Career
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Columbia University in 1912. In 1959 he also received an honorary" degree of L.L.D. degree at Wayne University. They became friends and important mentors of. was director of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial from 1923 to 1929.
He directed the child-development program in the Rockefeller Foundation from 1929 to 1933 and became part of its General Education Board in 1933.
From 1936 to 1942 he was vice-president of the Josiah Macy Foundation, was among the attendees of the first Macy meeting in 1942 with other scientists such as the anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, the neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch, the physician and physiologist Arturo Rosenblueth and the psychoanalyst Lawrence Kubie. From 1945 to 1950 he was director of the Caroline Zachry Institute of Human Development.
His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.