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[hudsom at us.ibm.com (Mark Hudson)]

Anyone who's been hanging around the Gatherings for a while probably sat in
on one of O.W. thru-hiker psychology sessions...
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ALDHA folks,

We just learned today that O. W. Lacy passed away. All the information we
have is from the following article.

Laurie Potteiger


<http://www.fandm.edu/departments/athletics/releases/045807DE81.htm>

Director Emeritus of Counseling & Career Services Dr. O. W. Lacy Passes
Away

by Lancaster Sunday News
7/12/04

LANCASTER, PA -- Dr. O. W. Lacy, 81, director emeritus of Counseling and
Career Services at Franklin & Marshall College, died Saturday at his
Lancaster Township home after a lengthy illness.

A service will be held at Franklin & Marshall's Nevin Chapel at 11:00 a.m.
on July 13.

Born in Glade Springs, Virginia, he was the husband of Lucy Garnett Lacy
for 53 years.

He came to F&M in 1965 as dean of students. Earlier in his career he served
as a high school teacher, college professor, psychological researcher and
counseling psychologist at Hampden-Sydney (Va.) College and Trinity College
(Ct.), where he was also dean of students.

A familiar figure at F&M sports events, he served on the College's Hall of
Fame Selection Committee and the Diplomat Athletic Club Advisory Committee.
He created the "Lacy Linchpin" award in memory of his daughter Lucinda
Puryear Lacy '76 to "a member of the women's and men's basketball teams who
have been a linchpin or cornerstone of the team - someone who is quietly
modest, scrupulously fair, uprightly honorable and steadfastly diligent in
practice, in the game, in the classroom and on- and off-campus."

In 1971 he was appointed to a 31-member statewide drug task force
established by Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer.

A 1947 graduate of Hampden-Sydney College, he earned his master's degree
and doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1955, while a U.S.
Health Service fellow. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of
California.

He authored two dozen scholarly-papers published in national journals and
presented workshops on psychological type at schools, colleges, businesses
and the United States Coast Guard Academy.

He was a member of the Association for Psychological Type, the Association
of University and College Counseling Center Directors and the Eastern
Psychological Association.

He served on the board of Lancaster's Hearing Conservation/Deaf Services
Center, the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of Lancaster County and the
faculty of Leadership Lancaster.

Honorary memberships included Eta Sigma Phi, Pi Gamma Mu, Pi Delta Epsilon,
Psi Chi, Sigma Xi, Sigma Upsilon and Tau Kappa Alpha.

An avid hiker, he was a life member and 2,000-miler of the Appalachian
Trail Conference and an honorary life member of the Appalachian Long
Distance Hikers Association. He was also an honorary life member of the
Nature Conservancy.

He was an accomplished photographer and traveled extensively, visiting
three-quarters of the counties in the United States.

He was the son of the late Clarence Read and Sallie Wilson Lacy.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Sallie Wilson
"Paoli" Lacy of San Francisco, California; Cabell L., wife of Edward D.
Kladky of Manor Township; one sister, Sarah Lacy Miller of Harrisonburg,
Virginia; and one brother, Dr. Matthew Lyle Lacy of South Hill, Virginia.

A daughter, Lucinda Puryear Lacy, and a brother, Clarence Read Lacy,
preceded him in death.