Smith, Barbara Gosline (1909-1994)
Smith, Barbara Gosline (1909-1994)
Newspaper columnist who studied parapsychological subjects. She was born on November 4, 1909, in Dallas, Texas. She studied at the University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., 1929) and the University of Southern California (M.A., 1933). She was successively an elementary school teacher (1930-35), high school teacher (1935-45), and college instructor (1945-50). In 1950 she became a freelance writer. She was a member of Bema Forensic Society. With Karlis Osis she investigated possible relationships between religious backgrounds and ESP among elementary school children.
She died on January 7, 1994.
Sources:
Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.
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