GSSW Magazine 2008

FALL 2008

LEAD THE WAY

bc social work BOSTON COLLEGE

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

RESILIENCE in the Face of Disaster |

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benaree wiley on leadership • teaching excellence • donor report

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F E AT U R E S

teachers who make an impact

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WISDOM ON A MOUNTAIN

School emphasizes classroom excellence

recovering from disaster

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GSSW professors study survivors in India and New Orleans

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DI V ER S I T Y

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GL O B A L

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RE S E A R C H

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CO M M U N I TY

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DO N O R S

contributors: Jeff Driskell, Serena Heartz, Ruth McRoy, Julie Michaels, Dan Morrell, Tom Walsh editorial: Vicki Sanders | Spence & Sanders Communications, LLC design: Susan Callaghan | GSSW Marketing Director Please send your comments and letters to: Boston College Graduate School of Social Work McGuinn Hall Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 E-mail us at: callaghs@bc.edu Visit us on the Web at: www.bc.edu/socialwork Front cover: Widowed and abandoned survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami holding their micro-credit loans from Kalangarai, a nongovernmental organization in the Nagapattinam district of India.

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thirty years ago, i was scheduled to meet the leader

of a remote village in the Ecuadorian Andes, some 10,000 feet above sea level. As a delegate of an international aid agency, I was to propose a development project that would facilitate access to clean water. The leader, an impressive man with long white hair, addressed me in the local dialect of Quechua, the language of the Incas.

My interpreter translated that the leader had no interest whatsoever in collaborating with us. He explained to me that some years ago another “gringo” agency made similar promises, started with a pompous opening ceremony (media and local politicians included), and then several months into the project, abandoned the site as the agency’s headquarters rearranged priorities.

It took me some time to overcome my frustration and appreciate the precious gift that the village leader had given me. The encounter taught me that we should be cautious about engaging in collaborative activities if we are not sure that we will be able to stay in the game and follow through. Otherwise, we risk compromising the capacity of our partners to meet their own needs and we lose credibility and trust.

This axiom of the sustainable development concept reaches far beyond the field of socio-economic development. It is a moral principle that can guide us through our professional endeavors.

If we as a School of Social Work make a public commitment to excellence in teaching and research, we are accountable to our stakeholders. As you will read in this issue of our magazine, GSSW faculty have been deeply invested in a multitude of initiatives such as improving students’ learning experiences or understanding resilience in the face of major natural disasters. At a recent event for incoming students, one attendee said the reason she decided to come to BC was that she got the sense that we are very serious about our business. The student was right; we hold ourselves to the highest standards and we are in it for the long run. Once we engage in a “contract” with our stakeholders, we do everything we can to walk the talk.

I never went back to that secluded village in Ecuador’s Altiplano, but I certainly recall the stern expression on the face of that noble old man. Maybe aid workers who followed were better prepared to persuade him that something positive could come out of relationships with foreigners. Maybe they worked harder to understand the local needs and priorities and were more committed to building long-term, reciprocal bonds. The villagers and their leader certainly deserved that kind of unconditional respect and deference.

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D I V ER SITY

Q& A

A Champion of Change Benaree Wiley discusses leadership, social diversity boston college trustee benaree “bennie” pratt wiley served for 14 years as President and CEO of The Partnership, an organization that assists businesses in the Boston area to attract, retain, and develop professionals of color. Wiley has a BA in marketing from Howard University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She was also a past chair of the directors of the Children’s Museum in Boston, a director of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the Boston Foundation. Wiley introduced herself to the GSSW when she attended the 2nd annual Pinderhughes Diversity Lecture last spring.

Q. Can you point to a milestone in your life that led to what you have become today?

A. When I was growing up in Washington, DC, it was very much the segregated South. One of my most vivid memories was May 17, 1954, the day of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. I was eight years old, and my dad came home and we celebrated the passage. He wanted to make a toast to us; it was a way of making real what happened to us on that day. He sat us down and explained the Supreme Court decision and said from now on we can be whatever we wanted to be. I could feel my dad’s energy and excitement and hope for us.

At that time I began to understand what integration, segregation, and racial issues were.

Q. How did you become interested in business?

A. When I started taking classes at Howard University, I thought I would go into education because education and nursing were mainly the careers of women during those years. Then a professor encouraged me to take a few business classes, and I liked it. Like so many things in life, this came kind of serendip-

itously. When I later enrolled at Harvard Business School, there were very few women in our class; there were actually more blacks. I felt a lot of pressure because I was a woman and a person of color. So when I graduated there was pressure that I take a traditional job with some company on Wall Street or some other advanced career job. However, when I asked myself what works for me, what is good for me, I knew it had to be something that made an impact. So directly out of business school, I went to work for Abt Associates, a for-profit social science research consulting firm that is mission-driven, and I worked with spin-offs of Abt for a number of years.

Q. How did work-life issues influence your career choice?

A. I was married when I graduated from Harvard and soon became pregnant with my first child. I knew I could not continue work at Abt at the same intensity level. My mother died when I was two years old. So being a mother had a great meaning to me with respect to how I wanted to have time with my kids. I decided that I wanted to explore if I could work on a flexible schedule, which hardly existed at that time. The CEO of

Abt was fine with giving me a chance, and it turned out to be so successful that others decided to work in similar ways and the company became known as a family-friendly organization. I then worked part-time for 15 years.

Q. What qualities define a leader?

A. Being a leader is not as innate as people suggest it is. It includes taking risks, which people of color hesitate to take; we are afraid to fail because broader society does not allow us to fail. And you have to be self-aware. You need to get a better understanding of what your strengths are, what areas you like or need to develop, what your priorities are, how you present yourself, what messages you leave about yourself—not just what you communicate but also who you are. It’s also important to understand that you have to have technical skills, that they are fundamental to succeed, and that there are social, political, and influence skills you need to develop. The more you ascend, the more critical these skills become.

Q. What role does race or gender play in developing leadership skills?

A. When race or gender is in play, it adds a level of complexity. You may have an issue with someone else at work and you are trying to manage it. When race and gender are in the room, you are trying to assess to what extent is it chemistry—is it because of something I did, is it because I am a woman, is it because I am black? You have to get rid of all that stuff, so that you can hone in on what is really at play so that you use your social and political skill to manage the relationship.

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Q. Is leadership only for those at the top?

A. You can be a leader wherever you are in an organization or hierarchy.

Leadership is about being able to influence and effect change and to get results.

It is not a position or a title. Clearly, you can have greater influence in certain positions, but you can also have no influence whatsoever despite your position or title.

Clarity is a key prerequisite of leadership.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

How does what you currently do fit in with where you see yourself in five years?

If you know what is important to you and what you want to do, then you can figure out ways to overcome the obstacles.

However, it is not always easy to get that sense of clarity. That is why it is important to have a network of people to support you. People whom you trust and respect, whose opinions you value, who have good judgment, and who will be candid and help you to think through what is getting in your way so you can focus on what you should be really focusing on.

Q. How do you develop of group of mentors?

A. It takes time, it is a process, and it is about quality, not quantity, though it should be more than one person. It does not have to be somebody who is older, or who is a professional, or who you work with, but it has to be somebody who has your best interests in mind. You should not ask people to be your mentor. Ask them instead to have coffee or lunch with you, engage them in a conversation, and then let the relationship evolve. Ask them for their opinion on an issue that is important to you and tell them that you will follow up.

Q. What were strategies you used to build your own network?

A. We came along in a time when there were only a few people of color in posi-

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tions of influence. There was no group of black MBAs or black lawyers. In order to meet other black people, my husband and I joined the Association of Black Social Workers. Neither of us was a social worker, but you didn’t have to be to get involved in the association. We also bought a home in Roxbury, a black neighborhood in Boston, and lived there for about 13 years. There was a consciousness at the time to build black neighborhood communities.

Q. For 15 years you were president of the Partnership. Can you talk about the history and mission of that Boston organization?

A. Originally, there were two organizations, both trying to address the issue of racial disharmony and tension. One was created by the Mayor, the other was founded by Hubie Jones, the former dean at the BU School of Social Work. Mostly for funding reasons, the two organizations merged and became a partnership.

Father Donald Monan, who was president of Boston College at the time, has been very involved with the Partnership. This is how I got to know Father Monan and eventually became a BC Trustee.

It is important to mention that I did not create the Partnership as a concept but the Partnership as it exists is my creation.

Our assumption was if we were able to create a critical mass of African Americans who would stay in Boston and take on leadership positions and influence and affect change, then it would be possible to change the social, political, economic, and cultural fabric of the city.

The target group today are people of color, but at the time the racial tension was really a black issue. Boston had difficulty attracting black people because of its reputation around busing and other issues. But it also had problems with retaining people. They would come, get

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their degree, and work for a couple of years, but never considered Boston a place to stay. What we have been doing is identifying, retaining, and supporting that talent so they would want to stay in Boston.

Q. Where are we today in terms of race relations?

A. In some ways, we have made phenomenal progress and in some ways, we are farther behind, and that worries me. I am talking about blacks; that is where my passion is. Yes, we have many more blacks in leadership positions, many more in the business community, many more entrepreneurs. The fact that Barack Obama is even the Presidential nominee.

I never thought this would happen in my lifetime, remembering 1954.

However, I worry about the increasing divide. You have a segment of us who are the beneficiaries, like me, of the Brown decision, and at the same time a segment that is getting deeper and deeper into poverty, incarceration, teen pregnancy, and all those things. I feel when I was growing up we had a collective dream, we had a collective sense of what we were working towards as black America. We not only focused on developing ourselves as individuals, but also were equally committed to the role we were playing in advancing and impacting the broader community. Over time it seems it has become too individualistic. Therefore, as one segment is advancing, others aren’t, and that’s what I’m focusing my energy on. What is the role of we who are in these companies, who are starting businesses, who are able to penetrate the economic mainstream? How do we create more connections, how do we build our collective dream?

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A CULTURAL CRUCIBLE Expert finds therapist’s family history crucial to effectiveness

by Native Americans? Or that to do one’s genealogy generBrooklyn in 1776 had the highest ally means to trace one’s lineage slave population north of the back through time to fill in a Mason-Dixon line? family tree. But Dr. Monica Removing such cultural blindMcGoldrick, who spoke at the ers, McGoldrick said, can only be 2nd Annual Pinderhughes achieved with awareness. To that Diversity Lecture Series in April, end, she traveled to Ireland, believhas taken that study to new ing that her family’s behaviors only depths. Her investigation into made sense in their native context. her own clan’s background has She began to see, she said, that her exposed cultural revelations she family’s not that different, they’re believes offer important insights just Irish. “Things I’d been so judginto the impact of heritage on mental about were just their best social work practitioners. adaptive strategies,” she realized.

McGoldrick’s personal At the lecture, McGoldrick preresearch has upended some of her previously accepted truths Monica McGoldrick, left, with Elaine Pinderhughes at the lecture on sented a genogram, an extensive genealogy’s role in cultural understanding. map of her family, and explained about the therapist-client relathat such a chart can be used as a tionship. She was taught in school diagnostic tool. “If I were in trouble, to be a sort of blank screen, bringFamily Life Cycle (3rd Ed., 1999), Ethnicity you would need to know these people,” ing nothing to the client-therapist relaand Family Therapy (3rd Ed., 2005), and McGoldrick said. “Because they’re the peotionship, but she said that model ignores Genograms in Family Assessment, Women ple who make me strong, who help me the background, experiences, and prejuin Families, Living Beyond Loss (2nd Ed, out, and they’re the context in which I try dices of the clinician. “Every interaction 2004). She integrated many personal to figure out how to do better.” we have is a cultural interaction,” she told experiences into her talk, “Culture As she began to process her privileges the Boston College audience.

