Mayo, Leonard

Leonard W. Mayo was a leading educator and administrator in the field of welfare and community health concerns for more than fifty years. Mayo's career blended teaching and agency administrative positions. He also held numerous offices in social service organizations, including: the Child Welfare League of America, National Conference of Social Work, and the International Union for Child Welfare.

Leonard W. Mayo was born in 1899 in Canaan, New York, to William Withington and Myra Merrick Dooly Mayo. He graduated from Colby College, Waterville, Maine, in 1922 with an A.B. degree, and received an honorary Doctor of Social Sciences degree in 1942. From 1930 to 1935, he did graduate work in sociology and social work at New York University and the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University. He married Lena Cooley in 1924.

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