Donald O. Clifton

(1924-2003) born at Butte, Boyd County, lived in Lincoln. Educator, lecturer, corporation executive, taught educational psychology for 19 years, presented more than 3,000 seminars and lectures, co-founded in 1969 Selection Research Incorporated to evaluate potential executives for companies and organizations, purchased in 1988 Gallup Organization, a public opinion sampling firm with offices worldwide. Consult Lincoln Journal, January 30, 1984, p. 1 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, October 1, 2000, pp. M-1, M-8 and December 3, 2000, pp. A-1, A-6 and obituaries in Lincoln Journal Star, September 16, 2003, pp. A-1, A-2 and American Psychologist, Vol 59 (April 2004) 180. See also Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton, How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life (Gallup Press, 2004).

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