Evening star., 1948-02-15
Six Men Seeking
Welfare Post,
LIST Still Open
Names Kept Secret;
CIopp, Leonard and
Howard Included

Clopp, Leonard and
Howard Included
Half dozen men have applied fol
the job of District welfare director
but the Board of Public Welfare Ii
still accepting applications, 1t was
learned last night.
Chairman Edgar Morris hopes tc
have the board select a candidate
at its next meeting, February 27
Under the law, the board nominates
a candidate for approval by the
Commissioners.
The post has been vacant since
the death of Ray Huff last Decem-
her.
The board repeatedly is looking
for a man with business experience
and a background in social welfare
Reports vary on whether the boarc
primarily wants a businessman OF
social worker.
Mr. Morris said it would "be nice
to have a man with business back.
ground with social aspects"
Refuses to List Names.
Although he refused to reveal the
names of all the candidates, he saio
they were all now in Washington
No specific recommendations from
civic, welfare or club groups have
been received, he said.
Three of the six under considera.
ton are known to be Raymond F.
Clapp, acting welfare director; Wal.
dron Leonard, head of the District
Veterans Service Center, and Alder
L. Howard, sr, who handled the
District budget during his 10 years
with the Federal Budget Bureau.
Mr.. Leonard had headed the Dis
trict,s service to veterans since that
division was reorganized and ex-
panded in December 1945. A Worlc
War / veteran, he was in business
in Texas from 1924 until 1882, serv-
ing as sales manager of a match
company and later as manager OF
a wholesale furniture company.
During the depression, he served
on two Texas committees allocat-
ing relief funds. In 1888, he was
appointed state service officer fol
Texas, working with relief and re-
habilitation agencies. He came tc
Washington as personnel research
specialist for the Agriculture De-
PARTNER t and went to the interior
Department in 1888. At the time OF
his appointment to the District job
he was chief of the budget and
administrative services division
Solid Fuels Administration.
He is a member of the Council OF
Social Agencies and the Metropoli-
tan Area Health Council as well
as a committee member dor the
Health Security Administration and
the Council of Personnel Administra-
tieshw iafisd b. n tso5
Clapp Has Served 4 Years.
:. Mr.. .Clapp, principal assistant di-
rector of public welfare, has been
With ) the welfare department for
four years. Before entering the
welfare field, he was Office manager
of retail hardware store and super
intendent of an excelsior factory
for seven years in Toledo, Ohio
Both concerns were owned by his
father. -
He was graduated from the Chi
cago School of Civics and Philan-
thropy, now the University OF
Chicago's graduate social welfare
department, and worked for the
Welfare Federation of Cleveland
from 1916 to 1885. For the last
eight years of that period, he di-
rected the agency. From 1885 tc
1910 he managed the Community
Fund of indianapolis and was Sec
retary Of the citys Council Of So
cial Agencies.
Mr.. Clapp went into public well
fare work in 1910 when he came te
Washington for the Federal Security
Administration. He was deputy
director of the agency's social pro.
lection division and consultant tc
the director of the Bureau of Ole
Age and Survivors Insurance or
child welfare matters.
Howard Holds ATC Post.
Mr.. Howard, who is now an as
sistant budget officer in the Army
Transportation Corps, said he ap-
piled last August for an administra-
tive job in the District government
in any department. Recently, he
said he was told to submit an ap-
plication specifically for the welfare
job.
Mr.. Howard holds a degree in
mechanical and civil engineering
from the University Of Michigan
He said he served as a management
engineer in various commercial con.
Germs for Is years: was supervising
engineer in the Atlanta Office OF the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. fol
two years; a budget examiner in the
Budget Bureau for 10 years and has
been with the Army as a civilian
employe for four months.