Pioneers*

*Well-known scholars who were deceased at the time that the Reading Hall of Fame was established and were subsequently elected to the Reading Hall of Fame are identified as Pioneers.

Shaping the Reading Field by Susan E. Israel (Author, Editor), E. Jennifer Monaghan (Editor) documents the lives and lasting contributions of early reading pioneers who helped shape the field.

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Arthur I. Gates (Inducted 1978), Professor of Educational Psychology, Columbia University, New York City. Born September 22, 1890; Litt. B., Columbia, 1914; A.M., California, 1915; Ph.D., Columbia, 1917, Reading Research, Columbia University
Bernice E. Leary (Inducted 1978), Madison Public Schools, WI
Charles Hubbard Judd (Inducted 1978), University of Chicago
David Harris Russell (Inducted 1978), University of California, Berkeley
Douglas Waples (Inducted 1978), University of Chicago
Edmund Burke Huey (Inducted 1978), Johns Hopkins University
Edward L. Thorndike (Inducted 1978), Teachers College, Columbia University
Ernest Horn (Inducted 1978), University of Iowa
James McKean Cattell (Inducted 1978), Columbia University
Laura Zirbes (Inducted 1978), The Ohio State University
Mary Hill Arbuthnot (Inducted 1978), Case Western University
Raymond Dodge (Inducted 1978), Yale University
Robert S. Woodworth (Inducted 1978), Columbia University
Ruth Strang (Inducted 1978), University of Toronto, University of Arizona, Columbia University
Walter F. Dearborn (Inducted 1978), Harvard University
William S. Gray (Inducted 1978), University of Chicago