NASW Social Work Pioneers®
2008 Luncheon
October 25, 2008
Remembering Ruth Irelan Knee
3/21/1920-10/8/2008
Co-Chair
NASW Social Work Pioneer® Steering Committee
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2008
Memorial Service – 1:30 p.m.
Washington National Cathedral
Bethlehem Chapel
3101 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
(Intersection of Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenues)
Washington, DC 20016-5098
(202) 537-6200
Reception – 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Cosmos Club
2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 387-7783
750 First Street NE • Suite 700 • Washington, D.C. 20002-4241
202-336-8298 • www.naswfoundation.org
NASW Social Work Pioneers®
2008 Luncheon
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Woman’s National Democratic Club
Washington, DC
10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
©2008 National Association of Social Workers. All Rights Reserved.
NASW Social Work Pioneers®
PLANNING COMMITTEE
ABOUT THE PIONEERS
The NASW Social Work Pioneer® Program was
created to honor members of the social work
profession who have contributed to the evolution
and enrichment of the profession. The Pioneer
Program identifies and recognizes individuals whose
unique dedication, commitment, and determination
have improved social and human conditions.
Pioneers are role models for future generations
of social workers. Their contributions are reflected
in every aspect of the profession, as well as in the
establishment of social policies and human services
programs. They have accomplished this through
practice, teaching, writing, research, program
development, administration, advocacy, legislation,
and election to public office.
Bernice Catherine Harper, LLD, ACSW, Chair
Dorothy V. Harris, ACSW, Co-Chair
Beryl Carter Rice, PhD, ACSW
Joan O. Weiss, ACSW
Kenneth Carpenter, ACSW
Jessie Smith, ACSW
Elizabeth Watkins, DScPH, ACSW
Steve Hornberger, MSW
Norma (Cindy) Gray Jones, PhD
Patricia Martin-O’Meally, ACSW
Barbara Soniat, PhD
NASW FOUNDATION
Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH
President, NASW Foundation
Executive Director, NASW
James J. Kelly, PhD, ACSW
President, NASW
Member, NASW Foundation Board of Directors
Mark G. Battle, ACSW
Co-Chair, Pioneer Steering Committee
Ruth I. Knee, ACSW
Co-Chair, Pioneer Steering Committee
NASW STAFF
Robert Carter Arnold, MPS
Director
Jennifer C. Watt, BS
Assistant Director
Bonita L. Davis, BA
Executive Assistant
Kerri Criswell, MSW
Foundation Associate
PROGRAM
9:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
Registration
Greetings: Moderator,
Mark G. Battle, ACSW
Co-Chair, Pioneer Steering Committee
Chair, Planning Committee, Annual
Luncheon Program
1:15 p.m.
Moderator: Mark G. Battle, ACSW
1:30 p.m.
Welcome Remarks
Elvira Craig de Silva, DSW, ACSW
Past President, NASW
Introduction of New Pioneers
Mark Battle
Update on Pioneer Development & Activities
Mark Battle
Research
Robert A. Mays, Jr., PhD, MSW
Associate Director
Office for Special Populations and
Office of Rural Mental Health Research
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Steve Hornberger, MSW
Consultant, Silver Spring, Maryland
“Social Work: Spanning Boundaries to
Address Complex Needs and Fragmented
Solutions”
Katharine H. Briar-Lawson, PhD, MSW
Dean, School of Social Welfare
State University of New York
Albany, New York
2:00 p.m.
Audience Participation: Questions & Answers
2:15 p.m.
Report from the Field
New York Pioneers Report on Social Work
Practice, Education and Research Concerns
Helen Rehr, DSW, ACSW
Professor, Community Medicine
(Social Work) Emerita
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, New York
Audience Participation: Questions & Answers
12:00 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
Reception
Viewing Exhibits– Kenneth S. Carpenter,
ACSW
Group Photographs - Robert Arnold,
Director of NASW Foundation
Luncheon
Welcome: Bernice Catherine Harper, LLD,
ACSW
Panel Presentations & Audience Discussion
“Social Work Practice, Education and
Research to Enhance Life Opportunities and
Improve Quality of Service”
Practice
Patricia O’Donnell, PhD, LICSW, ACSW
Director, Center for Ethics
INOVA Health Systems
Springfield, VA
Legacy Project Report
Jessie Dowling Smith, ACSW
11:15 a.m.
