ABSTRACT
George Alexander Kelly was born in Kansas in the American Midwest to Theodore Vincent Kelly and Elfleda Merriam Perth. This was an impoverished community whose ideals were a double-distilled grafted product of American individualism, idealism and intolerance. Kelly started his psychological career at Fort Hays State University, and at a time when America was in the grip of the worst economic depression, started a clinic to support children in rural Kansas. Before George could develop his thinking further, America entered World War II, and George Kelly moved to work for the Civil Aeronautics Administration on methods to select air cadets. George Alexander Kelly died unexpectedly while compiling a new book on March 6th, 1967. What concerned Kelly most was his development of the construct repertory test, commonly called the rep grid. Kelly had control over their fates and had on at least one occasion quickly dispatched several students deemed not to be making the grade.
