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"George R. Goethals was born at West Point, the son of Major General George W. Goethals, who was known as builder of the Panama Canal. In 1908, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and was assigned to develop fortifications for the Pacific side of the canal. In 1919, he retired from the United States Army and was employed by an engineering firm. He returned to active duty in 1940. During World War II he served as assistant chief of the Army Corps of Engineers in the District of Columbia. In 1946, he retired from the United States Army for a second time and became a professor of mathematics at the University of New Mexico. He retired from the university in 1958. He died at age 87 on Thursday, June 28, 1973 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Jamaica Plains section of Boston, Massachusetts. Interment was at the United States Academy with a military funeral. Survivors included one son, George W.L. Goethals of Watertown, Massachusetts." — Source: Springfield Union, Springfield Massachusetts, Saturday, June 30, 1973. |
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Obit from Harvard College – Psychology Lecturer Goethals Dead at 74 Retired Senior Lecturer of Psychology Dr. George W. Goethals II '43 died in his home Monday after a brief illness. He was 74. Goethals, a Watertown native, graduated from the College after serving in the army during World War II. He taught high school in Edgartown, Mass, and returned to Harvard to earn his masters and doctorate degrees in education, the Boston Globe reported yesterday. Goethals taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1952 to 1956 and joined the Harvard faculty, where he taught in the School of Education, the departments of Social Relations and Psychology and the Extension School from 1956 to 1992. In the 1970s he became a lecturer on psychology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and principal psychologist at Cambridge Hospital. In 1992 he received the Petra Shattuck Teaching Award at the Extension School. Goethals continued to teach at the Extension School until December, when he became sick and had to be admitted to the hospital. An avid baseball player, he pitched for a semi-pro baseball team during his years as a graduate student, according to the Globe report. Goethals was the author of "The Role of Schools in Mental Health" and "Experiencing Youth." His teaching and research focused on adolescents. — The Harvard Crimson, February 3, 1995 |
Dr. Goethals led a Harvard Freshman Seminar at 8 Prescott St., Cambridge,
in the academic year 1960-1961.
Vide "Prescott Street" in this journal.
