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their innate abilities, restricted women's lives She was vocal about the discrimination she had experienced as a woman, like being paid less than her male colleagues and receiving promotions long after her male peers. Lester was also involved in community affairs in
Lancaster, serving as a trustee for the Lancaster Public Library for more than two decades and working on adult education projects with the Lancaster Public Schools.
212:. During the day she taught in the psychology department and then taught adult education courses at Millard Fillmore College in the evenings until the war began. During the war, she taught a course in human relations at a local airplane facility. In 1939, Lester was promoted to Associate Professor and seven years later she earned a full professorship.
219:. One of her early studies involved the impact of language skills upon the education process. Studying students who had to repeat grades, she determined that mental or physical age did not correlate to ability, but rather proficiency with English did. She argued that tests which placed students on the basis of their language ability, such as the
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should be used to determine the entrance grade of immigrant students. In a 1940 study, she evaluated whether higher education impacted religious values. The findings produced by Lester and her co-author
Richard Bugelski mirrored similar findings at other universities that in the pre-war era beliefs
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267:. She held the chair longer than any of the successors to the department. In 1971, she was recognized for her outstanding teaching contributions by the College of Arts and Sciences and in 1973, received the university's Distinguished Alumni Award, before retiring in 1974.
263:. She was the first woman to serve as a chair of the College of Arts and Sciences at UB and one of the first women in the country to lead a psychology department. She served as chair of the department until 1966 and when she stepped down was succeeded by
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College of Arts and Sciences. In 1932, she earned her PhD in philosophy through the
255:, rallied to support Lester as acting chair. She served in that capacity between 1952 and 1956, and then permanently became the chair of the psychology department when Scofield officially resigned to accept an appointment in
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