uh before I make some remarks um this coincides with the president's dinner from what I understand so Nancy tippens as head of the scop foundation has asked to go first to to say a few words and I invite her to the podium thank you all for accommodating my schedule I apologize for the difficulty my name is Nancy Tiffin and I'm here both to remember Frank and his the contributions he made to our profession as well as represent the SC Foundation Frank's work and meta analysis has had a profound impact on the work of many of us including myself his systematic approach to synthesizing research findings across multiple studies provided a r Rous and quantitative means of evaluating the relative effectiveness of various selection procedures because of his work practitioners like me are able to identify the instruments that are most likely to be valid predictors of job performance and that enables not only development and implementation of more effective selection procedures but also the wise use of human and capital resources ources and organizations I want to share one little personal vignette of my interactions with Frank I did not have the privilege of working with Frank but I certainly knew he was who he was he was one of the Brilliant Minds of IO psychology in the late 1990s we were arguing over the revisions to the 1999 standards for educational and psychological testing if you remember that was a very controversial revision and there was lots of back and forth and it took many many years to work that out we were at a conference like this and we were asking questions of a panel of people who were on the Joint Committee that wrote the uh standards and I asked the panel a question I don't even remember the question now but it was about the implications of a particular standard for people who work in practice like me and the person who responded to my question really didn't answer it you know we have many people who are good at sort of tap dancing around the answer and this person kept yeah and Frank finally said you need to answer Nancy's question it's a really good one it was the highlight of my career for Frank Schmid to have said I had a good question I was so proud of myself it it was really wonderful in 2015 Frank established the Schmid Hunter fund to recognize advances in metaanalysis that are documented in published research the mou between Frank and the Scot Foundation states that the emphasis on the award of the award is on the methodological quality and conceptual and theoretical qualities and the implication for practice now and in the future since 2017 the work of seven different groups of research researchers have been recognized with the Schmidt Hunter metaanalysis award this award highlights a meta analysis published in the last 3 years that exhibits the highest level of methodological and theoretical quality and yields potential implications for iio psychology the Scot Foundation is grateful to Fright for his munificent initial donation to start the fund and to his many friends and family who have appreciated his work and honored his memory with their own generous donations to this fund Frank's dedication to the advancement of knowledge will benefit countless researchers and practitioners for years to come thank you Frank for your Visionary contributions to our field and your commitment to ensuring ongoing research and meta analysis thank you all thank you for that ning um I would like to take a few minutes now uh to talk through a little bit about my memories of Frank but then also give you a little bit of biographical information about him uh because I'm not sure that everybody knows all the breadth of things that his family that I sort of gathered over the years so that's what I would like to do for the next 10 minutes or so and then I will open it up for um anybody to come up to the podium and share their memories and their thoughts um as we approach what would have been his um 80th birthday in just 10 days I find comfort in believing that he would have been delighted to see us here here gathered today in remembrance and celebration of his legacy I would like to First spend a few minutes to share an overview of Frank's life and contributions and also some of my own thoughts I met Frank 36 years ago when I started the PHD program in management at the University of Iowa the program that he put on the scholarly map as most of you know Frank was my doctoral advisor Mentor academic father as well as my friend I learned psychometrics validity generalization meta analysis Personnel selection from him he opened my eyes to the importance of General mental ability for everything that we do in life we shared a passion for individual differences in research we published much together I learned a great deal from Frank in terms of Life Outlook as well his sudden death in August of 2021 left all of us in his academic family B we lost our intellectual father and the world has lost an intellectual Giant I would like to share with you a bit about Frank's biography highlight his research contributions and impact as the whole gamut may not be well known to everyone remember him for the character and the mench that he was first his biography Frank was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1944 the old oldest of six children in a farm family with only grade level grade school level education he was the oldest of five boys all born one year after the other for per Frank's description his teenage years was a time and place where kids were allowed to play an experiment and he did experiment at age 7 camped out alone shot guns BB guns pellet guns real guns climbed trees buil tree houses at age nine drove tractors pickups on the farm his parents were so busy with work and younger kids that he had and I quote the privilege and freedom to raise himself his words privilege and freedom to raise himself he experimented a lot