James Kelch brought social justice to social work
James H. Kelch, Jr., one of the inaugural professors at Temple’s School of Social Administration, passed away on Nov. 25 at age 85. Across 40 years, Kelch taught social work and social justice to more than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students. He retired in 2000, then continued to teach a class each semester through 2008 as an adjunct professor in what had become the School of Social Work.
“Jim truly lived the social justice and human rights foci of social work,” says Lois Millner, associate professor emerita in the School of Social Work, who met Kelch when she jo...