Jack Otis

Background

Otis, Jack was born on February 13, 1923 in New York City. Son of Abraham Osipowitz and Esther (Goldberg) Otis.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Brooklyn College, 1946; Master of Science in Social Work, University of Illinois, 1948; Master of Education, University of Illinois, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1957.

Career

Social worker Jewish Social Service Bureau Dade County, 1948-1949. Psychiatric social worker Free Synagogue Social Service, New York University, 1949-1950. Associate professor University Illinois, 1950-1961.

Deputy director Office Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Development, Department Health, Education and Welfare, 1961-1965. Dean Graduate School Social Work University Texas, 1965-1977, professor emeritus, since 1993. Consultant to government, since 1961.

Presenter International Council on Social Welfare, Inter-University Consortium for International Social Development, International Association Schools Social Work, 1994. Deputy director President's Committee Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1961-1965. Special consultant for American social work education and research European Center for Social Welfare Training and Research, Vienna, Austria, since 1976.

Dean Dan Sanders Memorial lecturer University Illinois, 1999.

Achievements

• Jack Otis has been listed as a noteworthy Social work educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board overseers Center for Study Violence, Brandeis University, 1966-1970. Commencement speaker University Texas School Social Work, 2001. With Army of the United States, 1943-1946, PTO. Member American Association of University Professors, Council on Social Work Education (commission on accreditation), Philosophy of Education Society, National Association Social Workers (chair California Task Force on Child Labor 2001-2003), American Academy Political and Social Science, New York Academy of Sciences, Johannesburg Child Welfare Society (research consultant South Africa chapter 1990-1991), Phi Kappa Phi (president).

Connections

Children: Elisabeth H., Erich R., Greta M., Marcus H., Alicia.

Father:

Abraham Osipowitz Otis

Mother:

Esther (Goldberg) Otis

child:

Marcus H. Otis

child:

Elisabeth H. Otis

child:

Greta M. Otis

child:

Erich R. Otis

child:

Alicia Otis