Ward Morehouse

Background

Morehouse, Ward was born on March 26, 1929 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward Ward and Anna (Ely) Morehouse.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in History and Anthropology, Yale University, 1950; AM, Asia Institute, 1953; postgraduate, New York University, 1953-1959.

Career

Executive secretary, International Conference on Asian Problems, New York City, 1952-1954; executive secretary, Conference on Asian Affairs, Inc., New York City, 1954-1957; instructor department government, New York University, 1956-1957; educational director, Asia Society, New York City, 1957-1962; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization fellow in South and Southneast Asia, 1962-1963; director Center for International Programs and Comparative Studies, University of the State of New York, 1963-1976; president, Council on International and Public Affairs, New York City, since 1976. Chairman Intermediate Technology Development Group North America, since 1979. Public The Apex Press, since 1988.

Research associate Southern Asia Institute, Society International Affairs, Columbia University, since 1977. Consultant in field; visiting professor U. Lund, Sweden, 1976-1977, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, 1969-1970.

Achievements

• Ward Morehouse has been listed as a noteworthy Human rights organization executive, publisher by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Bhopal Tragedy: What Really Happened and What It Means for American Workers and Communities at Risk

    (A report for the Citizens Commission on Bhopal, this was ...)

  • The Bhopal Reader: Twenty Years of the World's Worst Industrial Disaster

    ( This chronicle of the multifaceted Bhopal campaign agai...)

  • Building Sustainable Communities: Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change (Journal of Indo-European Studies)

    ( A revised edition of a classic work long out of print, ...)

  • Worker Empowerment in a Changing Economy: Jobs, Military Production, and the Environment

    (Book by Wykle, Lucinda, Morehouse, Ward, Dembo, David)

  • Abuse of Power: Social Performance of Multinational Corporations: The Case of Union Carbide

    (Book by Dembo, David, Morehouse, Ward, Wykle, Lucinda)

  • The Bhopal Tragedy: What Really Happened and What It Means for American Workers and Communities at Risk by M. Arun Subramaniam (1986-04-01)
  • Building Sustainable Communities: Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change (Journal of Indo-European Studies) by C George Benello (1997-06-01)

Membership

Trustee Council on International and Public Affairs, since 1954, Center for Development Policy, Washington, 1979-1982. Member steering committee Center for Study of Expanded Capital Ownership, Washington, 1984-1987. Member Citizens Comn. on Bhopal, 1985-1987, Coordinator Committee on Toxics and Drugs, 1981-1986.

Member advanced board Croton Housing Task Force, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, 1988-1990. Board directors Croton Community Land Conservancy, Inc., since 1990. Member state committee Liberal Party of New York State, 1973-1999, member policy committee, 1990-1999.

Co-chairman committee on the corporation, the Constitution and human rights National Lawyers Guild, 1998. Co-founder Western Massachusetts Committee Corps. and Democracy, since 2003. Member Association for Asian Studies, International Group for Grass Roots Initiatives (board directors since 1986), Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union (chief steward Local 8-149, since 1991).

Connections

Married Cynthia Thomas, October 3, 1953 (deceased July 2000). Children: John T., Andrew E. Married Carolyn Toll Oppenheim, August 3, 2003.

Father:

Edward Ward Morehouse

Mother:

Anna (Ely) Morehouse

Spouse:

Carolyn Toll Oppenheim

Spouse:

Cynthia Thomas

child:

John T. Morehouse

child:

Andrew E. Morehouse