Matters: But What Difference Does It and prejudices, McGoldrick realized that Elaine Pinderhughes, the lecture Make?” to illuminate how essential culher work suffered from a limited cultural series’ namesake, said her colleague’s tural knowledge is to effective communiperspective. “I’m beginning to see the work has been critical in helping clinication and understanding. racism in a lot of my work,” McGoldrick cians realize how their own background, She recalled, for example, growing up admitted. For instance, she said that including race and class, may affect their Irish in Brooklyn in the 1960s and being when she talked about couples and famiperspective. “She is the expert on cultural a big fan of Jackie Robinson. Indeed, for lies or spoke about women’s issues, difference in family therapy,” her eighth birthday, she sat right behind genograms, and family therapy, her thinkPinderhughes said. “She made it very the player’s dugout and watched him take ing didn’t include people of color. clear how these things are part of her— the field, a thrill she still recalls vividly.

“I believe we need to create a crucible and very much control what we can see Yet, she also acknowledged that at the that can contain the history of all of us,” and what we can hear—and, as a clinician time she had no idea what his story was; McGoldrick concluded. “If we recognize and professional, how to apply that to she didn’t know what he’d had to go our connections to each other and help someone you are working with.” through while breaking baseball’s color each other to acknowledge all of our hisMcGoldrick is a nationally recognized barrier. Now a scholar, McGoldrick put tory, then we can work together to change family therapist and director of the the matter to the Boston College audience the future.”

Multicultural Family Institute in rhetorically. As a child, she asked, why — DAN MORRELL Highland Park, N.J. Her books include didn’t I know that I traveled down Re-Visioning Family Therapy, The Expanded Brooklyn streets whose paths were paved

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SCHOOL PROGRESSES WITH DIVERSITY AGENDA when in the fall of 2006 the graduate school of social

Work decided to embrace diversity as a challenge and opportunity, the community knew it was in for the long haul. Being aware of diversity means understanding the roots and consequences of the various forms of oppression and discrimination, which have been in place for centuries.

In order for the School to establish and sustain a culture of diversity, a number of key factors and processes needed to be in place:

• First, the initiative had to become an essential part of the GSSW’s operations.

• Second, a cultural change had to be well planned and the steps leading to the transformation carefully implemented.

• Third, to learn from best practices, the GSSW had to reach out to experts from other schools of social work and related disciplines.

• Fourth, transformational efforts had to be shared with the wider community.

Fortunately, the decision to move forward with this endeavor came from within the organization, having been jointly proposed by faculty, students, and staff. The process of a school-wide buy-in and follow-through moved the initiative from an ad-hoc project to an institutionalized planning structure.

A Diversity Task Force was formed, chaired by GSSW faculty member Paul Kline, and it evolved into a standing committee of members of the School’s four concentrations, plus key administrators and student representatives. Five subcommittees that focus on curriculum, research, field, admissions, and climate issues were also established to examine how diversity was addressed in each area.

Professor Emerita Elaine Pinderhughes interviewed faculty and wrote an assessment of curriculum and teaching issues related to diversity.

The Diversity Committee established an initial plan through 2010 in which each academic year the School would examine a primary aspect of diversity via speaker series, trainings, diversity retreats, and meetings and discussions with faculty, staff, and students. The three thematic areas selected were: race and racism (2007-2008), sexual

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orientation (2008-2009), and immigration/refugees (2009-2010).

Incorporating all four of the key factors into its 20072008 programming on race and racism, the GSSW launched the initiative with the following events:

• The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond provided a two-day Undoing Racism training in October 2007 for faculty and staff as part of a newly established annual Diversity Retreat.

• Field Director William Keaney organized and sponsored, through the New England Consortium of Graduate Social Work Field Education Directors, a 16-hour workshop focused on race and racism entitled Cultural Competence in Field Education for about 40 field staff from New England schools of social work. The training was facilitated by faculty from the UT Austin School of Social Work.

• Dr. Rowena Fong, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work, and Associate Professor Dr. Leslie Hollingsworth from the University of Michigan School of Social Work lectured and met with faculty and students in November and February, respectively.

• In April, prompted by Senator Barack Obama’s speech on “Race and America,” the GSSW sponsored a forum on race led by Dr. Janet Helms, the August Long Professor in Counseling Psychology at BC’s Lynch School of Education.

A few weeks later, Monica McGoldrick, professor of clinical psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and director of the Multicultural Family Institute, presented “Culture Matters: What Difference Does It Make?” at the second annual Pinderhughes Lecture (see story page 5).

To document the School’s diversity initiative, several GSSW faculty members, under the leadership of Othelia Lee, prepared a paper, “More than a mission statement: Implementing diversity and social justice initiatives in a school of social work,” which is being presented at the 2008 Council on Social Work Education conference this October.

A second paper is being presented this fall at the 2008 Diversity Challenge Conference on Race, Culture, and Trauma sponsored by the BC Lynch School.

— RUTH MCROY

G L O BAL

Global engagement was a central theme at the three-day conference.

International Conference Focuses on Sustainability boston’s bustling faneuil hall marketplace and

historic waterfront did not divert attention from the proceedings at the second annual, three-day International Social Work Conference (ISW) at the Omni Parker House in June. A select group of social work professionals participated in the event, which was co-sponsored by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work (NADD), and 14 individual schools of social work.

The theme and title of the 2008 conference was “How to Build Sustainable Initiatives.”

Keynoter Dr. Michael Sherraden, director of the Center for Social Development at Washington University, spoke on social work’s potential for international engagement, understanding, problem solving, and development. A reception at the Boston College Club followed the opening session.

The remainder of the conference featured plenary sessions and group discussions on issues such as safety and risk management, international field education, and funding opportunities.

The director of international programs at the University of Hawaii’s School of Social Work, Ron Matayoshi, for one, was impressed by the large number of universities and colleges that have made it their responsibility to take social work education to an international level. “The various models and funding methods shared at this conference were very beneficial to me and our future efforts in Asia and other Pacific Rim countries,” he said. “I would like to see more frequent sharing of opportunities between institutions.”

The 2009 ISW conference, organized by the Monmouth University and Rutgers University schools of social work, will be held July 10-12 at the Jersey City Hyatt Regency.

— SERENA HEARTZ

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PROFILES IN COURAGE Three students learn the hard realities of international placements by tracey palmer

Juliana LaBoube surrounded by the school children she helped in Vietnam.

JULIANA LABOUBE, MSW ’08 VIETNAM Juliana Laboube began her field placement in Vietnam with a non-profit organization that protects orphaned, homeless, and poor children from forced labor and abuse through educational scholarships and direct relief efforts. The 29-year-old from Boston was one of only three staff members in the field and she didn’t speak Vietnamese.

“At first, I felt like, ‘Who am I, this sheltered American white girl counseling these people who have been through so much?’” she says. It wasn’t long before she found her answer—it came in the forms of a garbage dump and a little boy with a kite.

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“at first, i felt like, ‘who am i, this sheltered american white girl counseling these people who have been through so much?’” it wasn’t long before she found her answer—it came in the forms of a garbage dump and a little boy with a kite.

~ Juliana Laboube

As Laboube came to learn, many impoverished Vietnamese children and their families spend long hours scavenging through rubbish for something to eat and for items, like cans or plastic bags, to

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sell. Living in filth, they are susceptible to disease or worse, all for the prospect of earning about a dollar a day. As part of an effort to help 300 such people move into safer housing and jobs, Laboube developed educational tools for her English-speaking Vietnamese co-workers to use. Thanks to micro loans and job training, one by one, the adults in the program became taxi drivers, hairdressers, and mechanics. Some even started cooperative businesses. Most moved into better housing and allowed their children to enroll in a new school.

“Sometimes the best way to help a child is to help her family and community first,” Laboube observes. “I learned that in terms of individuals, you could empower one person to empower the whole community.”

Sometimes the most instructive experiences fall outside the formal job description. In Vietnam, children must pay for school, books, and uniforms, a cost many families can’t afford. The foundation not only provides scholarships, but also monthly food aid to families, to offset what the children would make if they were working instead. In return, parents sign a contract, promising to keep their children in school.

At one school, Laboube got to know well a 10-year-old boy named Yieu. He couldn’t afford school, and at the time, the scholarship program didn’t include boys. Regardless, Laboube says, Yieu came to school daily, stood outside the classroom window, and listened.

“Every day he’d come with his kite, and each day, the kite would be more and

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more elaborate,” Laboube recalls. “He’d keep rebuilding it and enhancing it with bits of string and plastic he’d find in the trash, as if he was trying to impress us.”

She wanted to engage Yieu and encourage his curiosity. She couldn’t invite him into the class; so instead, she invited him to play games with her in her off time.

“We did art projects, played tic tac toe, and twister. I really felt close to him, despite the language barrier,” she says.

After her return to the United States, Laboube learned that the Foundation was now making scholarships available to boys. Yieu was officially in school. And Laboube knew that she had made a difference.

DOROTHEE STÄNGLE, MSW ’08 SOUTH AFRICA It is not always easy to see the bright side of life while working with HIV-positive patients in a rural South African health clinic, but that’s what Dorothee Stängle learned to do.

A German native who now lives in Colorado, Stängle did her field placement at a community clinic run by a non-profit organization specializing in HIV disease management. The clinic is located in the remote Mpumalanga Province and serves the 2,000 patients who cannot afford to travel to the government treatment site 40 kilometers away. At first, the obstacles overwhelmed Stängle.

According to UNAIDS statistics, close to 1/5 of adults ages 15-49 are infected with HIV, but many people don’t seek care. When they do, Stängle learned, they often prefer trusted local traditional healers, not western health care workers. Still other patients deny their illness and refuse to take medication, convinced instead that they are “bewitched.”

Stängle narrowed her focus to those who needed her most. “Women and children,

especially in South Africa, are really vulnerable,” she says, noting that the women are typically financially dependent on their spouses. Some women are unknowingly infected by their husbands, but even a wife who knows her husband is infected cannot easily afford to protect herself by leaving the marriage. And since communities tend to ostracize HIV patients, many infected women deny having the disease and don’t seek treatment. Others are commanded by their husbands to stay away from the clinic and keep quiet.

Children don’t fare any better. Often infected by their mothers, many are never told about their health risks or receive treatment. These children are frequently orphaned when their own HIVpositive parents die.

For Stängle, the most frustrating scenario was when families from rural villages mustered the courage to seek help, then couldn’t afford the taxi fare to get to the clinic.

She faced many challenges, but the

lesson Stängle took away from her experience is that people are resilient. She witnessed this regularly in the support group she co-founded for HIV-positive children and their families. One HIVpositive woman whose husband had died of AIDS stands out in her mind.

“She had five children, no food, no education, and tuberculosis, the number one killer of people with HIV in Africa,” Stängle recalls, “but she came to the clinic with a smiling face every month.” The woman’s grace and fortitude changed Stängle’s perspective from despairing to hopeful. She began asking, “What are the strengths and positives and how do we build on those?”

This new outlook was the basis of the in-service training she provided for the clinic staff, 80 percent of whom were patients themselves.

“We spent so much time in the classroom at BC talking about sustainability,” Stängle says. “It was great being out in the field experiencing everything we talked about.”