in elementary school he made nine sold them at school he built arrows he built crossbow he made a sword he collected arrow heads and developed a big collection of them but also read the World Book Encyclopedia cover to cover in high school he had strong interests in biology and evolutionary theory and he had advanced placement in biology when he entered Barm College in 1962 he was the first in his family to attend college as a sophomore Frank became interested in applied psychology especially psychological measurement he graduated summum La in Psychology and was awarded a woodro Wilson graduate Fellowship he could have taken that to any of the nine IO Psychology programs that accepted him but Purdue at the time and this is his opinion was the best of all IO programs in the country and when they offered him a National Defense Education Act Fellowship which paid a lot more than the woodro Wilson one he went there the ndea Act was passed by Congress in response to spotnik which went up in 1958 and Frank always said thanks to Russians he received that scholarship at Purdue he received a first class training infused with quantitative psychology here is a list of his classmates I'm sure you will recognize many of The Luminaries of our field on that list he took measurement and individual differences with Owens he psychometrics with Brogden statistics with Wier although tiffen was his adviser he was most influenced by Brogden his interest in the complexities of data analysis began with his dissertation which showed via computer simulation that regression weights estimated on Sample sizes typical of psychological research um performed poorly than simple equal weights his first job was at Michigan State during Frank's first year on The Faculty at Michigan State he and Jack Hunter began a research collaboration that lasted until Jack's death in 2002 they co-invented psychometric met analysis he was promoted and given tenure only after 3 years at Michigan State but a desire for real world applications of psychology led him to take a research position at the Personnel research and development center at the US Civil Service Commission in 1974 as the largest practitioner of of personnel selection in the world the Civil Service Commission now known as the office of personnel management provided many interesting applied and basic problems and free time to AC free time free of academic duties to focus on these problems a great deal of Frank's research was conducted during this period these will give you a glimpse of the topics that he was publishing on during his first decade and with whom um during his second decade this is what it looks like in 1985 Frank accepted a chaired position in the tippy College of Business at the University of Iowa where he remained a professor emeritus after retiring in 2012 and there he produced a whole lot of graduate students this is what his third decade of publication yields as well as his co-authors for 20 years he was also a senior scientist with gallab during this time he was publishing still on metaanalysis and there are his authors during his last decade in retirement he was still publishing on average three articles per year and still working on projects when you put it all together this is his entire publication record meta analysis validity generalization selection tests most importantly perhaps implications of them for real world and his co-authors starting with Pearlman McDaniel judish owns Vish vesan Le O and Harter and inescapably Hunter very briefly his scientific work and contributions he published over 230 Journal artic articles and book chapters seven books four of them on metaanalysis his current H index is 104 for his contributions he was given the most prestigious prizes in Psychology and management including the Loy award from Sher the APA gold medal and the dunette prize from scop all of these awards are for Lifetime contributions to the applications of psychology Frank demonstrated every quality of the scientific method objectivity desire for truth open-mindedness skepticism rationality confidence in empiricism and measurement he was a paradigm shifting scientist a father of metaanalytic techniques and an Ardent and intellectually honest researcher of individual differences his contributions not only transformed entire fields of psycholog psychological and management inquiry but also extended to hundreds of other fields Where psychometric metanalyses Have Become the Bedrock of scientific knowledge together with Jack Hunter they they invented a set of such statistical techniques collectively known as psychometric met analys is initially in IO psychology and transformed employee selection research but the influence of Frank's work extended far beyond work psychology and management leading to Applications of metanalysis in all areas of psychological inquiry resulting in an epistemological paradigm shift in how scientific knowledge is created and updated furthermore the impact of metaanalysis extended to diverse disciplines the contribution of metaanalysis is not due to its popularity among researchers the true influence of metaanalysis stems from its ability to answer large research questions with more consistency robustness and power than conventional Empirical research techniques Frank's development and continuous improvements of metaanalysis methods detailed in his four highly influential and widely cited books numerous research articles are considered to be his greatest scientific achievement in his own field of work psychology and management for 50 years Frank researched and demonstrated the potent and persistent role of individual differences primarily General mental ability as well as cognitive non-cognitive variables such as integrity one other thing metaanalysis is epistemologically unique as the technique focuses on making use of all available data uncovering the truth and testing