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- Title
Frank M. Fletcher: A Curious Career.
- Authors
Meara, Naomi M.
- Abstract
The article presents an interview with counselor Frank M. Fletcher. His responses provide a personalized perspective of the profession and of the significant events that influenced his own career development. Fletcher helped organize the American Personnel and Guidance Association. His work was instrumental in the passage of the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which provided support for the training of high school guidance counselors. Although his career was illustrious and important, it included disappointments. He left the Ohio State University Counseling Center in the early 1960s. Some believed that his liberal personal philosophy cost him the position. But still, throughout the subsequent hard times at the counseling center, he was optimistic and faithfully performed his responsibilities to Ohio state and its students. Enthusiasm, curiosity, and appreciation of and gentleness towards others are the keys to understanding Fletcher. But his own words best express those attributes. He has enriched the counseling profession and the lives of those with whom he has worked. Listening to what he has to say may enable younger readers to become more thoughtful and enthusiastic about their own careers.
- Subjects
FLETCHER, Frank M.; COUNSELORS; CAREER development; PROFESSIONAL ethics; AMERICAN Personnel &; Guidance Association; COUNSELING in secondary education
- Publication
Journal of Counseling & Development, 1988, Vol 66, Issue 5, p210
- ISSN
0748-9633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.1556-6676.1988.tb00850.x