WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Fall 2016

Children's Champion

BY CONNIE KACHEL WHITE

Jim SnyderJames J. Snyder, Wichita State University distinguished professor of clinical psychology emeritus, proved to be an insightful teacher and productive researcher. Over the course of his career, he taught both graduate and undergraduate classes at WSU, generated more than $6 million in external funding and published more than 100 scholarly articles.

As a researcher, he and his research group focused on the development of psychopathology, delving into how aggression, anxiety disorders, delinquency and depression took root in childhood and adolescence. Snyder and his group wanted to learn how families, peers and teachers influence development, so that preventive and clinical intervention methods could be made more effective in providing positive results to real families and children.

Snyder and his fellow researchers were noted for their involvement in classroom and home-visitor consultation with Child Start’s Head Start and Early Head Start programs. In 2014, he received the Children’s Champion Award presented by Child Start.

He also was a member of the Psychosocial Development, Risk and Prevention Study Section of the National Institutes of Health. In 2016, he and a colleague wrote The Oxford Handbook of Coercive Relationship Dynamics, which was described as a “remarkable contribution to both science and society.”

Jim Snyder – family man, researcher, teacher, psychologist, child advocate and gardener – died Sept. 11, 2016
in Wichita.


IN MEMORIAM

Built for Speed

James R. Bede ’57 built his first airplane at the age of six. The aeronautical engineering graduate then proceeded to become a prolific aircraft designer whose many concepts included a micro jet – the BD-5J – that flew for a James Bond movie.

Like a Sailor Home from the Sea

Artist, writer, graphic designer, entrepreneur, civic volunteer, World War II veteran, husband, father, grandfather great-grandfather: Q. Patric Rowley ’50 was inspiring in many roles and found success in both business and the arts.

Of Stout Heart

As president, CEO and chairman of the board at KG&E, Wilson K. Cadman ’51 was called upon to use insights gained from his University of Wichita studies in psychology, as well as his own talents in getting things done.

Hospitality Maven

Celia (Friedman) Cohen ’67, born in 1923, developed the trailblazing habit of doing things not many women in her day did.

Children's Champion

James J. Snyder, Wichita State University distinguished professor of clinical psychology emeritus, proved to be an insightful teacher and productive researcher.

Devotion to Duty

Thomas C. Raum ’47, retired 18th Judicial District Court of Kansas judge, was also a World War II and Korean War veteran.

In Memoriam

Leaving lasting legacies are these Wichita State University alumni and friends.