Avis de décès de William-Augustus Waldron - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

Waldron, William Augustus HAVERFORD, Pa. William Augustus Waldron, longtime Boston lawyer, former public official, and first full-time general counsel of the Massachusetts General Hospital, died April 29, 2009 at Haverford. He was 95. Born in Schenectady, N.Y., he graduated from the Taft School and Union College and later earned degrees in political economy and law from Harvard University. Before practicing law Mr. Waldron served on the staffs of the New York State Assembly and Constitutional Convention in 1938. During the war, he held positions with the National War Labor Board in Washington and New York City. In 1953 he succeeded former Congressman Thomas H. Eliot as executive director of the Massachusetts Special Commission on the Structure of State Government ("Baby Hoover Commission"). Later he served as commissioner of administration for Governor Endicott Peabody, a special assistant attorney general, and a special counsel to the committee on rules of the House of Representatives. In the town of Wayland, where he lived for a number of years, he was chairman of the school committee and held other offices. In 1975, Mr. Waldron was engaged to organize the legal affairs of the Massachusetts General Hospital and he joined the hospital's staff as its first full-time general counsel. He retired in 1981. He had been a trustee of Union College, the Edmund Niles Huyck Foundation of Rensselaer-ville, N.Y., and the Taft School. He was married and divorced from Gertrude L. Nelson of Chestnut Hill and later was married to Sybil Jay Kinnicutt of Cambridge, who died in 1997. He is survived by his son, Professor Arthur N. Waldron of Bryn Mawr, Pa.; his daughter, Dorothy W. Waldron of Wellesley, Mass.; his stepdaughters, Sybil K. Baldwin of Rhinecliff, N.Y. and May K. Houghton of Corning, N.Y.; two grandsons; and his sister, Jessica N. Spacil of Seattle, Wash. Contributions may be made to the Waldron Fund at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.