Dr. B. Geraldine Lambert – Head of Psychology Department is a title not easily earned
or quickly bestowed. Dr. B. Geraldine Lambert is no stranger to hard work and discipline.
A native of El Reno, she graduated from Shawnee High School in 1940. She earned an
Associate in Arts degree from El Reno Junior College in 1942, before earning her Bachelor
of Arts degree at the Oklahoma College for Women in 1946. While at OCW, she was named
a John Hay Fellow in Humanities by the Ford Foundation in 1964. She earned the M.Ed.
in Secondary Education and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oklahoma
at Norman, OK. From there she went to the University of Louisiana where she became
a faculty member of the Psychology Department in 1966, with the position of Assistant
Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor and then Professor and served as
Head of the Psychology Department from 1970 to 1981. She served as "Executive Officer
of the Faculty Senate" and was a member of the Graduate Faculty, and several University
Committees. She retired from USL in 1988. She has served as a psychology consultant
in the Iberia Parish Schools, for the St. Landry Parish, and St. Martin Parish, the
Lafayette Juvenile and Young Adult Program, and the penology study for the Louisiana
Commission on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. Dr. Lambert was senior author
of a college textbook "Adolescence, Transition from Childhood to Maturity", and has
published research regarding career education and psychology of adolescents. Dr. Lambert
has served as counselor on projects for Oklahoma State University and University of
Oklahoma, and was counselor for high schools in Oklahoma and New Mexico, also teaching
in the Hobbs, New Mexico School District from 1948 to 1961.