NYSPA HISTORY
The New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA) has been a pioneer organization for psychology in America. The association has been in the forefront of most professional advances and has established many firsts in psychology. It was the first
state psychological association, it was the first group to press for legislation recognizing the professional of psychology, and it was the first psychological organization to adopt an official code of ethics (McCarthy, 1956). But the organization
has had a convoluted and bumpy evolution, as the history which follows will demonstrate.
Since its founding in 1921, as the New York State Association of Consulting Psychologists, the organization has gone through several changes
of name and organization. On one occasion, the New York group formed the core of a new national association and the state-based group had to reestablish itself as an organization. In part because of these changes, the history of NYSPA is best
understood as divided into several distinct periods (McCarthy, 1956). These periods are more fully explained in the pages that follow.
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ROLL OF PRESIDENTS
1921-30 David Mitchell
1930-31 Douglas H. Fryer
1931-32 Emily R. Burr
1932-33 Richard H. Paynter
1933-34 Louis E. Poull
1934-35 Percival M. Symonds
1935-36 Henry E. Starr (Died in Office);
Miles Murphy
1936-37 Gertrude Hildreth
1937-38 Robert A. Brotemarkle
1938-39 Warren W. Coxe
1939-40 Jack W. Dunlap
1940-41 Henry E. Garrett
1941-42 Ethel L. Cornell
1942-43
Warren G. Findley
1943-44 Dorothea McCarthy
1944-45 Morris Krugman
1945-46 Herbert D. Williams
1946-47 John G. Peatman
1947-48 Wallace H. Wulfeck
1948-49 George K. Bennett
1949-50 Arthur W. Combs
1950-51 J. McV. Hunt
1951-52 Louis Long
1952-53 L. Joseph Stone
1953-54 Harold G. Seashore
1954-55 Rollo May
1955-56 Stuart W. Cook
1956-57 Albert
S. Thompson
1957-58 Florence Halpern
1958-59 Raymond A. Katzell
1959-60 Gordon F. Derner
1960-61 Max Siegel
1961-62 Harry V. McNeill
1962-63 Bernard R. Reiss
1963-64 Edward
Joseph Shoben (Resigned); Bernard F. Reiss
1964-65 Isidor Chein
1965-66 Morton Deutsch
1966-67 Samuel Pearlman
1967-68 Joseph R. Sanders
1968-69 Bernard Saper
1969-70 Leonard Small
1970-71 Walter H. Wilke
1971-72 O. Bernard Leibman
1972-73 Florence L. Denmark
1973-74 George Stricker
1974-75 Doris K. Miller
1975-76 Cecil R. Forster
1976-77 Rosalea A. Schonbar
1977-78 Allen V. Williams, Jr.
1978-79 Jacob Chwast
1979-80 Howard M. Cohen
1980-81 Justin P. Carey
1981-82 Reuben J. Silver
1982-83 Virginia Staudt Sexton
1983-84 Ruth Ochroch
1984-85 Sidney A. Orgel
1985-86 Harry Sands
1986-87 Magda Denes
1987-88 Richard Cohen
1988-89 Stanley Graham
1989-90 Sheryl F. Jacobson
1990-91 Martin J. Coffey
1991-92
Michael J. Sullivan
1992-93 George Litchford, Jr.
1993-94 Esther Mullen
1994-95 David Nevin
1995-96 Neil Berger
1996-97 Richard O’Neill
1997-98 Franklin Goldberg
1999 Marianne
Jackson
2000 Noemi Balinth
2001 John Northman
2002 Barbara Cowen
2003 Rudy Nydegger
2004 Sharon Brennan
2005 Rita Perlin
2006 Ruth Ochroch
2007 Dianne Polowczyk
2008 Richard Wexler
2009 George H. Northrup
2010 Jerold Grodin
2011 Donna Rasin-Waters
2012 Richard Juman
2013 Eric Neblung
2014 Dinelia Rosa
2015 Leonard Davidman
2016 Roy Aranda
2017 Herbert Gingold
2018 Patricia Dowds (Resigned); Herbert Gingold
2019 Alan Hack
2020 Daniel Kaplin
2021 Christine Allen
2022 Barbara Kapetanakes
2023 James Dean
