Harvey Warren Zorbaugh

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Harvey Warren Zorbaugh (Sept. 20, 1896--21 Jan. 1965) was Professor of Educational Sociology, at New York University; he was born in East Cleveland, Ohio and educated in sociology at the University of Chicago. He married Geraldine Elizabeth Bone, 7 September 1929, and they had 2 children: a son, Harvey Jr., and a daughter, Harriet. His classic text, first published in 1929, was The Gold Coast, a book based on his PhD thesis completed under the direction of Robert E. Park at the University of Chicago.

In the late 1940s, Dr Zorbaugh also hosted a TV Game show called Play the Game, Airdates: September 24, 1946 - December 17, 1946 (DuMont, primetime) and August 20, 1948 - November 6, 1948 (ABC, primetime).

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  • 1926: The Natural Areas of the City
  • 1929: Delinquency Areas, with Shaw, Clifford R., Henry D. McKay, and Leonard S. Cottrell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
  • 1929: The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
  • 1935: Sex Education, The Journal of Educational Sociology: February 1935, New York: The Journal of Educational Sociology
  • 1944: The Comics, There They Stand! pp.196-203 in The Comics as an Educational Medium, Journal of Educational Sociology, v.18, no.4, Dec. 1944
  • 1945: Are You Throttling a Future President? The American Magazine, Dec 1945
  • 1951: Steel! edited by Harvey Zorbough; story by Frank Kolars; produced by Johnstone and Cushing. Information Rack Service, General Motors Personnel Staff, 1951, 16pp: col. ill; Caption title: Jimmy gets his story.
  • 1956: Steel! edited by Harvey Zorbaugh; story by Frank Kolars. 2nd revision. New York: American Iron and Steel Institute, 1956. 16 pp.: col. ill. Caption title: Jimmy Gets His Story. Educational giveaway comic book on the steel industry.
  • 1960: The Empire State Audio tape of educational television program presented by the Board of Education - Garden City, New York, February 24, 1960. Thoreau Society, Lincoln, Mass