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Article: Emma C. Gilbert, psychologist
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 30, 1986
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Emma Cohen Gilbert, 82, child psychologist and advocate of
children's rights, died yesterday in Cambridge, Mass.
She was the first married student allowed to attend Radcliffe
College in Cambridge. She was graduated summa cum laude in 1926 and
also received a master's degree.
During World War II she co-chaired the Federal Project on the
Protection of Infants and Children in Wartime. After the war, she
became staff psychologist for children at Children's Hospital in
Washington.
Her late husband, economist ...