Jack Ossofsky; Former National Council on Aging Official
Jack Ossofsky, 66, former president and chief executive officer of the National Council on the Aging. A trade unionist and administrator of pension and benefit programs for a New York store workers union, Ossofsky moved to the council in 1965. He was chosen in 1981 by a coalition of national aging groups to direct the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations, which pushed for the rights of older Americans at the White House Conference on Aging that year. Ossofsky retired in 1988. On Friday in Boothbay, Me., of cancer.
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