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In Memoriam
Carol F. Pemberton
 

Nov. 12, 2002—Carol F. Pemberton, 81, a retired University of Delaware research psychologist, died Nov. 9, 2002.

Working in UD’s Office of Institutional Research from 1963 to 1985, Pemberton authored a wide range of surveys on student and faculty attitudes and postgraduate employment, including a widely publicized 1983 study of academic dishonesty among University students.

Born in Ithaca, N.Y., Dr. Pemberton was raised in South Africa. She received a bachelor’s degree in English and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. She received a Ph D. in psychology from the University of Chicago, where she met her husband Wilfred, who served as a counseling psychologist at UD. He died in 1996.

A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 30, at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Parish in Newark. Burial will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Thomas’s Episcopal Parish or to the Newark Senior Center in care of the R. T. Foard and Jones Funeral Home, 122 West Main, St., DE 19711.