generalizability by using all available data metaanalyses democratize science in this realm I learned from Frank that scientific facts are not discovered or established by single studies or single study scientists now Frank the character and Frank and his character Frank cared about his students and was an advocate for junior scientists his door was open to all students for general assistance and advice with all that he had accomplished he could be in intimidating but he used good humor and little jokes to put the anxious at ease he had countless colleagues students friends all around the world when Frank met someone he was attentive without prejudice and engaged to those who had the Good Fortune of meeting him in person he transcended impressive accomplishments with his vast knowledge about every conceivable topic childlike curiosity gentleness and good Good Humor he was memorable dependable and generous he made a mark on many lives he rallied to those with insurmountable problems especially those in his personal and professional family with strength and understanding even though he had his own share of personal tragedies he was the guide that all of us turned to in times of need Frank loves simple things too reading having intellectual discussions taking walks hunting collecting traveling uh cultural events having a good food and drink he was a student of life with insatiable curiosity learning was the focal point of his life he was open to new ideas and information professionally and personally always quick to learn he had many interests and took up new hobbies his great thirst for knowledge kept him intellect ually young and vital I once asked Frank for the adjectives that he would use to describe himself his response and I quote persistent dogged I keep plotting along if I think an idea has Merit I keep pursuing it also iconoclastic I've always liked to challenge the conventional wisdom of the day not relying on self-report some time ago I gathered informant dat uh his Cardinal traits openness to ideas achievement striving and assertiveness on the old school California psychological inventory he would have been off the charts on the achievement via Independence scale given his professional stature and accomplishments Frank could be intimidating he had little patience for foolishness intellectual dishonesty or cowardice with a few sentences he could reduce critics arguments to ashes yet none of his criticisms were ever personal he was interpersonally gentle caring and considerate even his critics were disarmed by his irreverent humor uninhabited curiosity he was not judgmental and thrived on all forms of diversity Frank left behind a momentous intellectual Legacy that continues to shape the future of work psychology and management for sure to be sure but also the future of Science in general if he were here today he would be talking to us in one way or another about how to detect and correct the lies that data tell he offered an elegant and quantitative way of knowing he was greater than life and his legacy lives on in those whose intellects continue to be shaped by the ideas that he introduced now we have set up a website as you may have discovered on Frank Schmidt where you can go to get uh all sorts of information uh about him his impact his messages that were shared about him his biography uh and so on and so forth and if you are considering to continue commemorating him we invite you to consider a contribution to either the schmith and Hunter metaanalysis award fund that SC up established that was established by at the scth foundation or the Frank Schmid family metaanalysis graduate fellowship at the University of Iowa uh in case you don't you may have difficulty um locating how to get to uh those sources to donate your funds uh we put on that web page where you can go and click and go to where you can make your contribution with that I'm going to turn it to anybody who would like to come up and share their thoughts their memories U about Frank uh good evening it's a Bittersweet moment for all of us I'm sure um Jim sharf and I had the privilege of working side by side with Frank on a number of different uh venues uh we first met uh back in Washington uh post Griggs versus Duke power which was settled by the UN the Supreme Court in 1971 in which the Warren Court found in to read into title 7 a results oriented definition of discrimination which led to adverse impact uh having said that the court having read adverse impact into the law which is nowhere found in the legislative history uh I suspect that in our lifetime we will see adverse impact uh read out of while but that's another story Frank was recruited uh by the office of personnel management because they had been successfully challenged in court uh on the federal service entrance exam that uh uh in which the the federal Service uh then Civil Service Commission uh tried to argue that saying that the the the the federal employee needs to know how to read and how to deal with numbers now today we would call that verbal and quantitative or GMA General mental ability so Frank was recruited specifically from Michigan State to deal with the the the street that Frank and I were both walking down the street was called the uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures uh on the far side of the street Frank was working with the biggest empy employer in the United States this is pre- Walmart days uh and and on my side of the street were three regulatory bodies the uh civil rights division of the US Department of Justice the office of federal contract compliance programs in the Department of Labor and EEOC where I have been recruited because I used to have my MBA students uh take on the then Chief psychologist from EEOC they T I taught them enough about employment testing that they could give a plausible uh uh go around with the late Bill Lis who was then the