Schumm W.R. et al. Archives of Psychology, vol. 3, issue 2, March 2019 Page 1 of 22 Copyright © 2019, Archives of Psychology. All rights reserved. http://www.archivesofpsychology.org MILITARY FAMILY RESEARCH: METHODOLOGICAL LESSONS LEARNED, OFTEN THE HARD WAY. UPDATED, WITH A EULOGY TO DR. BRUCE BELL Walter R. Schumm, Duane W. Crawford, Janet Crow, Tonya Ricklefs*, Kennedy P. Clark, Lorenza Lockett**, Roudi Nazarinia Roy***, Yolanda T. Mitchell**** Authors’ affiliations: * Department of Social Work, Washburn University, Benton Hall 410, 1700 S.W. College Avenue, Topeka, KS 66621 **Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Kansas State University, 1700 Anderson Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66506. *** Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, California State University Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840-0501. **** Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, Denton, TX 76203-5017. Corresponding author: Walter R. Schumm, School of Family Studies and Human Services, Kansas State University, 1700 Anderson Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66506-1403 (schumm@ksu.edu ). This report is dedicated to the memory of Dr. David Bruce Bell who passed away in December 2007 after a long illness. Dr. Bell served as a senior scientist for the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Social and Behavioral Sciences in Alexandria, Virginia for decades and may have forgotten more about military families than most scholars ever know. He supervised tens of millions of dollars in federal military research and was a Fellow in the American Psychological Association. He authored over 30 book chapters and journal articles in outlets including Military Review, Military Medicine, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, Armed Forces & Society, Psychological Reports, Kernvraag, and the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. Even more importantly, he inspired a generation of dozens of family military researchers. He also raised, with his wife Beverly, a wonderful family, proving you can be a hard working military family researcher and not destroy your own family in the process. In other words, Bruce accomplished what he wrote about – balancing family life and work, a feat that eludes many. Like Will Rogers, he really liked people and maintained an optimism about his rare illness to the very end. We will all continue to miss him greatly. (condensed from a eulogy to Dr. Bell from Walter Schumm, 22 December 2007). RESEARCH ARTICLE