Lewis Burrill Sims

Background

Sims, Lewis Burrill was born on October 9, 1909 in Worthington, Minnesota, United States. Son of Charles Edward and Pansy Elizabeth (Cook) Sims.

Education

Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1932. Master of Arts, University California, Berkeley, 1933. Postgraduate, University Chicago, 1935.

Postgraduate, Harvard University, 1938.

Career

Economist Center Statistical Board, 1935-1937, examiner, 1937-1938. Assistant chief governments division United States Census Bureau, 1938-1948. Management analysis officer United States Public Health Service, 1948-1973.

Faculty United States Department Agriculture Graduate School, Washington, 1965-1982, member scholarship committee, since 1982. Research specialist Pres's. Committee on Civil Service Improvement, 1940-1941.

Research analyst 1st Hoover Commission, 1948, 2d Commission, 1954. Visiting professor political science University of California at Los Angeles, 1952-1953.

Achievements

• Lewis Burrill Sims has been listed as a notable political scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The scholarship of junior professional appointees in the government service

Membership

Chairman committee on public finance and the budget Montgomery County Civic Federation, 1944-1949. Chairman Montgomery County Personnel Board, 1949-1954. Member salary advisory committee Montgomery County Board Education, 1955.

Member Charter Revision Commission, 1966-1968. President Committee to Retain Council-Manager Government, 1968. Member, board directors Rollingwood City Association, since 1981.

Member, advisory committee Chevy Chase branch Montgomery County Department Public Libraries, since 1982 (chairman 1984-1986). Member American Society Public Administration (charter), American Political Science Association, National Municipal League, Washington Area Tennis Patrons Foundation, Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in American, (chorus director Singing Capital Chorus, international quartet judge emeritus 1985, international championship barbershop chorus award 1954), Federal City Four, Theta Chi, Pi Sigma Alpha. Clubs: Edgemoor Tennis.

Connections

Married Grace Louise Wolfe, September 14, 1935. Children: Marjorie Joan, Robert Michael.

Father:

Charles Edward Sims

Mother:

Pansy Elizabeth (Cook) Sims

Spouse:

Grace Louise Wolfe

child:

Robert Michael Sims

child:

Marjorie Joan Sims