chief psychologist at EOC so for the next four years begin in 74 uh the weekly negotiation of the uniform guidelines uh continued Frank working and introducing us with what had been peer-reviewed in the Journal of Applied psychology on the contribution of uh metaanalysis to uh validity generalization of course in Washington everything goes with an acronym so it became known as VG and the word Schmid Hunter was one word Schmid hunter that that was one word uh the lawyers with whom I worked derisively called Schmid Hunter uh the Michigan State marching band but uh so the the fact is the uh civil rights bar had uh I would say a lack of enthusiasm for validity generalization and saying a lack of enthusiasm is much of an understatement uh in fact the Civil Rights uh lawyers committee for civil rights under law uh said explicitly if this VG validity generalization is accepted uh no more employer never again when an employer have to do a validity study uh so the the uh uniform guidelines that that ultimately were issued by EEOC and the other three agencies the Civil Service Commission the uh Department of Labor Department of Justice and EOC uh Incorporated uh language that that in fact reflected not the findings of the science of the lity generalization but rather three components that were specifically what what I would call the the state of art of IO psychology industrial psychology in those days uh and division 14 of uh APA if you will uh they they Incorporated what we would call single group validity and uh uh uh uh situational specificity uh in addition to that they stuck their proverbial finger in frankai by saying if you're going to generalize validity uh you have can only do it with comp behaviorally comparable jobs so jobs had to have this virtually the same behavior of course Frank's work was the contribution to show that GMA General mental abilities were the basis for for uh trans uh for transporting across uh across uses so uh Schmidt and Hunter uh Frank became obviously uh very much aware of the lack of enthusiasm to say the least of the Civil Rights bar for uh the findings of uh metaanalysis and the conclusions of validity generalization and Frank moved on to uh University of Iowa as Denise had and pointed out I had the privilege in over the years of uh uh flying in the middle of winter in Cedar Rapids to meet with Frank's students and at the roadhouse uh on the way back to speaking to his class the next day I remember out at the University of Iowa Frank and I also published uh together on fairness and employment testing with the Linda godfredson uh I also had in that point after Frank had left down working with Ron Ron Ron sitting in the front row here Ron had had uh an ABD from Nebraska but decided for strange reasons to go to law school instead instead of finishing up so he had a uh a law uh practice there in Washington that uh uh I was asked to uh contribute uh on on plaintiff uh class action litigation involving uh representing the black agenc at the first the the Federal Bureau of Investigation and followup uh similar class action challenging the promotion practices at the uh Secret Service so Ron and I became uh working uh working together uh shortly thereafter um Frank and I were asked uh uh worked together collaboratively to do a uh a validity generalization uh defense General defense of American College Testing act's work keys and I think that was probably the uh one of the uh uh biggest uh uh certainly the biggest writing Cooperative project that the two of us uh engaged in over the time so uh I've had privilege of uh working with uh Frank working with his son Ron uh and uh I can only uh say uh VG is alive and well today uh in fact Jack Hunter and I had the uh privilege of testifying in a case in which VG was affirmed by the fifth circuit uh the highest uh uh affirmation of validity generalization to date in the courts but I also can't uh uh escape the fact that VG lives to to this day because uh one of his students uh Mike McDaniel passed a button around a couple years ago at scop and it said I got VG from Frank Schmidt anybody who wants to say a few words just come on out hello everyone I'm in at temp University I always uh regarded Frank and still regard Frank as my academic father uh while I was doing my PhD at Iowa Frank actually was my father and friend and teacher and coor so I actually um have a lot of you know mixed emotion at this point and one thing I remember about Frank is that obviously he's a great scholar everyone knows that so I'm not going to talk about that much but I want to talk about a few things he wrote in his Memoir I actually uh read his Memoir again on flight to Chicago a few days ago and I found that he was a great song at age seven Frank using K Tuan made two bracelets and one ring for his mom and his mom wore that until she died and then it was passed back to Frank and one thing great about that as I thinking about the situation like if you wear Caro bracelet then you're going to have some green thing on your neck right and Frank's mom knew that actually wearing that is not that healthy and some people may not want to wear that but she wore that until she died and that means I think Frank had a really great mom and was he was a great son I'm surprised by that and I also felt so for my mom I never made anything for my mom actually I bought a lot for my mom but I I I kind of you know thought that I should have done that before and I kind of uh learned something from Frank again and also I think when I was really angry with some review Frank told me one thing like which I cannot forget forever and also I want to share that with you all he said in I think the best revenge is living well don't feel bad and things can happen so just move on on and I bled at the point that's how uh Frank became a great scholar he must have a lot of rejections he poed 200 articles that means he must gotten