC News and Jules Power Productions, the Great Atlantic Radio Conspiracy, Christine Darg, and Elliott Aronson were the recipients of the National Media Awards. Other members of the APF are Nicholas Hobbs, Gardner Lindzey (Vice-President}, Boris E. Cherney (Treasurer), George Miller, George Albee, William Bevan, Kenneth B. Little (Secretary), Kenneth B. Clark, and Anne Anastasi. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal And Distinguished Science Writing Awards 1967.

At the Annual Meeting of the APA in Washington, D. C., on September 4, 1967, the American Psychological Foundation announced the APF Distinguished Science Writing Award. Presentations were made by Anne Anastasi, President of the APF. This year the award is given jointly to: Gay Gaer Luce and Julius Segal for their book entitled Sleep--published by Coward-McCann. (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)     

Richard Haig Walters.

Presents an obituary for Dr. Richard Haig Walters whose death on December 27th, 1967 shocked and saddened his many friends. Dr. Walters was the first permanent chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo; a director of the Canadian Psychological Association and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the British Psychological Association. In the year prior to his death, he was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Oxford University. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Georgia Babladelis (1931–2009).

Georgia Babladelis, a leader in the field of the psychology of women and widely regarded as a warm and generous person, died on May 28, 2009, at the age of 78. She is survived by her sister, Helen Dickens of Centerville, Indiana; her brother, George Babladelis of Manistique, Michigan; and numerous nieces and nephews. Babladelis was born on January 30, 1931, in Manistique, Michigan, the daughter of Greek immigrant parents. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1953; her master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957; and her doctorate in psychology from the University of Colorado in 1960. Babladelis was very interested in the human–animal bond. Babladelis was a fellow of APA Divisions 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) and 35 (now the Society for the Psychology of Women) and a member of Divisions 8 (Society for Personality and Social Psychology) and 52 (International Psychology). She was also a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Western Psychological Association. Her contributions were wide and influential and will not soon be forgotten. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Winifred Starbuck Scott (1906-2003).

Presents the obituary for Winifred Starbuck Scott (1906-2003), who served as American Psychological Association's Division of School Psychology president in 1964-1965. Dr. Scott is noted for her work in the area of school psychology and her extensive involvement in numerous divisions within APA. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

American Psychological Foundation awards for 1984: Gold Medal, Distinguished Teaching in Psychology, Distinguished Teaching of Group Process, and the National Psychology Awards for Excellence in the Media.

On August 26, 1984, at the annual meeting of the APA in Toronto, Canada, the American Psychological Foundation announced the recipients of the Gold Medal Award (to Anne Anastasi), the Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award (to David L. Cole), the Distinguished Teaching of Group Process Award (to Robert Freed Bales), and the National Psychology Award for Excellence in the Media (to Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman and Roger Sergel). Nicholas A. Cummings, president of the APF, made the presentations. The citations, biographies, and bibliographies for all of the recipients are presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

CPA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Profession/SCP Prix honorant une contribution hors-pair a la psychologie en tant que profession 1983.

Presents a citation for Dr. Terrence Patrick Hogan, the 1983 recipient of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Profession. Dr. Hogan has established himself as a dedicated, knowledgeable, and extremely competent individual in clinical psychology, family therapy, neuropsychology, industrial- organizational psychology, health psychology, and administration. Terry has served this Association extensively as Chairperson of the Applied Division, as a member of the CPA Board of Directors, as CPA's representative to the Advisory Council of Provincial Associations of Psychologists, and, as President of CPA. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Donald T. Campbell: APA President-Elect, 1974.

Presents biographical information for Dr. Donald T. Campbell, the Eighty-Third President-elect of the American Psychological Association. Campbell's victory marked the first APA presidential race in which ballots were accompanied by a position statement from each candidate on "issues facing psychology." Campbell's position statement is included here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Goldine Gleser (1915-2004).

Presents an obituary for Goldine Gleser, who was widely recognized as a scholar, leader, consultant, administrator, and mentor and role model to many students. Dr. Gleser's educational background and natural aptitude for mathematics led her to develop the strong interest in measurement and statistics that shaped her career and influenced the lives of her many students and colleagues. She co-authored 10 books, at least 21 book chapters, 11 reviews of books and tests, and no fewer than 93 journal articles covering a wide range of topics. She was a consulting editor for Multivariate Behavioral Research and played a critical role in the American Psychological Association (APA)/American Educational Research Association Joint Committee to Review Educational and Psychological Test Standards. Dr. Gleser received numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious Rieveschl Award for scientific research, before she passed away on November 24, 2004. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)