In Memoriam: William “Bill” Harold Farling

William “Bill” Harold Farling was born in Warren, Ohio, May 4, 1934, and died at age 90 at the Regency Care facility in Springfield, Ill., Dec. 27, 2024. Bill had suffered dementia, but his cause of death was cardiac arrest. Although the first Executive Secretary of the National Association of School Psychologists was Janko Kovacevich, a close friend and colleague of Bill, the official title of Executive Director was given to Bill Farling, a position he held from 1970-1973. The list of NASP Executive Directors includes just 10 people over NASP’s history of more than 55 years. Bill Farling, with many others mostly from the Ohio School Psychologists Association, initiated the 1968 organizational meeting in Columbus March 21, 1968, that led to the founding of NASP in 1969.