Obituary: Richard S. Crutchfield (1912-1977).

Crutchfield was born in Pittsburgh on June 20, 1912. He received his BA in civil engineering from the California Institute of Technology and his PhD in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1938-1939 he was a research associate at Swarthmore College, where he worked with Wolfgang Kohler. The next year he was an instructor at Mount Holyoke College. From 1940 to 1946 he held research and administrative appointments with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Office of War Information, and the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in Germany. In several of these posts he contributed to the developing methodology of opinion surveys, and for distinguished service in the last position he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the U.S. Department of War. In 1946 he returned to Swarthmore, where he later served as Chairman of the Psychology Department. After several visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, he came permanently as professor of psychology in 1953. He was one of the original team of research psychologists at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) in Berkeley, and in 1970 he succeeded Donald W. MacKinnon as Director. Failing health forced him to resign this position in 1973. Crutchfield passed away on July 19, 1977. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Norman S. Endler (1931-2003).

Remembers the life of Norman S. Endler, Distinguished Research Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Psychology at York University. Endler passed away as a result of a brain tumor in Toronto on May 7, 2003. The author recalls Endler's life and career, highlighting his contributions as a pioneer in espousing an interactional view of personality. Norm is best known for his interactional model of personality, especially as applied to anxiety, stress, and coping (e.g., Endler, "Interactionism: A Personality Model, But Not Yet A Theory" in M. M. Page (Ed.), Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 1981: Personality-Current Theory and Research, 1983). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Edmund Griffith Williamson (1900-1979).

Edmund Griffith Williamson died at the Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis on January 30, 1979. A memorial service was held on the campus of the University of Minnesota on February 5, 1979. In May 1977, the university had named one of its major new buildings in his honor. Throughout his professional and personal life, there was a sense of mission and evangelism that drove Ed and therefore, those who worked with him or for him. He did not suffer fools gladly, yet he could show infinite patience with individuals and for the nurturance of ideas and programs. He was the master builder and major contributor to a field of applied psychology-counseling-dedicated to the fullest development of effective human beings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Harry Kelson (1898-1977).

If neonates can see colors, Harry Helson could see them for the first time on November 9, 1898, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and he could have seen them for the last time on October 13, 1977, in Berkeley, California. Colors constituted perhaps his dominant interest in his professional life. Harry's academic career was characterized by a relatively rapid rise in rank. Perhaps because of a personal trait of restlessness, but more assuredly because his services were in great demand, he made an unusual number of changes of academic affiliations. Of Harry's personal characteristics, the most apparent ones were his activeness, his wit, and his enthusiasm, the last not only for ideas but also in his personal relations. He was not a joiner, but he was warm and outgoing and was often the life of the party. Intellectually, he was strongest in the area of seeing implications and also in the area of evaluating them. These dispositions showed in his quickness to see problems and their significance and to generate hypotheses, all marks of a creative scientist. He was also a keen observer and judge of people and their actions, traits in the area of social intelligence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Eric F. Gardner (1913-2002).

This obituary reviews the life and work of Eric F. Gardner (1913-2002). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: David A. Grant (1916-1977).

David A. Grant, Clark L. Hull Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin, died on December 28, 1977, in Madison. He is remembered by family and friends, including a very large number of students whose first efforts in the world of experimental psychology were enhanced and guided by this good and demanding professor. David Grant, born May 17, 1916, was educated at the University of Iowa (BA, 1938), the University of Wisconsin (MA, 1939), and Stanford University (PhD, 1941). His interesting life in the department at the University of Wisconsin began in the basement of Bascom Hall in 1941 as an assistant professor sharing an office with Harry Harlow, another Stanford PhD of a few years earlier. Harlow's days were spent at the cheese-factory-turned-primate-laboratory, so Grant had the office to himself. He advanced through the ranks to full professor and research professor and chaired the department during 1950-1954 and 1971-1972. The department grew impressively during his professional life in it and moved into a building of its own. It is currently a large and respected department. David Grant was still a member of it when he died. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Albert Theodore Poffenberger (1885-1977).

Albert T. Poffenberger's 92 years, from October 23, 1885, to December 24, 1977, paralleled the emergence and shaping of psychology as a science, both pure and applied. He himself did much to influence its development by his scholarship and service. His quiet, modest effectiveness was crucially important at Columbia University and in many other organizations, including the APA, where he filled official roles. His character was truly unforgettable and touched everyone who met him. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Jacquelin R. Goldman (1934–2008).

Presents an obituary for Jacquelin R. Goldman, professor emeritus in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida, died November 3, 2008, at the age of 74 in Gainesville, Florida. She spent her entire career of 35-plus years at the University of Florida. She mentored 24 doctoral students, authored and edited three psychology textbooks, and published more than 40 professional articles and book chapters. She was an active contributor to university governance and was involved in teaching, research, clinical supervision, and the provision of clinical services to children. She was also an active contributor to the profession, having served as president of the Florida State Board of Examiners of Psychology (1975–1977), chair of the Southeastern Regional Board of the American Board of Professional Psychology (1983–1993), and president of the American Board of Professional Psychology (1990–1991), among other professional involvements. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Carolyn R. Payton (1925-2001).

Memorializes Carolyn R. Payton for being a pioneer both as an African American and as a woman, in her roles as researcher, teacher, administrator, individual and group therapist, and US Peace Corps director. She was honored for her pioneering contributions to multicultural psychology. Carolyn Payton exemplified a life of conscious purposefulness and determination. (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)     

Obituary: Hans-Lukas Teuber (1916-1977).

