Abstract Mary Elizabeth Keister was born in 1913 in Mount Vernon, Iowa and was a professor and Director of Early Childhood Programs at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). She received her B.S. degree from the Women’s College (now UNCG) in 1934, her M.A. in preschool education from the University of Iowa in 1936, and her Ph.D in human development from the University of Chicago in 1949. Keister returned to UNCG in 1965 as a Research Associate for the Institute for Child...