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In Memory of Naomi Meara

Reprint of a Posting by the University of Notre Dame faculty to the CCPTP Listserv:

 

February 28, 2007

With great sadness we share news of the death of Naomi 

Meara. Naomi spent nearly two decades as a member of 

Notre Dame's counseling program faculty. During that 

time, she served two terms as chair of the psychology

department, served on and chaired nearly every important department and university committee, and both  formally 

and informally mentored countless students. Among her many achievements, Naomi was President of Division 17 in  1988-89 and she was honored with the Nancy Reeves Dreux chair 

in psychology at Notre Dame in 1996. Naomi chaired CCPTP 

in 1980-1981.


Naomi was especially proud of her role in advancing the 

cause of women in psychology generally, and in counseling psychology in particular. She was an early member of the 

Division 17 Women's Committee, and in many other ways 

throughout her professional career she sought to maximize 

the potential of women.  Her primary  research areas were in

counseling language analysis and ethics (in particular, virtue 

ethics).
 
Naomi was a friend to many in Division 17, CCPTP, and in

APA. We will miss her friendship and wise counsel.
 
You can read an interview with Naomi, conducted by

her good friend Kathy Davis, in the May 2001 Issue of TCP.
 
In the interview, Kathy asked Naomi:

”Naomi, what would you like to be remembered for?"
 
Naomi answered:  "That is a very hard question. Let me 

preface this by saying I am not sure that I would deserve to be

remembered for anything. I would like to be seen, however, as

how I aspire to be. I think the  goal is to be competent and to 

provide for the common good. I would like to be seen as a 

professional who was not the best but  who tried her best. I 

would like to be remembered as somebody who was respectful 

of colleagues, friends, and students. And I would like to be 

seen as someone that was good with words and that could help develop systematic rather than stop gap solutions to 

organizational and interpersonal problems. I would like to be 

remembered for no big thing. I would hope in years to come 

that members of Division 17 would understand how grateful I 

am to have been part of a lot of what went on for a few years.

 

Alexandra Corning
Joyce Dunfee
Jerry Haeffel
George Howard
Anita Kelly
Scott Monroe
Tom Merluzzi
Irene Park
Don Pope-Davis
Dave Smith

 

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