more than 500 rejections so then I learned that oh okay I think all the success comes after enduring rejections that's also something I learned from um his book and also in know my casual conversation with Frank and one time also Frank told me that no God no glory maybe you guys heard that and while he said that actually when I was a pH in Iowa something very interesting happened so Bob uh Robert stumberg maybe many of you guys know the name and he was one of the candidates for the president University Iowa so at the time the school allowed us to have a meeting so I even could attend that meeting and Frank and I were sitting together and uh Frank actually no me to ask a question what do you think about U you know something he didn't want answer like a range of restriction and the importance of intelligence Frank really I think rais his hand and then ask a question you know the when Frank uh rais his hand he used you know his finger like this way rather than this one and then he uh kind of made you know Bob stumberg feel very um uncomfortable and and he told me that you got to have that kind of gut that way I think you know you can became her a good scholar and also you know Frank scholar so I think I uh Lear you know I need to have God so that's one thing I remember and then also another thing I remember U you know from him uh the from conversation from him is uh he often say that perfect is the enemy of good enough so there are some Scholars who are saying that we don't have perfect solution to some problem it's better not to do anything about that because we don't have perfect solution but Frank always believed that uh you know what we can do is getting closer to the truth so I think he believes that done is better than perfect and I cherish that in my own research and in my life no one going to be perfect so I think we got to do but you know we got to do something about that and uh just one other thing I think even though Frank really emphasize uh the role of intelligence for many things life outcomes job performance and all kinds of you know important criteria but one thing I think I can say is that uh I left Iowa after got I got my PhD and then one year like I don't know which year 2012 2013 and Frank talk start talk about uh his date and one a few months later he said in I think I'm going to get married so at the time I was a bit like a surprised yeah I know you're dating but you don't have to marry at that age he was close to 70 and you guys can live together but then he said that think the reason I want to marry is that I think I found the right one and I asked him oh what's that and he said intellectual fit so you know here like Frank's wife Cindy here and and even in terms of marriage you know after his two uh you know typ difficult marriages he he learned that I think uh intelligence is really important and I actually I was too late because I was married I'm still married 23 years but if I could go back and my wife is not here by the way I can say that and I'm going to actually uh you know practice that intellectual fit so this the event is being recorded oh really yeah please remove this for me and the last thing I think even though Frank emphasized intelligence he valued Dei diversity equity and inclusion one thing I clearly remember that from him his Memoir at age8 uh he thought that aist because he's from Lou Bill Kentucky there are not many aist so he had assumption that aist must have some sort of horns but when I got to meet them he found that they are just no more people and in his Memoir this is what what he what Frank lo I leared not to con not to reach conclusions about people without meeting them so one thing can I tell you about this is the last one uh when I was a p in my first year especially my spoken English was really bad I think Frank could understand me maybe 70% 80% but you know what Frank was the only fa member uh who asked me what did you say what do you mean can you say that again uh can you rephrase Frank tried understand me 100% all the time sometimes Frank said what and I actually fell down obviously but then I asked him Frank can you say can you add a few more words what did you say rather than just SW so I think Frank was kind enough uh to understand me and also that helped me a lot uh to become a better scholar and become a better speaker so I guess know because of that um I'm here and teaching you know at our University in the US obviously I think uh you know I'm still I still need to improve a lot in many aspects but Frank actually helped me a lot you know all those years and you know my memory with Frank is actually a lot I think you know uh I I cannot you know like express my gratitude enough to him and to his teaching and his uh work EIC and all sorts of things but one thing I want to actually mention now is that uh Frank once again thank you so much for your help and I really miss your smile SL smk and also I think uh I miss you know his being BL to me sometimes so uh I really appreciate every everything he um has done for me and I also you know appreciate your coming to um this session and uh thank you so much hi my name is Rodney lman and I wanted to just speak briefly about uh Frank's early days at Michigan State when I was a graduate student there uh is there anyone else who was on The Faculty or a graduate student at Michigan State when Frank was there okay I can say whatever I want so um Frank was there uh when I went to graduate school at Michigan State in iio Psychology um he was a phenomenon then but the phenomenon was still developing Jack Hunter was also there of course and I had the interesting experience of taking psychometrics with Jack Hunter and Frank style was a little different than Jack's as a professor one of Jack's favorite um sayings was well that's false but not everybody had the understanding of why it was false and he wasn't necessarily one that spent a