ABSTRACT
In the fall of 1951, East Hall on the campus of the State University of Iowa was alive with psychological luminaries. To name just a few, Kenneth Spence and Judson Brown held sway in the Department of Psychology with Gustav Bergmann as resident philosopher, while E. F. Lindquist, Professor of Education, was completing work on his influential text on analysis of variance. The top two floors of the building housed what was then known as the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station. Directed by Boyd McCandless, the faculty included such distinguished veteran researchers into child development as Beth Wellman, Orvis Irwin, and Howard Meredith. There was also a very young faculty member named Charles Spiker who, even in the midst of this formidable array of colleagues, dazzled the incoming group of graduate students with the clarity of his thought, dedication to data, and contagious conviction that there was order and system out there in the world waiting to be revealed to those who sought it with appropriate methodology.
