| Abstract: | On August 24, 1986, at the annual meeting of the APA in Washington, D.C, the American Psychological Foundation announced the recipients of the Psychological Science Gold Medal Award, Eleanor J. Gibson; the Psychological Professional Gold Medal Award, Kenneth E. Clark; the Contribution by a Psychologist in the Public Interest Gold Medal Award, Stuart W. Cook; the Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award, Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.; the Distinguished Contribution to Education in Psychology Award, Ellen P Reese; and the National Psychology Awards for Excellence in the Media (individual awards to Kevin McKean, Jim Metzner, and John Michael Langone, and joint awards to Elaine Hatfield and Susan Sprecher; Kate Bernhardt, Jim Lipscomb, Bill Wander, and Nicole Lucas; and Judith A. Polone, Robert M. Myman, and Ervin Zavada. John J. Conger, president of the APF, made the presentations. Other members of the 1986 APF Board of Trustees are William Bevan (Vice-President, Leonard D. Goodstein (Secretary), Deanna Dunworth (Treasurer), Nicholas A. Cummings, Florence L. Denmark, Dorothy H. Eichorn, Robert Perloff, Max Siegel, and Janet T. Spence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
