Doris L. Berryman

Doris L. Berryman
Born
Doris Luverne Berryman

June 23, 1926
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
DiedNovember 3, 2000 (aged 74)
New York, New York, U.S.
OccupationCollege professor

Doris Luverne Berryman (June 23, 1926 – November 3, 2000) was an American college professor and specialist in therapeutic recreation. She taught courses in leisure and recreation at New York University from 1973 to 1997.

Early life and education

Berryman was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Edward Hussen Berryman and Mabel Luverne Wilcox Berryman. Both of her parents were also born in Colorado. She graduated from the University of Denver, earned a master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University, and completed doctoral studies at New York University in 1970,[1] with a dissertation titled "A Method of Evaluating Recreation Services for Disabled Children and Youth in Institutional Treatment Settings, Based on the Establishment of Standards and Evaluative Criteria."[2]

Career

Berryman was a therapeutic recreation specialist.[3][4] She was recreation at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the 1950s,[5] and worked for Comeback, Inc., a program of the National Recreation Association.[6][7] In 1963 she taught an extension course on recreation in Westchester County.[8] She was a professor at New York University from 1973 until 1997, when she retired as a professor emerita.[6] She spoke at conferences and other colleges about her work,[9][10] and consulted with city parks programs.[11] She is credited with "the first major effort to develop therapeutic recreation standards", which "served as a major reference in the development of standards through the 1970s."[12]

Berryman was a member of the Academy of Leisure Sciences, the World Leisure & Recreation Association, the National Therapeutic Recreation Society, the Society of Park and Recreation Educators, the American Educational Research Association, and many other organizations in her field.[6]

Publications

Berryman's research was published in academic journals including ; International Journal of Rehabilitation Research,[13] Journal of Rehabilitation,[14][15] Society & Leisure,[16] World Leisure & Recreation,[17] and Journal of Leisure Research.[18][19]

  • "Educational Rhythmics Proving its Worth" (1966, with Frances Arje)[15]
  • "Unemployed Young Adults: a Manpower Resource for Therapeutic Recreation" (1968)[14]
  • Enhancement of recreation service to disabled children (1971)[20]
  • Serving Disabled Children: Guidelines for Recreational Agencies (1971, with Annette Logan and Bernard Braginsky)[21]
  • Recommended standards with evaluative criteria for recreation services in residential institutions (1971)[22]
  • Development of Educational Programs for New Careers in Recreation Services for the Disabled (1971)[23]
  • "A computer based system for comprehensive activity analysis and prescriptive recreation programming for disabled children and youth" (1975, with Claudette B. Lefebvre)[24]
  • A Recreation/education Program for Disabled Children: Part 1 (1975, with Claudette B. Lefebvre and Jesse A. Mann)[25]
  • "Developmental approaches to therapeutic recreation programming: A new research focus" (1980, with Walter B. Kinney)[13]
  • "Evaluating Professional Personnel" (1980)[26]
  • "Leisure Counseling: Dimensions and Outlook" (1984, with Pierre Ouellette)[16]
  • "Problem Based Learning (PBL) as an Innovative Approach to Professional Preparation and Leadership Development in Recreation and Leisure Services" (1988, with Patricia I. Hogan)[17]
  • "The Relationship Among Self-esteem, Acculturation, and Recreation Participation of Recently Arrived Chinese Immigrant Adolescents" (1996, with Ping Yu)[18]
  • "Riding the Winds of Change" (2000)[19]

Personal life

Berryman's partner was fellow recreation professional Claudette B. Lefebvre. Berryman died from pancreatic cancer in 2000, at the age of 74, at her home in New York City.[6] There is a box of her papers in the New York University Archives Biographical Files.[27] The Metropolitan New York Recreation & Park Society gives an annual Doris Berryman Lifetime Achivement Award, named in her memory.[28]

