Tenth President
The official announcement of E.G. Williamson's election to the presidency of ACPA was made at the first Business session at the Atlantic City convention on Thursday, February 20, 1941, nearly ten months before the outbreak of World War II. At that time he was Coordinator of SPW and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. Soon thereafter he became Dean of Students managing a variety of services including the newly designated Counseling Bureau which he had organized as the Testing Bureau in 1932, the year after he received his doctorate under D.G. Paterson and after he had served six years as Secretary of the Faculty Counselors Committee of the College of SLA. He was then 40 years and married to Lorraine Fitch with two children. A third child, his second daughter, came in 1946.