Oran Wendle Eagleson

Born: March 14, 1910 in Unionville, Indiana
Died: 1997

Education

1936 Taught courses in psychology, sociology, economics, and philosophy at North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham, North Carolina.
1936 Accepted a position at Spelman College in Atlanta, also served as an exchange professor at Atlanta University while teaching at Spelman where he offered courses and directed theses for graduate students.
1954 Became Dean of Instruction at Spelman.
1970 Appointed Callaway Professor of Psychology at Spelman.

Previously at Spelman, psychology courses were for elective supplementary purposes not a major but after it was listed as a major field of study Dr. Eagleson encouraged many students to consider psychology as a major field, and gradually the number of psychology majors increased.
He served as special lecturer and consultant in orientation and training projects conducted by the Peace Corps, Head Start, and several school systems in Georgia.
He was associated with the research program of the Cooperative Experiment Summer School of the Atlanta University Center and was co-director of the Morehouse-Spelman Intensified Pre-College Program.

“Comparative Studies of White and Negro Subjects in Learning to Discriminate Visual Magnitude”
“The Success of Sixty Subjects in Attempting to Recognize Their Handwriting”
“Identification of Musical Instruments When Heard Directly and Over a Public-Address System”