Charles Hurlbut Griffitts, A.B., 1913 (Campbell College), M.A., 1914 (University of Kansas), Ph.D., 1919 (University of Michigan), was Assistant in the Department of Psychology of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts from 1916 to 1917.

He became Instructor in Psychology in the same year, Assistant Professor in 1922, Associate Professor in 1925, and Professor in 1936. During the First World War he was a First Lieutenant in the Medical Research Laboratory of the U. S. Air Service. In 1937 Professor Griffitts helped establish the Institute for Human Adjustment and was in charge of the Psychological Clinic of the Institute. He did much to establish the Institute on a firm basis in the seven years during which he was associated with it.

Professor Griffitts is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Psychological Association, the Michigan Psychological Association, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has taken a keen interest in the Psychological Section of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters and chaired its meetings for two successive years.

The Regents, in granting Professor Griffitts his request that he retire at the age of sixty-nine, thank him for his long period of loyal service to the University. They wish him many years of health and happiness and confer upon him the title Professor Emeritus of Psychology, and invite him to avail himself of all the courtesies that are customarily shown emeritus members of the faculty.