Dorothee Stängle enjoying a smile with the HIV/AIDS care team in Mpumalanga Province.

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A view of Inda Selassie, a town in northern Ethiopia, a site of one of the GSSW global placements...

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ANDREA COLE, MSW ’08 M A L AW I “Vicarious traumatization” was a major concern for Andrea Cole when she arrived at a refugee camp in central Malawi.

“I was nervous about hearing their stories,” admits the 28-year-old from Virginia, and afraid of being traumatized by the refugees’ horrific experiences, like those of a Rwandan widow Cole got to know.

The woman told Cole that she, her husband, and their seven children were forced to flee their village when a rebel group attacked. Later, the husband went back to their home to check on their cows. He never returned. Soon after, the woman returned to her village, but the rebels came again. This time, she and her children hid. When she thought it was safe, she went down the road to get water, leaving the children hidden at home. When she returned, they were all lying dead on the ground, hacked by machetes.

“This woman lost everything,” Cole recalls. “She lay in bed for a month. She didn’t want to live.”

Stories like these are common in the camp, which serves 10,000 refugees from Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, and Ethiopia, but Cole never got used to hearing them.

At first, she didn’t think there was anything she could do to help, but eventually she learned that listening was crucial.

“Just bearing witness to what happened to them helped,” Cole says, “and they were so thankful.”

In Cole’s support group for widows, the Rwandan woman became one of the most resilient, compassionate members, helping others with their grief. “Some of them have so much hope and so much faith,” Cole says, “and in some ways, it’s all they have. They have lost everything.”

Through her groups and in individual

Andrea Cole, far left, with coworkers who serve the refugee community in Malawi.

conversation, Cole tried to give the women and their children the tools to cope with their trauma and to move on.

“Victims feel powerless,” she observes, “but often they are the ones who start the healing and forgive. It really made me realize that, in some ways, women in that part of the world have borne the brunt of all the war and violence that men have started.”

Cole credits her BC education for her ability to connect with the refugees. “A class in trauma with Paul Kline really gave me the blueprint,” she says. “If I hadn’t had that class, I would have been in the dark, completely.”

Cole says Kline taught her about the three steps to trauma treatment: 1) safety and relationship building with the traumatized client; 2) allowing the client to tell the trauma story; and 3) helping the client look toward the future as he or she reconnects with the community and a new identity. “These were tremendously

important concepts,” says Cole, “since every single one of the women I worked with in Malawi had been traumatized by the war in their country.”

She is thankful BC gave her the opportunity to participate in the program. “My experience,” she says, “taught me that I could handle a lot more than I thought I could, and about what I could give back.”

A key component of the GSSW Global Practice Concentration is the three-month international field placement during the students’ final semester. In 2007, 21 students experienced learning opportunities in 16 international locations. In 2009, 16 students will be placed in international agencies. More than half of this year’s students will be staying longer than the required three months.

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Professor Paul Kline and Professor Katie McInnis-Dittrich know how to engage students and have often been praised as first-rate teachers.

As chair of teaching support services, McInnis-Dittrich is sharing their successful techniques with other GSSW faculty.

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TEACHERS WHO MAKE AN IMPACT

by thomas w a l s h a n d v i c k i s a n d e r s

It’s 9 a.m. on a brilliant, cloudless July day, but in the cool, windowless confines of Higgins 265, thunderclouds are everywhere. Twenty-one students are gathered in a semicircle facing Professor Paul Kline for the final lesson in course number SW822, the Impact of Traumatic Victimization on the Developing Child and Adolescent. Behind him is a video screen, upon which a tragic story of incest and its aftermath will soon play out. photog r a p hy b y s u z i c a m a r a t a

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world as malevolent,” he says, expanding on the student’s definition. “It results in a pathological, emotional loyalty to the perpetrator, a Geriatric Social Worker, Center Communities of Brookline trauma bond that endures weeks, months, years after the experience.”

AREA OF EXPERTISE: Before showing the video, Kline Older Adults & Families engages the class, throwing out quesSPECIAL INTERESTS: tions—“What is projection?” “What Clinical Practice, Elderly Women, Social Policy is identification?”—encouraging students to dig deeper and deeper for I’m an official card-carrying member of the Katie McInnis-Dittrich Fan explanations even as he adds perClub. From the first day I entered the School, I heard murmurs in the spective and nuance to the dialogue. student lounge about what a great teacher she was. It wasn’t until my “Projective identification—watch for final year that I got to take her classes; she was BC’s gift to me in my evidence of this in the video,” he final year of the program. In class you don’t realize how much you are urges, reminding them that the learning because she is so engaging and entertaining. She provided a daughter has asked for the meeting beacon and guidepost for all of the students who worked with a geriwith a particular therapeutic objecatric population. In traditional classes, the geriatric material was tacked on at the end of the semester, but in Katie’s classes, the geriatric contive in mind. He provokes the stutent was the main focus. It’s not easy talking about people with demendents further: “Does she achieve her tia who can no longer tie their shoes, but with Katie, the class resonatgoal?” ed with humor and stories about her own mother, grandmother, and By the time the lesson ends three 90-year-old neighbor that brought the human touch to everything we hours later, Kline has covered a lot of were studying. She was very demanding, but demanding in the most territory. He has moved from the user-friendly way. She offered a simple contract—she would be the father/daughter screening to analymost wonderful teacher, if you would be the most wonderful student— sis of effective trauma therapies to and the entire class responded to her message. She thrives in the classdiscussion of a child abandonment room. It’s like Katie being Katie; she was born for this. case to interpretation of drawings that he passes around by another sexually abused girl. And that was just one class in Kline’s pedagogical repertoire.

Afterward, student Brooke Booth says she’s First, though, Kline must prepare his students to understand the psychological storm created by this already been able to put Kline’s lessons to use in her sexual trauma and the nature of the encounter they clinical encounters. He heightened her awareness of are about to witness between father and daughter. the possible role of trauma in her clients’ lives. “It’s The two haven’t seen each other since the father’s made me question some of my clients’ statements. Is arrest and imprisonment three years before. Both there residual trauma? Before, I probably wouldn’t have undergone extensive counseling. The daughter have articulated that there might have been something trauma related.” has requested this meeting.

Such powerful, if subtle, evidence of a teacher’s “What is a trauma bond?” Kline begins. He leans effectiveness is the backbone of a Graduate School of forward in his seat, his voice earnest, eager, his eyes sweeping the class. He asks again, and this time is Social Work initiative that has made excellence in teaching a top priority. rewarded with a reply.

While doctoral programs in almost any field insist “Yes, yes, it’s a kind of transactional experience, an attachment that has the power to shape a child’s sense that their students master the skills of academic writof self as deserving of maltreatment and view of the ing and research, the challenging skill of teaching

JEFFREY SAVIT, MSW ’06

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McInnis-Dittrich and Kline are ebullient people whose energy creates sizzle in their classrooms.

receives a lot less attention. “It is surprising how higher education takes the art of teaching for granted,” says Dean Alberto Godenzi. “Teachers in K-12 schools undergo rigorous instruction to be effective in the classroom, but we pay insufficient attention to the training of university teachers. We evaluate them after the fact, but we don’t necessarily provide the foundation for them to be successful.”

The junior faculty who joined the GSSW in recent years came from top ranked universities. At their alma maters, they acquired some of their teaching skills by serving as teaching assistants or by co-teaching a course with an experienced faculty member.

When taking on their first teaching assignments at BC, however, they often were anxious about their onthe-job training, Godenzi explains.

To alleviate their stress and to offer the students optimal learning experiences, the GSSW created a structure that provides support through mentoring and a designated Chair of Teaching Support Services.

The inaugural occupant of the chair is Associate Professor Katie McInnis-Dittrich, recipient of the

2004 University Distinguished Teaching Award. She provides regular training seminars on teaching, observes class sessions, and provides consultation for any issues that may arise in the classroom. She also makes herself available to the School’s own doctoral students, enhancing their teaching skills so they will arrive at their future academic homes with a strong foundation.

“Our philosophy is that we can have excellent scholars who are also very good teachers,” McInnisDittrich says, adding that faculty generally have been receptive to assessing their classroom strategies.

With the expectation that excellence in teaching is a prerequisite for tenure, young professors see the benefits of taking advantage of the new support systems. Besides, there is precedent for evaluating faculty work; scholars commonly submit articles to their peers for review before publishing. Why not a similar process for their classroom techniques, McInnisDittrich asks?

In addition to the high expectations for faculty in the classroom, the GSSW has created an environ-

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first year, and was ranked third among GSSW faculty by the students.

McInnis-Dittrich says the emphasis on teaching comes in part in reaction to the changing conRegional Director of Recruitment, Peace Corps, Boston sumer population. “This generation of students grew up on MTV and learned to count with AREA OF EXPERTISE: “Sesame Street,” she observes. “They are very visuChildren, Youth & Families ally oriented and their attention span is shorter.

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Child Therapy, Effects of War and Conflict on Children We need to be very visual in response and more diversified in our approaches. Students today want Paul Kline was my greatest mentor when I was a student and he contina lively experience.” ues to be my greatest mentor. Wherever I have been assigned to work— First-rate teachers can have a lasting impact on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ecuador, Liberia, or Sierra Leon—I have relied on students or bring routine subjects to life. Adrienne Paul to offer guidance and help whenever I was faced with a challenge.

Pisoni ’08, for one, was surprised by how interestWhen I was working with refugees from Sierra Leone in a camp in ing a research methods course became in the Liberia, Paul actually came to Liberia to provide training and consultahands of Assistant Professor Margaret Lombe. tion to my staff on how to work with children who have been trauma“She really cares about students having a positive tized by war. That led to our publishing an article together, “Coping with experience,” Pisoni says. In fact, Pisoni was so War: Three Strategies Employed by Adolescent Citizens of Sierra Leone.” impressed, she reorganized her schedule to be Paul’s teaching at Boston College is legendary—how else do you fill a able to take Lombe’s class in Program Evaluation. classroom on Friday morning at 8 a.m. with students sitting on the edge Jennifer Tilghman-Havens, MA/MSW ’01, of their seats to hear every word, and lamenting that the class has to end. He is passionate about his work with children and adolescents and associate director in the Office of Jesuit Mission his passion is contagious. and Identity at Seattle University, provides evidence that a good teacher can have a life-long impact on students. Recalling her experience in Kerry Mitchell’s classroom, she says: “Many bits of wisdom from Dr. Mitchell’s classes stay with me, ment in which every teacher can be successful. MSW even after 11 years. I still find myself referencing his lecProgram Director and Associate Dean Tom Walsh regular- tures on couples and family work—professionally, but also ly asks students about their experiences in GSSW courses. personally, especially now that I’m married and have a child “I am very pleased that the number of complaints remark- of my own.” ably decreased since we made a strategic commitment to Leida Cartagena (MSW ’04), an adjunct professor of teaching,” Walsh says. “And when students raise concerns social work at Elms College, finds herself trying to give stuabout a faculty’s teaching efforts, there is an effective dents the same opportunities she was given by Professor process in place on how to address the issue.”

