Cheiron's origins: Personal recollections and a photograph

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Scarborough

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 177 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5061
• DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20018

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

When the Cheiron Society convened at the University of New Hampshire for its thirty‐fifth annual
meeting in June 2003, members were returning to the site where the proposal to establish a new scholarly
organization to promote research in the history of the behavioral and social sciences originated in the summer of
1968. I was witness to Cheiron's birthing and have been closely involved in its evolution over the years,
and so was asked to comment on the circumstances that produced what has become a vibrant source of stimulation
and support for those of us interested in the field. (For other published accounts of the Institute and
Cheiron's founding see Brozek, Watson, & Ross, 1969, 1970; Goodman, 1979, 1982; Watson, 1972,
1975; and Weyant, 1968.) © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.