The School Psychology Endowment in the College of Education, initiated in 1989 by alumni, friends, and faculty to enrich graduate student life, reached the "endowed" level in September 1992. Income from this fund is used to aid current school psychology students with their research and scholarship including professional travel when assistance is not available from other departmental funds. In recent years, 20-25 students a year have benefited from this fund.

On behalf of the school psychology program and Penn State’s College of Education, our sincere thanks to the generosity of our alumni, friends, and faculty. Your support of these funds is a vital investment in our efforts to prepare our future leaders in the field of school psychology and to provide continued service to our current leaders in this field. We greatly appreciate your partnership in this endeavor.

Contributions to both of these funds continue to be welcome and appreciated. Checks, payable to Penn State with the name of the fund clearly stated, may be sent to:

Office of Development
College of Education
Penn State University
247 Chambers Building
University Park, PA 16802-3206

Again, thank you for supporting the School Psychology Program in the College of Education at Penn State.

The Robert G. Bernreuter Lecture Series was established in 1983 with funds contributed primarily by Dr. Bernreuter’s friends and former students. In honor of Robert G. Bernreuter, a member of the Penn State faculty and staff from 1931 until his retirement in 1966 as Vice President for Student Affairs Emeritus, this fund provides for an annual lecture(s) on topical subjects of interest relating to school psychology.

In the picture above, taken in 1986, Professor Bernreuter is shown presenting a framed letter to Joseph L. French, then Director of the School Psychology Clinic, and faculty clinic supervisors Mary Ellen Sabatino, Mary Gail Becker, and Robert Hale. This letter, dated October 27, 1937, acknowledges approval of the Psychoeducational clinic (founded by Bernreuter) at Penn State "as a mental clinic for the examination of school children" by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction. In the background is a picture of the architect's conception of the 3-story Center for Educational Diagnosis and Remediation (CEDAR), the facility which now houses faculty who teach and supervise functions started by Bernreuter in the 1930’s–school and educational psychology, counseling, and special education.