Edward Zigler

Zigler, Edward
Edward Frank Zigler, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University and Director Emeritus of The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale, passed away on Feb. 7, 2019. A leading researcher on child development and children's welfare, he is best known as one of the architects of the Head Start program, and has served as an advisor on child and family policy issues for every White House Administration from Presidents Johnson to Obama. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and taught for one year at the University of Missouri before joining the faculty at Yale in 1959. He served as a Staff Sergeant in the U. S. Army during the Korean War, and was born the child of immigrants in Kansas City, Missouri in 1930. He is survived by his son, Perrin Scott Zigler, his daughter-in-law Korin Marie Zigler, granddaughters Miranda Elizabeth Zigler and Maya Elyse Zigler, and younger sister Maurine Agron. He was preceeded in death by his wife, Bernice Zigler, in 2017. Services will be private, a memorial service will be held at Yale University sometime this spring. To sign the online guestbook please visit hawleylincolnmemorial.com.