Ronald Maxwell Pickett ’54

Ronald Maxwell Pickett ’54 passed away on February 8 in Littleton, Massachusetts. Ron came to Dartmouth from Stillwater, New York, where he graduated from Stillwater High School. At Dartmouth he was a philosophy major and a brother of Phi Gamma Delta. He served as a second lieutenant in the Army during the Korean War, from June 1955 to his discharge in January 1957. Ron received his M.A and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Michigan. He worked as an assistant professor at the department of psychology and as an associate director of the behavior research laboratory at Antioch College in Ohio. In 1964 he became a research associate in experimental psychology and later an assistant professor of experimental psychophysiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also became a senior scientist in the informational sciences division at Bolt, Beranek & Newman Inc. and later became a professor at the University of Massachusetts until his retirement. Ron is survived by his wife, Judy, son Ethan and daughter Amity.