Background on the Kohs Block Design intelligence test

(Data from Wikipedia and elsewhere, Aug. 22, 2008)

Samuel Calmin Kohs (born New York City, June 2, 1890 - died January 23, 1984) was an American psychologist... At age 28, he developed a set of small variously colored blocks that are used to form test patterns in psychodiagnostic examination, the Kohs blocks.

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Kohs Block Design Test
(photo from the Stoelting Co.)

Kohs's non-academic work (Wikipedia):

"1924-1926 executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation in Alameda County, California

1926-1928 executive director for the Jewish Family Service Agency, in San Francisco

1928- becane the eastern representative on the Jewish Committee for Personal Service in the state institutions of California

1928-1933 worked for five years at the Federation of Jewish Charities in Brooklyn

1938-1940 directed the Resettlement Division of the National Refugee Service (an organization now known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (or H.I.A.S.))

1939-1941 worked on the Refugee Service Committee in Los Angeles, Calif.

'after 1941'-1956 worked as the administrative field secretary of the Jewish Welfare Board's Western States Division

Kohs also compiled information about Jewish participation in World War II.

The Western Jewish History Center, of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, in Berkeley, California has a large collection of personal papers, documents, and photographs relating to Samuel Kohs, his work and to members of his family."