John Albert Welsh ’29

JOHN DIED Nov. 17,1989, in N.Y.C.

He prepared for college at St. Alban's School, Sycamore, 111. After Princeton, John started as a graduate student in history at Columbia, but soon turned his life work to social welfare and came back to Columbia for a master's in social work in 1952.

His long and distinguished career began at the Boys' Club of N.Y. in the early 1930s. In 1935 he entered the N.Y.C. Dept. of Social welfare. Except for periods of graduate study and military service, John was continuously in that dept. until his retirement in 1969. He achieved the tank of field director, the highest non-appointed position. Before reaching the higher administrative levels, he was active in the public employees' union and served as chapter treasurer. He was frequently called on to teach courses for supervisors preparing for civil service exams.

John entered the Army in 1941 and served in North Africa and Italy and was a first lieutenant at the time of his release. In Dec. 1941 John married Clara Newhouse, and she survives, together with their daughter, Ann Acheson, and their son, Richard. The Class extends sincere sympathy to John's family.

The Class of 1929