{"id":2505,"date":"2020-02-21T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parapsychology.org\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2020-02-21T18:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T18:39:47","slug":"the-rhine-center-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/the-rhine-center-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rhine Center Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lisette Coly, President of the Parapsychology Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations and admiration are due to the Rhine Center for the 85th<\/sup> anniversary of its Parapsychology Laboratory along with Dr. Sally Rhine Feather\u2019s 90th<\/sup> birthday!\u00a0 Our two organizations The Rhine<\/a>,\u00a0 formerly the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and Parapsychology Foundation<\/a> have long shared a common dedication to the furtherance of the science of parapsychology as was the dream and realization of their founders Dr. J.B. Rhine<\/a>\u00a0 and Eileen J. Garrett<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eileen J. Garrett served as a research subject with those famous ESP card guessing Zener cards in intervals from 1932-1938.\u00a0 She convinced PF\u2019s cofounder, the Honorable Frances P. Bolton<\/a> prior to the creation and funding of PF to set up the McDougall Research Fund at Duke University and subsequently Mrs. Bolton\u00a0 provided\u00a0 support of JB\u2019s early days. Upon the creation of PF in 1951 we assisted with funding and upkeep of his famous parapsychology lab and its workers and research a fact which makes us most proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think evident was JB\u2019s recognition and gratitude for this support when he penned a remembrance of Eileen Garrett for the latest edition\u00a0 of her autobiography \u201cAdventures in the Supernormal\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 \u201c So much surges through my mind of what has happened since that morning when Eileen Garrett and her daughter (Eileen Coly) got off the train in Durham that it would fill books; she started many many things, here as elsewhere, with her vigor, her initiative, her restless \u201ccreative age\u201d mind, and yes, her generous readiness to help others.\u00a0 How many there are who could say, as I do, \u2018She helped me get my start!\u2019\u00a0 She and I had what were for me great moments together.\u00a0 There will be eloquent words from others about her; we will all appreciate them too, but the personal sort of partnership Eileen Garrett and I had seemed to me somewhat unique, and it has meant a great deal to me and always will.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JB or \u201cthe Boss\u201d as Garrett affectionately referred to him shared a unique relationship…a complicated one, that one might say \u201cblew \u201chot and cold\u201d as they at times butted heads with differing opinions and visions for the work.\u00a0 But at the base of their relationship was admiration and fondness with\u00a0 the realization that they shared a commitment to parapsychological research. Much less complicated was the relationship my mother and I inherited with him and Dr. Louisa Rhine and in my case with their daughter Sally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Certainly, professionally, our two organizations ran and continue to run in parallel but personally our relationship with Sally deepened over the years.\u00a0 Our warmth and appreciation for each other and our individual travails working literally a lifetime continuing our organizations\u00a0 along with the love of our complex forebears and the organizations they founded\u00a0 is evident in a filmed interview\u00a0held at the Rhine<\/a> on December 8th 2016. Taken again from \u201cAdventures in the Supernormal\u201d Sally shared \u201cAlthough I heard my father, J.B. Rhine, speak about his dear friend Eileen Garrett many times in my early years, my first clear memory of her was at our house on January 28, 1946. I remember the date distinctly because this was my 16th<\/sup> birthday.\u00a0 Eileen must have arrived with her entourage to visit JB at the Duke Parapsychology Lab and been invited home for the family dinner that marked the occasion.\u00a0Now 55 years later I can still visualize the colorful exotic outfit and dramatic mannerisms of this elegant perfumed lady from New York City.\u00a0 But the real reason that this evening was so engrained in my early memory was that Eileen Garrett in her magnanimity presented me, a shy teenager, with a remarkable gift\u2014a heavy silver charm bracelet totally full of charms.\u00a0This was a gift beyond belief for me at this time, as witness to the fact that I kept this bracelet with me my entire life, until only last Christmas finally passing it along to my daughter.\u201d\u00a0 And now from sweet sixteen we are so happy to wish Sally congratulations and love for her milestone 90th<\/sup> birthday! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This banner year…one of many over the years …will see the Rhine hosting the combined conventions of the Parapsychological Association<\/a> and the Society for Scientific Exploration<\/a>.\u00a0The three day conference entitled \u201c2020 Vision\u201d<\/a> will address the past, the present, and lay a foundation for the future of research which will run June 16-19, 2020 in Durham, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A well deserved exciting year to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations and admiration are due to the Rhine Center for the 85th anniversary of its Parapsychology Laboratory along with Dr. Sally Rhine Feather\u2019s 90th birthday!\u00a0 Our two organizations The Rhine,\u00a0 formerly the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and Parapsychology Foundation have long shared a common dedication to the furtherance of the science […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[262,318,69,18,344,352,16,101,29,47,353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parapsychology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}