Entity | Jack Meltzer

Jack Meltzer (August 21, 1921 – May 5, 2010) was a leading figure of urban renewal during the 1950s and 1960s primarily in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. He was one of three people who most shaped the direction of the future Hyde Park. He was dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Meltzer studied at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) in Detroit before going on to earn a master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1947. In 1983, he became dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. He retired in 1986, and relocated to Washington, D.C.