Educator Pardo Frederick DelliQuadri, 74
Pardo Frederick DelliQuadri, an educator, former dean of several schools of social work and most recently a member of the California Social Services Advisory Board, died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Los Angeles.
DelliQuadri, 74, over the years headed social work colleges at the University of Alabama, the University of Hawaii and the University of Wisconsin and in the mid-1960s was dean of the New York School for Social Work at Columbia University.
He was named the U.S. representative to the United Nations Children’s Fund by President John F. Kennedy and head of the children’s bureau of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
He retired to California about eight years ago but remained active here.
Survivors include his wife, Velma, three daughters and four grandchildren.
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