Hans-Lukas Teuber, Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lost his life on January 4, 1977, while swimming off Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. Professor Teuber had won worldwide recognition as a leader in psychology and in the neurosciences. His pioneering research into the behavioral after-effects of brain injury, begun during the final years of World War II in collaboration with Professor Morris Bender, led to his recognition as an authority on the relationship between brain and behavior. His work, which encompassed both basic and clinical investigations, provided a foundation for contemporary neuropsychology and its integration with related disciplines. He is survived by his wife, Marianne, who shared his professional work to a remarkable extent, and by two sons, Andreas and Christopher. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Joseph R. Royce (1921–1989): Obituary.

Joseph R. Royce, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, died of a stroke at age 68, on September 21, 1989, at his home in Edmonton. He was one of the best known psychologists in Canada. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Rodney R. Cocking (1943-2002).

R. R. Cocking was born on January 11, 1943, in Casper, Wyoming, to a family deeply rooted in the culture of the West. Shortly after his 59th birthday, Cocking was murdered. His death is a great loss to his family, his friends and colleagues, and the field. Cocking was interested in behavioral development, child development, cognitive development, and learning and educational environments. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Arthur W. Melton (1906-1978).

Arthur W. Melton was born August 13, 1906, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and died November 5, 1978, in San Antonio, Texas. He had retired from his professorship at the University of Michigan in 1974 and had become a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught part time. His health deteriorated badly in the year before his death. Art Melton was a private man; some thought him austere and cold. It is true that he could be a bit brusque with the lazy and the incompetent, yet his kindnesses are legion. Perhaps one never fully got the hang of the man until one engaged him in a game of horseshoes, or on the putting green, or most particularly, in a poker game. No one loved a game of poker more than Art Melton, and he was absolutely relentless in his pursuit of the chips around the table. One began to realize that his fiercely competitive behavior might be just another manifestation of the way he had always viewed his profession; it deserved the best he could give it, and there would be no compromise on that. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Miriam F. Polster (1924-2001).

Reports the death of Miriam F. Polster (1924-2001) and notes her contributions to Gestalt therapy. She advanced the notion that the aesthetic impulse in human nature could be used to liberate the personality from neurotic fixations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: W. Horsley Gantt (1892-1980).

This item presents an obituary for W. Horsley Gantt (1892-1980). He first studied medicine at the University of North Carolina and received his medical degree in 1920 from the University of Virginia. John Dewey was especially influential in helping Horsley obtain a position at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore in 1929, where he immediately started the first Pavlovian laboratory in the US. physiology. In 1950, while still at Hopkins, he started a second Pavlovian laboratory at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Perry Point, Maryland; he continued as director there until 1974. Horsley continued as professor emeritus at Hopkins, where, until three weeks before his death, he lectured, attended conferences, and participated in symposia. He was also a professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical School, where he taught each spring semester. Simultaneously, he was research professor at the Performance Research Laboratory of the University of Louisville, collecting data until two months before he died. Horsley was widely honored for the research and theories he developed over the past 50 years, and he personally regarded his theories of schizokinesis and autokinesis as his most important contributions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Ogden R. Lindsley Jr. (1922-2004).

Obituary for Ogden R. Lindsley Jr. (1922-2004). On October 10, 2004, we lost a giant in the field of behavior analysis. The full impact of his contributions to both basic and applied science will undoubtedly unfold in the coming years. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Robert R. Zimmermann (1930-2009).

Obituary [Robert R. Zimmermann; 1930-2009]. Robert R. Zimmermann, coauthor with Harry Harlow of “Affectional Responses,” the influential article on “mother love” published in the August 1959 issue of Science, died of esophageal cancer on November 3, 2009, in Lansing, Michigan. A member of the American Psychological Association for more than 50 years, Zimmermann published 70 articles, book chapters, and reviews; was the principal investigator on numerous federal, state, and local grants; and directed nearly 20 doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on April 3, 1930, he was the son of William and Daisy Zimmermann. He is survived by his wife Marian Shaffer, two sisters, seven children, and seven grandchildren. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Samuel J. Beck (1896-1980).

Presents an obituary for Samuel J. Beck (1896-1980), whose name has been synonymous with the Rorschach Test for nearly 50 years. Beck worked tirelessly to develop the Rorschach as a scientific tool that would have some meaningfulness for all of psychology. Beck's first book, Introduction to the Rorschach Technique, in 1937 was the first monograph of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. Subsequently, his three-volume series (Rorschach's Test: Volume 1-Basic Processes; Volume 2-A Variety of Personality Pictures; and Volume 3-Advances in Interpretation) appeared between 1944 and 1952 and became standard in the field for thousands of students and practitioners. Throughout Sam Beck's long career in teaching, practice, and research he labored fruitfully to close the gap between scientific method and clinical practice by continually illustrating how the idiographic and nomothetic approaches could be neatly blended into the study and understanding of the person. Beck was an excellent teacher, a dedicated and extremely skilled Rorschacher, and a model clinician. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Norman Joseph Slamecka (1928-2003).

Presents an obituary for Norman J. Slamecka (1928-2003). Slamecka and his wife Jan were killed suddenly in a pedestrian accident on August 2, 2003, in Lewes, Delaware. He was a Marine veteran of the Korean War, and after a few years of practice as a clinical psychologist for the Veterans Administration, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He then taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo for a short while before coming to the University of Toronto in 1970, where he remained until his retirement in 1994. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)