Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1908, Oct. 29 | Born, Portland, Maine |
| 1930 | Married Smith Whittier Ames (divorced 1937) B.A., University of Maine, Orono, Maine |
| 1933 | M.A., University of Maine, Orono, Maine |
| 1933-1936 | Research secretary and personal assistant to Arnold Gesell, Clinic of Child Development, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1936 | Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1938 | Produced first film, "How Behavior Grows: The Sequential Patterning of Prone Progression" |
| 1940-1944 | Instructor, Clinic of Child Development, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1943 | Published with Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg, and Janet Learned Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (New York: Harper & Brothers. 405 pp.) |
| 1944-1950 | Assistant Professor and curator of the Yale Films of Child Development, Clinic of Child Development, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1946 | Published with Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg, and Glenna E. Bullis Child from Five to Ten (New York: Harper & Brothers. 458 pp.) |
| 1950 | Founded with Frances Lillian Ilg the Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1950-1968 | Director of research and secretary-treasurer, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1951-1973 | Coauthor of syndicated newspaper column Child Behavior (after 1962 called Parents Ask) |
| 1952-1955 | Weekly television series, Child Behavior |
| 1960-1961 | Weekly television series, The Gesell Institute Reports: Your Child and You |
| 1965 | Published with Frances Lillian Ilg School Readiness: Behavior Tests Used at the Gesell Institute (New York: Harper & Row. 396 pp.) |
| 1968 | Associate director and chief psychologist, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1970 | Published Child Care and Development (Philadelphia: Lippincott Co. 426 pp.) |
| 1971-1977 | Codirector, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1973 | Published Rorschach Responses in Old Age (New York: Brunner/Mazel. 219 pp.) |
| 1974 | Published with Joan Ames Chase Don't Push Your Pre-schooler (New York: Harper & Row. 212 pp.) |
| 1976 | Published series on child development with Frances Lillian Ilg, beginning with Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender (New York: Delacorte Press. 149 pp.) |
| 1978 | Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn., renamed Gesell Institute of Human Development, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1989 | Published Arnold Gesell: Themes of His Work (New York: Human Sciences Press. 334 pp.) |
| 1990 | Reaffiliation of the Gesell Institute of Human Development with Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1991 | Lecturer, Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1996, Oct. 31 | Died, Cincinnati, Ohio |