Krantz, Goldie, 1915-1976.

In 1950, Goldie Krantz joined the staff of ILWU-PMA Welfare Fund, and served as its secretary until 1962. She became Program Analyst for the Group Health Association in 1962, a position she held until 1975. Krantz served as consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service from 1955-1962, and the Pacific Maritime Association, 1962-1968.

From the description of Goldie Krantz papers, 1928-1977 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702168436

In 1950, Goldie Krantz joined the staff of ILWU-PMA Welfare Fund, and served as its secretary until 1962. She became Program Analyst for the Group Health Association in 1962, a position she held until 1975. Krantz served as consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service from 1955-1962, and the Pacific Maritime Association, 1962-1968.

Goldie Krantz was a nationally recognized authority on prepaid dental and medical care with a long record of accomplishment in advocacy, planning, and administration. Her career in public health began in 1950, when she joined the staff of the ILWU-PMA Welfare Fund (later incorporated in the ILWU-PMA Benefit Funds), an agency responsible for administering the health benefits provided in the contract between the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Pacific Maritime Association. As Secretary of the Fund from 1950 to 1962, she monitored purchase and utilization of services and organized or helped organize programs in comprehensive medical care, multiphasic screening, and dental care for children. In 1962 she became Program Analyst for the Group Health Association, a prepaid group health care plan in Washington, D.C., and she remained in that position until her retirement in 1975.

In addition to her employment with these organizations, she served as consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service (1955-1962) and the Pacific Maritime Association (1962-1968); lectured at several universities; spoke at numerous meetings of medical, dental, and public health associations; and published many articles in professional journals.

These achievements are all the more remarkable because Krantz began her career in prepaid medical and dental care without training or experience in public health. Indeed, her work in that field occupied only two-thirds of her professional life. Having graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1934, she was employed for several years as a social worker in Minnesota public welfare agencies, where she quickly rose to positions of responsibility. After attending classes in public administration at the University of California in 1939, she began work as an economist with the Pacific Coast Labor Bureau, a private agency that represented trade unions in bargaining with government agencies. Soon after transferring to the Bureau's Washington office in 1942, she took a position with the Manning and Recruitment Organization of the War Shipping Administration, serving first as an economist and then as an administrator. She left this position in 1946, shortly before the birth of her daughter, Rebecca, and her next employment was with the Welfare Fund.

Goldie Krantz was survived by her fourth husband, Dr. Lorin E. Kerr.

The Goldie Krantz Papers were given to Yale University Library by Lorin E. Kerr in 1977. Seven cartons of printed matter were separated from the papers for distribution to other departments of the Library. Most of these were concerned with public health, but there were also some political items, which are listed in the Appendix.

From the guide to the Goldie Krantz papers, 1928-1977, (Manuscripts and Archives)