Remembering Ruth Knee – John A. Hansan,
PhD, ACSW
2:30 p.m.
Audience Participation: Questions & Answers
2:45 p.m.
Discussion & Call to Action: Mark Battle
3:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks: Bernice Harper
NASW Social Work Pioneers® 2008 Luncheon Program
NASW Social Work Pioneers®
NASW SOCIAL WORK PIONEERS®
Azile Aaron
Ann Abbott
Grace Abbott
Edith Abbott
Margaret Adams
Opal Adams
Frankie Adams
Bess Adams
Jane Addams
Rafael Aguirre
Chauncey Alexander
Ada Allen
Josephine A.V. Allen
Margaret Allen
Frances Allen
Glenn Allison
Delwin Anderson
Joseph Anderson
Mildred Arnold
Arnold Auerbach
Kittye Austin
Lucille Austin
Mary Austin
David Austin
Sarah Austin
Helen Austin
Margaret Bagley
Gary Bailey
Edith Baker
Kate Barnard
Eleanor Barnett
Janie Barrett
Sidney Barthelamy
Ruth Bartlett
Harriett Bartlett
Sara Barwinski
Charles W. Bates
Mark Battle
Evelyn Kays-Battle
Gerald Beallor
Lula Bebl
Bertram Beck
Francis Beck
Aaron Beckerman
Samira Beckwith
Donald Beless
Merrilyn Belgum
Grace Bell
Virginia Bellsmith
Sidney Berengarten
Barbara Berkman
(elected through October 21, 2006)
Tessie Berkman
Saul Bernstein
Margaret Berry
Mildred Bethea
Joseph Bevilacqua
Jane Bierdeman-Fike
Pearl Bierman
Charlene Birkins
Herbert Bisno
Clark Blackburn
Eileen Blackey
Mary Blake
Margaret Blenkner
Susan Blumenfield
Werner Boehm
Paul E. Bollwahn
Opal Boston
George Brager
Martha Branscombe
Sophonisba Breckenridge
Ann Brigham
Marjorie Brittain Hammock
Betty Broadhurst
Elaine Brody
Myrtle Brooke
Eula Brown
Katherine Brown
Grace Browning
Patricia Brownell
Ann Burack-Weiss
Hobart A. Burch
Helen Burke
Eveline Burns
Pauline Bushey
Shirley Buttrick
James W. Callicutt
Elwood Camp
Ida Cannon
Mary Antoinette Cannon
Amanda Carmichael
Phyllis Caroff
Kenneth Carpenter
Margery Carpenter
Lewis Carr
Genevieve Carter
Helen Cassidy
Ada Causey
Jay J. Cayner
Esther Chachkes
Fern L. Chamberlain
Harris Chaiklin
Diana Ming Chan
Susan Chan
Millie Charles
Steven Chough
Marcelle Clark
Pearl Clark
Sylvia Clarke
Norris Class
Richard Cloward
Eleanor Cockerill
Wilbur Cohen
Nathan Cohen
Robert Cohen
Ethel Cohen
Ruth Klein Cohen
Wilbur J. Cohen
Elma Cole
Regina Collins
Jane Collins
Allene Colvin
Elaine P. Congress
Joan Conway
Eileen Corrigan
Ruth Cowin
Cordelia Cox
Lillian Coy
Grace Coyle
Elvira Craig de Silva
Myra Crenshaw
Roger Cumming
Dorothy Daly
Bess Dana
Margaret Daniel
Rudolph Danstedt
Gerson David
Alice Taylor Davis
Edith Davis
John Eldon Davis
Ruth Davis
Mary Day
Ada E. Deer
Frederick Delliquadri
Ronald Dellums
Louis DeMoll, Jr.
