Background
Willits, Joseph HEnry was born on June 16, 1889 in Ward, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Francis Parvin and Elizabeth Anna (Paschall) Willits.
Willits, Joseph HEnry was born on June 16, 1889 in Ward, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Francis Parvin and Elizabeth Anna (Paschall) Willits.
AB, Swarthmore College, 1911; AM, Swarthmore College, 1912; Doctor of Laws, Swarthmore College, 1937; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1916; Doctor of Laws, University of Pennsylvania, 1939; Doctor of Laws, Haverford College, 1962.
Instructor geography and industry, University of Pennsylvania, 1912-1917; assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1919-1920; professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1920-1939; dean Wharton School Financial and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, 1933-1939; director educational survey, University of Pennsylvania, 1954-1960; charge studies of excellence and mediocrity in colleges universities, University of Pennsylvania, from 1961; director industrial research Department, University Pennsylvania, 1921-1939.
Employment superintendent United States Naval Aircraft Factory, 1917-1919. Expert in charge of studies in labor relations United States Coal Commission, 1922-1923. Member educational advisory board John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1927-1928.
Member President's Emergency Committee for Employment, 1930-1931. President National Bureau Economics Research, 1933, executive director, 1936-1939. Director social science Rockefeller Foundation, 1939-1954;member other national and civic committees and commissions.
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Statistical Association, American Political Science Association, American Economics Association, American Philosophical Society (vice president 1959-1962), Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma.
Married Ruth Clement Sharp, May 3, 1913 (deceased 1961). Children: Barbara, Clement P. (deceased), Robin. Married second, Therese Spackman Barclay, August 28, 1962.