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes. “She allowed me to learn about my Further evidence of the School’s emphasis on teaching is strengths and challenges as we tackled each new topic in the hiring this fall of three full-time clinical assistant profes- class,” says Cartagena. “She was readily available whenever sors, Kerry Mitchell, Susan Tohn, and Robin Warsh, all high- I needed assistance with my class work or projects and ly rated teachers adept at bringing their clinical experience demonstrated in her teaching that as social workers we all into the classroom (see story page 21). continue to change, grow, and learn from each other and New full-time tenure-track hires have been equally our environment.” impressive in the classroom. Stephanie Berzin, who joined Meanwhile, McInnis-Dittrich, who specializes in gerithe School in 2006, has proven to be a versatile teacher atric social work, is doing her best to spread her passion for teaching practice, policy, and research courses. She ranked teaching to her colleagues so that all students will experifourth among student evaluations of all faculty in her first ence what Pisoni, Tilghman-Havens, and Cartagena did. year. A more recent addition to the full-time faculty, The secret of McInnis-Dittrich’s own success? Her Thomas Crea, PhD, taught Program Evaluation during his answer is unequivocal. “I love what I teach.”

ERIN MONE, MSW, ’99

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A child's drawing done at a children's workshop soon after the Indian Ocean tsunami.

recovering from

DISASTER GSSW professors study

SURVIVORS in INDIA and NEW ORLEANS , finding they have much IN COMMON

BY JULIE MICHAELS

EVERY DECADE HAS ITS QUOTA OF NATURAL DISASTERS.

But the past four years have brought calamities of historical proportion such as the 2004 tsunami in South Asia and the 2005 devastation of the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina. They caused the death and dislocation of millions, and placed enormous demands on government and social service systems that struggled to help victims.

These two events have given those who study social behavior an opportunity to explore the impact of such disasters on a community. Researchers have gone into the field to learn about human needs and determine best practices.

Two GSSW faculty who felt an obligation to reach out to disaster survivors are Professor Thanh Tran, who is studying the resilience of the Vietnamese community in New Orleans and Biloxi, MS, after Katrina; and Professor Karen Kayser, who led a delegation of graduate students to Tamil Nadu, India, to record the impact of the tsunami on emergency relief workers.

Though the two professors ventured to different parts of the world, they found similarities in the human response to disaster. Professor Kayser’s Indian research revealed five common ways that disaster victims cope with tragedy, many of which could apply to the New Orleans Vietnamese community as well: (1) returning to routine, (2) rebuilding family structures, (3) communal sharing of resources, (4) emotional expression of grief and loss to a supportive listener, and (5) finding benefits from the disaster experience.

Since Professor Tran was himself a refugee from Vietnam whose family settled in Mississippi when he was 19 years old, the Katrina disaster offered him an opportunity to study a group he knew intimately. There are about 20,000 Vietnamese living in the region: fishing families live along the coast; others are concentrated in East New Orleans, an area completely devastated by flooding.

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“What was remarkable to me,” says Tran, “is how quickly the community recovered. Compared to other still-damaged neighborhoods, East New Orleans has been completely rebuilt. The vast majority of people did not relocate. They returned home as soon as they could.”

Already a people who had weathered war and dislocation, the Vietnamese seemed more prepared psychologically to cope with a second upheaval. Also, they are a strong community anchored by the Catholic Church and Buddhist temples. “The people hung together and renewed their social commitment to each other,” Tran explains. Vietnamese from all over the U.S. sent donations. Katrina also helped the younger generation— many of whom are educated professionals—step up and become leaders in the community. “They were the ones who knew how to handle government bureaucracy,” the professor explains.

The Vietnamese did not wait for the government to act. They cleaned up their own neighborhoods and worked together to rebuild each others’ houses. “Any government aid they received, they saved,” says Tran.

“They never paid for hotels, but instead stayed with family. As a result, they had the money to spend on reconstruction.”

For the Vietnamese, there is a strong sense of “the extended family,” says Tran, who told of one woman, a pharmacist, who relocated to Houston with her entire family after Katrina. “When her employers wanted her to return to New Orleans, she said, ‘Fine, but you have to move everybody back with me.’”

Shared Sur vival

S T R A T E G I E S This devotion to New Orleans as home was very strong among the Vietnamese. The older generation had suffered through one dislocation and they were adamant that they would not be forced out of their communities again. Because of this determination, says Tran, “they committed to rebuilding as soon as the floods subsided.”

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rofessor Karen Kayser witnessed a similar kind of social cohesion when she took her students to the west coast of India in 2005, one year after the tsunami destroyed many local villages. Although she teaches a course on human services in developing countries, Kayser is actually known for her research on the impact of a cancer diagnosis on families.

International research is new for her, but she welcomed the opportunity to observe how other cultures react to a different kind of crisis.

“When I take students on a field trip like this, they don’t want to observe, they want to get involved,” says Kayser, whose team of 10 graduate students decided to study the effects of the tsunami on first responders.

Fortunately, Boston College has close ties with Catholic relief agencies. “All you have to do is pick up the telephone and call a Jesuit,” Kayser says with a smile.

Through the Jesuits, the professor and her group connected with a Catholic priest who ran an NGO on the Indian coast. He welcomed the researchers and quickly lined up subjects for them to interview.

The impact of their tsunami research on Kayser and her students has been profound. One graduate student changed her concentration to global practice, while others reassessed every aspect of their lives. “I sat in my apartment and looked at all the junk I have…,” one student remarked to Kayser.

“You can’t help but be moved by the resiliency of people in situations like this,” says Kayser, who is continuing her research in India. Last May, the Boston College professor began a study of 100 Indian widows who have received microcredit loans. As one condition for the loans, the widows are required to participate in self-help groups where they meet to discuss their progress and challenges. Kayser found it was the self-

Help Victims Cope

GSSW researchers discovered that no matter what the crisis, people’s responses to disaster are similar in order to save themselves and rebuild their communities. Here are some of Karen Kayser’s findings:

• Victims want to return to normalcy as quickly as possible. “Refugees were not interested in prepackaged food and Western clothes,” says Professor Kayser, who is studying survivors of the 2004 South Asia tsunami. “They said, ‘Give us a pot, oil, vegetables, and rice, so we can cook for ourselves.’”

• People move quickly to rebuild family structures. “Men who lost their wives in the flooding often remarried within two weeks,” says Kayser.

“They needed someone to care for their children.”

Unfortunately, the men tended to marry much younger girls, ignoring the needs of widows who were not sufficiently valued.

• Victims acted as a community rather than as individuals. “In one fishing village,” says Kayser, “relief workers were welcome only if they agreed to help everyone in the village.” In fact, villagers often refused to move into new housing until the entire community was rebuilt, when they could move together.

• First responders found that people wanted to tell their stories. “This is a culture where you can mourn openly,” says Kayser, “and people did.

Villagers cried readily and shared their experiences willingly.”

• Money came into the disaster area and changed lives for the better. Many were employed in the rebuilding effort; others qualified for microcredit loans that helped them start small businesses, like selling fuel oil or goats in the market.

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Clockwise from top right: Temporary housing for Katrina victims on the land of the Mary Queen of Vietnam Church. Professor Kayser, far right, next to Gloria Tower '07 with a research team of students from the Madras School of Social Work in India. The remains of a house one year after the tsunami. Professor Tran inside the Vietnamese Budhist Church with Venerable Thich Thien Tri, the Chief Monk of the church.

help groups, as much as the loans themselves, that enabled the women to succeed. “Talking to others helped these women move to a second level,” says Kayser, “from individual empowerment to community empowerment.”

Professor Tran, meanwhile, will be continuing his study of the Vietnamese in New Orleans. He will return this fall with a 250-question survey aimed at gathering more complete information about the community’s Katrina experience.

“The work of these two professors is very much an

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example of our mission at the GSSW,” says Dean Alberto Godenzi. “Our faculty uses their research skills to tackle vital societal challenges, locally and globally.

They find their research questions by engaging with people and communities, by listening to their concerns and dreams, and by learning from their resiliency in the face of disasters. I am confident that based on such an inclusive and collaborative approach, the research of my two colleagues will not only enhance our understanding of how to respond to disasters but also benefit the lives of the survivors.”

R E S EA RCH

faculty hires Three clinical professors join School full time

MITCHELL

TOHN

Tohn has co-authored numerous publications and delivered keynote and professional presentations to dozens of organizations across the country. She is an active member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.

Tohn’s passion for teaching is matched by her enjoyment of athletic activities such as dancing, skiing, and climbing.

WARSH

new clinical professorships Three part-time faculty have been selected for the newly created full-time Clinical Assistant Professor positions. With the School’s emphasis on excellent teaching, the GSSW petitioned and received permission from the University to create the slots for social work practitioners to teach clinical practice courses. A national search yielded three well known GSSW instructors who have routinely been ranked in the top 10 in student evaluations. The importance of these positions is that they allow and encourage the faculty to keep active in their clinical practice in order to strengthen their classroom instruction. received his MSW from Simmons College and his PhD from Boston College and he brings more than 30 years of clinical experience to his new position. Prior to joining Boston College as a part-time faculty member in 1995, he was the clinical director for North Shore Catholic Charities, where he managed the Department of Social Services Child in Need Service Program. For the past 13 years, he has served GSSW in a number of capacities, including course lecturer and coordinator, student advisor, trainer in the Continuing Education Program, and member of the Academic Standards Review Committee and Health and Mental Health Concentration Committee.

Mitchell operates a private psychotherapy practice and provides consultation to the Greater Manchester Christian Counseling Services and Somerville’s Brother of Hope.

He draws on his multiple roles as therapist, teacher, mentor, and coach to inspire students in the classroom to develop their theoretical and practice skills.

Mitchell has been spotted driving to work in his vintage British sports car, a KERRY MITCHELL

1961 MGA. When he is not teaching, you may find him surfing in Cape Cod’s Wellfleet Harbor.

SUSAN TOHN has been a part-time faculty member at the GSSW since 1999. During that time she has built lasting relationships with her students and frequently provides weekly clinical supervision to GSSW alumni.

Before earning her MSW from Boston University, Tohn lived and studied in Israel where she honed her social work skills in a small developing town.

Currently, she operates Solutions, a private practice providing clinical training of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to individual and institutional clients. Tohn also serves as a consultant to the Roxbury Multi-Service Center and the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, where she developed curriculum for investigators, assessment workers, and managers. She brings the diversity and real world stories from these experiences into the classroom to enhance the learning process.

ROBIN WARSH, who holds her MSW from the University of Connecticut, joined GSSW as a project director in 1992. She has taught eight different courses, developed course materials and evaluations, and served as a faculty advisor. Currently, she chairs the Academic Standards Review Committee, which oversees all student program modifications.

Warsh has been in private practice for 22 years and treats a wide range of mental health conditions for individual adults and couples. She has co-authored four books and has written articles for a wide variety of publications, including the Journal of Teaching in Social Work and the Children and Youth Services Review. (A gourmand, she has also been a contributor to Gourmet magazine.)

Warsh is certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and is currently enrolled in two, year-long therapy programs entitled Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma and Level One Training in Internal Family Systems.

In her new position, Warsh will continue to create teaching moments from what arises spontaneously in the classroom.

Her highly interactive style is known for actively engaging students in their learning process.

