Hooker, Evelyn Caldwell

Evelyn Gentry was born on Sept. 2, 1907 in North Platte, NE, and grew up near Sterling, CO; awarded bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from Univ. of CO; Ph. D in psychology, Johns Hopkins Univ.; joined psychology faculty at UCLA University Extension in 1939; after her marriage to Donn Caldwell, she married UCLA English professor Edward Niles Hooker in 1951; in 1954 she received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for a comparative study of the pathology of homosexual and heterosexual males; her 1957 paper, "The adjustment of the male overt homosexual," reported little statistical difference; chaired NIMH Task Force on Homosexuality in 1967, which issued what came to be called the "Hooker report" in 1969; retired from UCLA in 1970, and began private practice as a psychotherapist; awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Psychology career achievement award from the American Psychological Assn. in 1992; in the same year, she chaired the establishment of the Wayne Placek Fund, an endowment administered by the American Psychological Foundation to support research in homosexuality; she died on Nov. 18, 1996 in Santa Monica, CA.

From the description of Papers, 1910-1997. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 41611752

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