I don't like to brag, but this seems to be just about the only
information on David McClelland available on the web. Here's
some of the mail I've received...
My name is John McMullen,
I am the son of Sarah McMullen, the daughter of David McClelland,
whose works you have outlined in your website.
Thank you for helping
my Grandfather's memory live on. I believe he still abides, just
not in this physical realm, and I am sure he appreciates what you
have done as well. Though the world may know him for his great accomplishments
in psychology and motivation, I'll remember him for his great love
for me and my family.
sincerely,
John Gary McMullen
Hi, David, great job
on the David McClelland review -- both
substantively and in presentation. Just ran across your web page,
trying to track down a long-lost reference to n-Ach for a current
graduate student.
I had a chance to work
with David on n-Aff, n-Pow, n-Ach stuff when I
was doing graduate work at Harvard and also for several months in
Tunisia where he was on sabbatical in 1963-64 and I was doing my
own
parallel research.
A wonderful man, especially
in his ability to integrate personal
biography, local culture and larger historical contexts. One day
he
would be measuring n-Aff in a 500 year old culture by doing a content
analysis of children stories ("the one place that society tells
what's
its real worldview is, without the bragging"); another day
he'd be
measuring n-Ach by having people draw a circle in the sand and throwing
a stone into it (n-Ach measured by the size of the challenge they
set
themselves); another day it was measuring n-Pow by examining UN
statistics on country data. (David used to pan for gold as a younger
man, and he said statistical correlations are like that: it's long,
cold
boring work, so when you see a glint, you gotta believe it's trying
to
say something worth thinking about.)
Thanks for keeping his
work (and his personality) alive.
Best wishes,
Barclay Hudson, bhudson@fielding.edu
Faculty, The Fielding Institute (www.fielding.edu)
Dave-thanks so much for
me and my many students that I hope will find
and then read your site. A few years ago there was a wonderful
interview in the Atlantic Monthly magazine. It seemed that he never
considered himself the great success that many of us as students
of his
did...his work truly did make the world a better place.
thanks again........Ken
Murrell
David,
Thank you so very much for gathering information on Dr. David
McClelland. I am taking a contemporary management class and need to
write a research paper on his theories. Unfortunately there is not
much about him on the web. Thanks for making this easier.
Debbie
Thanks for your information on McClelland. I'm a student at BYU,
it's 1:00 in the morning and I got a 5 page paper due. Thanks for
taking the time to make that info available.
Brian McNamara
Brigham Young University
Hi there - My name is
Jamie and I'm am a student at St.
Francis Xavier Univeristy in Antigonish. Thank-you for
creating such a webpage - I am certainly finding it useful
in my search for information on motivation and achievement
needs.
Thanks again.
-----Jamie Symonds
From: <93SGIBBONSSM@dhsboys.plym.sch.uk>
superb, top notch, and a rare source of gold!
Your Dave McClelland web page is detailed, concise, and more to the
point packed full of info. You may think I'm woffling, but thats my
style. I'll certainly visit this page at every opportunity!
David--I'm a student at
Northwestern University, and I have to write an 8-page paper on McClelland.
You've made my life a lot easier. Thanks.
--Nancy
Big thank you from the very
north of Scotland. On researching McClelland for a speech that my
husband had to make at a Personnel Conference, we could find very
little information on McClelland (lots about Maslow, etc) in any of
the literature we could get our hands on. As a last resort we decided
to search the web and found your page. It contained all the info we
needed and more. Very informative. Well done. Very many thanks again.
The Lorimers, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland
Thanks for the info on your
web page. I've been looking all over for information on affiliation
needs in human behavior! I learned about it in Psychology years ago
but didn't know whose theory it was.
Marilynn
Cheers Mate!
Steve from Scotland by the way!!!
Thankyou for your info. about David McClelland, the theorist. You
have just saved my ass - I need this information for an essay I am
doing at college.
Thank you once again!!!!!!!
I want to say thank you
very much for the informative page on your name, his name,...????(ha,
ha, ha) Seriously...Your page helped me out when I was in a bind.
Good luck and keep up the good work.
PS Good luck with the acting too.
Steven S. Pawlowski
Webmaster
Prentice Hall
College NewsLink Service
Hi David,
Thanks for taking the time to do this page. Yes, I found it very useful,
and I have passed it onto my classmates at BCIT (British Columbia
Institute of Technology) for our Organizational Behavior class.
Joe Gregoire
Enjoyed your page on David
McClelland. I am teaching an Applied Psych. class this fall; if I
quote you, I'll credit you.
One correction; Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) but anyone in psych.
would know what you meant anyway. (fixed-DM)
Also, visited your page. Nice to meet you.
...Carol
Hot Springs, Arkansas
I had to do a short report
on David McClelland for my Psychology class, and although I had little
trouble finding information on experiments, I couldn't find anything
about his personal history. Thank you for your web page! But I do
have one unanswered question...do you know where he was born? Thank
you so much!!!
Nicole
Your page was very informative.
I noticed that someone asked for David McClelland's place of birth.
I discovered that he was born on May 20, 1917 and died on March 27,
1998. His New York Times April 5th obituary states that he was born
in Mount Vernon, New York. Thanks for your help in my research!
