Dr. Henry Miller Busch ⁸⁷²⁷

Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
Wednesday, November 25, 1970
p. 23

Dr. H.M. Busch, Noted Sociologist, Educator, Dies Here

Dr. Henry Miller Busch, 76, an eminent sociologist, student of foreign affairs and lecturer and former radio commentator and a professor emeritus of Western Reserve University, died yesterday in St. Augustine Manor Nursing Home, 7818 Detroit Ave., N.W.

Dr. Busch retired in 1963 because of illness. He had been professor emeritus of sociology at Western Reserve since 1965.

He came here in 1927 as assistant professor of group work at the university's school of applied social sciences and became an associate professor in 1929. In 1930, he was named assistant director of Cleveland College of Western Reserve and in 1936 became director of the division of social sciences of the college, a post he held until 1951 when he went to Western Reserve as professor of sociology.

Dr. Busch, also a former professor of adult education at Cleveland College, a popular lecturer on world affairs delivered a series of lectures at the college in 1942 and 1943 on the campaigns, the progress and problems of World War II. The lectures were part of an adult education course sponsored by the Cleveland News and the college.

Prior to those lectures he presented a series on the evolution of the air world sponsored by The Plain Dealer.

Dr. Busch was foreman of the Cuyahoga County grand jury in 1937. The grand jury report, which had wide circulation, emphasized the need for vigorous enforcement of state liquor laws, slum elimination, a larger police department, gambling laws enforcement and other needs for community improvement.

He was president of the City Club in 1937 and a member of the board of directors for a number of years.

Dr. Busch was a member of the White House Conference on child care and protection from 1928 to 1930, served on the governor's commission here on the codification of laws relating to marriage, divorce and desertion, and in 1935 was a member of the Cuyahoga County Relief Committee.

He was a former trustee and director of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, Greater Cleveland Chapter of the American Red Cross, the Neighborhood Association, the Foreign Affairs Council, now the Council on World Affairs and the Management Committee of the Downtown (Central) YMCA.

He sought the democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate unsuccessfully in 1950 and 1952.

Dr. Busch was a founder of the Cleveland Chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action, received its first New Frontier Award in 1962 and was honorary chairman of the chapter in 1964. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Ohio and national organizations of the ADA.

In 1965, he received the Newton D. Baker Memorial Award from Cleveland College, an award given to a non-alumnus of the college for outstanding service to the institution.

Dr. Busch was a past chairman of the committee on education and information of the Cleveland Metropolitan District Council for Civilian Defense, had served on the War Labor Board here, the Cuyahoga County Child Welfare Board and in 1945, while on leave from Cleveland College, was executive director of the National Committee on Post War Immigration Policy, Washington.

He had traveled extensively, was widely read and author of numerous articles and two books, "Leadership in Group Work", published 1934, and "Conference Methods in Industry," 1949.

Dr. Busch, a member of the Ohio State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1962, was a member of the American Sociological Society, American Association for Adult Education, Amerian Association of Social Workers, the National Conference of Social Work and other professional organizations.

He was a member of Theta Kappa Sigma fraternity.

Dr. Busch, born in New York City, was graduated from the City College of New York and received his master's degree and doctorate from Columbia University.

Prior to coming here, Dr. Busch was boys' work director at the East Side YMCA in New York City from 1916 to 1920, and for the next seven years was director of field work for Union Theological Seminary, New York City.

His father, the late Casper H. Busch, had followed several occupations in New York.

Dr. Busch is survived by his wife of 54 years, the former Lucy Young; a son, David; and a sister, Mrs. Dorothea DeForest. His home was at 2597 Exeter Road, Cleveland Heights.

Memorial services will be at the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland, 21600 Shake Boulevard, Shaker Heights, at 4 p.m., Dec. 4, 1970.

Henry married Lucy Ann Young about 1916.⁸⁷²⁶ (Lucy Ann Young was born 15 May 1897 in Scotland ⁸⁷³⁰ and died 3 September 1989 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio ⁸⁷³¹.)