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John Park Lee was born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, in 1903. He
graduated from Princeton University and in subsequent years was employed in
public relations in New York, as a newspaper reporter in Philadelphia, and in
government service for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the city of Philadelphia
and the federal government.
For ten years he served as the administrator and lay therapist in the C. Dudley
Saul Clinic for Alcoholics at the St. Luke and Children’s Medical Center in
Philadelphia.
In 1950 he assumed the position of Director, Division of Welfare Agencies of the
Board of Pensions. In 1956 he added to his responsibilities, Secretary, Office of
Institutional Chaplains, Department of City and Industrial Work, Board of National
Ministries, and Executive Secretary, National Presbyterian Health and Welfare
Association (now PHEWA). During this period, he coordinated the health and
welfare efforts of the church, guiding the National Presbyterian Health and
Welfare Association through its organizational period. He helped to establish national
Presbyterian standards for neighborhood centers, homes for the aged,
institutional chaplains, children’s homes and health services. He was a leader in
sensitizing the church to its opportunities for mission and pressed agency staff
toward exceptional quality.
In 1963 Whitworth College conferred on John Park Lee the honorary degree of
Doctor of Letters in recognition of his meritorious contributions to the church and
society.
Few people have done more to advance the total program of health and welfare in the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). His efforts are the foundation upon which services
have been developed by the Presbyterian Health, Education and Welfare
Association. In 1969 the Association established this award to recognize and perpetuate the qualities of concern, sensitivity and involvement singularly exemplified by John Park Lee.
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