Material on the child development movement collection, 1926-1971.

Sontag, L. W. (Lester Warren), 1901-

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Lester W. Sontag, Antioch College's (Yellow Springs, Ohio) physician, was appointed as the first Director for the Fels Longitudinal Study in 1929. The first participants were enrolled prenatally by their parents, and the first examinations began in 1930. Lester Sontag remained active in the study, developing and nurturing it until his retirement in 1970. In 1940s, Lester Sontag, M.D., was the first scientist who discovered that the mother's heartbeat affects the heartbea...

Murphy, Lois Barclay, 1902-2003

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Born in 1902 in Lisbon, Iowa, Lois Barclay Murphy attended Vassar College and earned a masters in theology from Union Theological Seminary. She had been fired from teaching comparative religion at Sarah Lawrence College when by chance she met the head of the Macy Foundation in New York. He solicited her to conduct a study of sympathy in pre-schoolers. Not only did the study become her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, it was later published as Social Behavior in Child Personality (19...

Washburn, Alfred H. (Alfred Hamlin), 1895-1972.

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Pediatrician and Director, Child Research Council, University of Colorado (1930-1960). The Child Research Council conducted a very important study of child growth. This study, which is commonly referred to as the Denver Study, began in 1927 and may have been the first long term multidisciplinary study of child growth and development. It served as a model for studies that began in 1928-1929 in Yellow Springs, Ohio (Fels Longitudinal Study) and in California (Berkeley Growth Study). T...

Gesell Institute of Child Development

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Frank, Lawrence K. (Lawrence Kelso), 1890-1968

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Leader of New York Society for Ethical Culture; educator, social psychologist. From the description of Papers, 1948-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155488882 Social scientist and lecturer. From the description of Papers, 1922-1968. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28417729 Lawrence K. Frank was born in Cincinnati, OH, December 6, 1890 and received his bachelor's degree in economics from Columbia University in 1912. He died ...

Thompson, Helen, 1897-....

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Helen Bradford Thompson (1847-1947), worked with Arnold Gesell, at the Gesell Institute of Human Development and Yale University--his research has provided fundamental knowledge about the behavior of children between birth and sixteen years of age. Gesell is best known for his theory that children learn best in environments that pay attention to their developmental growth. He had particular interest in alternative schooling practice, theorizing that because it is true that all children do not do...

Senn, Milton J. E., 1902-....

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Milton J.E. Senn : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619700 Milton J. E. Senn was born in Milwaukee in 1902. He earned his M.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1925 and served as a fellow in pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis from 1928 to 1933. He moved to Cornell University Medical School in 1933 as a professor of pediatrics. In 1939, upon completing a...