Memorializes Frank John Vattano (1931-2025). Frank Vattano was a great teacher gifted with fresh perspectives and the ability to convey the importance, centrality, and even the fundamentality of the psychological sciences. Beginning in 1964, served as assistant academic vice president for instructional services at Colorado State University. During his tenure at Colorado State, he also served for several years as dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. It is astonishing that a newly minted PhD should be placed in administrative positions at the outset of a career, but Frank excelled in each position. In the early 1960s, Colorado State invested heavily in instructional technology with state-of-the-art recording studios and professionals who assisted professors with the art and science of communication. During this period, Vattano recorded 50-min films for each of the major topics covered in introductory psychology courses. These films were available to all faculty who wished to use them. Vattano must have received every award offered by the university in addition to regional and national awards including Colorado Teacher of the Year offered by the Carnegie Foundation in 1999. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

The major focus of this work is on William James's insistence that unification should not be explored in the abstract as if it were one thing. Rather, unity should be understood in terms of its major kinds. There are unities and pluralities with respect to such topics as values, methods, causes, and prescriptions about what to read and study. This article explores James's mature position on unification as set forth in his major psychological and philosophical works and letters. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

This article memorializes Michael Matthew Wertheimer (1927-2022). Michael held a faculty position at Wesleyan University from 1952 to 1955 but then moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he worked from 1955 until his official retirement in 1993. Overall, Mike's name is associated as author, coauthor, or chapter author of 57 books, over 250 journal articles or notes, and over 100 articles read at scientific and professional organizations. The prodigious output focused on empirical studies in sensation and perception and the history of psychology. Mike's brief history book went through six editions, but he noted that the high point of his scholarly efforts was his biography on Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory, coauthored with D. Brett King. He served as president of four divisions of the American Psychological Association, national historian of Psi Chi, national president of Psi Chi, and president of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Max Wertheimer arrived on the scene of American psychology in the early thirties ns a conspicuous nnd disquieting figure. It was a time at which a fundamental change of attitude and outlook became apparent in the new generation of scientists. Reassured by the precision of their equipment, their measurements, and formulae, many of these new practitioners of the sciences seemed not particularly impressed by the endlessness of their task, the complexity of nature, the delicacy of organic functioning, the awesome recesses of the mind. Businesslike and matter-of-fact, they were trained to go about their work by asking some particular question, selected in such a way as to fit the measurable dimensions of controllable situations; they made the experiments, calculated the results, published them, and proceeded to the next job. Not that they were insensitive to the charm and fascination of the oldtimers, whose faces were engraved with the haunting awareness of the unfathomable. They saw the quiet smile that greeted their confident assertions, and they listened, ns children will to fairy talcs, when the head of the department quoted from the classics. They sensed that here was something strangely beautiful, but related to their own work only in an outdated, quaint fashion, something they were deprived of but that had to be saved for a hobby after retirement. Hence the powerful cfTcct of Max Wertheimer on the few hundred students and colleagues who, during the decade of his American years, came in direct contact with him. Here was a man who called for a fuller vision and less mechanical procedure not as a dream but as a technical research requirement, to be applied immediately and in practice. Romantic and frail, with the Nietzsche moustache of nonconformity, Wertheimer lectured in his improvised English at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. He described aspects of the mind which gave the shock of recognition to his listen-