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Wegrocki, Henry J., Ph.D.
Psychologist. Born Feb. 9, 1909 in Newark, N. J. Attended St. Casimir's parochial school in Newark, graduated in 1922. Attended St. John Kanty College, Erie, Pa., graduated in 1926. Graduated from Columbia University with A.B. in 1930, and with M.A. degree in 1931 in psychology. Graduate work in psychology, September, 1931 to February, 1932 at the University of Chicago, in psychology at Columbia University, Feb. 1932 to June 1932. Graduate work in psychology at Vienna University, Austria, 1932-33. Two year scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Education and the World Union of Poles, 1933-35, at Warsaw University, Poland. Research psychologist, Worcester, Mass., 1935-36. Attended University of Minnesota, Medical School, 1936-40, graduated in June, 1940. Received Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University in 1940. Some of his publications: "The effect of prestige suggestibility on emotional attitudes," The Journal of Social Psychology. August, 1934; "Educational reform in Poland," Educational Method, February, 1934; "A case of number phobia," International Journal of Psychoanalysis, January, 1938; "A critique of cultural and statistical concepts of abnormality," The Journal of Social and Abnormal Psychology, April, 1939: "Generalizing ability in schizophrenia," in Archives of Psychology, 1940. Address: California Hospital, Los Angeles, Cal.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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