William Thetford, Ph.D.
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Significant Dates
1923 (April 25): Birth – Chicago
1940: Lindblom High School, Chicago (Diploma)
1940-1944: DePauw University (A.B.)
1945-1949: University of Chicago (Ph.D.)
1949-1951: Research Psychologist - Michael
Reese Hospital, Chicago
1951-1954: Senior Psychologist, U.S. Government
(CIA), Washington, D.C.
1954-1955: Director, Psychology Department,
Institute for Living, Hartford
1955-1958: Faculty, Research Psychologist,
Cornell University
1958: Professor of Medical Psychology, College
of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia University, and
Director, Psychology Department, Presbyterian Hospital
1958: Meets and hires Helen Schucman as Research Psychologist
1965 (June): "There must be another way" speech to
Helen
1965-1972: Transcribes Helen's scribings of A Course
in Miracles
Text: October 21,
1965 - October 10, 1968
Workbook for Students: May
26, 1969 - February 18, 1971
Manual for Teachers: April
12, 1972 - September 7, 1972
1972: Meets Kenneth Wapnick
1973 (Late) - 1975 (Early): Final editing of A Course
in Miracles
1975 (May 29): Meets Judith Skutch
1975: Copyright of A Course in
Miracles obtained by
Foundation for Inner Peace for
Helen Schucman who
then assigns copyright to the Foundation for Inner Peace
1975 (Summer, Fall): Distribution of 300 photo-offset
copies of A Course in Miracles
manuscript in book
form
1976 (June): Publication of A
Course in Miracles: First
Printing – 5,000 copies
1978: Retires from Columbia University,
moves to California (Tiburon, later La Jolla)
1981 (February 9): Helen's death – New York
City
1981: Choose Once Again (book) with Jules
Finegold
1988 (July 4): Dies – Tiburon, California