roll #831 … a retired educational researcher, died on August 13 at his home in Fairfax after a long illness with cancer.
He was born in Boston, MA, on Oct. 10, 1926, received a BS in Education from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1952, a Masters degree in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1961, and a Doctorate in Education from Harvard in 1968.
After service in the Navy at the end of World War II, Dr. Cramer taught elementary school briefly in Needham, MA, and then in 1953 founded Cramer Oil Inc. in Needham. This developed into a successful heating efficiency business. He sold the business and began studies at Harvard. During his studies he served as research assistants on various projects at Harvard and as audio-visual instructor. He was also an IBM Fellow at the Harvard Computing Center. His dissertation was entitled “The Intelligibility of TimeCompressed Speech”. In 1967 Dr. Cramer was appointed Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the Graduate School of Education of Northeastern University in Boston.
Dr. Cramer came to Washington in 1969 as Research Director for the Peace Corps. From 1972 to 1982 he served as project director, consultant and evaluator on a number of government and private research projects. He started Cramer Associates, consultants on speech enhancement of audio tapes. His clients included the House Judiciary Committee, Cable News Network, Montgomery Co., MD., and others.
Roxanne Herrick Cramer (Ed.M., 1967) his wife of 37 years, survives him. He also leaves four daughters, Cynthia and Martha Cramer and Joan Pahud of Quincy, MA and Kathryn Canney of Jamaica Plain, MA, three step-sons, William Hofford of Portland, OR, Dana Hofford of Delsbo, Sweden, and Paul Hofford of Sandy Spring, MD., five grandchildren and three stepgrandchildren. Submitted by his wife Roxanne, 4300 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax, Va, 22030-4852
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