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Marian Baum to Receive Award for Distinguished Service to the Community
Marion Baum
Through her work as a professional psychologist, Marian Baum practiced the art of listening; she refined it through her work in the community, giving Oberlinians of all ages the gifts of wisdom and knowledge. Baum was among the first licensed clinical psychologists in Lorain County. She has been a teacher, researcher, practicing diagnostician, therapist, and pediatric-psychology consultant in Ohio and California.
Although retiring from independent practice in the late 1980s, she continued as an Oberlin College research associate in psychology and as a psychologist for an Allen Memorial Hospital family-and-maternity program called Here's Our Baby. Her book about preparing a child for the birth of a sibling shares that title.
Baum contributed significantly to the founding of the Living and Learning Institute, a program of continuing education for older adults. She served as its founding president until 1994.
A self-described community-mental-health activist and children's health and education advocate, Baum has served on the bioethics committee of Allen Memorial Hospital, the board of Lorain County Family Planning, the youth committees of the Oberlin Interagency Council and First Church in Oberlin, and the social-action committee of First Church. She devised a program of mentoring for college-bound scholars in the Access Program of Lorain County. In the Oberlin Public Schools she organized the Listening Post, a weekly program that sends trained adult Oberlin listeners into schools and the Oberlin Public Library, providing young people with opportunities to speak freely and openly.
Baum received a B.A. degree in psychology from Ohio University and a Ph.D. in clinical and child psychology from Yale University in 1951. Her late husband, John Baum, was professor of mathematics at Oberlin until his retirement--after 29 years of teaching--in 1982. She has three daughters. Professor of Sociology James Walsh will present her for the Award for Distinguished Service to the Community.
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