Dates

• Existence: 1949-1966

Biography

"Ralph Henry Ojemann was born August 30, 1901, in Peoria, Illinois. He received his B. S. degree in 1923 and M. S. in 1924 at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1929. After earning his Ph.D., he served briefly as assistant professor at the University of Kansas. Ojemann first served at the State University of Iowa as a research associate in the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station in 1929. He was named assistant professor in 1931, associate professor in 1939, and full professor in 1951. His research focused on behavior modification in children. In conducting research at the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, Ojemann collaborated at times with such colleagues as Bird Baldwin, George Stoddard, and Amy Daniels. Ojemann retired from the University of Iowa in June 1967 and was named director of Experimental Psychology in the Greater Cleveland Educational Research Council. Ojemann married Freda Elizabeth Metzger in August 1925 and they had three children, Robert, George, and Kathryn. Ralph H. Ojemann died in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. The Ralph H. and Freda E. Ojemann Visiting Professorship was established in the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1988. [D. Anderson; 06/2010].

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