Norman A. Sprinthall ’54, ’59 AM

Norman A. Sprinthall ’54, ’59 AM, of Caswell Beach, N.C.; Mar. 8, after a short illness. He had an extensive career in education counseling and educational psychology beginning at Harvard as an associate professor and program chairman of counseling until 1972. He went on to spend another 22 years in higher education, first at the University of Minnesota, where he served as a faculty member, and for the remainder of his career at North Carolina State University, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1995. He coauthored Educational Psychology: A Developmental Approach and Adolescent Psychology: A Developmental View. During the 1990s, he was the codirector of the Ethical Reasoning Project in Public Administration in the U.S., Poland, and Russia. He also served on the board of directors for the Josephson Institute of Ethics and on the board of advisors for the Character Counts Coalition. He not only wrote several articles with his wife, but he and his wife were also corecipients of the Kuhmerker Career Research Award from the Association for Moral Education in 2005. While an undergrad at Brown, he played varsity basketball for three years and as a post-grad, he worked in the admissions office until 1959. In retirement he enjoyed teaching his grandchildren basketball, golf, and sailing as well as traveling and dancing with his wife. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserves for eight years. Phi Beta Kappa. He is survived by his wife, Lois; three children and their spouses; eight grandchildren; and his former wife, Barbara Weller Holaday ’54.