Nash, Catherine S(tifler) (Mrs. Carroll B. Nash) (1919-)

Professor emeritus of biology and charter associate of the Parapsychological Association. She was born on August 31, 1919, in Woodbrook, Maryland. She studied at Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland (B.A., 1939) and Ohio State University (M.S., 1950). In 1941 she married Carroll B. Nash. At the time she finished her graduate work, she was a lecturer on biology at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, where she remained until taking a position in 1958 as an assistant professor of biology at St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, where her husband also taught and had founded a parapsychology laboratory.

She conducted research in parapsychology, including some joint experiments with her husband. She has taken particular interest in telepathy and clairvoyance and published a number of articles in the field.

Sources:

Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House, 1991.

Nash, Carroll B., and C. S. Nash. "An Exploratory Analysis for Displacement in PK." Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 50 (1956).

——. "Relation Between ESP Scoring and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory." Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 60 (1960).

Nash, C. S. "Checking Success and the Relationship of Personality Traits to ESP." Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 52 (1958).

——. "Experiments in Plant Growth." International Journal of Parapsychology (autumn 1959).

——. "Report on the Second Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association." Newsletter, Parapsychology Foundation (September-October 1959).

——. "A Test of Adding Extrasensorially Perceived Digits." Journal of Parapsychology 23 (1959).

Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.