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Note: I am, at the present time, unable to find Who's Who in America volumes from the mid to late 1960s. So, for now, this entry is copied from the 1956-1957 volume which was found in the attic of Wendell Johnson's 1960s home. - Nicholas Johnson
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JOHNSON, Wendell A. L., speech pathologist, author; b. Roxbury, Kans., April 16, 1906; s. Andrew R. and Mary (Tarnstrom) J.; A.B., U. Ia., 1928, M.A., 1929; Ph.D., 1931; m. Edna Bockwoldt, May 31, 1929; children -- Nicholas, Katherine Louise. Mem. faculty U. Ia., 1931--, prof. speech pathology and psychology, 1945--, dir. speech clinic, 1943--; cons. in speech pathology Walter Reed Hosp., 1955--; book reviewer N.Y. Times. Founder, chmn. Speech Correction Fund, 1946--. Diplomat Am. Bd. Examiners in Profl. Psychology. Mem. Am. Speech and Hearing Assn. (award honors 1946; pres. 1950), Intl. Socy. for Gen. Semantics (past pres.), Am. Psychol. Assn., Speech Assn. Am., A.A.A.S., Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi. Club: Cosmos (Washington). Author: People in Quandaries: The Semantics of Personal Adjustment, 1946; Co-author: Speech Handicapped Sch. Children, 1948; Diagnostic Manual in Speech Correction, 1952; Stuttering in Children and Adults, 1954. Editor: Inter-State Special Education Series, 1943-52; Jour. of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1943-48; Asso. Editor: Review of General Semantics, 1943-52; Quarterly Jour. Speech, 1950--. Contbr. articles to tech. jours. and gen. mags. Lectr. Home: 508 Melrose Ct., Iowa City, Ia.
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