Background
Chauncey, Henry was born on February 9, 1905 in Brooklyn. Son of Egisto Fabbri and Edith Lockwood (Taft) Chauncey.
Chauncey, Henry was born on February 9, 1905 in Brooklyn. Son of Egisto Fabbri and Edith Lockwood (Taft) Chauncey.
Graduate, Groton (Massachusetts) School, 1923. Student, Ohio State University, 1924. AB, Harvard College, 1928.
Student, Graduate School Arts and Science, 1931. Doctor of Science (honorary), Tufts University, 1952. Doctor of Letters, Rider College, 1966.
Doctor of Laws, Ohio State University, 1968. Doctor of Laws, Washington University, St. Louis, 1971.
Teacher history William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, 1927-1929. Assistant dean Harvard College, 1929-1943, assistant to dean faculty, chairman committee scholarships, 1943-1945. Assistant director qualifying tests College Entrance Exam Board Army-Navy College, 1943-1944, associate secretary, then acting executive secretary, 1945-1946, director, 1946-1948.
President Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 1948-1970, Interuniv. Communications Council, Inc., Princeton, 1970-1975, trustee, 1975-1979. Visiting lecturer psychology, Princeton, 1950-1968.
Director Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company American, 1965-1977. Member advisory committee foreign service exams Department State, 1945-1952, planning commission Florida Board Control for State University Boca Raton, 1960-1961. Member teaching and testing methods advisory panel Service Academy Board, 1949-1950, working group army research on officer selection Army Science Advisory Panel, 1956-1957, Physical Sciences Study Committee, 1956-1960, education panel President's Science Advisory Committee, 1957, Mercer County (New Jersey) Tercentenary Committee, 1964, Commission on Human Resources and Advanced Training, 1962-1967, New Jersey Advisory Committee Civil Rights, 1958-1959.
Visitor Soviet Union under auspices United States Office Education, 1958, 65, 76. Member overseers committee, visitor psychology department Harvard, 1955-1957, visitor social relations department, 1957-1961, social relations, psychology and psychological laboratories, 1961-1964, chairman committee to visit Graduate School Education, member board overseers, 1966-1972, chairman committee to visit office info technical, 1974-1976. Trustee Institute Educational Development, 1964-1971, Mercer County (New Jersey) Comty.
College, 1965-1972; consultant to committee school-college relations National Association Secondary School Principals, 1963-1964. Trustee New Jersey Citizens Committee Public Schools, 1956-1960. Executive committee Princeton Unit Recording for Blind, 1957-1963.
Vice chairman American Council Education, 1969-1970, chairman International Action Learning Program, 1973-1979.
Trustee Barnard College, 1965-1970. Member Corporation Educational Development Center, 1964-1967, honorary board fellows New College, Sarasota, Florida. Board visitors School Education, U Pittsburgh.
Active K-12 education. Fellow American Psychological Association. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Psychonomic Society, Psychometric Society, Metropolitan Museum Art, Harvard Alumni Association, Harvard Club (New York City), Cosmos Club (Washington).
Married Elizabeth Phalen, June 4, 1932 (divorced 1953). Children: William Egisto, Henry Junior, Ann, Doanld Robertson. Married second Lucy Lawrence Worcester, July 22, 1954 (deceased November 1975).
Children: Susan Taft, Caroline Train, Deborah Lawrence, Sarah Kirkham.