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Rodman Gilder was for twenty-seven years an important participant in the editing of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: active in the selection of papers for publication and the checking and revision of them. He contributed to our annual meetings, and among these other services we like to recall his arranging, with Mary Crowther, and later with Jo Shapiro, our delightful Christmas parties at the Century Association.
First, the facts of his professional life. Born in New York, he attended school there and at the innovative Fountain Valley School in Colorado. After Harvard, he was graduated from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and received his psychoanalytic training—certified in psychoanalysis of both adults and children—at Columbia's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, as well as at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. For most of his life he taught at Columbia, and in recent years at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division, and he practiced analysis and psychotherapy at his home in Scarsdale. In the Second World War he served in the Navy. He was a President of the Westchester Psychoanalytic Society, and did much work for public agencies in the county.
It is especially noteworthy that he organized and led a continuing group meeting for the parents of children with cancer. This he did for many years, though he found it emotionally exhausting; the outlook for such children was especially grim in those days. He included their physicians, who have spoken with