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Lawrence (Larry) Kelso Frank (December 6, 1890 – September 23, 1968) was an American social scientist, administrator, and parent educator, particularly known as vice-president of the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation and together with Frank Fremont-Smith initiator of the Macy conferences.〔(HISTORY OF CYBERNETICS ) by the ASC, retrieved 15 April 2008〕 == Biography == Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio Frank received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Columbia University in 1912. In 1959 he also received an honorary' degree of L.L.D. degree at Wayne University.〔(Profile of Lawrence K. Frank ) from NCFR 25th Anniversary, 1963〕 At Columbia Frank met the economist Wesley C. Mitchell, who guided the National Bureau of Economic Research, and his wife Lucy Sprague Mitchell, who founded Bank Street College of Education as the Bureau of Educational Experiments. They became friends and important mentors of Frank.〔Lawrence K. Frank, obituary in ''New York Times'', 24 September 1968〕 Frank was director of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial from 1923 to 1929. He directed the child-development program in the Rockefeller Foundation from 1929 to 1933 and became part of its General Education Board in 1933. From 1936 to 1942 he was vice-president of the Josiah Macy Foundation, Frank was among the attendees of the first Macy meeting in 1942 with other scientists such as the anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, the neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch, the physician and physiologist Arturo Rosenblueth and the psychoanalyst Lawrence Kubie. From 1945 to 1950 he was director of the Caroline Zachry Institute of Human Development. Beside his administrative career he was visiting professor and lecturer at several institutions, member of many learned societies and organizations, and wrote a series of books of educational and social matters. He received the Lasker Award in mental health in 1947, the Parents' magazine award for an outstanding book in 1950.〔 His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lawrence K. Frank Papers 1914-1974 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lawrence K. Frank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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