Zachry, Caroline Beaumont, 1894-1945

Caroline Beaumont Zachry was an educational psychologist. She was the director of Mental Hygiene Institute at the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Montclair State College) from 1930 to 1934. From 1934 to 1939 she led the study of adolescence for the Commission on Secondary School Curriculum of the Progressive Education Association. The results of this study she published in 1940 as Emotion and Conduct in Adolescence. She went on to become the director of the Institute for the Study of Personality Development which was renamed after her death to the Caroline B. Zachry Institute of Human Development. In 1942 she was appointed director of the Bureau of Child Guidance of the New York City Board of Education that lasted until her death three years later in 1945. (Source: Wikipedia)