Harold Demone
Karl DeSchweinitz
Elizabeth DeSchweinitz
Mary DeShazo
Henrietta DeWitt
Ismael (Andy) Dieppa
Miriam Dinerman
Rose Dobrof
Dorothea Dolan
James Donnelly
Michael J. Dowling
James Dumpson
Patricia Duncome
Loula Dunn
Arthur Dunning
Suzanne Dworak-Peck
Golda Edinburg
Joyce Edward
Richard L. Edwards
Ophelia Egypt
Marian Elder
Dorothy Emerick
Ruth Emerson
Richard A. English
George Engstrom
Paul Ephross
Joshua Epstein
Hans Falck
David Fanshel
Fedele Fauri
Ronald Feinstein
Barbara Feinstein
Albert Feldman
Frances Feldman
Anne Fenlason
Virginia Fenske
Sara A. Collins Fernandis
Helen Fisher
Ruth Fizdale
Homer Folks
Lois Foster
Zelda Foster
Edward Frazier
Anne Freed
David French
Louise Frey
Dorothy Fritz
Rosemary Funderburg
Alejandro Garcia
Josephine Weil Gandelman
Annette Garrett
Beatrice Garrett
Frances Gautieri
Carel Germain
Jeanne Gill
Mary Gillis
Mitchell Ginsberg
Maria Elena Girone
Douglas Glasgow
Barbara Glaser
Melvin Glasser
Esther Glasser
Elizabeth Goddard
Mary Funnye Goldson
Dora Goldstine
Leonard Gordon
Natalie Gordon
William Gordon
Lester Granger
Irene Grant
Roberta Graziano
Roberta Rubin Greene
Judith Gresham
Ethel Griffith
Lauretta Grill
James Gritter
Howard Gundy
Nellie Gustafson
Howard Gustafson
Cathryn Guyler
Margaret Hagan
Harold Hagen
Raleigh Hairston
Gordon Hamilton
Helen Hamlin
Maurice Hamovitch
John Hansan
Isadora Hare
Bernice Harper
Dorothy V. Harris
Jesse Harris
Esther Harrison
Ann Hartman
Zafar Hasan
Eulene Hawkins
Lois Hayes
George Haynes
Dorothy Height
Mary Hemmy
Barbara Henley
Betty Hepner
Grace Hewell
Henry Hibbs
Martha Hickerson
Marguerite Hodge
Barbara Hodges
Jane Hoey
Joe Hoffer
Margaret Hoffman
Gertrude Hoffman
M.C. "Terry" Hokenstad
Mary Catherine Jennings Holden
Mary Holland
Florence Hollis
Reva Holtzman
Steve Hornberger
Sara Hudspeth
Edna Huges
Nancy Humphreys
Marquerite Hunt
Florence Huntsinpillar
Laurin Hyde
Tsuguo Ikeda
Ruth F. Insel
Virginia Insley
John Jacob
Haskell Jacobs
Sister Mary Paul Janchill
Mary Jarrett
Ina Javellas
Mary Jennings
Adelaide Jess
Jeanette Jewett
Adeleine Johnesse
Geneva Johnson
Jessie Johnson
Leland Johnson
Betty Johnson
Arlien Johnson
Cernoria Johnson
Norma Gray Jones
Shirley Jones
Virginia Jones
Guy Justis, Sr.
Alfred Kahn
Helen Kapiloff
Virginia Karl
James Karls
Arthur Katz
Kate Katzki
Manuel Kaufman
Val Keating
Frances Kellor
Eileen Kelly
J.R. Kelly
James Kelly
Katherine Kendall
David Kennedy
James Kern
Paul Keve
Shanti Khinduka
John Kidneigh
Constantine Kiedras
Walter Kindelsperger
C. W. King
Charles King
Lela Kinney
Sara Kirkpatrick
Marge Klein
Ruth Knee
Irene Kohl
Kathryn Koehler
Elmre Kolke
Gisela Konopka
Sanford L. Kravitz
Colonel Edward F. Krise
Dove Kull
Paul A. Kurzman
Paul Kusuda
Dorothy Lally
Warren Lamson
Josephine R. Lambert
Mary Langton
Mary Larounis
Neota Larson
Virginia Laurence
Madeleine Lay
Luna Leach
Grace Lebow
Barbara Lee
Larry Lee
Porter Lee
Eileen Lester
Carl G. Leukefeld
Irving Levin
Louis Levitt
Walter J. Levy
Ruth Lewis
Ronald Lewis
Harold Lewis
Myrna Lewis
Florence Lieberman
Edward Lindeman
Inabel Lindsay
Eduard C. Lindeman
Clare Lloyd
Gwendolyn Loper
Norman Lourie
Fern Lowry
Alan Lucas
Ellen Luepker
Elizabeth Lucas aka Clorinda
Geneva Lundberg
Abraham Lurie
Claire Lustman
Dorothy Lynch
Anita Mackey
Maryann Mahaffey
Mildred Mailick
Betty Mandell
Lawrence Mandell
Seldon Martin
Patricia Martin-O'Meally
Mary Matthews
Jean Maxwell
Ruth W. Mayden
Elizabeth McBroom
Sandy McCormick
