Obituaries

Carl H. ShugaarJob Corps Official

Carl H. Shugaar, 95, a retired Labor Department official who held key positions with the Job Corps program and who was a labor organizer early in his career, died Jan. 11 of congestive heart failure at his home in Washington.

Mr. Shugaar settled in Washington in 1962 and worked for the Commerce Department for two years. In 1964, he transferred to the Labor Department as director of Project Cause, a two-year special project to recruit young people for job counseling positions.

In 1966, Mr. Shugaar coordinated Labor Department manpower activities in Mississippi, working closely with civil rights organizations.

From 1967 until his retirement in 1988, he worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity and for the Job Corps program, where he was chief of the National Program Management and Review Office.

Mr. Shugaar was born in Konskowola, Poland, and moved to Montreal in his teens. He studied at McGill University in Montreal and roamed throughout Canada and the United States by boxcar during the Great Depression.

After settling in New York, Mr. Shugaar became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He joined the Army in 1943 and served in the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He participated in military campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and southern France and received the Purple Heart.

In 1946, he completed a fellowship in labor economics at Harvard Business School and joined the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York as an organizer. In the early 1950s, Mr. Shugaar was a labor relations consultant for a federal agency called the Mutual Security Agency, which provided international economic assistance.

During the remainder of the 1950s, he was a consultant in industrial relations in Washington, California and New York. In 1961 and 1962, he lived in Houston as a regional director for the American Council for Judaism.

In retirement, Mr. Shugaar was an election judge and volunteered with the Red Cross. He enjoyed music and art and was a volunteer art information specialist at the National Gallery of Art for more than 10 years.

His marriages to Bertha Shugaar, Carolyn Shugaar and Gerda Range Shugaar ended in divorce.

Survivors include a son from his second marriage, Eric Shugaar of San Francisco; four children from his third marriage, Holly Zimmerman of Silver Spring, Antony Shugaar of Charlottesville, Aimee Martinez of Colorado Springs and Carla McNellis of Burbank, Calif.; and six grandchildren.