Bernreuter Lecture

Bernreuter Lecture Series

The Robert G. Bernreuter Lecture Series was established in 1983 with funds contributed primarily by Dr. Bernreuter’s friends and former students. In honor of Robert G. Bernreuter, a member of the Penn State faculty and staff from 1931 until his retirement in 1966 as Vice President for Student Affairs Emeritus, this fund provides for an annual lecture(s) on topical subjects of interest relating to school psychology.

In the picture above, taken in 1986, Professor Bernreuter is shown presenting a framed letter to Joseph L. French, then Director of the School Psychology Clinic, and faculty clinic supervisors Mary Ellen Sabatino, Mary Gail Becker, and Robert Hale. This letter, dated October 27, 1937, acknowledges approval of the Psychoeducational clinic (founded by Bernreuter) at Penn State "as a mental clinic for the examination of school children" by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction. In the background is a picture of the architect's conception of the 3-story Center for Educational Diagnosis and Remediation (CEDAR), the facility which now houses faculty who teach and supervise functions started by Bernreuter in the 1930’s–school and educational psychology, counseling, and special education.