Background
Ruebhausen, Oscar Melick was born on August 28, 1912 in New York City. Son of Oscar and Eleonora J. (Melick) Ruebhausen.
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This book provides an objective evaluation of retirement and pension plans for college and university personnel. Based on an independent investigation by the Commission on College Retirement, this work examines the evolution, legal environment, and effectiveness of current retirement programs and policies. It makes concrete suggestions for improving the system--offering strategies for individualized retirement planning and proposing a new model for group long-term health care insurance.
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Ruebhausen, Oscar Melick was born on August 28, 1912 in New York City. Son of Oscar and Eleonora J. (Melick) Ruebhausen.
He attended Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude, and Yale Law School, where he was notes editor of the Yale Law Journal.
In 1937, Ruebhausen joined the law firm Debevoise, Stevenson, Plimpton & Page, a precursor to the modern firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. Ruebhausen was exempted from military service during World World War II for health reasons, but in 1941 he moved to Washington, District of Columbia to work for the Lend-Lease Administration financing material aid for the Allied war effort in Europe. In 1944, he became general counsel to the Office of Scientific Research and Development (Office of Scientific Research and Development), headed by the engineer Vannevar Bush.
That year, at the request of President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt, Ruebhausen helped Bush draft a letter on how scientific research could be useful to the United States in peace time.
The letter became the blueprint for the establishment of the National Science Foundation in 1950. After the war, Ruebhausen returned to practice at Debevoise & Plimpton, where he remained until his retirement in 1987.
From 1950 to 1951, he also served as counsel to the International Development Advisory Board, where he began a lifelong relationship with Nelson A. Rockefeller, the organization’s chairman, as a friend and political adviser. When Rockefeller became Governor of New York, Ruebhausen served him in a number of capacities, including as chairman of a Task Force on Protection from Radioactive Fallout, as Special Adviser on Atomic Energy, and as chairman of a panel on Insurance Holding Companies.
Ruebhausen also maintained a long relationship with the New York City Bar Association, where he served as president from 1980 to 1982.
In keeping with his professional interest in science, he served as chair of the Association’s Special Committee on Atomic Energy from 1949 to 1959 and as chair of the Committee on Science and the Law from 1959 to 1967. Ruebhausen died on October 8, 1994 at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. He was 92 years old.
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Chairman Commission on College Retirement, 1984-1993. Special adviser atomic energy to governor New York State, 1959. Vice chairman New York State advisory committee on atomic energy, 1959-1962.
Chairman New York State Governor's Task Force on protection from radioactive fallout, 1959. Member President's Task Force on Science Policy, 1969-1970, President's Science Advisory Committee Panel on Chemicals and Health, 1970-1972, Commission on Critical Choices for American, 1973-1977, advisory committee Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, 1988-1993. Chairman United Nations Day, New York State, 1962, chairman Special New York Committee on Insurance Holding Companies, 1967-1968.
Member United States government panel on Privacy and Behavioral Research, 1965-1966. Member presidential panel Chronic Renal Disease, 1966-1967. Secretary, director Fund Peaceful Atomic Development, Inc., 1954-1972.
Director Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Fund, 1948-1958. Chairman board Bennington College, 1957-1961, 62-67. Trustee Hudson Institute, Inc., 1961-1971.
Trustee Russell Sage Foundation, chairman board, 1965-1980. Vice-chairman New York City University Construction Fund, 1966-1969. Member Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on United States-China Relations.
Member New School University Institutional Policy Committee, 1991-2000. Board directors Greenwall Foundation, 1956-1995, chairman, 1982-1991, chairman emeritus, 1991-2004. Board directors Scripps Clinic and Research Found, 1983-1989.
Member American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Yale Law School Association (executive committee and president 1960-1962, chairman 1962-1964), Association of Bar of City of New York (president 1980-1982, president and board directors fund 1980-1982), Order of Coif, Century Club (New York City), River Club (New York City), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Married Zelia Krumbhaar Peet (deceased 1990), October 31, 1942.