BATHURST, JAMES ELMER, 1898-1978

Biography:

College professor; Administrator. Born– June 10, 1898, Alton, Kan. Parents– William Henry and Clara Amelia Smith Bathurst. Married–Ora Belle Bathurst, 1919. Children– Two. Education– McPherson College, A.B., 1922; Iowa State University, A.B., Ph.D., 1926. Postdoctoral fellowship and Rockefeller Foundation grant, 1938-1939. Served as president of Wessington Springs Junior College, 1923-1925; assistant director of the Bureau of Public Personnel Administration, Birmingham Southern College, 1927-1929; professor of psychology, Birmingham Southern College, 1929-1946; executive vice-president of the American Management Association, 1946-1954; Academic Dean, Athens College, 1959-1970. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Psychological Association. Died April 14, 1978.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 12th. ed. and Social and Behavioral Sciences; obituary

Publication(s):

And Now I Know. College Park, Ga.; s.n., 1957.