Don C. Fitzgerald was born September 18, 1916, and died on April 1, 1983. Fitzgerald earned his B.A. in 1941 from Brigham Young University. He earned his M.A. in 1942 and his Ph.D. in 1949, both from the State University of Iowa.
Fitzgerald worked as a personal consultant from 1943-1944 and as a clinical psychologist for the U. S. Army from 1944-1946. Fitzgerald also worked as a vocational counselor (1946-1947) and a personal counselor (1948-1949) at the State University of Iowa and as a psychologist at the Iowa Board of Control for a year in 1949.
Fitzgerald accepted the position of Chief Psychologist at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute (NPI) in 1949 and remained in that position until 1955. During this time he also worked as an Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology at the nearby University of Nebraska College of Medicine from 1949-1956. In 1955 he accepted a position as Chief Psychologist at the Lincoln State Hospital but left in 1956 in order to accept an associate professor position at Creighton University School of Medicine. Fitzgerald left Creighton University in 1963 to accept a position as a Clinical School and Research Psychologist for the Linn County Public School System in Iowa. He retired in 1967.
From the guide to the Don C. Fitzgerald papers, 1946-1967, (Center for the History of Psychology)
