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The following list indicates assignments to the staff to July 1, 1919: 



I. Military appointees assigned to the staff. — Maj. R. M. Yerkes, August, 1917, to April, 1919; Maj. K. T. Waugh, 

 October, 1917, to March, 1918; Maj. M. E. Haggerty, 1 January, 1918, to August, 1918; Maj. C. S. Yoakum, August, 

 1917, to May, 1919; Maj. W. S. Foster, December, 1917, to January,, 1918; August, 1918, to October, 1918; Maj. C. S. 

 Berry, November, 1917, to November, 1918; Maj. L. M. Terman, May, 1918, to March, 1919; Maj. H. C. Bingham, 

 December, 1917, to November, 1920; Capt. W. S. Hunter, January, 1918; Capt. E. G. Boring, November, 1918, to 

 July, 1919; Capt. C. H. Toll, January, 1918, to February, 1918; Capt. D. G. Paterson, January, 1919; Capt. R. M. 

 Elliott; 2 Capt. E. S. Jones, January, 1918, to February, 1918; Capt. G. C. Myers, June, 1919, to November, 1919; First 

 Lieut. C. C. Brigham, January, 1918, to April, 1918; First Lieut. A. S. Otis, September, 1917, to March, 1918; 

 First Lieut. L. Marcus, February, 1918, to March, 1918; First Lieut. M. A. May, November, 1918; to July, 1919, 

 First Lieut. P. A. Mertz, April, 1919, to July, 1919; First Lieut. E. A. Lincoln, April, 1919, to March, 1920; Sergt. 

 W. C. Trow, September, 1918, to November, 1918; Pvt. E. C. Ward, September, 1918, to December, 1918; Sergt. B. 

 M. Oppenheim, November, 1918, to July, 1919; Pvt. R. F. Bird, March, 1918; Pvt. H. A. Hildreth, March, 1918; 

 Pvt. J. J. Hudson, March, 1918; Pvt. H. S. Leach, April, 1918; Pvt. P. H. Russell, March, 1918, to April, 1918; Pvt. 

 W. P. Tomlinson, December, 1917, to January, 1918. 



II. Advisory members of staff. — T. L. Kelly, L. M. Terman (later commissioned), E. L. Thorndike, G. M. Whipple. 



III. Civil appointees, psycholoqists. — J. W. Bridges, December, 1917, to December, 1918; C. R. Brown, May, 1918, 

 to July, 1919; Margaret V. Cobb, February, 1918 to May, 1919; Alice M. Clark, June, 1918, to July, 1918; Helen Davis, 

 July, 1918, to August, 1918; Mabel R. Fernald, May, 1918 to May, 1919; Mary H. S. Hayes, December, 1918, to 

 January, 1919; J. J. B. Morgan (later commissioned), January, 1918; R. H. Wheeler (later commissioned), December, 

 1917, to January, 1918. 



ORGANIZATION OF A SCHOOL FOR MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY. 



The staff of the division of psychology appreciated from the first the importance of provid- 

 ing for the selection and training of the requisite number of officers and enlisted men for psycho- 

 logical examining. Immediately f ollowing approval of the plan for extension, steps were taken to 

 organize a suitable training school for military psychology. The first move in this direction 

 was made when Maj. Yerkes suggested to Col. P. M. Ashburn, M. C, the need of a special training 

 school for military psychologists. Col. Ashburn expressed the opinion that a special school 

 might be arranged for at the medical officers' training camp, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., or Fort Riley, 

 Kans. He referred the matter to Col. E. L. Munson, M. C. chief of the division of training camps 

 of the Surgeon General's Office. 



On learning of the nature of the need of the division of psychology for personnel, Col. 

 Munson addressed the following memorandum to Maj. Yerkes: 



December 29, 1917. 

 Memorandum for Maj. Yerkes, Division of Psychology: 



1. With reference to our conversation relative to the training of the officers working under your division, the 

 training camp division is prepared to train any reasonable number of such officers at the medical officers' training 

 camps. 



2. They will be expected to conform to all the rules of discipline and administration pertaining to these camps and 

 be given such part of the basic course of instruction as will reasonably be considered to pertain to their functions as 

 officers under the medical department. 



3. It is suggested that a course of two months would probably suffice for these purposes which would also include 

 such amount of special training in psychology and other matters as you may think necessary. 



4. Please inform this office of the number of psychologists you would desire to have trained, including the average 

 to be so trained and the maximum number which could be expected at any one time. Please also submit a syllabus 

 of the instruction in psychology and what other subjects you may desire to take up for consideration in getting up the 

 general program. The latter will then be tentatively drawn and submitted to you for conference and final action. 



5. Please arrange for the selection and assignment after this course is arranged of such officers as you desire to 

 send to these training camps for duty as instructors under the commandant of the camp. 



6. It is possible to establish two such schools if you so desire — one at Fort Riley, Kans., and one at Fort Oglethorpe, 

 Ga. ; but if no large number of student officers are to be instructed, it would be preferable to establish but one school, 

 which it is considered should be established at Fort Oglethorpe rather than Fort Riley, as plans of expansion contem- 

 plate the final concentration at Fort Oglethorpe of all the training facilities of the medical department. 



E. L. Munson, 

 Colonel, Medical Corps. 



1 Assigned to duty on staff of division of physical reconstruction of Surgeon General's Office. 



2 On duty with psychology committee of National Research Council, January to April, 1919. 