References

  1. ^ "Recreation Held Vital to Handicapped". The Daily Telegram. 1962-02-13. p. 2. Archived from the original on 2025-05-27. Retrieved 2025-05-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Berryman, Doris L. "A Method of Evaluating Recreation Services for Disabled Children and Youth in Institutional Treatment Settings, Based on the Establishment of Standards and Evaluative Criteria."  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1970.  7113631.
  3. ^ "Therapeutic Recreation Workshop Set May 21-22". The Terre Haute Tribune. 1970-05-17. p. 12. Retrieved 2025-05-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Recreation Work with Handicapped Studied in Meet". The Herald-Sun. 1971-08-05. p. 38. Retrieved 2025-05-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Hill, Beatrice H. (1955). "Hospital Capsules". Recreation. 48: 291.
  6. ^ a b c d "Berryman, Doris L. (death notice)". The New York Times. 2000-11-07. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  7. ^ "Recreation Seminar for Handicapped Set". The La Crosse Tribune. 1962-02-12. p. 8. Retrieved 2025-05-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "NYU Education School Sets 12 Courses in County". Mount Vernon Argus. 1963-12-26. p. 20. Archived from the original on 2025-05-27. Retrieved 2025-05-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Notices". The Courier-News. 1984-01-10. p. 14. Archived from the original on 2025-05-28. Retrieved 2025-05-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Therapy conference to be held; For handicapped". Record-Journal. 1980-03-19. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-05-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Cook, Christopher M. (1970-07-18). "Mothers of handicapped win promise of improved camp". Staten Island Advance. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-05-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Reynolds, Ronald P. (1985). Problems, issues & concepts in therapeutic recreation. Internet Archive. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-13-717430-0 – via Internet Archive.
  13. ^ a b Kinney, Walter B.; Berryman, Doris L. (June 1980). "Developmental approaches to therapeutic recreation programming: A new research focus". International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. 3 (2): 153. ISSN 0342-5282.
  14. ^ a b Berryman, Doris L. "Unemployed young adults: a manpower resource for therapeutic recreation." Journal of Rehabilitation 34, no. 2 (1968): 11.
  15. ^ a b Arje, Frances, and Doris L. Berryman. "Educational Rhythmics Proving its Worth." Journal of Rehabilitation (1966).
  16. ^ a b Ouellette, Pierre; and Berryman, Doris L. (1984-01-01). "Le Counseling En Loisir: Dimensions Et Perspectives". Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure. 7 (1): 241–257. doi:10.1080/07053436.1984.10715181. ISSN 0705-3436.
  17. ^ a b Hogan, Patricia I.; and Berryman, Doris L. (1988-09-01). "Problem Based Learning (PBL) as an Innovative Approach to Professional Preparation and Leadership Development in Recreation and Leisure Services". World Leisure & Recreation. 30 (3–4): 42–43. doi:10.1080/10261133.1988.10559044. ISSN 1026-1133.
  18. ^ a b Yu, Ping; and Berryman, Doris L. (1996-12-01). "The Relationship Among Self-esteem, Acculturation, and Recreation Participation of Recently Arrived Chinese Immigrant Adolescents". Journal of Leisure Research. 28 (4): 251–273. doi:10.1080/00222216.1996.11949775. ISSN 0022-2216.
  19. ^ a b Berryman, Doris L. "Riding the Winds of Change" Archived 2025-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Leisure Research 32(1)(2000): 7-11.
  20. ^ Berryman, Doris L. Enhancement of recreation service to disabled children. New York University, School of Education, 1971.
  21. ^ Berryman, Doris L., Annette Logan, and Bernard Braginsky. Serving Disabled Children: Guidelines for Recreation Agencies. New York University, School of Education, 1971.
  22. ^ Berryman, Doris L. Recommended standards with evaluative criteria for recreation services in residential institutions. New York University, School of Education, 1971.
  23. ^ Berryman, Doris L. (March 1971). Development of Educational Programs for New Careers in Recreation Services for the Disabled. Final Report (Report). US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Education, Bureau of Research.
  24. ^ Berryman, Doris L., and Claudette B. Lefebvre. "A computer based system for comprehensive activity analysis and prescriptive recreation programming for disabled children and youth." In Indicators of Change in the Recreation Environment: A National Research Symposium, no. 6, p. 99. College of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Pennsylvania State University, 1975.
  25. ^ Berryman, Doris L., Jesse A. Mann, and Claudette B. Lefebvre. A Recreation/education Program for Disabled Children: Part 1. New York University, School of Education, Health, Nursing and Arts Professions, 1975.
  26. ^ Personnel management in recreation and leisure services. Internet Archive. South Plainfield, N.J. : Groupwork Today. 1980. ISBN 978-0-916068-10-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  27. ^ "New York University Archives Biographical Files". NYU Special Collections Finding Aids. Archived from the original on 2025-05-27. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  28. ^ "Class Notes" (PDF). NYU Alumni Magazine (21): 53. Fall 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-05-27. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
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