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Merrill-Palmer Institute: Dr. Esther McGinnis Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002124
Abstract
Dr. Esther McGinnis was the Director of the Merrill-Palmer Institute from 1947-1951. Prior to her appointment as Assistant Director in the 1930s, McGinnis was a professor of Family Life at the Child Welfare Institute at the University of Minnesota and at State Teaching College at Columbia University. Throughout her career at Merrill-Palmer she did consulting work for other universities as well as government committees. Dr. McGinnis' records span her career both before and during her time at...
Dates:
1936 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1952
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Merrill-Palmer Institute: Dr. Francis H. Palmer Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002123
Abstract
Dr. Francis H. Palmer was president of Merrill-Palmer from 1978-1981, prior to which he worked at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his education at the University of Pittsburg, published widely, mainly on preschool and early educational child development and was very active in the Headstart program. Palmer's records reflect his emphasis on the psychology of preschool and elementary age children and his direction of institutional focus to research.
Dates:
1978 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1978 - 1981
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Merrill-Palmer Institute: Dr. Pauline Park Wilson Knapp Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002120
Abstract
Dr. Pauline Park Wilson Knapp was the president and director of the Merrill-Palmer
Institute from 1952-1967. Knapp received her B.S. in Home Economics from the
University of Kentucky and M.A. and Ph. D in Psychology from Columbia University.
She established the first Child Development Center in Georgia in 1928, was head of the
Department of Family and Life at the University of Alabama from 1941-45 and the Dean
of the School of Home Economics at the University of Georgia from 1946-52. In...
Dates:
1950 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1952 - 1967
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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