June Louin-Tapp; Expert on Effects of Childhood Trauma
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June Louin — Tapp, a world-renowned expert on child development and the effects of divorce, alcoholism and parental death on children as they mature, has died. She was 62.
Ms. Louin-Tapp died June 4 in Germany, where she was distinguished visiting professor at the University of Osnabruck.
A former provost of Revelle College at UC San Diego, Ms. Louin-Tapp had spent the last 20 years working for the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development.
Raised in Los Angeles, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from USC and earned her Ph.D. at Syracuse University in New York. Early in her career she taught at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont.
She was on the faculty of the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1972.
Ms. Louin-Tapp is survived by two daughters, Mara Tapp of Chicago and Kami Olsson-Tapp of San Diego, and four grandchildren.
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