John Kenneth Osborn (1901-) attended the University of Michigan from at least 1931 through 1934. His 1934 Ph.D. thesis was entitled, A comparison of reactions to personality and achievement test items. On June 16, 1927 in Ann Arbor, John wed Delight Elizabeth Evans (born December 16, 1902), the daughter of John L. and Gusta Evans of Bangor, Wisconsin. Osborn taught as a Professor of Education and served as Director of Teacher Training at Hillsdale College from 1934 until 1939, and then taught education and psychology at CMU from 1939 until 1970. He was also an ordained minister and worked as the part-time pastor of the Rosebush [Michigan] Presbyterian Church. John K. Osborn died at the age of 88 in Reinbeck, Iowa, on August 13, 1992. (This information is from the collection, his obituary of August 31, 1992 in CMLife, and a note about him in Centralight, Spring 1993 issue.) Delight Osborn graduated from the LaCrosse, Wisconsin, School of Nursing in 1923 and from the School of Education at the University of Michigan in 1928. She worked as a registered nurse at the University of Michigan Hospital and a hospital in Wisconsin before working as the school nurse at the lab school at CMU from 1958 to 1970. Delight was also an ordained deacon of the Presbyterian Church and a member of First Presbyterian Church in Mount Pleasant. On September 26, 1986 Delight died in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, at the age of 83. She was survived by her husband, John, her son, John William Osborn, and a brother. (This information is from her obituary of September 29, 1986 in the Morning Sun.)
From the description of Papers, 1931, 2009. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 320244008
