GRULEE AWARD PRESENTATION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 886-887
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
World Health ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Health Council ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Metropolitan Life Insurance

GEORGE M. WHEATLEY, the recipient of the Clifford G. Grulee Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics for 1964, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1909. After graduation from the University of Virginia, George Wheatley attended Harvard University School of Medicine and received the M. D. degree in 1933. Following an internship, there was a residency at Harriet Lane and a Fellowship in Pediatrics at New York Postgraduate Hospital. Dr. Wheatley then served as the Pediatrician in charge of school health services for New York City until 1940 when he decided to return to studies and attended Columbia University where he earned a Master of Public Health in 1942. He was also certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in 1942. From 1942 to 1947 Dr. Wheatley was on the staff of the Children's Bureau following which lie joined the Health Division of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company where he has served since 1947. In 1949 Dr. Wheatley was certified by the American Board of Preventative Medicine. He is a Senior Surgeon in the U. S. Public Health Service Reserve and is Vice-President for Health of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. George Wheatley has served on many committees and has held many appointments on the national level and in New York. He is a member and on the Board of Directors of the American Public Health Association. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Safety Council and the National Health Council. He is a consultant to the World Health Organization and is a member of the American Pediatric Society.

The Social Survey, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Beginnings of the US Public Health Service’s Sickness Surveys

2021 ◽  
pp. e1-e9
Author(s):  
Mónica García
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Inability To Work ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Metropolitan Life Insurance

The earliest sickness survey of the US Public Health Service, which started in 1915, was the Service’s first socioeconomic study of an industrial community. It was also the first to define illness as a person’s inability to work. The survey incorporated the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company’s definition of illness, which, instead of sickness rates, focused on duration of illness as a proxy of time lost from work. This kind of survey took place in the broader context of the reform movements of the Progressive Era and the social surveys conducted in the United States, which led to the creation of the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations, where the Service’s sickness survey originated. The Service’s focus on the socioeconomic classification of families and definition of illness as the inability to work enabled it to show the strong link between poverty and illness among industrial workers. The leader of the survey, Edgar Sydenstricker, and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company came up with new ways to measure the health of the population, which also influenced the Service’s studies of the effects of the Great Depression on public health and the National Health Survey of 1935–1936. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print October 28, 2021: e1–e9. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306454 )

Gerald J. Lieberman

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26
Author(s):  
Albert H. Bowker ◽  
Ingram Olkin ◽  
Arthur F. Veinott
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Adult Height ◽  
Birth Certificate ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Work Permit ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Year’S Eve ◽  
Metropolitan Life Insurance

Gerald J. Lieberman was born on December 31, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York, after a hectic New Year's Eve trip to the hospital. His father, Joseph, spelled his last name Liberman, but his mother, Ida, preferred Lieberman, the spelling that she and some of Joseph's siblings used. Joseph and Ida had come to this country from Lithuania. Joseph worked for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and they lived in an “historic” section of Flatbush. The much wanted baby boy was the center of the family, which included two doting older sisters, Shirley and Rosalind. He grew fast — one of the tallest boys in nearby Public School 197 — and achieved his adult height at about the age of 13. As a boy, he was described as towheaded and gawky. Jerry did not realize that he had a middle initial until he was 15 and needed a birth certificate to get a work permit. Jerry asked his parents if they had given him a middle initial, but they did not remember. In any case, since the J does not stand for anything, Jerry likes to quip that his middle name is Jinitial.

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