Margaret S. Quayle papers

Margaret Sidney Quayle was born in Hope, Arkansas, November 6, 1889, the daughter of William Henderson Quayle and Alabama Phillips Quayle. She received her A.B. in 1917 from Colorado State College and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in 1928 and 1935 respectively from Columbia University.

She taught elementary school in Little Rock, Arkansas from 1912 to 1915 and high school math there from 1915 to 1918. After the First World War ended she went to Europe and worked with the YMCA in France and Germany, and was awarded special recognition by the Polish government for her work with civilian refugees. She was with the YMCA 1918-19 and with European student relief, Eastern Europe, from 1920 to 1925. After her return the United States she served as director of the Christ Church Community House in New York City (1928-29).

From 1935 to 1948 Quayle was an assistant professor of education at the State Teachers College in Buffalo, New York. In 1948, she moved to the University of Alabama as an associate professor of psychology. Later that year she opened the Student Psychological Services Clinic at Alabama and served as its first director. She retired from the University in 1958.

Professionally, Quayle was active in the New York Psychological Association (serving on the executive committee from 1943- 1947 and as Vice-president in 1944). She was also a member of the American Psychological Association and a fellow of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education. in 1956-57 she served as president of the Alabama Psychological Association. She was also a member of various honor societies.

Quayle authored two books: As Told by Business Girls, published in 1932 by Women’s Press; and Some Aspects of Satisfaction in the Vocation of Stenography, published by Columbia University Press in 1935. She was also a collaborator with H. Rivin on the Encyclopedia of Modern Education, published in 1944. Quayle died in Tuscaloosa on June 17, 1973. She left no survivors.