Howard Norman Sloane Jr. ’54

Howard Norman Sloane Jr. ’54 died of a heart attack on October 2, 2010, in Solana Beach, California. “Mickey” entered Dartmouth from Montclair (New Jersey) High School, where he had been active with the yearbook and dramatics and ran track. In Hanover, other than WDBS radio station, he concentrated his associations in a tightly knit group of eight classmates formed in Fayerweather Hall, which had become a fellowship by senior year and continues to this day. Howard parlayed his degree in psychology into a master’s at Penn State followed by a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He followed that with a postdoctoral National Institutes of Health fellowship in the department of experimental psychology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. These early experiences led to a commitment to a natural science approach to understanding and changing behavior. His work took him and his family to Washington State and Illinois. The bulk of his career was as professor of educational psychology at the University of Utah from 1966 until partial retirement in 1992. The next three years Howard served as executive director of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. In retirement he wrote extensively and shared his accumulated knowledge and experiences with those in the field. Howard’s wife of 35 years, Judith, three children and eight grandchildren survive him.