Douglas Carroll
Douglas Carroll, 72, of Warren, New Jersey, passed away on June 7, 2011. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Carroll earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and psychology at age 19 from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He met his wife when they were both students at the university.
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, he won a fellowship to Princeton, where he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees with major areas in mathematical experimental psychology and psychometrics and a minor in mathematics. At Princeton, he was elected to Sigma Xi scientific honor society.
After Carroll completed his doctorate, he started at Bell Labs, but also served on faculty as an assistant professor or adjunct professor at a number of universities, including New York University, Baruch College of the City University of New York, the University of California at Irvine and at San Diego, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Carroll retired from Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1989, after 25 years of research. He was then appointed by Rutgers University to the distinguished post of board of governors chair professor in business with a joint appointment in psychology. He also was visiting research professor at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California at Irvine, until 1993.
Carroll served as associate editor of Psychometrika from 1973–2003, and he was on the editorial boards of the Journal of Classification and Journal of Marketing Research. He was editor of Methodika, as well as consulting editor to both the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
In 2010, Carroll was given a lifetime achievement award at the 75th anniversary conference of the Psychometric Society. He is survived by his wife, Sylvia, and their two sons, Gregory and Stephen.
Robert S. Eckley
Illinois Wesleyan President Emeritus Robert S. Eckley died April 15. He was 90 years old.
Born in Kankakee, Illinois, Eckley grew up in Peoria, Illinois, and served in the Coast Guard Reserve as an engineering officer. He earned his bachelor’s from Bradley University, his master’s in business administration from the University of Minnesota, and a master’s and doctorate in economics from Harvard University.
Eckley served as a teaching fellow at Harvard from 1948–1949 and was an industrial economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City from 1951–1954. He also served as manager of the business economics department of Caterpillar Tractor Co. in Peoria from 1954–1968. Eckley was president of Illinois Wesleyan from 1968–1986 and a member of the American Economic Association, National Association of Business Economists, and the ASA.
He is survived by his wife of 65 years—Nell B. (Mann) Eckley—four children, and five grandchildren. Memorials may be directed to Illinois Wesleyan University or Wesley United Methodist Church.
To read more about Eckley’s life, visit the Illinois Wesleyan website memorial page.
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