Young, Florene M.

Florene Young joined the UGA Psychology Department in 1932 when the Georgia State Teachers College, where she taught from 1926 through 1932, was consolidated with the University of Georgia. At the University, Dr. Young taught courses in abnormal, experimental, and developmental psychology and regularly had her classes visit the State Mental Hospital at Milledgeville. Dr. Young became the director of the UGA Psychology Clinic in 1950 and through her work helped make the field of psychology acceptable in the South. She remained as the director of the clinic until her retirement in 1969 at the age of 67. In 1948 Dr Young, along with Dr. Austin S. Edwards and colleagues at other institutions, successfully implemented the requirement that applied clinical psychologists must have professional licenses. She served on that licensing board from 1953 through 1968. Florene Young was named Woman of the Year for Athens/Clarke County in 1963. Upon her retirement in 1969, Dr. Young was named Professor Emerita of Psychology at UGA and continued to serve the local community through her private practice in downtown Athens.