_Mother_. I's mother was graduated from high school in New Mexico and attended the University of Kansas for one year. She then transferred to the University of New Mexico, receiving her B.A. degree in 1930. Two years before (1928), when she was 20 years old, she married I's father, and continued her college course. After graduation she managed her home and also took some graduate courses. In high school she was class poet and in the Honor Society four years. In her college years she was active in sorority life and on publications. Her major interests were debating, dramatics, and student government. At the University of Kansas she was on the Dean's Honor Roll (1925-1926). At New Mexico she held various scholastic offices and was awarded several honors.
In more recent years I's mother has taken an active part in the League of Women Voters and in the Faculty Wives' Club in the college where her husband has been teaching.
The following data have been supplied by Child I's parents, who kept a baby-book record of her development:
Length of pregnancy, 8.5 months. Weight at birth, 8 pounds. Breast fed to 2.5 months, then bottle fed to 18 months.
First teeth appeared at 5 months and first permanent teeth at 5 years. Walked alone (several steps) at 10.5 months. Talked in short sentences at from 18 months to 2 years.
Childhood illnesses--measles, whooping cough, mumps, chicken pox, colds.
At the age of about 2 years Child I had been observed in the Institute of Child Development (Teachers College, Columbia University) and reported as being hyperactive and of high intelligence.
At the age of 3 or 4 years she was used as a demonstration case before a class in psychology in the University and the Mental Age of 7 was assigned to her at that time.
Shortly after, she attended a kindergarten in the neighborhood of her home where "they gave her extra work--French and dancing." She liked this school. At the age of 5 years she entered kindergarten at P.S. 193, Manhattan, for half-day sessions only, although she wished to go all day.
At the age of 6 years she was entered in the first grade at P.S. 186, Manhattan, and in the second term was "skipped" to Grade 2A. "She spent her spare time aimlessly drawing, and was allowed to bring library books to school. Some of the time she sat with folded hands when her work was finished, and she resented this."