Background
Carlton, Winslow was born on December 27, 1907 in London. Came to the United States, 1910. Son of Newcomb Carlton and Josephine Woodruff (Winslow) Smith.
health association administrator
Carlton, Winslow was born on December 27, 1907 in London. Came to the United States, 1910. Son of Newcomb Carlton and Josephine Woodruff (Winslow) Smith.
AB cum laude, Harvard College, 1929; postgraduate, Columbia University School of Business, 1930-1932.
After graduating from Harvard University in 1929, Carlton began work with the Federal Relief Administration, where he worked with self-help cooperatives in California. In this context he was assigned by the Roosevelt Administration to lead a successful project to determine whether it was feasible to develop an alternative mutual self-help economy, in part based on barter, to the conventional economy in which many people were homeless and starving in spite of having skills and being ready to work. In 1935, Carlton married Margaret Gillies, the national director of the Self-Help Cooperative Service.
Upton Sinclair used Carlton as the model for his protagonist in his 1936 novel, Company-op: a Novel of Living Together.
As in many historical novels, some of the motives attributed by the author to the protagonist were not those of the real person, a source of frustration for Carlton. In 1938, Carlton founded Group Health Insurance, the first community based, non-profit insurance plan.
Later it expanded to include the first dental insurance plan and the first mental health insurance plan. He later founded Health Insurance Plan of New York City, a non-profit insurance plan for city employees, the first health maintenance organization in the Eastern United States, and second in the United States as a whole.
In the political domain, Carlton worked on Medicare/Medicaid legislation with Senator Jacob Javitz.
Modern hedge funds are based on different principles than this early fund, but they use the same term to describe themselves as organizations. AW Jones at the time was based on economic principles of "hedging" one"s financial commitments with countervailing commitments in a way that led to optimized expected profit. Carlton was on the board of Henry Street Settlement House internal Henry Street Settlement in New York City from 1931 on, was President, Chairman of the Board and director until 1978. of the Foundation for Cooperative Housing which established cooperatives so that lower income working people could afford homes of their own.
With the help of Congress, FCH established a revolving fund that covered the capital costs of establishing housing.
People who were selected joined a cooperative that owned the housing, paying their costs of membership over time. In the final decade of his life, Winslow Carlton co-founded and served as president of Selcore Labs, where a new a-cellular pertussis vaccine was developed and approved by the United States. Food and Drug Administration.
With its name changed to NAVAC North American Vaccine Company, the company went public and was later acquired by Baxter. Carlton died of cancer at his home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts on December 7, 1994.
Member settlement committee Henry Street Settlement, 1937-1944, board directors, 1931-1933, 44-78, president, 1953-1965, chairman, 1966-1972, honorary director, 1979-1994. Member development committee Consumer Cooperative Service, New York, 1951-1953. Chairman, board trustees Foundation for Cooperative Housing, Incorporated, New York York, 1952-1994.
Chairman board, director FCH Services, Inc., 1952-1994. Honorary chairman Cooperative Housing Foundation, 1985-1994. Vice chairman sub-committee health and hospitals Mayor's Advisory Council, New York City, 1954-1955, chairman, 1955-1958.
Director United Neighborhood Houses, 1954-1972, vice president, 1966-1972. Secretary, director Committee to Protect our Children's Teeth, 1956-1963. Board directors National Federation Settlements, 1958-1972, president, 1964-1966.
Chairman, board directors Mobilization for Youth, 1958-1970. President National Social Welfare Assembly, Inc., 1960-1963, chairman, board directors, 1963-1967. Vice president, member executive committee National Assembly for Social Policy and Development, 1968-1972, board directors, 1968-1973.
Member advisory council President' Committee Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 1962-1965. Secretary, treasurer National Committee Health Care of Aged, 1962-1963. Member distribution committee Greater New York Fund, 1962-1963.
Director Gouveneur Gardens Housing Corporation, Inc., 1964-1968, president, 1964-1967, honorary president, 1968. Member program committee National Conference Social Welfare, 1964-1966. Member New York City Council Against Poverty, 1965-1967.
Board directors United Community Funds and Councils American, 1969-1971. Trustee The Cooperative Foundation, 1969-1974. Director, president Settlement Housing Fund, New York, 1970-1972.
Member sub-commission on liaison with public and private agencies, departmental committees for court administration, appellate division, 1st and 2d judicial departments State of New York, 1971-1973. Founder, chairman, president Selcore Laboratories, Inc., 1985-1988.
Married Margaret Mary Gillies, January 18, 1935. Children: Mary Gillies Carlton Swope, Ann Winslow, Rhona Newcomb Carlton-Foss.