Son of Thomas A and Gertrude (Weeks) Conners. He was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and a Purple Heart recipient during World War II. He earned a B.S. degree in social sciences from College of the Holy Cross, a master of education degree in vocational and educational counseling from Boston University, and a PhD also from Boston University in counseling psychology, speech pathology and audiology. He was a private practitioner as a consulting licensed psychologist and vocational expert. He was a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology at State College of Boston, and director of the Graduate Teacher Education Program in Special Education for special needs children. He was the chief of the Counseling Psychological Program at the VA Psychiatric Hospital in Brockton, and a research associate in mental health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He designed Chapter 750 of the Acts of 1960, which was the forerunner to what is today Chapter 766, requiring Massachusetts public schools to provide programs for the instruction of all special needs children. He was preceded in death by his parents; and wife, Eunice M (Whelan) Connors; brothers, Thomas and William Connors; and granddaughter, Leslie Ann Connors. He leaves his children, John Edward "Jay" Conners Jr. and his wife, Audrey of Springfield, VA, Dr. Suzanne Conners St. Germain and her husband, Robert of Dedham, and David J Conners and his wife, Patricia of Cohasset; grandchildren, Michele Finnegan, John Edward "Jay" Conners, III, and Micaela Conners; and great-granddaughter, Morgan.
Son of Thomas A and Gertrude (Weeks) Conners. He was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and a Purple Heart recipient during World War II. He earned a B.S. degree in social sciences from College of the Holy Cross, a master of education degree in vocational and educational counseling from Boston University, and a PhD also from Boston University in counseling psychology, speech pathology and audiology. He was a private practitioner as a consulting licensed psychologist and vocational expert. He was a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology at State College of Boston, and director of the Graduate Teacher Education Program in Special Education for special needs children. He was the chief of the Counseling Psychological Program at the VA Psychiatric Hospital in Brockton, and a research associate in mental health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He designed Chapter 750 of the Acts of 1960, which was the forerunner to what is today Chapter 766, requiring Massachusetts public schools to provide programs for the instruction of all special needs children. He was preceded in death by his parents; and wife, Eunice M (Whelan) Connors; brothers, Thomas and William Connors; and granddaughter, Leslie Ann Connors. He leaves his children, John Edward "Jay" Conners Jr. and his wife, Audrey of Springfield, VA, Dr. Suzanne Conners St. Germain and her husband, Robert of Dedham, and David J Conners and his wife, Patricia of Cohasset; grandchildren, Michele Finnegan, John Edward "Jay" Conners, III, and Micaela Conners; and great-granddaughter, Morgan.
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