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a. Note:   President of the American Psychological Association, 1966. Vanderbuilt University Provost; 1967-1975. First Director of selection and research for the PEACE CORPS. Developer and Founding Director of the John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Develpoment. Bio= http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/site/about/history/page.aspx?id=102 http://www.sbbh.pitt.edu/Leaders%20Project/Hobbs%20Nicholas%20Wikipedia.pdf
  Hobbs Laboratory of Human Development is named for Professor Nicholas Hobbs, the Kennedy Center's founder, whose research led to Project Re-Ed, a re-education intervention serving emotionally troubled children.
  Nicholas Hobbs received his B.A. degree from The Citadel in 1936. He was awarded his M.A. in 1938 and Ph.D. in 1946 from Ohio State University, and served as an Army Air Force psychologist during World War II. In 1951 he moved from Louisiana State University to George Peabody College where he headed the division of Guidance and Human Development. Mr. Hobbs was most successful at winning grants for the college and for strengthening the psychology department. He helped create a Department of Special Education and procured grants which led to the founding of the Kennedy Center, which he served as the first director from 1965 to 1970. He retired as Professor of Psychology, Emeritus from Vanderbilt University in 1980.
  Only days before his death from cancer on January 23, 1983, he participated in the dedication of the Nicholas Hobbs Laboratory of Human Development of the Peabody College for Teachers of Vanderbilt University, part of the Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development that he founded and directed at its beginning. Two years earlier, he had received two parallel American Psychological Association (APA) awards--one for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest and another for Distinguished Professional Contributions "utilizing psychological knowledge in the public interest and social policy." As the citations and testimonials on these occasions variously noted, Nick gave creative, responsible, and effective service to the institutions that he helped administer, to the Southern region from which he sprang, to the APA, and to the profession of psychology, but above all to the nation's children and youth, especially those who grew up with disadvantage and difficulty. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
  An Alternative school named for him serving 300 students, grades 3-12, in Memphis, TN: Nicholas Hobbs Academy at 7410 Memphis Arlington Rd. Wikipedia Biography on "Nick" Hobbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hobbs View his portrait: http://www.tnportraits.org/images/vand-hobbs-nicholas-lg.jpg SSDI: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J17R-3TY


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