DR. CLARA THOMPSON (1893-1958) died December 20, 1958. The daughter of a New England clergyman, she first intended a career as a medical missionary. She had her psychiatric training at Phipps, and was considered by Adolf Meyer to be his best student. About 1930 she went to Budapest and was perhaps Dr. Sandor Ferenczi's first American student. Late in the 1930's she withdrew with a few others from the New York Society and joined the Washington group. For many years she was the Executive Director of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology which she and others established in 1943. She was the author of a book and of over thirty papers.