Harriet Rinaldo (1906-1981) — Social Worker and Long Time Employee of U.S. Department of Veterans Administration Harriett was born in Sioux City, Iowa. She lived in Wheaton, Illinois until she entered Smith College in 1923 and graduated with honors in 1927. She continued at Smith and received her master’s degree in social work. When…
Continue Reading »Mary Richmond is considered a principle founder of the profession of social work and the importance of professional education. She constructed the foundations for the scientific methodology development of professional social work. She searched for the causes of poverty and social exclusion in the interaction between an individual and his or her environment.
Continue Reading »Charlotte Towle (1896- 1966): Social Worker, Academic, Author of “Common Human Needs” Introduction: Charlotte Towle’s major accomplishments include her work in creating a generic casework curriculum, her study of the educational process of training social workers and other professionals in human service, and her attempts to link the understanding of human behavior and needs…
Continue Reading »Lea Demarest Taylor (June 4, 1883–December 3,1975) — Settlement House Director and Chairman of the Board of the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers Early Years: Lea Taylor was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Graham Taylor and Leah Demarest Taylor. Graham Taylor was a fifth-generation Dutch Reform church minister who, at…
Continue Reading »Graham Taylor (May 2, 1851 – September 26, 1938): Minister, Social Reformer, Educator and Founder of Chicago Commons Settlement House Early Years: Graham Taylor was born in Schenectady, New York on May 2, 1851, the second son of Dutch-reformed minister William James Romeyn Taylor and Katherine (nee Cowenhoven) Taylor. Following his mother’s death in…
Continue Reading »Ellen Gates Starr (1859 – 1940) – Co-Founder of Hull-House and Social Reformer Ellen Gates Starr was born in Laona, Illinois, in 1859. Starr was a student at the Rockford Female Seminary (1877-78) where she met Jane Addams. Starr taught for ten years in Chicago before joining Addams in 1888 of a tour of…
Continue Reading »“Gertrude Springer has sprung from Better Times to The Survey. With this issue of the Mid-monthly, she takes over, as associate editor, the Social Practice Department…. ” (15 October 1930, p. 106.) Springer undertook field trips and initiated contacts to determine the lay of the social welfare landscape beyond New York. In pithy writing about social issues, policy, and services across the country, she never neglected to explain how things came down to affecting individuals. “Amelia Bailey,” — “Miss Bailey” to most people — was a 1930s-style virtual-reality public relief supervisor. “Miss Baily Says…” columns dealt with issues such as: “When Your Client Has a Car,” “Are Relief Workers Policemen?,” “How We Behave in Other People’s Houses.”
Continue Reading »Charles Irwin Schottland (1906 – 1995) — Social Welfare Expert, Commissioner of the California Department of Public Welfare, Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration, Founder and Dean of the Heller School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. Introduction: Charles Irwin Schottland was a recognized expert on social welfare programs. He served as Commissioner…
Continue Reading »Carrie Steele Logan (1829–1900) – Founder of the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, GA
Continue Reading »Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a very prominent proponent of a woman’s legal and social equality during the nineteenth century. In 1848, she and others organized the first national woman’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. She co-authored that meeting’s Declaration of Sentiments, a document modeled on the Declaration of Independence, and introduced the most radical demand: for womens suffrage.
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