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Theses/Dissertations from 1969
An analysis of children's drawings of policemen, Jess A. Armas and Linda L. Simonitch
Some interrelationships between a community work and training program and selected indices of family functioning, Audrey K. Arnst, Laszlo Dezsofi, James R. Friesen, Gary P. Heer, Bennett Holt, Courtney L. Linkous, and Edna S. Watson
An Examination of Disengagement Among Elderly People in a Low Income Public Housing Facility, Linda Bennion, Marion Paradis, and Sheila Petrie
Measuring trainee comprehension of casework relationship in a public welfare orientation program, Margaret Berweger, Glen R. Dugger, Dennis C. Florendo, Patricia Harmony, Jerry L. Juve, Sherien E. Plant, Richard C. Schiessl, and Oma W. Singer
The Complaint Process in Protective Services for Children, William L. Carey, Joann Day Delong, Barbara Lee Harris, Thomas E. Hogan, Ann Nelson, and Jeannette Ruth Staebler
Acetate as a Fine Arts Medium, Catherine Lynette Chisholm
Cyclization Studies Involving the Synthesis of 5-Substituted-1-Naphthol, Clark Keelock Chow
The City, Lee Merriwether Clark
The Far East Agreements of the Yalta Conference of February 4-11, 1945, and the Sino-Soviet Agreements of August, 1945, Robert Harold Davidson Jr.
Judging development and sexual identity in children's art, Susan Lathrop Dietsche, Helen Lieberman Fenske, Robert A. Jones, Robert D. Loy, and Robert L. Smith
A general study of tests and testing with special emphasis on concepts, controversy, and teaching ideas applicable at the first grade level, Jean I. Dimick
Evaluation of the Role of Neighborhood Health Coordinators in a Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Services Project, Sharron Faye Easley, John Collins Flanagan, Janet Fredricksen, Linda Janice Johnson, and Beatrice Hays Young
Value orientation in relation to emphasis in the process of diagnosing the family in state of crisis, Bradford Lynn Everson
A Comparison of the Effects of Fluoride and Chloride Ions Upon the Activity of Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenase, Ellen J. Hannan
The Maroons and freedom in Jamaica, Lennon Claude Henry
The view from the future; the self-fulfilling prophecy as an element in historical causation, William Welker Lenon
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Personal Proximity Upon Selected Aspects of Conversational Content, Ronna S. Loewen
The paper stencil method of silk screen printing, Niles Brian Martens
A theoretical and experimental study of the hyperbolic electron mirror, Michael Stewart Mauck
A quantification and analysis of verbal interaction between clinician and client in a public school setting, Norma C. McAleer
Verbal accessibility and authoritarian family ideology: a study of 50 graduate social work students and their spouses, Linda Louise Metz, George Nathan Henderson, Kathleen Sue Powell, David Allen Wolfington, and Sally Wong
A standardization of the "Children's Speechreading Test" on normal children, Lorna Helen Newcombe
Figure painting in the high school; experiments and recommendations, E. Leonora Perron
Aspects of the Åland Islands question, Elen Christine Sakshaug