About Groves
The Groves Conference was begun in 1934 by the late Professor Ernest Groves, who was among the first academicians to give a course in marriage and the family in an established university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conferences began with the bringing together of a few teachers and students interested in serious study of the family. It evolved over the years into an interdisciplinary, interprofessional organization of limited invited membership. Its objectives are to work on the leading edges of theory development and empirical research in the field. The Groves Conference is timely and provocative with diverse and flexible foci.
The Groves Conference was begun in 1934 by the late Professor Ernest Groves, who was among the first academicians to give a course in marriage and the family in an established university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conferences began with the bringing together of a few teachers and students interested in serious study of the family. It evolved over the years into an interdisciplinary, interprofessional organization of limited invited membership. Its objectives are to work on the leading edges of theory development and empirical research in the field. The Groves Conference is timely and provocative with diverse and flexible foci.
About our Founder
Ernest Groves was born on May 6, 1877 in Framingham, Massachusetts. He received his B.D. from Yale Divinity in 1901 and his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1903. Professor Groves taught at New Hampshire University, Boston University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina. As an author, he published more than twenty books and 200 articles and became one of the leading and most respected family life educators in this country. Along with his wife, Gladys, Professor Groves began two successful annual conferences on the Conservation of Marriage and Family; one at UNC and the other at North Carolina College for Negroes. Professor Groves died on August 29, 1946 in Arlington, Massachusetts while teaching summer school. Mrs. Groves, a scholar in her own right, continued her and her husband's work and died on July 11, 1980 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Ernest Groves was born on May 6, 1877 in Framingham, Massachusetts. He received his B.D. from Yale Divinity in 1901 and his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1903. Professor Groves taught at New Hampshire University, Boston University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina. As an author, he published more than twenty books and 200 articles and became one of the leading and most respected family life educators in this country. Along with his wife, Gladys, Professor Groves began two successful annual conferences on the Conservation of Marriage and Family; one at UNC and the other at North Carolina College for Negroes. Professor Groves died on August 29, 1946 in Arlington, Massachusetts while teaching summer school. Mrs. Groves, a scholar in her own right, continued her and her husband's work and died on July 11, 1980 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.