Carol was born in 1948 in Washington, Pennsylvania, and moved to Nashville with her family as an infant that same year. A precocious child, she attended Parmer School, skipping over first grade, and graduated high in her class at Harpeth Hall School in 1965. She was in the first class of women to be admitted to the University of North Carolina as freshmen in 1965. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UNC with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1972 in the related field of Child Development and accepted a university professor position at LSU where she taught child development for four years. She was then employed by Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ, for four years, authoring questions used in standardized tests such as the SAT, LSAT, and others. Carol then accepted an editor position with the National Association for the Education of Young Children in Washington, D.C., where she later rose to the Senior Editor and remained at NAEYC for the remainder of her professional career.
Carol authored and co-authored seven published academic books in her field of early childhood education, the most widely circulated being Developmentally Appropriate Practice, now a standard reference book in the field. She retired to her hometown of Nashville in 2012, and was an active member of First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Nashville. She belonged to two book clubs, engaged in many public activities, and made many new friends during her retirement years in Nashville. She had a knack for keeping and treasuring lifetime friends from the various stages of her life and corresponded with high school, college, and graduate school friends throughout her life and to her death, just weeks ago.
Carol is survived by her son Matthew Scott Copple of Chicago, sister Diane Copple Grantham of Austin TX, brother George Copple of Nashville, sister Laurie Copple Power of Nashville, nephews Scott Grantham of Austin and Robin Copple of Los Angeles, niece Lesley Grantham Grandstaff of Austin, and Carol’s life partner Cy Jones of Silver Spring, Maryland.
A memorial service will be held at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Nashville, 1800 Woodmont Blvd., Nashville, at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, June 18, 2022, with luncheon and visitation with friends and family to take place afterwards at the Church. Carol has requested donations in lieu of flowers to be made to the Unitarian-Universalist Church in her name.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.Woodlawn-Roesch-PattonFH.com for the Copple family.
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