Background
Short, Oliver Clark was born on August 15, 1883 in Georgetown, Delaware, United States. Son of Eli S. and Sarah Elizabeth (Jefferson) Short.
Short, Oliver Clark was born on August 15, 1883 in Georgetown, Delaware, United States. Son of Eli S. and Sarah Elizabeth (Jefferson) Short.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Delaware, 1904. A.M., University of Pennsylvania, 1913. Doctor of Humane Letters, American University, 1944.
Post graduate study in psychology, Johns Hopkins, 1924-1927.
Teacher and commandant military corps, North Carolina Military Academy, Red Springs, 1904-1905. Teacher and principal public schools, Delaware City, Delaware, 1905-1906. Teacher and vice principal high school, Dover, Delaware, 1906-1907.
Teacher mathematics, Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) Preparatory School, 1907-1908. Teacher mathematics and science, Sayre (Pennsylvania) High School, 1908-1910. Teacher science High School, Trenton, New Jersey, 1910-1917, Germantown (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), High School, 1917-1918.
Assistant chief examiner New Jersey Civil Service Commission, 1918-1920. Secretary and chief examiner Maryland. Employment Commission, 1920-1922, commissioner, 1922-1935.
Personnel director Thos. Maddock’s Sons Company, Trenton, part time 3 years. Executive assistant to director of the United States Census, 1935-1937, assistant to director, 1937-1939.
Personnel director, unites states department of Commerce since 1939. Reemployment director for Maryland., United States Employment Service, 1933-1935. Director war transfers United States Civil Service Commission, March-December 1942 (on detail).
Lecturer on personnel administration, Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, University of Baltimore, American University. Lecturer on organization, supervision and management, American University.
Author: The Merit System, 1928. Probation Period, 1946. Probation in the Public Service, 1946.
Member Assembly of Civil Service Commns, of the United States and Canada (ex-president), Personnel Administrn Group, Baltimore (ex-president), Society for Personnel Administration (past president). Member Phi Kappa Phi. Mason (Shriner); member Anchor.
Clubs: Gavel (ex-president), Schoolmasters of Trenton (ex-president), Ratary International (ex-president Baltimore.
Married Katharine Mae Alton, January 30, 1909. Children: Oliver Alton, Sarah Louise, Katharine Elizabeth.