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WILLIAM D. CAREY
William D. Carey, 82, former assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget and chief executive for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, died of chronic lung disease June 24 at his home in Washington, DC. He was made an honorary member of NASW in 1984.
Carey joined the Bureau of the Budget in 1942 and became assistant director in 1966, with special responsibilities in human resources, science and technology, and intergovernmental concerns. In 1969, he was made a vice president in the Washington office of Arthur D. Little Inc., an international research and management consulting firm, and in 1975, chief executive of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and publisher of the journal Science.
During his 12 years in that position, he was remembered at large for his clashes with the Department of Defense over their attempt to suppress unclassified research information--and within NASW for his thrice-postponed retirement from his AAAS post. The latter situation was a particular problem for then NASW president Philip Boffey, who complained at the 1987 NASW annual meeting of having to preside over three sentimental farewells to the same individual. From 1973 to 1979, Carey led the U.S. delegation in talks with the Soviet Union on various methodologies in science and technology.
SHELDON GARBER
SW recently learned of the death of NASW member Sheldon Garber, 76, who died July 1997 in Evanston, Ill. At the time of his death, he was a fundraising consultant and vice president for philanthropy and communication at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
Garber was president of Sheldon Garber Associates Inc., a consulting firm he founded in 1969. His fundraising efforts centered on not-for-profit organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Dermatology Foundation, the Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation, the Chicago Zoological Society of Brookfield Zoo and the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.
Garber, a native of Minneapolis, began his career in journalism after receiving a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Minnesota and doing graduate work at the University of Chicago. He eventually became Illinois state editor for United Press International, where he led an effort to unionize.
Garber was employed as director of media services at the University of Chicago from 1958 until 1964, when he was named director of public relations for the national Blue Cross Association. In 1968, he became executive vice president of a Chicago-based fundraising consulting firm, Charles R. Feldstein and Co.