[2] Upon graduation from Columbia, he joined the Detroit Historical Museum as Curator of Industrial History.
[3][4] Much of this work was accomplished in collaboration with his colleagues in the labor movement, especially Lorin Kerr of the United Mine Workers Department of Occupational Health.
[1] He also was executive director of the Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Southeastern Michigan (CHPC-SEM).
[1][8] He was treasurer of the Ferndale Cooperative, the nation's largest consumer coop, now known as Credit Union One.
[1][9] In 1973, he succeeded Milton Terris[10][11] as the National Association for Public Health Policy's second president.