Ohio University Annual Conference on Human Relations, 1950-1954

Dr. Starcher, by training a mathematician, taught courses in "Human Relations" at Ohio University, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. "Human Relations" was a broadly defined term encompassing everything from the study of employer-employee contract negotiations to counseling distraught junior high school students. Dr. Starcher taught his Human Relations Courses with a "Case Study" method, where students evaluated common hypothetical situations where conflict could take place.