Jessica
Shawnee, Ok
I am a student at Poinciana high School In kissimmee, Fl. I am currently
a student in Psychology II, and I have been assigned a research project
on David McClelland, as you may very well know, there is not much
information on him, therefore I was extremely relieved and thankful
that I came across the website. Thank you for making the info. accessible!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nichole lopez
My name is Alison and I am a student at Curtin University, Western
Australia. Like many others I am doing a 'night before' assignment
and found the information that you compiled very useful. Thanks for
taking the time to make my life easier!
From
Alison McCue
Thank you David for compiling this information about Dr. David McClelland.
I'm a college student and I have a project for my Human Resources
Management
class about Dr. McClelland's "Achievement Motivational Model"
and your site
has been very helpful. Once again thank you.
Ivette M.
Hey Dave the Actor,
the McClelland page is ace as my psychology books are naff, and I
can't be
bothered to go to the university library. You have helped me on my
way in
studying the applied social sciences...so cheers and hooray to you!!!
Angus Brown :0)
Hi -
I just visited the website
for the late David McClelland, trying to track
down one of his daughters, Sarah. I found her by using her brother's
name,
Jabez, which is unusual enough to get a direct hit when searching
the web.
And I came to your gracious website.
However, I need to clear
up an error I found. I was very surprised to see
that Jabez is listed as one of his DAUGHTERS! Not so! He has two
daughters
from his first marriage to Mary, and two daughters from his second
marriage
to Marian. And THREE sons. Jabez McClelland is a man and a very
competent
physicist. (Corrected in Obituary above
- DM)
They are all family friends
of ours from way back. Mary and David were like
second parents to us. My brother and I used to play with Sarah and
Jabez
when we were kids, growing up in Cambridge, Mass. I hope this helps
clear
up the mistake.
Best, Megan Holt
Hello...I am a middle school teacher teaching my extended language
arts classes about what it takes to be a leader. Your site was the
ONLY one I found that would even remotely explain who this man was.
Thanks! ~ Sheila
Hello, My name is Kendra Ricks, and I am a college student at
Central Alabama Community College. I am writing to let you know that
your information about David McClelland, the Psychologist, was very
helpful to me. I am having to do a research paper about him, and without
your information, I probably wouldn't have very much to tell about.
There is one thing that I need that I can't find, and that is a picture
of him. Do you happen to have one or know where one is on the web
that I can use. You can write me back and let me know. Again, thank
you very much.
NOTE :I now have a photo, courtesy John McMullen,
Grandson of David McClelland. It is on this page
thanks. this was fun. i'm teaching a group process class in a couple
of
weeks and wanted a fast refresher on mcclelland. you provided it!
thanks.
rose jonas
Dave
Hi I am Doug McClelland
from Annapolis, Maryland. It seems that you have been caught up
in the maelstrom of my famous uncle David McClelland of Cambridge,
Mass the psychologist. I like hundreds of other people would like
to thank you for all your hard work on the website. Dave would be
amused by all the clamor, as he was generally a quiet
and reserved type of guy. Even thou he had I think four
PhD's to his credit, he was a normal type of guy that
would love to go have a steak and beer dinner with you. And the
pages that you added will I hope clear up the matter for a lot of
people.
Our branch of the McClellands
comes from Glenluce, Scotland in the 1860's. I have to my good fortune
a handy reference on my clan's existence in the form of an autobiography
that was created by my great grandfather Charles Paul McClelland.
There were three MaClellan
brothers that migrated from Glenluce, Scotland to America. Alexander came
in 1868, David in 1870 and Charles Paul in 1871. Alexander MaClellan
was a Gardner for a large nursery in Dobbs Ferry, NY. Charles Paul
started as a store clerk in Dobbs Ferry and went on to be a lawyer,
New York state senator and finally a Supreme Court judge in the
US Custom Court of Appeals. Charles the judge had two children Meade
and Charles Paul II.
Somewhere in the 1880's
judge MacLellan changed the spelling of his name to McClelland.
He used to spell his last name as MacLellan not MaClellan and then
changed it to McClelland. This was because he was surrounded by
so many Irishman that constantly misspelled his name. Dave
My grandfather Charles
Paul McClelland was a Methodist minister and president of MacMurry
College in Jacksonville, Ill. He had a large family of five children.
Charles Paul III(my father), David, Carol, Betty, and Janet. David
had five children
Kate McClelland-Dole
Morristown N.J.
Nicolas and Ducan Boston Mass.
Sarah McClelland - Santa Barbara,Cal
Jacob McClelland - Washington DC
My father Charles Paul
McClelland and Hugh McClelland started the Clan MaClellan in America
about 1982 from a conversation during a golf game in North Carolina. He
would be absolutely be amazed on how popular it has become. Dick
McClelland told me about 7 years ago that they had about 6,000
members worldwide, so who knows how big it is today. Hugh would
recruit people at the highland games at Grandfather mountain and
publish the news letter and my dad would keep track of the
dues and make sure the newsletters were mailed out.
Doug McClelland
douglasm@toad.net |