Elizabeth Gertrude Paddock was an Assistant Professor of Child Development and Director of Nursery School from 1939 to 1941. She was born in 1906 in Fort Collins, Ohio. One of her parents was a professor at Ohio State University. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Ohio State University in 1927 in the subjects of psychology and French, with additional study in history and sociology. She attended graduate school in education and child development at Ohio State, Merill-Palmer School, and Teachers College, Columbia University, graduating from the latter with a Master of Arts in 1936. By the time she came to OSC, she had roughly six years of experience as a nursery school teacher, had traveled extensively through the U.S., and had completed most of the requirements for her doctorate. She was hired at a salary of $2400 for 10 months of service, and resigned in 1941 to be married.