Pioneers*
*Well-known scholars who were deceased at the time that the Reading Hall of Fame was established and were subsequently elected to the Reading Hall of Fame are identified as Pioneers.
Shaping the Reading Field by Susan E. Israel (Author, Editor), E. Jennifer Monaghan (Editor) documents the lives and lasting contributions of early reading pioneers who helped shape the field.
| Mary Hill Arbuthnot (Inducted 1978), Case Western University |
| James McKean Cattell (Inducted 1978), Columbia University |
| Walter F. Dearborn (Inducted 1978), Harvard University |
| Raymond Dodge (Inducted 1978), Yale University |
| Arthur I. Gates (Inducted 1978), Professor of Educational Psychology, Columbia University, New York City. Born September 22, 1890; Litt. B., Columbia, 1914; A.M., California, 1915; Ph.D., Columbia, 1917, Reading Research, Columbia University |
| William S. Gray (Inducted 1978), University of Chicago |
| Ernest Horn (Inducted 1978), University of Iowa |
| Edmund Burke Huey (Inducted 1978), Johns Hopkins University |
| Charles Hubbard Judd (Inducted 1978), University of Chicago |
| Bernice E. Leary (Inducted 1978), Madison Public Schools, WI |
| David Harris Russell (Inducted 1978), University of California, Berkeley |
| Ruth Strang (Inducted 1978), University of Toronto, University of Arizona, Columbia University |
| Edward L. Thorndike (Inducted 1978), Teachers College, Columbia University |
| Douglas Waples (Inducted 1978), University of Chicago |
| Robert S. Woodworth (Inducted 1978), Columbia University |
| Laura Zirbes (Inducted 1978), The Ohio State University |
