Robert Archibald Brotemarkle

Background

Brotemarkle, Robert Archibald was born on November 12, 1892 in Lonaconing, Maryland, United States. Son of Clinton and Laura Jane (Somerville) Brotemarkle.

Education

Student, Mercersburg Academy, 1910-1912; AB, Princeton University, 1916; AM, Princeton University, 1918; Doctor of Philosophy., University of Pennsylvania, 1923.

Career

Assistant instructor in psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1919-1920; instructor, University of Pennsylvania, 1920-1926; assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1926-1935; associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1935-1940; professor, University of Pennsylvania, from 1940. College personnel officer, 1926-1943, department chairman of psychology, 1943-1957;director psychological laboratory and clinic, 1943-1957, clinical psychologist since 1920. Served as member emergency committee in psychology National Research Council, 1940-1944.

Expert consultant to Secretary of War, 1941-1945.

Achievements

• Robert Archibald Brotemarkle has been listed as a noteworthy Professor of psychology by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Clinical Psychology: Studies in Honor of Lightner Witmer to Commemorate the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the First Psychological Clinic

Membership

Fellow American Psychological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Association for Applied Psychology (Vice-President 1938), Association Consultin Psychologists (president 1938), American College Personnel Association, Eastern Psychological Association, Eastern Association of College Deans and Advisors, Pennsylvania Association Psychologists, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Bernice W. Rorer, September 28, 1918. Children: Richard Gordon, Alene Frances Brotemarkle Snedaker.

Father:

Clinton Brotemarkle

Mother:

Laura Jane (Somerville) Brotemarkle

Spouse:

Bernice W. Rorer

child:

Richard Gordon Brotemarkle

child:

Alene Frances Brotemarkle Snedaker Brotemarkle