"National Merit Scholars" John M. Stalnaker Signed 3X5 Card For Sale

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"National Merit Scholars" John M. Stalnaker Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale "National Merit Scholars" John M. Stalnaker Hand Signed 3X5 Card. 

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John M. Stalnaker, a psychologist, educator and former

president of the corporation that selects high school students as National

Merit Scholars, died Sunday at his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 87 years old. Mr.

Stalnaker, who once described himself as ''a broker in brains,'' was founding

president and a director of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, based

in Evanston, Ill., from its establishment by the Ford Foundation and the

Carnegie Corporation in 1955 until his retirement in 1969. The small, efficient

nonprofit organization now channels scholarship aid from 425 corporations and

foundations and 200 colleges and universities to more than 30,000 students,

8,000 of them selected each year. In 1962, Mr. Stalnaker was appointed by

President John F. Kennedy to the Board of Foreign Scholarships, which

supervised the educational exchange programs under the Fulbright-Hays Act. He

was chairman from 1962 to 1964 and served until 1967. Throughout his career,

Mr. Stalnaker combined testing and administrative work with the teaching of

psychology. He taught and did adminstrative work at the Universities of Chicago

and Minnesota and at Purdue, Princeton and Stanford Universities, and was dean

of students at Stanford after World War II. At Stanford, he set up the

Pepsi-Cola Scholarship Board, a $2 million five-year program that ended in 1950

but later set the pattern for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Mr.

Stalnaker was born in Duluth, Minn., and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the

University of Chicago, where he later did graduate work. From 1926 to 1930 he

was an insructor in psychology and special research assistant to the president

of Purdue. In 1936, he went to Princeton, where he also worked for the College

Entrance Examination Board from 1936 to 1945. He received the Navy's

Distinguished Civilian Service Award and the Presidential Certificate of Merit

for his World War II work with the National Research Council and the National

Defense Research Committee. 

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