Each month I receive a list of deaths among the APA membership from the obituary editor for the American Psychologist. Among those reported for November, 2015, was the name Mary Jo MacGregor. The name was familiar to me since I knew she was president of the Division of School Psychology (1975-1976). Unfortunately the listing had no date of death and I have been unsuccessful in finding her obituary. I don’t believe I ever met her although it is possible we met at a NASP convention or governance meeting around the time of her presidency. I have her presidential articles and photos from the Division’s newsletters and some biographical information from old APA membership directories.

Mary Jo MacGregor was born November 21, 1929 and assuming she died in fall of 2015, lived to be 85-86 years of age. My last address for her was in Green Valley, AZ. Mary received her BSE degree (1954) from Arkansas State Teachers College (now Arkansas State U.) and her MA (1959) and EdD in school psychology (1964) from George Peabody College for Teachers (now Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt U.). Before graduate school she taught school for 4 years in Lepanto (AR) and Dimmitt (TX). She worked for the Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools as a school psychologist intern (1961-62), school psychologist (1962-66), and as Supervisor of Pupil Services (1966-74). In 1974 she became a visiting professor of psychology at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC where she was involved in the development of its school psychology program. Division 16 President’s Messages and APA directories indicate that she joined the faculty of the school psychology program at Georgia State University in September 1976 and was listed as an associate professor for the Psychological Studies Institute (1977-1981) in Atlanta, GA, and then entered private practice.

Dr. MacGregor was an associate member of APA in 1961, and member in 1965 of Division 16. She was a past-president of the Maryland School Psychologists Association (1968-1969), the year the MSPA held its first institute which was sponsored by the State Department of Education and the Division of School Psychology (APA). She was a Fellow of the Maryland Psychological Association, a licensed clinical psychologist in Maryland and Georgia, and an ABPP diplomate in school psychology. Her President’s Message of February, 1976 includes a picture of her with Bart Cardon and Beeman Phillips. The messages of her presidential year are descriptive of the breadth of business and the restructuring of Division 16.

Further information about Mary Jo MacGregor would be much appreciated. Please send comments to Tom Fagan, 202 Psychology, University or Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152 or tfagan@memphis.edu