— SERENA HEARTZ

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G S S W 2007—2008 G R A N T AW A R D S JUDI CASEY • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “Sloan Work-Family Network— Year 2 of 3” $486,684 • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “Sloan Work-Family Network— Year 1 of 3” $499,678

TOM CREA • Case Western Reserve University “Family 2 Family Process Evaluation” $25,000 • UNC Chapel Hill/Casey Foundation “Evaluation of the Family to Family Initiative” $10,000

TARA EARL • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation “A Different Point of View: MultiRacial/Ethnic Patient Perceptions of Quality Mental Care” $54,090

JIM LUBBEN • Hartford/GSA “Hartford Doctoral Fellowship: Jessica Johnson, Fellow—Year 1 of 2” $50,000 • Hartford/GSA “Hartford Doctoral Fellows in Geriatric SW—Year 1 of 5” $841,594

VINCE LYNCH • Gilead Sciences, Inc. “20th Annual National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS” $25,000 • Abbott Laboratories “20th Annual National Conference on Social Work and HIV/AIDS” $6,000

KEVIN MAHONEY • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sustaining the Clearinghouse for Home and Community Based Services (hcbs.org) $99,982 • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Bridge Grant for the Cash & Counseling Program $99,103 • ASPE Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement $124,562 • The Atlantic Philanthropies “Developing a Business Plan to Expand the Cash & Counseling Model to 36 States Not Participating in the Program” $215,000 • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation “Developing a Business Plan to Expand the Cash & Counseling Model throughout the Rest of the United States” $99,840 • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation “Cash & Counseling: Technical Assistance and Direction” $815,791 KEVIN MAHONEY/ VIDHYA ALAKESON • ASPE/DHHS “Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement” (Alakeson ) $44,388

MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “The Sloan Center on Aging & Work; Workplace Flexibility and the 21st Century Multi-Generational Workforce” $1,681,974 • MetLife Mature Market Institute “Engaging in the 21st Century/ Multi-Generational Workforce” $55,000

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faculty hires McCoy is mental health scholar HENRIKA MCCOY, LCSW, PhD, joined the GSSW in July as its newest faculty member in the Health/ Mental Health concentration. Her broad and diverse background is an asset to the school’s teaching and research efforts.

As a social work practitioner, McCoy encountered many adolescents whose mental health issues precipitated their involvement in the legal system. This situation provided the impetus for McCoy to obtain her Master of Jurisprudence in Child and Family Law from Chicago’s Loyola University. She later earned her PhD from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.

McCoy’s dissertation explored the differences in how African American and Caucasian males interpret the Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument, version 2, the mental health screening tool used in detention centers throughout 48 states. Her longterm goal is to translate her findings into mechanisms that will decrease disparities in the receipt of mental health services by underserved and vulnerable populations.

McCoy was one of three Washington University doctoral students inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at a ceremony at Yale University. The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

McCoy recently moved to Boston with her two rescued cats in tow. The GSSW trusts that her affection for the Chicago White Sox leaves enough room for becoming a BC Eagles fan.

— SERENA HEARTZ

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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Here are highlights from among the many accomplishments of the full-time faculty in the 2007-2008 academic year.

Berzin, S. C. (2008). Difficulties in the transition to adulthood: Using propensity scoring to understand what makes foster youth vulnerable. Social Service Review, 82(2), 171-196.

Berzin, S. C., Thomas, K. L., & Cohen, E. (2007). Assessing model fidelity in two family group decision-making programs: Is this child welfare intervention being implemented as intended?

Journal of Social Service Research, 34(2), 55-71.

Brennan, M., & Lee, E. O. (in press).

Religiousness and social support: Examination of the social support hypothesis. NOVA Scientific Books.

Crampton, D. S., Crea, T. M., Abramson-Madden, A., & Usher, C. L. (forthcoming). Challenges of streetlevel child welfare reform: The case of Team Decisionmaking. Families in Society.

dementia incidence in elderly women.

American Journal of Public Health.

De Marco, A. C., & Berzin, S. C. (2008). The influence of family economic status on home-leaving patterns during emerging adulthood. Families in Society, 89(2), 208-218.

Farone, D., Tran, T. V., Fitzpatrick, T. R., & Phan, P. (2007). The joint effect of poor physical function and childcare on psychological distress among elderly Latinos. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 5(1), 21-37.

Findler, L., Wind, L. H., & Mor Barak, M. E. (2007). The challenge of workforce management in a global society: Modeling the relationship between diversity, inclusion, organizational culture, and employee well-being, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Administration in Social Work, 31(3), 63-94.

Fitzpatrick, T., Aleman, S., & Tran, T. V. (in press). Factors that contribute to independent living among a group of Navajo elders. Research on Aging.

Crea, T. M., Barth, R. P., Guo, S., and Brooks, D. (2008). Externalizing behaviors of substance-exposed adopted children: 14 years post adoption.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78(1), 11-19.

Hill, E. J., Grzywacz, J. G., Allen, S., Blanchard, V. L., Matz-Costa, C., Shulkin, S., & Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (forthcoming). Defining and conceptualizing workplace flexibility.

Community, Work and Family.

Crea, T. M., Barth, R. P., & Chintapalli, L. (2007). Home study methods for evaluating prospective resource families: History, current challenges, and promising approaches. Child Welfare, 86(2), 141-159.

Iatridis, D. (2008). Policy practice. In T. Mizahri & L. Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition (pp. 362368). New York: Oxford University Press.

Crea, T. M., Crampton, D. S., Abramson-Madden, A., & Usher, C. L. (forthcoming). Implementation of Team Decisionmaking (TDM): Scope and compliance with the Family to Family practice model. Children & Youth Services Review.

Crooks, V. C., Lubben, J. E., Petti, D. B., Little, D., & Chiu, V. (in press). Social network, cognitive function and

Ivanoff, A., Blythe, B. J., & Walters, B. (2007). The conduct of ethical research. In R. Grinnell & Y. A. Unrau (Eds.), Social work research and evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative approaches, 8th edition (pp. 29-59).

New York: Oxford University Press.

Kayser, K., Watson, L., & Andrade, J. (2007). Cancer as a “We-Disease”: Examining the process of coping from a relational perspective. Families,

Systems, & Health, 25(4), 404-418.

Kayser, K., Wind, L., & Shankar, R. (2008). Disaster relief within a collectivistic context: Supporting resilience after the tsunami in South India.

Journal of Social Service Research, 34(3), 87-98.

BERZIN

Kayser, K., & Johnson, J. (2008).

Divorce. In T. Mizrahi & L. Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition (pp. 76-85). New York: Oxford University Press.

Kayser, K. & Scott, J. (2008). Helping couples cope with women’s cancers: An evidence-based approach for practitioners. NY: Springer Publishers.

BLYTHE

Kline, P. M., Lezott, E., & McMackin, R. (forthcoming). The impact of the clergy abuse scandal on parish communities. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.

Kline, P. M. (2007). Merton’s ‘true self’: A resource for survivors of sexual abuse by priests. Pastoral Psychology, 55, 731-741.

CREA

Lee. E. O. (2007). Mind-body-spirit practice and perceived self-efficacy for mental health promotion: An exploratory study. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 9(3), 12-24.

Lee, E. O., & Barrett, C. (2007).

Integrating spirituality and social justice in social work practice and education: A pilot study. Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work, 26(2), 121.

Lee, E. O., & Bertera, E. (2007).

Teaching diversity by using instructional technology: Application of self-efficacy and cultural competence.

Multicultural Education and Technology Journal, 1(2), 112-125.

EARL

GODENZI

Lee, E. O., Blythe, B., & Goforth, K. (in press). Can you call it racism?: A multicultural organization in Mexico. Journal of Social Work Education.

IATRIDIS

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KAYSER

Lee, E. O., Brown, M., & Bertera, E. (in press). Using technology to facilitate dialogue on diversity: An experimental design. Journal of Teaching in Social Work.

Marts, E., Lee, E. O., McRoy, R., & McCroskey, J. (in press). Point of engagement: Reducing disproportionality and improving child and family outcomes. Child Welfare.

Pitt-Catsouphes, M., & Matz-Costa, C. (forthcoming). The multi-generational workforce: Workplace flexibility and engagement. Community, Work and Family.

Lee, E. O., & McRoy, R. (2008).

Multiculturalism. In T. Mizahri & L. Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition (pp. 276-282). New York: Oxford University Press.

Mellini, L., Yodanis, C., & Godenzi, A. (2007). On par? The role of au pairs in Switzerland and France. European Societies, 9(1), 45-64.

Sciegaj, M., Simone, K., & Mahoney, K. (2008). State experiences with implementing the Cash and Counseling demonstration and evaluation project: The case of New York. The Journal on Aging and Social Policy, 20(1), 81-98.

Lombe, M., Buerlein, J., & Dahl, A. (in press). Do the benefits of debt relief filter down to vulnerable individuals and households? Some prescriptions for future inquiry. Social Development Issues.

KLINE

Lombe, M., Nebbit, V., & Buerlein, J. (2007). Impacts of asset ownership on the construction of future possibilities.

Families in Society: Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 88(3), 463-471.

LEE

Lombe, M. & Ochumbo, A. (in press).

Child-headed households in SubSaharan Africa: Challenges and opportunities. International Social Work.

Lombe, M., Ochumbo, A., & Norstrand, J. (in press). Attainment of basic needs as a predictor of civic engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some implications. Journal of Comparative Social Welfare.

LOMBE

Lombe, M., Putnam, M., & Huang, J. (in press). Exploring effects of institutional characteristics on saving outcomes: The case of the Cash and Counseling Program. Journal of Policy Practice.

Lombe, M., & Sherraden, M. (in press). Inclusion in the policy process: An agenda for participation of the marginalized. Journal of Policy Practice.

LUBBEN

Lombe, M. & Sherraden, M. (in press).

Impact of asset ownership on social inclusion. Journal of Poverty.

Lubben, J. E. (2008). Social Work Education: Doctoral. In T. Mizrahi & L. Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th edition (pp. 114-117). New York: Oxford University Press.

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Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., LaPoint, V., & Bryant, D. (in press). Social and individual correlates of academic performance among urban African American adolescents. Journal of Negro Education.

Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., & Lindsay, M. A. (2007). Perceived parental behavior and peer affiliations among urban African American adolescents. Social Work Research, 31(3), 162-169.

Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., & Williams, J. H. (in press). Assessing the moderating effects of anxiety sensitivity on antisocial behavior among urban African American youth. Journal of Health Care for the Poor.

Norris, F. & Wind, L. H. (in press). The experience of disaster: Trauma, loss, adversities, and community impacts.

In Y. Neria, S. Galea, & F. Norris (Eds.), Mental health consequences of disasters. New York: Cambridge University Press.

O’Hare, T., & Sherrer, M. V. (forthcoming). Impact of the most frequently reported traumatic events on community mental health clients. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment.

O’Hare, T., Shen, C., & Sherrer, M. V. (2007). Validating the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder scale with persons who have severe mental illnesses.

Research on Social Work Practice, 17(6), 720-728.

Ong, P., Xu, Q., Chow, J., Hardina, D., et al. (forthcoming). Welfare reform and family stress: The experiences of Asian immigrants and refugees. AAPI Nexus.

Scott, J. L., & Kayser, K. (in press).

Enhancing coping with cancer using a couples-based approach. In E. Saita (Ed.), Psico-oncologia. Elementi di psicologia della salute nella prospettiva relazionale. Milano: Unicopli.

Shen, C., Sarkisian, N., & Tran, T. (2008). Economic development, social inequality, and the state: A crossnational analysis of child mortality in less developed countries. China Journal of Social Work, 1(2), 172-188.

Shen, C., Smyer, M., Mahoney, K. J., Loughlin, D. M., Simon-Rusinowitz, L., & Mahoney, E. K. (2008). Does mental illness affect consumer direction of community-based care? Lessons from the Arkansas Cash and Counseling Program. The Gerontologist, 48(1), 93104.

