Pediatric Psychology Wright Ross Salk Distinguished

Service Award, named for three legendary pediatric psy-chologists who had the foresight to create the Society for Pediatric Psychology (SPP). It is my intent here to honor their contributions and highlight the gifts I have received through my membership in and affiliation with colleagues, friends, students, and trainees of Division 54. Logan Wright, Dorothea Ross, and Lee Salk are luminar-ies in the field of pediatric psychology. In fact, Dr. Ross re-ceived the SPP Distinguished Contributions Award in 1979, before I was even aware of pediatric psychology and before I had begun graduate school. As noted at that time, ‘‘She was one of the three who founded the Society in 1968, putting her great and sustained energy into this task’ ’ (Award Announcement, News and Notes, 1979). Dr. Ross was not able to attend the award presentation, but her remarks were read to the members of the Society in attendance, and her acceptance speech was reprinted in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology (1979), in which she noted: ‘‘I feel that the great strides made by the Society in a little over a decade should be numbered among the advances in pediatrics cited in connec-tion with the International Year of the Child.’ ’ She went on to describe the ‘‘air of vigor and resiliency about the fledgling Society that foretold success, productivity, and longevity’’ and ‘‘our jubilation when the membership roster reached 100’ ’ (now at 1,600 members). Logan Wright was a pioneering founder of SPP and served as the Society’s first President in 1969. These organi-zational contributions occurred while he was a faculty member in pediatric psychology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. Wright wrote the first seminal article about pediatric psychology, publishe