Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-15
Six Men Seeking
Welfare Post;
LIST Still Open
Names Kept Secret;
--CIopp, Leonard and
Howard Included

Howard Included
Half a dozen men have applied for
the job of District welfare director
but the Board of Public Welfare is
still accepting applications, it was
learned last night.
Chairman Edgar Morris hopes to
have the board select candidate
at its next meeting, February 81.
Under the law, the board dominates
candidate for approval by the
Commissioners.
The post has been vacant since
the death of Ray Huff last Deem
Der.
The board repeatedly is looking
for a man. with business experience
and background in social welfare.
Reports vary on whether the board
primarily wants a businessman or
social worker.
Mr.. Morris said it would "be nice
to have man with business back
ground with social aspects"
Refuses to List Names.
Although he refused to reveal the
names Of all the candidates. he said
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.
Ciapp, acting welfare director; WAL
dron Leonard, head of the District
Veterans Service Center, and Alden
L. Howard, ST., who handled the
District budget during his 10 years
with the Federal Budget Bureau.
Mr.. Leonard had headed the Dis
tricts service to veterans since that
division was reorganized and eX-
banded in December 1945. A World
War | veteran, he was in business
in Texas from 1924 until 1882, serv-
ing as sales manager of 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 for
Texas, working with relief and re-
Mobilization agencies. He came to
Washington as a personnel research
specialist for the Agriculture, De-
partner and went to the Interior
Department in 1893. 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 for the
Health Security Administration and
the Council of Personnel Adn1inistra-
ton. i:@-
Clapp Has Served Z Years.
Mr.. Clapp, principal assistant d.
rector of pubft Welfare, has been
with the welfare department for
four years. Before entering the
welfare field, he was office manager
of a 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 to
1910 he managed the Community
Fund of indianapolis and was Sec
rotary of the city's Council of So
cial Agencies.
Mr.. Clapp went into public well
fare work in 1910 when he came to
Washington for the Federal Security
Administration. He was deputy
director of the agency's social pro-
lection division and consultant to
the director of the Bureau of Old
Age and Survivors Insurance on
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-
phcation 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. for
two years; budget examiner in the
Budget Bureau for 10 years and has
been with the Army as a civilian