Shen, C., Smyer, M., Mahoney, K. J., et al. (in press). Consumer direction, personal care, and well-being for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health diagnoses: Lessons from the New Jersey Cash & Counseling Program.

Psychiatric Services.

Sherrer, M. V., & O’Hare, T. (forthcoming). Clinical case management. In K. Mueser & D. Jeste (Eds.), Clinical Handbook of Schizophrenia. New York: Guilford Press.

Simon-Rusinowitz, L., Martinez-Garcia, G., Mahoney, K. J., Schneider, B. W. (2008). Consumer-directed care. In E. A. Capezuti, E. L. Siegler, & M. D. Mezey (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Elder Care, 2nd edition (pp. 160-163). New York: Springer Publishing Co. Smyer, M. A., Besen, E., & PittCatsouphes, M. (in press). Boomers

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and the many meanings of work. In R. Hudson (Ed.), Boomer bust? The new political economy of aging. New York: Praeger.

MCINNIS-DITTRICH

Smyer, M. A. & Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (in press).

Collaborative work: What’s age got to do with it? In S. J. Czaja & J. Sharit (Eds.), The future of work for an aging population. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Smyer, M. A., & Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (in press).

Work-life policies: The changing landscape of aging & work. In A. C. Crouter, & A. Booth (Eds.), Work-life policies that make a real difference for individuals, families, and organizations.

Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.

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Tran, T. V., Sung, T., & Huynh-Hohnbaum, A.-L. T. (2008). A measure of English acculturation stress and its relationships with psychological and physical health status in a sample of elderly Russian immigrants. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 50(3/4), 37-50.

Wind, L. H., Brooks, D., & Barth R. P. (2007).

Influences on risk history and adoption preparation on post-adoption services use in U.S. adoptions. Family Relations, 56(4), 378-389.

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Xu, Q. (2007). Community participation in urban China: Identifying mobilization factors.

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 36(4), 622-642.

Stone, S. I., Austin, M. J., Berzin, S. C., & Taylor, S. (in press). Exploring the knowledge base of HB&SE using the concept of reciprocity. Journal of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, 16(3).

Xu, Q., & Pearson, D. (2007). Resetting refugee children. In B. A. Arrighi, & D. J. Maume (Eds.), Child poverty in America today (Vol. 4: Children and the state) (pp.146-160). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Sweet, S., Pitt-Catsouphes, M., Mumm, J., & Casey, J. (2008). Teaching work and family to undergraduate students: Catalyzing pedagogical, curricular, and programmatic innovations.

Teaching Sociology, 36(1), 58-65.

The multitude of presentations made by GSSW faculty at scholarly conferences in the U.S. and abroad are not included in this magazine.

Though these are very important scholarly activities, they could not be referenced due to space limitations.

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faculty assume new leadership roles at two research hubs

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The GSSW’s oversight of research-centered units at Boston College expanded this year with the establishment of the new Boston College Institute on Aging and the receipt of a renewal grant for the Sloan Center on Aging and Work. Both hubs are headed by GSSW faculty.

Professor James Lubben, the School’s Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor, was appointed director of the Institute on Aging. Lubben is a leading scholar in social gerontology with an active research agenda examining social support networks among older populations. He is also the National Director of the Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program in Geriatric Social Work. The new Institute on Aging will provide an integrated framework for fundraising, research, teaching, and knowledge dissemination for three aging research centers at Boston College, two of them housed at the GSSW: The Sloan Center on Aging and Work and the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life, as well as the Carroll School of Management's Center for Retirement Research.

GSSW Associate Professor Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes became the sole director of the Sloan Center on Aging & Work upon the departure of co-director Michael A. Smyer last spring. In June, the center, widely recognized as one of the few university-based research centers studying aging and work to successfully traverse the worlds of the workplace and academia, received a three-year, $3.5 million renewal grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2008, the Center, in partnership with Middlesex University in London, launched global initiatives to expand the Center’s focus on work and aging issues.

“Today’s universities are in need of innovative research centers that anticipate demographic and socio-economic trends, develop policies based on sound evidence, leverage interdisciplinary collaborations, and are capable of building bridges between academia and broader society,” says GSSW Dean Alberto Godenzi.

“Boston College is extremely lucky to have in James Lubben and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes leaders of such distinction to advance these centers’ vital missions.”

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AIDS Conference Turns 20 Founder Lynch honored for vision

when vince lynch, gssw’s director of continuing education, first proposed running a national conference on social work and AIDS in 1988, little could he imagine the scale and impact of what he set in motion. Twenty years later, the annual four-day conference draws more than 500 national and international attendees and consistently attracts funding to support its ongoing mission: to provide the most upto-date information available on AIDS care and treatment. This kind of information is essential, given that social workers continue to play a vital role in the fight against HIV/AIDS. This year’s event, “Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders in HIV/AIDS Social Work…Today” addressed the transition to new leadership as long-term social workers experienced in AIDS treatment begin to retire. The conference featured plenary sessions, more than 100 workshops, a job fair, exhibits, and opportunities to network and bond with other attendees.

The conference attracts social work practitioners, people living with AIDS, teachers, researchers, and medical professionals, many of whom attend on a yearly basis. As one participant remarked, “I’ve been coming every year since 1995….I get replenished and more committed to my HIV work each time I attend.”

Said another, “It is the only conference I go to where I can meet people who work in settings similar to mine.”

Two decades ago, Dr. Lynch envisioned a symposium that would fill the gap in education opportunities addressing psychosocial aspects of AIDS care.

This year’s conference organizers and volunteers presented him with an award for his distinguished contributions.

NEW CASES A preview of surveillance data recently released by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and Prevention documents an annual 40 percent under-reporting of new HIV infections in the U.S., at least for the past 10 years.

PREPARING NEW SOCIAL WORK LEADERS In anticipation of the retirement of large numbers of “baby boom” social workers in 5 to 10 years, new leadership needs to be cultivated, especially in this climate of new challenges in AIDS care.

THE NUMBERS HIV/AIDS is the largest pandemic in history, spanning all continents. Over 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 74 percent of those infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa.

According to the Until There’s a Cure Foundation, by the year 2010, five countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, China, India, and Russia) with 40 percent of the world's population will add 50 million to 75 million infected people to the worldwide pool of HIV disease.

In the United States alone, the CDC estimated that approximately 56,300 people were newly infected with HIV in 2006 (the most recent year that data are available).

THOSE MOST AT RISK Men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be the highest at-risk group for HIV/AIDS (accounting for 53 percent of new infections in the U.S. in 2006), especially adolescent and adult MSM who are of color. Compared to white women, women of color are at most risk for HIV infection. They contract HIV from their male sex partners or through IV drug use.

THE PROGNOSIS There is no cure for HIV/AIDS. As a result, research continues to test and explore other biomedical and behavioral methods to reduce rates of HIV infection. For example, interventions that focus on changing risky sexual behaviors or intravenous drug use are common. Biomedical approaches are focusing on a number of vaccines and microbicides intervention approaches.

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ALUMNI NEWS to post an update, email gsswalumni@bc.edu or call 617-552-4020.

jillian agostino, msw ’06, has founded and directed a fundraiser in Cusco, Peru, called Bringing Basics Back. With the funds raised, they were able to build an addition onto an underprivileged school, get running water to the school, and provide educational and clinical materials for the children. karin elliott, msw ’98, has been named director of the National Partnership for Educational Access (NPEA), an organization that provides underrepresented students with academic preparation, placement services and counseling, and ongoing support to ensure enrollment at fouryear colleges. Elliot joins NPEA from Summerbridge Cambridge, where she was the executive director. catherine hardaway, msw ’93, was honored as a 2008 Massachusetts Community Unsung Heroine at a ceremony at the Massachusetts State House in May for her leadership serving elders and youth for more than 30 years. She is the executive director of Central Boston Elder Services and president of the Advisory Council for the Greater Boston Step Association, a youth-run organization she helped to incorporate. anita mclaughlin, msw ’98, is now Anita Riley. She and her husband John live in Sherborn with their four children.

McLaughlin is clinical supervisor at Spectrum Health Systems Framingham Outpatient Site, where she’s been since 2007. Prior to that she was the assistant director of the Emergency Service Program at the Edinburg Center in Lexington. She presented at BC last June for the 20 CEU conference Current Perspectives in the Treatment of

Substance Abuse through the Continuing Ed program. cheryl sachs, msw ’79, formerly Cheryl Sachs Lallo, received the Social Worker of the Year Award from the RI Chapter of NASW in June. She has been in the field of clinical social work since 1980 as a school social worker in the North Smithfield, RI, School Department.

clifford scott, msw ‘80 has been named academic dean at New England College of Optometry, where he has taught since 1970. He also serves as chair of the college’s Department of Community Health. Previously, he was chief of the optometry section at the Veterans’ Administration Center in West Roxbury and clinic director of the Massachusetts Laborers’ Vision Center.

YOUR ASSOCIATION IS HERE FOR YOU Events, programs invite participation September ushered in a new academic year and renewed activity for the BCGSSW Alumni Association. If you feel like you have lost touch with the School since graduation, now is the perfect time to reconnect. Participating in Alumni Association activities is a great way to experience educational enrichment, see classmates again, and advance your career. There are numerous events designed to benefit alumni or to offer you an opportunity to help new students entering the field.

The Alumni Association kept up its busy pace this past year, offering several networking events (for alumni and current students) and career panels to connect job seekers with agencies or areas of interest. The association worked to respond to the continuing education needs of its members by providing several certificate programs and has designed a wellness retreat for social workers to be held this fall. Work was conducted with the Admissions Office to help recruit new social work students, and the annual dinner continued to bring people together to celebrate our profession and honor one of our own.

These activities will form the core of the work we do in the upcoming year, but we are always looking to improve upon them. If you have suggestions for the association, please let us know or get involved in the planning committees. All of our events are posted on the GSSW website, http://socialwork.be.edu/alumni/ or you can contact the Alumni Board’s liaison at the School, Susan Callaghan, at callaghs@bc.edu or call 617-552-4095 for more details.

We were very pleased by the participation in last year’s events and look forward to another successful year. I hope you will all take advantage of the resources offered to you as graduates of the BCGSSW. You’ll find a great community of dedicated social workers who are eager to help fellow alumni.

—Susan Moriarty, MSW ’99, past GSSW Alumni Association President

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Godenzi Named President of National Deans Association gssw dean alberto godenzi was elected president of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work (NADD) and assumed his new role in June, succeeding Dean Katharine Briar-Lawson of the University at Albany School of Social Work. He will serve for three years.

“I am humbled and thrilled to work with such a distinguished group of leaders of social work programs,” Godenzi said.

“The challenges ahead of social work education are tremendous, both in terms of our contribution to higher education and in regard to larger social issues. But with the amazing leadership talent across our schools, we are in a great position to seize many exciting opportunities.”

Educated at the University of Zurich, Godenzi came to BC in 2001 from the University of Fribourg and the directorship of its department of social work and social policy. He is the second NADD president from Boston College; the first was Dean

June Gary Hopps, who served from 1986 to 1988.

NADD is a volunteer membership organization that advances effective leadership and innovation in education, research, and service and consists of more than 200 graduate programs in the U.S. and Canada.

Distinguished Alumni Award Goes to Kirkpatrick ’78 william j. kirkpatrick ’78 won the Distinguished Alumni Award this year for his work as director of clinical social work for the Lifespan Academic Medical Center in Providence, RI, and for his fight to maintain one of the last remaining clinical social work departments in the region. The award is given annually to honor a graduate who has made a significant contribution to the practice of social work.

