* Susan W. Gray; Pioneer Work Led to Head Start Program

Susan W. Gray, 79, a psychologist whose work with underprivileged preschoolers led to the national Head Start program. She was best known for pioneering education programs at Vanderbilt University’s John F. Kennedy Center on teaching young children. The center’s Development School for Preschool Children is named in Ms. Gray’s honor. Sargent Shriver, who founded Head Start as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, acknowledged Ms. Gray’s contribution to the program when she retired in 1978. On Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., of a cerebral hemorrhage.