In 1968, Comer and his colleagues at the center created the School Development Program. With time, he began to understand the decline of his three friends. His work in the early 1960s at the university's Child Study Center taught him that many adult problems are actually rooted in childhood. And so he trained in psychiatry at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. To understand how promising lives sometimes falter and fail, Comer decided to learn about people. Ultimately, the stark, sad contrast between his experiences at home and those of his friends led him to devote his life to studying the science behind his mother's keen observation. His parents routinely sat and talked with him and his siblings the family did everything together. I don't think they sat and talked with the children or did anything together." 1Ĭomer's own childhood differed considerably. "His problems stemmed from his family life. "Madison was known as a troublemaker in school, and yet he was a bright boy," she once told her son about one of these friends. As a young man, the question that always haunted Comer was why. They grew up to lead hard lives: one died from alcoholism, a second was in and out of jail, and a third was in and out of mental institutions. But unlike Comer and his siblings, these three youngsters did not take an interest in academics. They, too, came from two-parent homes, and their fathers also worked in the local steel mill. They were African American boys just like him. James Comer last saw three of his elementary school friends, yet he vividly remembers them.
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