Kirkpatrick succeeded in his advocacy effort by being able to show the efficacy of traditional, clinical social work in a medical setting. Its importance was proven by the immediate and comprehen-

William Kirkpatrick, right, was nominated by James W. Alves ’80. Alves was a past president of the GSSW Alumni Board.

sive response of his social work staff to the tragic Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island in 2003, in which 100 people died.

Kirkpatrick continues to teach on issues of patient rights, overcoming language barriers, end-of-life care, organ donation, and caring for patients, families, and communities during a crisis. His efforts to maintain the quality of care received by clients and provided by social workers have made him a distinguished graduate.

school jumps to 14th in rankings The Graduate School of Social Work leapt 10 places this year to 14th in the US News & World Report’s 2009 America’s Best Graduate Schools rankings. Previously, the GSSW was ranked 24th. The last time the GSSW enjoyed a rank of 14th was in 1997.

US News & World Report ranks social work programs solely on the basis of a peer assessment survey. Programs, therefore, work hard to excel in key areas such as scholarly publications, external research funding, innovative program offerings, student-to-faculty ratio, and endowment. Ultiimately, what likely influences the rankings most are the overall reputation of the school and its host university and the school’s impact through achievements of faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

Dean Alberto Godenzi attributes much of the GSSW’s success to the community’s efforts to reassess its mission and implement a strategic plan that asserts its focus on key societal issues. “Our school community has shown itself to be committed to, and capable of, doing what needs to be done to keep the GSSW going forward,” he told the Boston College Chronicle when the rankings were announced last spring.

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STUDENT AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS MS W P R O G R A M

Andria Burton

Christine Smith Scholarship

Gayla Melendez

Christine Smith Scholarship

Jana Tarpinian

William Evrant Doctor Educational Fund

PH D P R O G R A M

Jacqueline Dyer

CSWE (Council on Social Work Education) Minority Fellowship

Jessica Johnson

Hartford Doctoral Fellowship

Jessica Johnson

Boston College University Research Excellence Award

GSSW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD MEMBERS 2008 – 2009 The mission of the GSSW Alumni Association is to represent Boston College Graduate School of Social Work alumni and to serve their needs and interests in order to foster their continuing commitment to, and involvement in, the activities and direction of the School, the social work profession, and the social welfare field. For more details and resources for alumni, visit www.bc.edu/gssw/alumni.

President Anita Riley, MSW ’98

GR A D U A T E S T U D E N T AS S O C I A T I O N A W A R DS Vice President

Megan O’Brien

Contribution to Community Award

Cheryl Snyder, MSW ’83

Adrienne Pisoni

Academic Achievement Award

Treasurer

Heather Wind

GSSW School Award

Heidi Hart-Gorman, MSW/MBA ’03 Secretary

CO M M E N C E M E N T A W AR D S

Andrea Cole

Lynda Ketcham, MSW ’92

Leo P. Haley & Reverend John Essien Memorial Award

Board Members Jessica Bedney, MSW ’08

Tiffany Horne

M. Rita Walsh Memorial Award

Michael Lohwater

Matthew L. Pisapia Memorial Award

Rebecca Mylecraine

Helen J. Crowley Memorial Award

Nellie Schultz

Matthew L. Pisapia Memorial Award

Catherine Solomon

M. Rita Walsh Memorial Award

Lisa Bello, MSW ’97 Audrey Boucher (McAllister), MSW ’83 Jennifer Breneisen, MSW ’07 Mary Byrne, MSW ’55 Frank Cotter, MSW ’72 Kate Durrane, MSW ’04 Liana Fantasia, MSW ’93 Andrea Gieryic, MSW ’00

CL A S S O F 2 0 0 7 P O S T D E G R E E F E LL O W S HI PS

Mike Gutierrez, MSW ’82

Erin Hoffman

Presidential Management Fellowship

Adrienne Pisoni

Harvard University Social Work Fellowship

Catherine Tuttle

Harvard University Social Work Fellowship

Susan Moriarty, MSW ’99 Kristena O’Hara, MSW ’04 Danielle Sutton, MSW ’01

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STAFF COMINGS & GOINGS dan bairos was hired in March as GSSW’s technology consultant. He is responsible for assisting faculty and staff with implementing and maintaining university hardware, software, and networking standards. Bairos brings seven years of experience at Boston College to his current position. susan callaghan began in October ’07 as the School’s Director of Marketing and Communications. Susan worked for many years in the Boston College Office of Marketing and Communications. Most recently, she ran her own graphic design firm, serving many higher education clients. She has received a number of design awards for alumni magazines at Boston College and Boston College Law School. christie cohen joined GSSW as its grant manager in May. She previously worked as the assistant director at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, where she managed budgets, personnel, and office administration. Cohen replaced sveta emery, who was promoted to associate dean of finance, research, and administration. catherine himmel began at GSSW in July as the academic program assistant supporting faculty in the Health & Mental Health and Children Youth & Families concentrations. Himmel earned her BA in psychology and sociology from Wesleyan and will be pursuing a masters of science in administrative studies at the Woods School of Advancing Studies.

dianne kayala, MS, joined the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life as the associate project director of the Cash and Counseling Consumer Direction Module Project, a software program designed to help manage personal care services for Medicaid beneficiaries.

Before coming to GSSW in February, Kayala was the administrator of adult health and strategic planning in the Rhode Island Department of Human Services, Medicaid Division. mirna panameno, LICSW, a BC alumna, became the newest field education specialist in February. Her responsibilities include agency recruitment, student placement, and advising. Panameno also is employed at the Boston Medical Center as a clinical social worker, where she provided outpatient therapy and case management and coordinated the child psychiatry Latino team. buddy rutzke came to GSSW in April from BC’s Center for Corporate Citizenship. Rutzke serves as the information and program specialist for the Center for the Study of Home and Community Life Clearinghouse Project.

He is responsible for administering the website for the national clearinghouse of technical assistance related to home and community-based services. Rutzke replaces brenda vitale, MSW, who after four years of service, was promoted in February to associate director for the clearinghouse project. libby sands started as an academic program assistant supporting the Global Practice and Older Adults & Families concentrations last fall. Sands, who has a BA

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in Latin American studies from Brown and an MAT in secondary education from Boston College, has been a business owner and teacher at the secondary level. jeannine kremer, MSW, LICSW, joined GSSW’s Hartford Doctoral Program in Geriatric Social Work as a research associate. She has many years experience working in the criminal justice system in the areas of domestic violence and elder abuse.

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2009 GSSW ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER This annual event is open to all GSSW alumni near and far. It is a wonderful opportunity to network, earn CEUs, support our distinguished award winners, gather with your classmates, and enjoy a nice meal.

WHEN:

SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2009 L O C AT I O N :

WALSH Function Room TIME:

CEU presentation at 5:00 p.m.

Dinner at 6:00 p.m.

C O S T:

$25 dinner, $5 presentation Consider planning a reunion with members of your class. We would be happy to reserve a table for your group. We hope to see you there.

Questions? Contact GSSW Alumni Association at gsswalumni@bc.edu or 617-552-4020.

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Donor Report * 2007 ~ 2008

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REPORT ON GIVING THANK YOU! Donations have risen again. We appreciate your generosity. Your gifts mean more financial aid for our students and more optimism regarding the strength of the GSSW community. Every gift, large or small, benefits the future of social work.

We worked hard to make this list as accurate as possible; if your name or degree is listed incorrectly or omitted, please accept our apologies and let us know so we can make a correction.

If you would like to make a gift, please visit at www.bc.edu/friends/give. Select “GSSW” if you would like your gift to be designated to the School. Donations made after May 31, 2008 will be acknowledged next fall. If you need to report an error or omission, please call Susan Callaghan at 617-552-6234 or email callaghs@bc.edu.

gssw gifts: june 1, 2007 to may 31, 2008 gasson gift society ($10,000+) Msgr. Joseph T. Alves, BA ’44, MSW ’48 Daniel F. Coughlin Mark W. Holland, BS ’71 & Jo Ann Hilliard Holland, BA ’75 Joan Fallon Maher, BA ’71, MED ’75 & Joseph C. Maher, Jr., Esq., BS ’71, JD ’75 Navyn Datoo Salem, BA ’94 & Paul J. Salem Lynn H. Stahl, MSW ’79 Gilead Sciences, Inc. The Salem Foundation The Stahl Family Foundation, Inc.

president's circle ($5,000-$9,999) Abbott Laboratories Exxonmobil Corporation

fides gift society ($1,000-$2,499) Agnes Cox M. Carson, MSSW ’41 Cassandra M. Costa, MSW ’68 Jean Dunsmuir Donahue, MSW ’61 Peter C. McKenzie, BS ’75 & Maureen Quinn McKenzie, BA ’75, MSW ’95 Margaret M. Reiser, MSW ’68,

DSW ’93 William H. Scannell, Jr., BA ’38 & Ellen Dalton Scannell, MSSW ’42 William R. Slater III, BS ’85 & Lisa R. Slater, BS ’86 Carol M. Volpe & Louis J. Volpe Foundation

general gssw gifts Merrill B. Adler, MSW ’73 Sarah Alexander, MSW ’93 Louis F. Alfano, BS ’43 & Ella G. Alfano, MSW ’79 William J. Allen, MSP ’71 Carol Freiberg Almasi, MSW ’65 Amy Amatangelo, MSW ’93 Maryann Reilly Appicelli, BS ’64 & William F. Appicelli, MSW ’70 Laura B. Archambault, MSW ’82 Cornelia M. Archey & † Peter D. Archey, MSW ’67 Alberta Jean Baccari, MSW ’89 Rev. Paul F. Bailey, MSW ’62 Linda Baltes, MSW ’83 James C. Barker, MSW ’95 Callan Barrett, MSW ’05 Elise M. Beaulieu, MSW ’80 Kathleen K. Bedula, MSW ’82 Deborah Y. Beers, MSW ’07 Robert N. Belle, MSP ’76 Ann Murphy Bellotti, MSW ’68 & Michael P. Bellotti, MSW ’67 Donna M. Benoit, MSW ’84 & Robert J. McConnell Denise Gearan Bilotta, MSW ’84 Mary B. Blackman, MSW ’94

