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Blair, W.R.N.
Blair, W. R. N.
Blair, Buck
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William Robert Nelson "Buck" Blair, ?-1990, was Head of the Department of Psychology at The University of Calgary from 1966 to 1974. He was Associate Vice-President (Academic) from 1974 to 1978, and retired in 1980. He received his BA and MA from the University of Alberta, and a PhD from the University of Ottawa in 1956. During World War II, he served as a gunner lieutenant and as an army examiner in the army's Directorate of Personnel Selection. In the 1950s, he was a senior officer in the Canadian Army Personnel System.
Blair was an early member of the Canadian Psychological Association and served in various executive positions for the Association. He chaired the Alberta Mental Health Study, which produced the Blair Report, and chaired the Provincial Mental Health Advisory Commission, for which he was awarded the Alberta Achievement Award in 1974. He was also involved in The University of Calgary Status of Women Committee. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Military Science at a ceremony at Royal Roads [military academy] in 1989.