Sheldon Rahn Memoir
Description:... "Rahn was one of the original twenty that signed the statement at Union, but then one of the twelve that did not carry through on refusing to register [for the draft] on October 16, 1940 ... He was always interested in social settlement work and graduated from Union Seminary after the war in 1947 ..." From 1955 to 1966 he served as Director of Social Welfare, first for the Detroit Council of Churches, then for the National Council of Churches. "He became organizing dean of the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University and then, after earning a Doctor of Social Work (D.S.W.) Degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Social Work in 1975, continued as associate professor of Social Work in Administration, Policy and Research until 1984."
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