lot of time explaining it um Frank Frank in contrast was uh extremely patient with students even though he did not suffer full slightly but he he had incredible halo effect for graduate students and we tried to live up to to that um at Michigan State um in contrast to later I guess um the door was not always open with Frank because he was doing so much he had to put some limits on things he kept his telephone in the drawer and you might be in his office and he wouldn't answer it you know you're kind of wondering well why why is the phone in the drawer I think it was not to have the distraction we were not at Michigan State Terribly Happy at the recruitment that Jim described of uh taking him away to the Office of personale Management uh he had done a huge amount in Michigan State but some of us who were you know kind of students there for a short period of time with him overlapping with him you know we had look forward to you know more contact during graduate school I did have the pleasure of having uh Frank uh chair my Master's thesis fortunately I got most of it done in my first year there because he was gone after that but he was also one that so many of the things that um Denise was talking about um spoke to his courage and he was interested in making an impact not just within psychology or I own psychology but in the broader world he took on tough problems he was the most Fearless person I've ever seen to get up in a group when something hot uh like the adverse impact and so forth was being discussed and he could hold his own of course and but he also didn't back away you know he used data support his points uh and he was tolerant in terms of hearing other points of of view I had the pleasure over the course of my career of um running into Frank from time to time uh extremely supportive uh and uh someone who you were if you worked with them um and got to know him um um you were a lifelong colleague and friend and it is um wonderful to think about the contributions that he made and it's sad to think about his law so U we'll miss him miss him all right thank you um hi everyone um my name is Ru I am a associate professor at the University Iowa in the department where f um uh used to work and teach for much of his career um so compared to many of you um I um you know who who uh has a long history of working with um Frank and being mentored by Frank um I my personal interaction with Frank um you know it's it's relatively short um so um I started out my ademic career at Purdue University where Frank was in alumni so he um uh came to visit uh several times and came to the uh reception and later after I came to Iowa um uh Frank come to visit me uh and we frequently chat about men analysis and other methods um so I'll keep my um my reflection short as well so um what you know obviously Frank has impacted all of us through his intellectual contributions um uh but to me um what I remember the most um dearly about Frank is that um after I started um at Iowa um Frank would uh every time I publish a new paper Frank would email me and congratulate me and he would have already read the paper uh and would have comments on the paper and um um you know no no one else does that um you know no other senior colleagues in my life does that uh so uh frequently um and um to me that shows that Frank really care and it's pure um sense of intellectual um um care that he he really cares about the work um and occasionally he would come and he would sit in my office and we talk about various uh methods topics uh and uh we would debate um and uh we would debate about meta regression and and sometimes he debate with me about um polomia regression and um um to me that's really important because Frank is a powering figure not just in terms of his intellectual contribution but also in terms of his height and I'm a I'm a lowly little assistant professor right so um and and the fact that Frank um treated me as an intellectual equal and he would be uh willing to um Talk um um like like Denise said you know without prejudice engage without prejudice and and just talk about these um intellectual matters um really um it's really a big deal for me and I cannot say this is true for for everybody I've met other important people who you know do not do that so um you know so I I think I um um Frank made a a huge impact on me not just intellectually but also through his character so thank you I'm Jord de from the University of lunor and many of you may be surprised that I'm standing here but I want to share you Unforgettable moments with Frenchman um that I have had um and um also I've learned something today I now I know why Denise many years ago gave me a slip of paper and she wrote on it persistence pays off now I know where that comes from so I I learned so much um in my academic um studies I came across the famous Schmid and Hunter piece uh in the very early '90s I know it's a little older but I read it in German and um and in a book edited by Martin Kleinman so um I I read that there and later on again Denise supported the first European po do workshop for advanced um organizational psychology and thank you for putting some of the photos on here there it is this is it and um and Frank Frank is there in the back I believe the tallest guy of course so um I was able to to have Frank Schmid for a full week in Berlin which surprised me a lot I got to know him personally then and I would like to share a story um his family will remember that in September 2008 he had a broken foot or leg I don't remember but he came he he finally did come with the cast on and if I remember correctly he tried to come in time however the weather was not on his side you had a blizzard or snowstorm so he could not fly from Iowa to oare to catch his flight to Berlin so I have learned how persistent he is the next day went to the airport again caught the flight flew to villin I picked him up