Lorraine "Laurie" D. Eyde (1932-2019).

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Presents an obituary for Lorraine "Laurie" D. Eyde (1932-2019). Lorraine "Laurie" Dittrich Eyde was born February 20, 1932, in New York City, New York, and grew up in Queens, New York. She died peacefully on July 10, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia. Laurie received her bachelor's degree in 1953 from Tufts University and doctorate in industrial/organizational psychology in 1959 from The Ohio State University. She married the botanist Richard Eyde in 1957 and they spent 1960-1961 in Lucknow, India. In 1961, Laurie and Richard moved to theWashington, DC, area, and Laurie began a more-than-50-year career in public service, first at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and, from 1971, as a personnel research psychologist at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). At OPM, she found a mentor in Ernest S. Primoff and went on to work with him on the job element method, one of the first job analysis approaches to focus on workers' competencies. Laurie's doctoral thesis compared attitudes toward workforce participation held by women in her own 1953 graduating class with attitudes of women who graduated 5 years later. In 1963, she recontacted both groups of women and, in 1968, published an article in Journal of Counseling Psychology reporting on that 5-year follow-up. Laurie is most widely known for her work on the ethical use of tests. In 1985, she helped organize the Joint Committee on Testing Practice, a collaboration between the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association (APA), and the National Council on Measurement in Education. She was an associate editor of Responsible Test Use: Case Studies for Assessing Human Behavior, based on the work of Joint Committee on Testing Practice's Test User Qualification's Working Group and Test User Training Work Group. Beginning in 1996, she was a member of the Psychological Assessment Work Group, established by APA's Board of Professional Affairs. In 1985, Laurie received a Distinguished Leadership Award from APA's Committee on Women in Psychology. She was also a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society and served on its board of directors. Laurie is survived by her son Dana and granddaughter, Rosemary. She was predeceased by her husband, Richard Eyde, and son Douglas. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).