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IN
MEMORIAM
Remembering Marceline Jaques
Marceline E. Jaques, nationally and internationally
renowned rehabilitation counseling psychologist,
and professor emeritus from the Department of
Counseling, School, and Educational Psychology
(CSEP), died May 16, 2010. She was 89.
MARCELINE JAQUES
“What made Marcie a pioneer,
a female leader in a male academic
world, was her childlike curiosity
that either didn’t notice the barriers
to change or winked at you as she
stepped around them. ”
Portions of this article were excerpted from
The Buffalo News obituary dated May 18, 2010.
Jaques began her career as a psychologist with the Division of Special
Education for the State of Iowa. She then moved on to the National
Society for Crippled Children and Adults, the Black Hills Rehabilitation
Center, and University Hospitals in Iowa City before arriving at UB as an
instructor in 1958.
During her career, Jaques was highly respected and influential. She
served as CSEP chair from 1979–1982, becoming the first woman to lead
the department. She advised more than 500 master’s and doctoral
students, many of whom became leaders in the field. In addition to teaching,
Jaques wrote numerous books and articles, regularly consulted with
universities and government agencies in the area of rehabilitation, served
on national boards, presented at international conferences, and edited
scholarly journals.
From 1976–1990, Jaques worked with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the late
psychiatrist who pioneered near-death studies and wrote the groundbreaking
book On Death and Dying. Jaques was also the co-founder of
the Center for Life Transition, now the counseling component of
Hospice Buffalo, to help dying individuals and their families. In 1999, UB
established a scholarship award in her honor that is given annually to an
outstanding GSE student in rehabilitation counseling or counselor education.
The pioneering spirit of Jaques was best captured by colleague
Thomas Frantz, CSEP associate professor emeritus: “What made Marcie
a pioneer, a female leader in a male academic world, was her childlike
curiosity that either didn’t notice the barriers to change or winked at you
as she stepped around them. She forged the then emerging field of rehabilitation
counseling, and brought Eastern thought into Western psychology. Marcie
exuded a persistent (some say “Iowa stubborn”) optimism. You never
heard a negative word pass her lips—ever.”
Jaques received numerous professional awards including
a Continuing Distinguished Contributions to Rehabilitation Counseling
Award in 1976 and an American Rehabilitation Counseling Association
Distinguished Service Award in 1980 for recognition of devoted and
meritorious service as editor of the Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin.
She also received the Western New York Rehabilitation Association John
Evanka Award in 1988; a Distinguished Alumna Award in 1996 and
a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, both from the University of
Iowa; and a UB Graduate School of Education Career Achievement
Award in 2000.
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