Wilton L. Halverson

Background

Halverson, Wilton L. was born on June 30, 1896 in Litchfield, Minnesota, United States. Son of Halver L. and Mary (Westman) Halverson.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Union College (Nebraska) 1919. Doctor of Medicine College Medical Evangelists, 1929. Doctor P.H., Yale University, 1932.

Career

District health officer, Los Angeles Company (California), 1929-1934. Health officer, Pasadena, California, 1934-1941, lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles, 1934-1937. Director public health, California, 1943-1954.

Associate dean school of public health and chairman department preventive medicine University of California Medical School at Los Los Angeles

Consultant physician Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, since 1935, senior attending physician, Los Angeles Company Hospital, since 1936, professor public health, College Medical Evangelists, since 1937. Health officer for Los Angeles County, 1941-1943.

Science director, international health division, Rockefeller Foundation.

Achievements

• Wilton L. Halverson has been listed as a noteworthy physician, educator. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member advising committee Foreign Operations Administration. Member International Development Advisory Board. Diplomate American Board Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

Life fellow American Public Health Association (past vice president, Chairman of Commission administrative practice 1945-1951, president 1953).

Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association American Medical Colleges, Association Teachers Preventive Medicine, Southern California Public Health Association (past president), Los Angeles Company Medical Association, Delta Omega (past president).

Connections

Married Hazel Richardson, July 22, 1920. Children: Robert Lee, Harold Wilton.

Father:

Halver L. Halverson

Mother:

Mary (Westman) Halverson

Spouse:

Hazel Richardson

child:

Harold Wilton Halverson

child:

Robert Lee Halverson