sad news re Harold Goodglass

[Jean Berko Gleason]

I am very sorry to report the death of our friend and colleague Harold
Goodglass, in Boston this morning.  Below is the statement issued by the
Boston University School of Medicine.

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Harold Goodglass, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Director of the Boston
University Aphasia Research Center, 1969-1996, died this morning of
complications of a fall last week. He was 82.
Dr. Goodglass was born in New York City August 18, 1920, graduated from
Townsend Harris High School in 1935, and received a BA from City College
of New York in 1939. He served in the Army Air Force from 1942 to 1946,
and was discharged as a Captain. He then attended New York University,
receiving an MA in Psychology in 1948 and received a Ph.D. degree in
Clinical Psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 1951.

Dr. Goodglass developed a special interest in aphasia early in his
career and with the research support of the Veterans Administration and
the National Institutes of Health he published research articles on
disorders of naming in aphasia, on category specific disorders of
lexical comprehension and production, on the comprehension of syntax and
on the syndrome of agrammatism. He also carried out a program of studies
on cerebral dominance. Among his many collaborators were Fred Quadfasel,
Jean Berko Gleason, Edith Kaplan, Martin Albert, Marlene Oscar Berman,
Sheila Blumstein, Nelson  Butters, Norman Geschwind, Joan Borod, Arthur
Wingfield, and Kim Lindfield.

Dr. Goodglass became director of the Boston University Aphasia Research
Center in 1969, and remained in that post until 1996. He was Professor
of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. He was the author
of over 130 research articles, and of the books Psycholinguistics and
Aphasia (with Sheila Blumstein), The assessment of Aphasia and Related
Disorders and the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (with Edith
Kaplan), Understanding
Aphasia, and Anomia (with Arthur Wingfield). He received the 1997 Gold
Medal Award for Contributions to the Application of Psychology from the
American Psychological Foundation. He was recently awarded a five year
grant from NIH to continue his studies of aphasia.

He is survived by his wife Dr. Helen Denison of Newton, his daughter
Caroline of California, his son Larry of Maine, and his grandchildren. A
short service will be held in the Chapel of the Jamaica Plain VA at
10:30 AM on Thursday, March 21.  A memorial service will be announced at
a later time.