In memoriam: Clare A. Schmutz.Clare A. Schmutz, former director of the Environmental Health Division of the Clark County Health District in Las Vegas, Nevada, passed away on June 23, 2005. Mr. Schmutz, a longtime NEHA NEHA National Environmental Health Association NEHA National Executive Housekeepers Association NEHA Northern Estates Homeowners Association (Indianapolis, Indiana) member, gave a lifetime to public service and made lasting contributions to the environmental health profession. He established the Clark County Health District as one of the most outstanding food protection programs in the country; he also established the Solid Waste Section of the Environmental Health Division. Schmutz was director of the Environmental Health Division when Clark County won the prestigious Samuel J. Crumbine Consumer Protection Award in 1998. As a NEHA member, he sponsored three educational conferences for the association. He served on numerous NEHA technical committees and volunteered countless hours as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Environmental Health. For this outstanding service, he was given the A. Harry Bliss Editors' Award in 2004. Schmutz was born and raised in St. George, Utah St. George is a city located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Utah, and the county seat of Washington County, Utah.GR6 It is the principal city of and is included in the St. George, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. , and served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. . In 1959, he received a bachelor of science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree from Utah State University Utah State University, mainly at Logan; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1888, opened 1890. It publishes Utah Science, Western Historical Quarterly, and Western American Literary Journal. . In January 1960, he moved to Las Vegas to begin his 43-year-long career with the Clark County Health District. He began as a junior sanitarian sanitarian /san·i·tar·i·an/ (san?i-tar´e-an) one skilled in sanitation and public health science. san·i·tar·i·an n. A public health or sanitation expert. . After his retirement, he remained committed to the environmental health field, starting his own company, CAS Consulting. He was also a board member of the Nevada Restaurant Association, a member of the National Sanitation Foundation Joint Committee for Food Service Equipment, and a member of the Underwriters Laboratory Council of Public Health and Environmental Consultants. Friend George Nakamura, NEHA's technical-section chair for food safety and protection, describes Schmutz as "the consummate environmental health professional." NEHA wholeheartedly whole·heart·ed adj. Marked by unconditional commitment, unstinting devotion, or unreserved enthusiasm: wholehearted approval. whole agrees. Clare Schmutz will be deeply missed by the association and the environmental health profession. |
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