| Abstract: | Applied psychology lost one of its pioneers and one of the major contributors to its development with the death on October 4, 1961 of Donald G. Paterson. Returning to this country after participating in the fourteenth International Congress of Applied Psychology in Copenhagen, he was hospitalized in Minneapolis and died of cancer after a brief illness. Paterson was Editor of this journal for 12 years, from 1943 through 1954, being the first person to perform this service under the APA's ownership and management of the journal. Paterson moved to the University of Minnesota in 1921, and in 1923 was promoted to Professor. He retired in 1960 after 39 years of service. In this interval he became a leading figure in psychology nationally, in his own community, and in the University of Minnesota. He pioneered in the whole advance of student personnel work, vocational counseling, industrial and personnel psychology, and differential psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