at tle airport and um and took him to the postal workshop and there he met and we learned that today and I read names today on on another slide people he knew from Michigan State because I had invited Neil Schmid as well and Cara and I learned that three of them were together um doing their PHD if I remember correctly this is some years ago and they had not met each other with so much time for many many years and and you saw another photograph with them having ice cream to together and and the three of them um so I I got to know him as a very persistent person but also as a very personal and friendly person we we talked about the history of German immigration to the United States and um a few weeks later I did find a book in my mail on exactly that where did the German immigrants go to what what kind of of reasons did they have to immigrate so he he remembered all those little things and I will never forget that thank you oh I forgot one thing sorry three weeks ago one of the participants one of the German participants of this Workshop was awarded the best professor of Germany award B Meer and kets and I talked to him um and he told me that according to his knowledge at least six participants of this Workshop um with of course the contribution of of Frank Schmid um they are now full tenure professors in Germany so he has had lots of academic impact and Denise thank you for making it possible hello uh I'm M Daniel I was I believe I was Frank's last PhD student at um George Washington University before he took off uh for Iowa they bribed him multiple years in a row by uh permitting him to shoot Quail um in addition to giving a talk huh phant phant okay pheasants I'm don't know my birds you know particularly to shoot um shooting is one thing I wanted to uh mention um Denise and Vish were graduate students at Iowa and used their uh the money they got from the University to bring me out to give a talk and and I stayed in in Frank's house um and hung out with him for the weekend um and one thing he wanted to do was entertain me while I was there so he said I's it going to take you fishing but it's kind of drizzling so you know we can go and uh shoot what was I shooting no Clays Clays clay clay Pig clay pigeon type things and um I mean I I'd seen uh shotguns and magazines before um but he assumed that you know you're a guy you know you're 30 and you should you know you'll be all right over you on the shooting range there um so he gave me a shotgun and we walked out and if you're shooting uh this with two people you never turn to face them so you don't see how they're holding their gun cuz you're holding a loaded uh shotgun which I had never held before in my life and and he assumed I had and we're shooting and I'm I'm not hitting anything of course and and uh the guy who's firing the clay things in the air uh just comes over and shows me how to hold the gun and Frank just went because he he just opened his mouth and stared because he just figured I've been standing next to a guy who has no idea about shotguns um so he suggested we go do something something else after that um when I I didn't work with Frank until I was done my cours workk and I my last course was his men analysis course he taught one course a year uh because he was an associate he was a Adjunct professor um and I assumed that since I had all of my uh coursework done and all those term papers and such that I was uh an excellent paper writer um and I would you know write a draft work on papers with him once he hired me at OPM um because I I turned in by homework and met analysis with SAS code because I didn't want to fiddle with calculators and stuff and he said oh you know how to program and then he hires me because he needed a Fortran programmer and I explained I didn't know Fortran he said you can pick it up um so I I learned Fortran over series of months um and was able to do what he wanted me to do um but when we were working on papers together I'd give him a paper and he would handed back and said yeah I have a few revisions for you to do and there was no white space left the margins the back of the paper um and he you know he just said here here you go I got you know I made some suggestions um but he would he'd like would write this is wrong but he never wrote this is wrong you're an idiot or what are you doing and uh he's he's very respectful and he just says you got to redo that you know um so I did that and over time I knew the paper was ready when he couldn't write on it anymore you know he just said okay we can ship it now um so I learned a lot in terms of writing with him as well um and I think those are the stories I want to give you thank you [Music] I know got always hi everybody um I fall into what Denise was describing as I think the fourth decade of Publications with Frank but I actually worked with Frank for a little over three decades collaborated with him I'm with Gallup and we uh have a ton of data but um I remember one of my first jobs in my early 20s and um was finished my PhD program and I got a job at uh Gallup and this is in Lincoln Nebraska and one of the first jobs that I got Don Clifton he gave me a duffel bag full of cards with a bunch of statistics on and he asked me to build a database um and these were all selection structured interview questions right so Don had this intuition that these questions were working across different studies and um I had no idea how to build a database but somehow I figured it out with some Partnerships but anyway Frank came into the picture Don asked Frank to come to Gallup and um not only conduct a metaanalysis of these piles of predictability studies that we had but he also asked him to teach us some courses the first one Ted Hayes is in here he was with me in these courses um at the time uh met was meta analysis methods methods meta analysis um second was I believe Personnel psychology and the third was