John McDowell
Jane McKaskle
Dorothy McKay
Kate McMahon
Georgia McMurray
Marie McNabola
Peter McNelis
Henry Meyer
Carol Meyer
Joseph Meyers
Barbara Mikulski
Lillian C. Milanof
Jerome Miller
Nancy D. Miller
John Milner
Anne L. Minahan
Eunice Minton
Julia Mitchell
Terry Mizrahi
Brij Mohan
Catherine Moloney
William Monahan
Royal Morales
Essie Morgan
Patricia G. Morisey
Eleanor Morris
Laura Morris
Robert Morris
Mereb Mossman
John Mulroy
Carlton Munson
Janet Munt
Campbell Murphy
John Murphy
Bernard Nash
Linda Nee
Alfred Neumann
Christine Nichols
George Nickel
George Nishinaka
Harold Nitzberg
Lillie Norlin
Helen Northen
Abraham Novick
Carrie O'Connor
Katherine Oettinger
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Lynn Ohrenstein
Daniel O'Keefe
Julia Oliver
Henry Ollendorff
Ben Orcutt
Phyliss Osborne
Sebastion Owens
Helen Padula
Antonia Pantoja
Catherine Papell
Beatrice Park
Joseph Paull
Dorothy Pearson
Wilma Peebles-Wilkins
Frances Perkins
Helen Perlman
Ruby Pernell
Irma Perry
Susan Pettiss
David Phillips
Helen Pinkus
Georgia Pinnick
Louise Pittman
Norman Polansky
Jeanette Polito
Rose Praisner
Elizabeth R. Prichard
Charles Prigmore
Mary Proctor
William Pugh
Mary Ann Quaranta
Sherman Leon Ragland
Juan Ramos
Jeannette Rankin
Lydia Rapoport
Frank Raymond
Margaret Reeves
Jeanette Regensburg
Helen Rehr
Kurt Reichert
Betty Reichert
William Reid
John Reida
Helen Reinherz
Bertha Reynolds
Ruth Reynolds
Elizabeth Rice
Beryl Carter Rice
Mary Richmond
Monte Riley
Harriett Rinaldo
Virginia Ritter
Eunice Robinson
Virginia Robinson
Reva Rockmore
John Myron Rockmore
John Romanyshyn
Jay Roney
Gary Rosenberg
William Rosenblatt
Elizabeth Ross
David Roth
Elaine Rothenberg
Jack Rothman
Margaret Rowe
Maurice Russell
Margaret Ryan
Beatrice Sachs
Janet Sainer
Betty Sancier
Charles Sanders
Beatrice N. Saunders
Virginia Sandifer
Annie Sandusky
Rhoda Sarnat
Virginia Satir
Beatrice Saunders
Philip Schiff
Delores Schmidt
Alvin Schorr
Charles Schottland
Dorothy Schroeder
Edith Schulhofer
William Schwartz
Will Scott
Mildred Scoville
Martha K. Selig
Sabrina Shalon
Ruth Shaw
Leslie Shellhase
Edmund Sherman
Charles Shireman
Louise Proehl Shoemaker
Myrne Shoemaker
Barbara Shore
Genevieve Short
Jerry Shroder
Ruth Shurter
Violet Sieder
Doris Siegel
Mildred Sikkema
Barbara Silverstone
Bernece Simon
Jean Sinnock
Max Siporin
Alan Siskind
Ruth Smalley
Marie Smith
Zilpha Smith
Lucille Smith
Vivian Smith
Nelson Smith
Jessie Smith
Virginia Smyth
Cudore Snell
Sanford Solender
Faustina Solis
Maida Solomon
Renee Solomon
Dorothea Spellman
Sue Spencer
Herman Stein
Fred Steininger
Eva Stewart
Robert P. Stewart
Malcolm Stimson
Jack Stumpf
Josephine Stumpf
Florence Sullivan
Caroline Sunderlin
Anna Sundwall
Emil Sunley
Louise Surratt
August "Gus" Swain
Samuel Sylvester
Florence Sytz
Jessie Taft
Jeanette C. Takamura
Lita Talbot
Virginia Tannar (Sandifer)
Eleanor Taylor
Ruth Taylor
Hilda Tebow
Mila Ruiz Tecala
Esther Test
Sophie Thompson
Daniel Thursz
Charlotte Towle
Lorenzo Traylor
Harleigh Trecker
Loraine Tunstall
John Turner
Patsy Turrini
Inez Tyler
Mark Umbreit
Gertrude Vaile
Facundo Valdez
Agnes Van Driel
Barbara Van Etten
Barbara Varley
Wayne Vasey
Katherine Vickery
Florence Vigilante
Joseph Louis Vigilante
Betsy Vourlekis
Alan Wade
Anderson Wade
Martha Waldstein
Wilma Walker
Barbara Wallace
John Wallace
Lorraine Walling
Forrester Blanchard Washington
Elizabeth Watkins
Mary Weaver
Raymond Webb, Jr.
