Murray Plans to Retire From Faculty Post After This Year

Henry A. Murray '15, professor of Clinical Psychology, will retire from the Harvard Faculty this summer after 36 years of teaching and research. A leading investigator of human personality, Murray designed the widely used Thematic Apperception Test, and authored Explorations in Personality, a classic in his field.

Captain of the crew in his senior year, Murray did graduate work and research at Harvard, Columbia, the Rockefeller Institute, Cambridge University, and at Zurich under Carl Jung before joining the Faculty in 1926. As a Lieutenant Colonel during the war, he successfully applied techniques of psychology to the selection of personnel to the Office of Strategic Services.

Also retiring this summer is Leigh Hoadley, professor of Zoology. In addition to his teaching and research in embryology, Hoadley spent 16 years as Master of Leverett House from 1941 to 1957. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and became professor of Zoology in 1930.

Herrman L. Blumgart, professor of Medicine, will also retire, along with Ralph H. Wetmore, professor of Botany. Blumgart is one of the few living men who have been honored by the establishment of a named chair at Harvard.

Wetmore is an authority on the anatomy of plants.