individual differences and they fit right into um helping us make sense out of all the things we've been learning about individual strengths um how people respond to different environments culture and job attitudes and it happened to be that even though Frank you know published a metaanalysis in personal Psy of of our um of our uh structured interview studies we spent most of our time studying job attitudes and how job attitudes predict performance but the thing I remember the most about Frank and the biggest impact he had on me was that he was a combination of the clearest teacher that I ever came across and this is after going through a lot of Education over the years he taught really complex methods in a very clear way that I can grasp and make sense out of and apply and the second thing um was that he really wanted to see his work applied in the world and I think um we've given you know our our work combined with his gives us a chance to impact a lot of people's lives and organizations and I think as we think about how his work carries on into the future uh I think it'll just multiply um we conduct we've conducted 19 um metaanalysis studies with his methods but on different um constructs that we study but um inside of those studies are thousands of individual metaanalyses so we've now um taken his work and programmed it in such a way to build some efficiency so we can churn out metaanalyses very quickly so his methods are like everyday work a Gallop metanalysis is everyday language a Gallop now because of what he did but the other thing on the personal side Frank uh you I'd have him over to my place he'd come he'd come to all the way to Lincoln to teach us these classes they're full credit courses um and I wanted to cut some of the time off of his travel so I said why don't you know instead of always meeting in Nebraska why don't I come to Iowa meet at Iowa you know University of Iowa or something and he said no you're going to stay at my house and I did that at least five times brought some my colleagues some of the time time and he was always just such a a great host and got to know him well he in the evenings we got to know Kentucky bourbon pretty well the different uh flavors and and the one that uh I'll always remember he said it's the best um this is the best advice you can give you on Kentucky bourbon the best bottom shelf Kentucky bourbon is is the old crow and he's right it's it's it's a it's a smooth one by the way we could not find it in Chicago so I don't know I could find it in Ashland Nebraska but I can't find it in Chicago but uh anyway uh Frank made a big impact on me through the methods that he taught which you know I my my background was in psychometrics and the methods he taught around generalizability um and correcting for measurement error and and all the things that go into psychometric metaanalysis seriously changed how I think um and it changed how I how I evolved as a researcher and I think a lot of people can probably say say those same things but um so that combination of just a personable clear teacher um I love getting in you know heated discussions with him sometimes too I think he respected you more when you when you uh when you got into those discussions with him he always told the truth um he always stood up for the truth and he taught us all things I think will last for again will multiply through the people that we Mentor um going into the future and uh really appreciated the opportunity to know him for three decades thank you all right my name is Ben pelw and I'm at Pepperdine University and um going to say a few things that will Echo the last two speakers um I was Frank last PhD student at Iowa and apparently he was very consistent because I have a full stack of papers that have wrong uh written on them um and I cherish them to this day um now I lead our University's Center for teaching excellence and I can unabashedly say that Frank was an excellent teacher um from the first class I had with him which was individual differences he didn't just communicate information and it was great upto-date information he changed the way you thought and that continues with me today that difference in the way you think he made you want to rise to his high standard although you knew you weren't going to meet it you did everything you could to come as as close as possible so his measurement class was the most challenging class I think I took um and I can't tell you the number of hours I spent studying for it just so I wouldn't appear an idiot when I took the final exam which was an unlimited time exam which I think went 6 to8 hours uh and he finally kind of said okay are you done yet um but he really he gets deservedly um a lot of credit for his research uh but now being in the position of evaluating teachers he was an excellent teacher and I think he continues to be through his students and through his work Frank did not need to say anything to communicate meaning um it often came with just a raised eyebrow um and uh I will cherish those uh raised eyebrows and kind of skeptical glances he is one of the most Fearless advocates for his students and you wanted once you had gained his confidence he was forever in your corner whether that was a personal matter or an academic one um I've never seen someone who will stand up for students more than Frank Schmidt he knew what it took to develop to kind of get you out of your comfort zone and develop you um I remember I believe it was a 2012 s perhaps in New York um where I believe it's a paper with insu on interviews and it was in a giant Ballroom it was average ized as a Frank Schmid section and it was completely full probably 3 400 people and he told me no you present this paper so apologies to those 300 folks who expected to get Frank Schmid he thought that would be a great developmental experience and it was so that's the type of guy that I remember thanks