Background
Seevers,, Charles was born on May 13, 1925 in Seward, Nebraska, United States. Son of Ferdinand Carl and Hilda Anna (Schultz) Seevers.
foundation executive psychologist
Seevers,, Charles was born on May 13, 1925 in Seward, Nebraska, United States. Son of Ferdinand Carl and Hilda Anna (Schultz) Seevers.
Associate of Arts, St. John's College, 1945. Bachelor, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 1949. Master of Science magna cum laude, St. Francis College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1965.
Post graduate, St. Francis College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, University Notre Dame, 1970.
Ordained to ministry Lutheran Church, 1949. Assistant pastor Immanuel Lutheran Church, Baltimore, 1949-1950. Pastor St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Kingsville, 1950-1957, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Richmond, Virginia, 1957-1963.
Senior pastor Zion Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, 1963-1966. Executive director Association for Disabled of Elkhart County, Indiana, 1966-1982, Aux Chandelles Foundation, 1982-1993, executive director emeritus, 1993. Adjunct professor psychology and special education Indiana University, South Bend, 1972-1976.
Speaker President's Committee on Mental Retardation 3d International Congress on Prevention of Mental Retardation, Buenos Aries, Argentina, 1986. Appointed delegate health psychologist Indiana People to People International Study Mission to Russia, People's Republic China, 1987. L consultant Kansas Developmental Disabilities Division, 1972-1979, Accreditation Council for Facilities for the Mentally Retarded, Chicago, 1972-1980.
Consultant on assessment of developmentally disabled in various states, since 1974, consultant Leicester, England, 1974-1975. Member Indiana Governor's Planning and Advisory Board for Mental Retardation and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1973-1978, chairman, 1976-1978. Member Governor's Preventive Health and Handicap Services Coordination Study Commission, 1987-1990, Development Disabilities Planning Council on Child Health, 1987-1990, Northern Indiana Health Systems Agency Central Sub-Area Advisory Council, 1976-1978, vice chairman, 1977-1978.
Consultant psycho-nutrition, 1981-1993, emeritus since 1993. Regional psychologist Youth for Understanding, 1985-1987.
Chairman United Way Executives, Elkhart, 1971-1973. Board directors Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf, Long Island, New York, 1950-1957, Association for Retarded Citizens Indiana, 1983-1989, Northern Indiana Health Foundation, 1981-1987. Charter member Area Vocational Education Advisory Board, 1973-1976.
Member state advisory board Prevention: To Be Born Well Curriculum Project, 1977-1980. Member residential services and facilities committee National Association Retarded Citizens, 1973-1978. Member Northern Indiana Developmental Disabilities Advisory Council, 1977-1981, chairman, 1980-1981.
Member Department Mental Health Multi-Disciplinary Screening Team, 1983-1984. Member board teenage parents advisory board Elkhart Community Schools, 1984-1987. Chairman state policy Indiana Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Coalition, 1986-1987.
Honorary chairman Michiana Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Week, 1986. Board governors Good Samaritan college, since 1997. Member National Conference Executives of Associations for Retarded Children (chairman 1974-1975), American Psychological Association, Society Behavioral Medicine, American Public Health Association, National Federation Parents for Drug Free Youth, Lutheran Academy for Scholarship, International Psychological Association, United Cerebral Palsy American, Lutheran Human Relations Association American, Center for Science in Public Interest, American Orthopsychiat.
Association, Elkhart C. of Chamber (board directors 1974-1976), American Council on Drug Education, Association Birth Defect Children, Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Coalition, International Council Psychologists. Lodges: Rotary (vice president 1986, chairman world affairs conference district 654, 1985-1987, president-elect 1987-1988, general chairman district assembly conference 1986-1987, Gov's. award 1987, Chairman of Year 1987).
Married Florine Marie Viets, June 5, 1949 (deceased 1991). Children: Steven, Roger, Sandra, Jane. Married Ruth Ann Krohn Rehschuh, August 28, 1993.