Hyman Weiner
Helen Weisbrod
Joan O. Weiss
Robert C. Wells
Irmgard Wessel
Janice Wood Wetzel
Barbara W. White
Grace White
Frances Whitefield
Leila Whiting
Irene Wilcox
Anne Wilkins
Anita Williams
Bathrus Williams
Donald Williams
Ethel Williams
Janet B. W. Williams
Katherine Williams
Ruth M. Williams
Ellen Winston
Elizabeth Wisner
Helen Witmer
Ernest Witte
Milton Wittman
Marion Wold
Corinne Wolfe
Geraldine Wolter
Kay Woods
Luther Woodward
Barbara Bailey Hodges Wright
Helen Wright
Josephine Yelder
Beverly Yi
Alma Young
Hazel Young
Whitney Young, Jr
Benjamin Youngdahl
Rollin Zane
Nathalia Zimmerman
Joan Levy Zlotnik
THANK YOU TO OUR RECENT LEGACY PROJECT DONORS
LEGACY PROJECT DONATIONS FOR THIS EVENT*
Robert Carter Arnold
Mark Battle & Evelyn Kays-Battle, in memory of Jim Evans
Barbara Berkman, in honor of Helen Rehr
Susan Blumenfield
Kenneth & Margery Carpenter, in honor of Mark Battle and in memory of Ruth Knee
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, in honor of Cudore Snell and Inabel Lindsay
Harris Chaiklin
Louis DeMoll, in memory of John Rockmore
Golda Edinburg, in memory of Ruth Knee
Frances Lomas Feldman, in honor of Albert G. Feldman
Bernice Catherine Harper, in memory of Ruth Knee
Virginia Karl, in memory of Delwin Anderson
Grace Lebow
Hal & Lenne Lipton
Nancy Perlman
Helen Rehr, in memory of Ruth Knee
Evelyn L. Seaton, in memory of Ruth Knee
Bernece Simon
Betsy S. Vourlekis, in memory of Ruth Knee
Joan O. Weiss, in honor of Mark Battle and in memory of Ruth Knee
*Gifts received by October 16, 2008
NASW Social Work Pioneers® 2008 Luncheon Program
NASW Social Work Pioneers®
ADDITIONAL LEGACY PROJECT AND THE PIONEER PROGRAM DONATIONS**
Mary A. Bromley
Shirley Henderson
Katharine V. Byers
Charles R. Howard
Iris B. Carlton-La Ney
Shirley R. Imber
Kenneth & Margery Carpenter
Sylvia Kassalow
Harris Chaiklin
Katherine A. Kendall
Susan S. Chan
Shanti K. Khinduka
Robert & Ruth Cohen
Ruth I. Knee
Michael Daley
Leslie H. Leighninger
Toby Donner
Sandra J. McCormick
Suzanne Dworak-Peck
Wilma Peebles-Wilkins
Golda Edinburg
Catharine J. Ralph
Paul H. Ephross
Marlene Rotblatt
Anne L. Everette
Jessie P. Smith
Douglas D. Glasgow
Cudore Snell
Sadie Gold
Joan O. Weiss
Darlene Grant
Camille B. Wheeler
Helen R. Hamlin
Oxford University Press
John E. Hansan
CFC-United Way Northwest Georgia
Dorothy V. Harris
**Gifts $25.00 and over
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED THE LEGACY PROJECT AND
PIONEER PROGRAM
THROUGH YOUR TIME, TALENT, AND TREASURE
NASW Social Work Pioneers®
October 20, 2007
Washington, DC