Katina Strauch

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continued on page 6 Saw that the gorgeous Mary Sauer-Games is now Sr. Director, PsycINFO at the American Psychological Association. She was appointed this February. Mary was formerly Vice President, Publishing Humanities, STM and Dissertations at ProQuest. Many undergraduates these days are majoring in psychology which is a diverse discipline, grounded in science, but with nearly boundless applications in everyday life. I was interested to learn that APA was founded in July 1892 at Clark University. Its first president was G. Stanley Hall and it began with 31 members. After World War II, it expanded and grew quickly. Today, APA is the world’s largest association of psychologists, with 54 divisions and more than 134,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members. The awesome Linda Beebe was one of my favorite APA friends. Linda was retired Senior Director, PsycINFO and she retired in December 2012 and is into quite a few new endeavors according to LinkedIn. I am positive that Mary Sauer-Games will be an equally good friend! Congratulations, Mary! http://www.apa.org/ Moving right along, when I was poking around the APA Website, I noticed that there was a link to an article in the Huffington Post called “An Olympian’s Happiness Is No Different From Yours” which caught my eye because of the recent Olympics and all that. And also because the incredible ISSN: 1043-2094 ANNUAL REPORT, PLA iSSUE TM