Bruce Staffel Meador, 93, passed away on March 19, 2019. Bruce graduated from high school in 1943 and joined the Merchant Marines. His ship, the SS Jeremiah O’Brian, was torpedoed during World War II and is now a museum. Following WWII, Bruce received a BA in Economics from the University of Texas, where he also completed his MA and PhD in Education. He studied under a renowned scholar in the field of education, Dr. George Sanchez.  His dissertation, completed in 1959, was titled, The Education of Minority Groups in Hays County, Texas. Bruce’s seminal work looked at social justice for bilingual students in Texas. As a doctoral student, Bruce received a research fellowship to examine the depiction of Mexican history in US textbooks. He lived in Mexico City for one year which began his lifelong connection to and advocacy for the people and culture of Mexico, including Mexican immigrants in the United States. Following the completion of his doctoral studies, he began his tenure as a professor of education at ASU. While there, he and colleague Bob Roessel worked with multiple Native American groups on issues of equity in education. He also worked with Volunteers in Service to America as a field supervisor on Arizona tribal lands. In 1965, while on sabbatical from ASU, Bruce accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla, California where eminent psychologist Carl Rogers was a visiting fellow. Bruce and Carl became colleagues and along with others founded the Center for Studies of the Person in 1967. With Douglas Land and Bill Coulson, Bruce founded the La Jolla Program in summer of 1968, with workshops and trainings around the world focused on encounter groups. Bruce remained with the Center for Studies of the Person until his death. The family moved from La Jolla to their ranch in Ramona in 1974. Bruce and his wife, Betty, divorced in 1978. They both continued to live on their ranch, albeit with separate homes and eventually both remarried. Bruce conducted annual La Jolla Program workshops in Berlin for 10 years, also meeting with private groups in former East-Berlin. He met his wife Heidrun there in 1984 while facilitating a workshop on client centered therapy. A son was born in 1985, and they lived on their Ramona ranch for the remainder of Bruce’s life. Bruce is survived by his wife Heidrun, two sons, two daughters, a brother, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.  He was preceded in death by two brothers, a sister and a grandson. A memorial service will be held at 12:00pm on April 6, 2019, at The First Congregational Church in Ramona. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Doctors Without Borders. (Source: AZ Republic)