DR. CLAIR E. TURNER, HEALTH EDUCATOR
NEW YORK TIMES NOV. 28, 1974
Dr. Clair E. Turner, a pioneer in public health, died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack, at his home in Arlington, Mass. He was 84 years old.
Dr. Turner, a world, leader in health education, was professor of public health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1914 until his retirement in 1944.
He established the first program leading to the degree of Master of Public Health at M.I.T. and taught the first advanced course in health education as head of the department of public health and biology at M.I.T.
Dr. Turner also had taught at Tufts University and at the University of California at Berkeley.
In World War II, he was chief of health education on the staff of Nelson A. Rockefeller, then Coordinator of Inter‐American Affairs.
From 1946 to 1958 he was special assistant to Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Dr. Turner leaves his wife, the former Naomi Cocke; a son, Frederick C. Turner; a daughter, Mary Frances Bonk, and seven grandchildren.
NEW YORK TIMES NOV. 28, 1974
Dr. Clair E. Turner, a pioneer in public health, died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack, at his home in Arlington, Mass. He was 84 years old.
Dr. Turner, a world, leader in health education, was professor of public health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1914 until his retirement in 1944.
He established the first program leading to the degree of Master of Public Health at M.I.T. and taught the first advanced course in health education as head of the department of public health and biology at M.I.T.
Dr. Turner also had taught at Tufts University and at the University of California at Berkeley.
In World War II, he was chief of health education on the staff of Nelson A. Rockefeller, then Coordinator of Inter‐American Affairs.
From 1946 to 1958 he was special assistant to Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Dr. Turner leaves his wife, the former Naomi Cocke; a son, Frederick C. Turner; a daughter, Mary Frances Bonk, and seven grandchildren.
DR. CLAIR E. TURNER, HEALTH EDUCATOR
NEW YORK TIMES NOV. 28, 1974
Dr. Clair E. Turner, a pioneer in public health, died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack, at his home in Arlington, Mass. He was 84 years old.
Dr. Turner, a world, leader in health education, was professor of public health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1914 until his retirement in 1944.
He established the first program leading to the degree of Master of Public Health at M.I.T. and taught the first advanced course in health education as head of the department of public health and biology at M.I.T.
Dr. Turner also had taught at Tufts University and at the University of California at Berkeley.
In World War II, he was chief of health education on the staff of Nelson A. Rockefeller, then Coordinator of Inter‐American Affairs.
From 1946 to 1958 he was special assistant to Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Dr. Turner leaves his wife, the former Naomi Cocke; a son, Frederick C. Turner; a daughter, Mary Frances Bonk, and seven grandchildren.
NEW YORK TIMES NOV. 28, 1974
Dr. Clair E. Turner, a pioneer in public health, died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack, at his home in Arlington, Mass. He was 84 years old.
Dr. Turner, a world, leader in health education, was professor of public health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1914 until his retirement in 1944.
He established the first program leading to the degree of Master of Public Health at M.I.T. and taught the first advanced course in health education as head of the department of public health and biology at M.I.T.
Dr. Turner also had taught at Tufts University and at the University of California at Berkeley.
In World War II, he was chief of health education on the staff of Nelson A. Rockefeller, then Coordinator of Inter‐American Affairs.
From 1946 to 1958 he was special assistant to Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Dr. Turner leaves his wife, the former Naomi Cocke; a son, Frederick C. Turner; a daughter, Mary Frances Bonk, and seven grandchildren.
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