Forrest Crissey, prolific early twentieth century novelist of Tattlings of a Retired Politician and writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Harpers Magazine
In 1949 Mae Carden closed her school in New York and with close associates, Dorothea Freyfogle and May Crissey, organized Mae Carden, Inc.
A number of distinguished psychologists have served as President of the Society including Donald Super, Albert Ellis, Orlo Crissey, Theodore Blau, Raymond Fowler, Thomas Backer, and Rodney Lowman.