$1,950 Awarded Graduate Student

 

Forrest Earl Ladd, graduate student, has been awarded the National Science Foundation Predoctoral fellowship, consisting of $1,950 and the payment of his class fees for a 12-month study period.

 

Ladd's study is problem solving in the Department of Psychology where he will work under the direction of Alex L. Sweet, assistant professor of psychology.

 

Ladd learned of winning the award in a telegram from Allen Waterman of the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.

 

–Newspaper clipping saved by Verna (Dawson) Karns.

[The award was announced in March 1954. This article is from the student newspaper of the University of Kansas.]

 

 

Science Award Given Area Man

 

FORD -- Forrest E. Ladd, graduate student in the University of Kansas, has been awarded predoctoral fellowship, consisting of $1,950 and the payment of his class fees for a 12-month period, by the National Science Foundation. Ladd's study is problem solving in the Department of Psychology where he will work under the direction of Alex L. Sweet. Ladd learned of winning the award in a telegram from Allen Waterman of the National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C. Ladd married the former Jean Karns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Karns of this community. His home formerly was in Oklahoma.

 

–Newspaper clipping saved by Verna (Dawson) Karns.

[The date March 1954 was handwritten in the margin of the clipping. It probably was from the Dodge City, Kansas newspaper.]