Adma Jeha d’Heurle
Biography
Adma d’Heurle (1924 – 2019) was born in Bishmizzine, Lebanon. She graduated from the American University, Beirut and subsequently received a M. A. from Smith College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago. Married to Francois d’Heurle, the couple moved to Westchester County, New York with their three children.
Career Adma d’Heurle taught briefly at the St. Xavier College in Chicago. Shortly after moving to Westchester she started teaching at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1961. She was one of the original five faculty members of the newly founded college. [1] After a series of promotions to the rank of Professor, she was named Distinguished Professor in 2002. Her career also included several administrative positions as Chairwoman of the Department of Psychology, the Department of Education, and the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences. In addition, Dr. d’Heurle, served as adjunct Professor at Long Island University (Mercy College location), Lecturer in Social Thought at Stanford University, Fulbright Scholar in Sweden at Uppsala Universitet, Visiting Scholar in the Humanities at New York University, and Fulbright Scholar in Finland at the University of Turku (Turun Yliopisto). [2]
During her tenure as an editor of Cross Currents, the magazine sponsored a symposium at Mercy College in honor of Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker. A regular review staff for World Literature Today, she also served an evaluator for the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools—Commission on Higher Education (1973 to 2002). Adma d’Heurle edited two books and published numerous articles.
Honors
In addition to being named Distinguished Professor, Dr. d’Heurle received several additional Mercy awards, including Outstanding Mentor at Mercy College, the Mercy College Excellence in Teaching Award, and twice the Gratia Maher Award for Teaching Excellence presented annually by the Mercy College Student Government. Dr. d’Heurle, a member of the New York Academy of Science, was named to American Men and Woman of Science.
Publications “The Relation of Personality Factors to Learning in Children,” The American Psychologist, Vol. 8, 1953 With Joel Feimer “On Play,” Elementary School Journal” Dec. 1971
With Joel N. Feimer and Mary C. Kraetzer “The Sugar-Coated World of the Third Grade Reader,” Elementary School Journal, April 1972 With Joel N. Feimer “Lost Children: The Role of the Children in the Psychological Plays of Henrik Ibsen”, in Psychoanalytic Review
With Jeffrey Cohen and Viveka Widmark Petersson) “Cross-sex Friendship in Children: Gender Patterns and Cultural Perspectives” “Cross-Sex Friendship in Children in the Elementary School” in Sex Role Attitudes and Cultural Change ed. Edited By Gross, I., Downing, J. and d’Heurle, A D. Reidel Publishing Co. Dordrecht, Holland 1982. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=sTNfNDw24CsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA93&dq=adma+d%27heurle&ots=pQvieSjtro&sig=HPZ2qTdKaTb7T8eakzhW-GelBpg#v=onepage&q=adma%20d'heurle&f=false With Robert Tash Classics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences Third Edition 2004 Acton, Massachusetts: Copley Custom Textbooks. ISBN 13- 978-1-58152-327-0 and ISBN 10: 1-58152-327-0.
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