Raymond J. McCall (1913–1990): Obituary.

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Raymond McCall came to psychology from philosophy; like many a traveler, he could not explore the new area without the habits he had acquired elsewhere. His interests were always in theoretical issues, and he brought his critical talents to bear on a variety of subjects.Ray was born on October 16, 1913, in the Bronx, to an Irish Catholic family. Except for an MA in philosophy at Catholic University, his education was pursued in the New York area. His undergraduate degree and his PhD in philosophy were completed at Fordham University. After three years as a naval officer during World War II, Ray returned to New York to study abnormal experimental psychology at Columbia University under Joseph Zubin and eventually took a doctorate there. From 1954 to 1955 he was a Ford Foundation fellow in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University.While working on his second doctorate, Ray was professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at St. John's University School of Commerce. He took a similar position at DePaul University in 1951 and, five years later, at Marquette University, where he completed 28 years of distinguished service. As chair of the Marquette Psychology Department from 1956 to 196 l, he broadened the offerings of that fledgling unit and was the chief architect of new master's degree programs in both experimental and clinical psychology.Ray's dream of expanding the MS degree at Marquette into a PhD program was thwarted by a long period of academic retrenchment. At the invitation of a group of Wisconsin clinical psychologists, Ray turned his talents to establishing a free-standing school that would offer the doctoral level training needed by the large number of clinicians in the state who held master's degrees and were employed in subdoctoral positions. In 1980 his organizational efforts, and perhaps even more important, his optimism, enthusiasm, and guiding spirit, brought to life the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology.Ray's books bore the mark of the philosopher-psy-980 September 1991 • American Psychologist

Differential effects of endogenous and exogenous nitric oxide on the release of endothelin‐1 from the intact perfused rat adrenal gland in situ

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