Gerald Alan YOAKAM, Ph.D.

YOAKAM, MASON, SWAIN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/13/2008 at 22:55:35

Gerald Alan Yoakam
Occupation: educator, author.
Born: Eagle Grove, Iowa, Nov. 18, 1887.
Son of Eugene George and Olive Louisa (Mason) Y.; A.B., U. of Iowa, 1910, A.M., 1919, Ph.D., 1922; married Helen Marie Swain, Aug. 2, 1911; children—Barbara Jeane, Richard David. Prin. supt. and county supt. schs. in Iowa, 1910-18; prin. U. of Ia. Elementary Sch., 1919-20; dir. teacher training State Teachers Coll., Kearney, Neb., 1920-23; prof. edn. and head dept. elementary edn., U. of Pittsburgh, 1923-32, prof. edn. and dir. of courses from 1932. President International Council for the Improvement of Reading Instruction, 1950-52; dir. reading conferences U. Pitts. from 1940. Member N.E.A., National Society for Study of Edn., Am. Assn. U. Profs., Nat. Council on Research in English (pres. 1948), Am. Assn. Sch. Adminstrs., A.A.A.S., Pa. Edn. Assn., Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Delta Kappa. Meth. Clubs: Edgewood Country, Authors, Faculty. Author or co-author books relating to field. Asso. editor Journal Educational Research; cons. editor American Education Press; mem. Yearbook Com. Nat. Soc. of Edn., 36th Yearbook, Part I, 1936; National Council on Research in Elementary School English, 1940. Home: Pittsburgh, Pa.
Died: May 17, 1963, Washington, DC