Howard F. Taylor (B.A., Hiram College; Ph.D., Yale University) taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Syracuse University and Princeton University, where he is was Professor of Sociology. He published over 50 articles in sociology, education, social psychology and race relations. His books include "The IQ Game" (Rutgers University Press), a critique of hereditarian accounts of intelligence, and "Balance in Small Groups" (Van No-strand Reinhold), translated into Japanese. He served as past president of the Eastern Sociological Society, and was a member of the American Sociological Association and the Sociological Research Association, an honorary society for distinguished research. He won the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award, given by the American Sociological Association for distinguished research in race and ethnic relations, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.