Mary Bobola, MSW ’94 & John M. Bobola Eugene W. Boehne, Jr., MSW ’64 L. Michael Bohigian, BA ’99 Meredith Bolden, MSW ’07 Edward A. Bonenfant, MSW ’62 Natasha F. Bonhomme, BA ’05 Sara S. Booth, MSW ’79 Mary F. Bordes, MSW ’87 Mary T. Brackett, MSW ’74 Mary Brainerd, PHD ’02 Kristen J. Bray, MSW ’95 Douglas Breunig, MSW ’83 Marilyn Bronzi, MSW ’90 Roxanna Brophy, MSW ’03 Carol Barr Brown, MSW ’71 Victoria Brown, MSW ’94 Patricia Ann Bruno, MSW ’88 Elaine G. Bucuvalas, MSW ’48 Marilyn A. Bunnewith, MSW ’68 Carrie Burke, MSW ’07 Dianne Lockhart Burke, MSW ’73 Edmund M. Burke, MSW ’56 & Leocadia Bajek Burke, MSW ’56, PHD ’73 Beth Guren Burnes, MSW ’81 & Michael J. Burnes Margarita Burpee, MA ’02, MSW ’02 Mary Byrne, PHD ’06 Mary Crudden Byrne, MSW ’55 Adrianne Cady, MSW ’76 Peter M. Caesar, MSW ’82 David W. Callagy, BA ’58, MSW ’62 James J. Callahan, Jr., MSW ’59 Ambrose R. Canty, MSW ’64 Marilyn C. Carey, MSW ’78 & James W. Drisko, DSW ’83 Rosemary Carney, MSW ’95 Virginia A. Carter, MSW ’77 Elyse Cotton Caruso, MSW ’84 & Matthew G. Caruso, MSW ’84 Wendy Bosworth Case, MSW ’74 Yolande Fontaine Casey, MSW ’51 Anne S. Castelline, MSW ’83 Phyllis B. Cater, MCP ’79 Patricia A. Cawley, MSW ’82 Patricia M. Cedeno-Zamor, PHD ’99 Ronald John Celio, MSW ’77 Kathryn Chapman, MSW ’83 Marcel Charpentier, MSW ’73 Geraldine Chase, MSW ’73 Seana Kelley Chase, MSW ’95 Robert D. Clark, MSW ’52 Yolanda Coentro, BA ’00 Amy Cohan, MSW ’97 Sherry S. Cohen, MSW ’80 Marylyn Dunlap Colburn, MSW ’84 Anita Lanciaux Collins, MSW ’65 Adam J. Combies, Esq., BS ’03 John Paul Consolo, MSW ’96 Clement E. Constantine, MSW ’48 Elizabeth O’Neal Conway, MSW ’88 Mary T. Cook, MSW ’80

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Nancy Ryan Cook, MSW ’71 Myrna W. Cooperstein, MSW ’66 Maria Copses, MSW ’96 Wendy Cordeiro, MSW ’94 Joseph M. Costa, MSW ’86 E. Carol Cotter, MSW ’59 Myrtle Rivers Crawford, MSW ’57 Diane Casey Crowley, MSW ’97 Edward Cunningham, MSW ’91 Kenneth E. Cunningham, MSW ’74, MBA ’75 Margaret M. Curran, MSW ’92 Kenneth A. Cwikla, MSW ’67 Gary A. Dauer, MSW ’82 Robin Davidson-Catalano, MSW ’83 Nancy A. Davis, MSW ’02 Patricia H. Davis, MSW ’80 Charleen M. De Stefano, MSW ’99 Carol Hathaway DeLemos, MSW ’61 Donald R. Delery, MSW ’73 Mary Louise Dell’Olio, MSW ’67 Denis G. Demers, MCP ’75 & Margaret M. Demers Lt. Col. Maurice A. Demers, MSW ’68 Katherine Chaplin Dervin, MSW ’63 Ronald G. Desnoyers, MSW ’81 Barbara E. DiCocco, MSW ’71 Donna M. DiCorpo, MED ’81 & Andrew James Dawley, MSW ’88 Estate of Mary L. Dillon, MSSW ’41 Mary Frances Dionne, MSW ’63 & Peter L. Dionne, MA ’63 Barbara A. DiRusso, MSW ’69 Cecilia A. M. Dohrmann, MSW ’93 John E. Doyle, MSW ’68 Angeline R. Duane, MSW ’99 Ellen M. Heffernan Dugan, MSW ’89 Gloria Spaulding Dugan, MSW ’64 Doreen M. Dunton-Brooks, MSW ’87 Mary Ellen Reynolds DuVarney, MSW ’64 Margaret Ann Dwyer, MED ’56, HON ’98 George R. Earley, MSSW ’59 Carol M. East, BA ’76, MSW ’83 William Baker Eaton Kathleen M. Egan, MSW ’85 Michelle Fagnano, MSW ’83 Robin A. Famighetti, MSW ’80 Carol Densberger Fanning, MSW ’55 Kathleen M. Fay, MSSW ’72 Helen Guiney Feleciano, MSW ’48 Jean M. Ferrovia, MSW ’74 Marianne E. Ferry, MSW ’88 Averil C. Fessenden, MSW ’90 Maria Andros Rodriguez Fields,

BS ’79, MSW ’84 Wayne M. Firstenberg, MSW ’83 Ann McClorey Fisher, MSW ’80 John F. Fitzgerald, MSW ’60 John R. Fitzgerald, Jr., MSW ’69 & Alice M. Fitzgerald Andrea C. Flint, MSW ’91 William J. Flynn, Jr., BS ’67, MBA ’72 & Madeleine L. Flynn, MSSW ’72 Jillian D. Foley, BA ’01, MSW ’07 Kathryn E. Foley, MSW ’05 Karen Lind Folland, MSSW ’72 Carol Senopoulos Forbes, MSW ’74 Anne Cloherty Fortune, MBA ’04, MSW ’04 Diane Levin Gall, MSW ’73 Ellen M. Galligan, MSW ’74 Melinda A. Taranto Garnis, MSW ’81 Sara J. Garofalo, BA ’96 Marylou P. Gauvin, MSW ’79 Frances Vozzella Gay, MSW ’61 Ronald J. Giard, MSW ’57 Andrea M. Gieryic, MSW ’00 Mary Finn Goggin, MSW ’56 Margaret A. Goode, MSW ’82 Elisha P. Gould Susan Reynolds Gould, MSW ’88 Francis Grady, MSW ’73 Nancy Lee Graf, MSW ’66 Celia Wicker Grand, MSW ’88 Lisa A. Granda, MSW ’01 Elizabeth Cox Gravelle, MSW ’67 Ashley B. Griffin, MSW ’07 Amy Chin Guen, MSW ’52 Mary Jolene Guerra, MSW ’69 Jina S. Guimond, MSW ’87 Thomas M. Gunning, MSW ’84 Michael E. Gutierrez, MSW ’82 Ginger Montenegro Hadley, MSW ’79 Felicia A. Hagberg, MSW ’85 & Peter K. Hagberg Mary Jo Burns Haggerty, MSW ’76 Meredith R. Hamer, MSW ’87 Judith A. Hanlon, MSSW ’72 Elizabeth Harrison, MSW ’92 Alice Noonan Hart, MSW ’62 & Robert F. X. Hart, BA ’60, MSW ’62 Francis J. Helverson, MSW ’63 Paula Henry, MSW ’04 Ruth A. Hensley, MSSW ’72 & Francis J. Quinn, Jr., MSW ’75 Jocelyn R. Hermoso, MSW ’95 Kristina D. Hevenor, MSW ’91 Diana L. Hilberman, MSP ’76 Armando C. Holguin, MSW ’05 Ann Bernice Holleran, MSW ’90 Timothy P. Hoover, BA ’03 Judith A. Houghton, MSW ’80 William Howard, MSW ’76 Susan Howe, MSW ’79 Mary Gavin Hull, MSW ’58 Phyllis N. Hurley Davis, MSW ’50

BCGSSW | DONORS |

Robert J. Hurley, MSW ’73 Anne Kathleen Hutton, BA ’96, MSW ’99 Elizabeth L. Iarrapino, BA ’02, MSW ’07 Paula McPhail Inglee, MSW ’76 Christine Irwin, BA ’98 Jacquelyn B. Jackson, BA ’76 Joseph F. Janas, MSW ’79 Marie E. Jennings, MSW ’79 Anna W. Johnson, MSW ’87 Lois M. Jones, MSW ’92 Ann Maguire Joyce, MSW ’47 Stacy H. Kaplan, MSW ’99 Noreen Coyne Kavanaugh, MSW ’81 Michael E. Kay, MSW ’77 Susan G. Kelley, MSW ’86 & Timothy M. Kelley Edmond J. Kelly, Jr., BSBA ’58, MSW ’60 William H. Keough, BSBA ’59 Mary O’Toole Kerrigan, MSW ’52 Eleanor D. Kilbourn, MSW ’51 Mary Coyle King, MSW ’64 Nicole Blanchette Kinsey, BA ’98 William John Kirkpatrick, MSW ’78 Carol A. Klein, MSW ’66 Theresa Kenny Kline, MSW ’82 & Stephen A. Kline Deborah Knapman, BA ’89 Debra A. Konieczko, MSW ’03 O. Kathleen Korgen, PHD ’97 & Jeffry O. Korgen, BA ’88, MSW ’95 Pamela Johnson Kovacs, MSW ’79 Katherine M. Kranz, PHD ’01 Andrea Caporrella Krause, MSW ’98 Jeannine Kremer, MSW ’95 Bernita M. Krueger, MSW ’85 Elaine Kunigonis, MSW ’91 Yayoe Kuramitsu, MSW ’70 Janet D. LaBelle, MSW ’95 Kathleen A. Labrie, MSW ’85 Alicia McCarthy Lainas, MSW ’90 Susan Rodrian Lambert, MSW ’70 Michael Laudati, BA ’96, MSW ’97 Timothy Gartland Lena, MSW ’88 Lois Leonard Stock, MSW ’04 Bruce E. Levison, MSW ’69 Carolyn T. Lewis, MSW ’70 Amy H. Li, MSW ’64 Hyman Litwack & Bessie Litwack Jean M. Lochiatio, MSW ’81 Linda J. Logan, BA ’76, MSW ’80 Pauline R. Ludwig, MSW ’90 Betsy L. Lundell, MSW ’83 Lisa R. Luxemberg, MSW ’91 Edith Snyder Lyman, MSW ’04 Heather A. MacDonald, MSW ’85 Donald MacGillivray, MSW ’73 Elizabeth L. Mackler, MSW ’68 Elizabeth A. MacLeod, MSW ’82 John N. MacPhee, MSW ’69 Edward P. Madaus, MSW ’75

Anne Marie Magill, MSW ’99 Kathleen Magnant, MSW ’91 Elizabeth A. Maguire, MSW ’48 Mary T. Mahoney, MSW ’68 Sally Mahoney, MSW ’93 Francis David Mainville, MS ’93 Lisa Rouleau Majewski, BA ’83, MSW ’87 & Andy Majewski, BA ’84 Ellen Manning, MSW ’67 Claire E. Markowitz, MSW ’52 Adele Hanna Martz, MSW ’54 Jerry D. Marx, MSW ’84 Kim Marie Matte, MSW ’96 Helene Caryl Mayer, MSW ’82 & Kenneth E. Virgile Mary-Elizabeth Maynard, MSW ’89 Judith A. McAllister, MSW ’66 Alice O’Hara McCarter, MSW ’97 Francis P. McCarter, MSW ’79 & Carol Lemay McCarter, MSW ’79 Mildred A. McCarthy, MSW ’40 Angelo Wayne McClain, PHD ’01 Diana Newton McClure, MSW ’69 Marjorie McDonald-Dowdell, MSW ’89 Amy McFarland, MSW ’91 Maureen Robb McGeehan, MSW ’71 Katherine E. McGillivray, MSW ’62 Brenda G. McGowan, MSW ’66 Mary Ellen Flynn McGowan, MSW ’68 Joseph W. McGreal, MSW ’64 Paul E. McGuinness, MSW ’65 Carmen M. McNamara, BS ’63 Linda D. Meehan, MSW ’81 Rosemarie Downing Mello, MSW ’69 Carmen M. Mercer, MSW ’91 Linda K. Mertz, MSW ’90 Sylvia I. Mignon, MSW ’75 Ann H. Miller, MSW ’83 & Henri Flikier John Marmelo Mimoso, MSW ’89 Michael P. Monaghan, MSW ’99 Susan Zebley Morang, MSW ’76 Susan E. Moriarty, BA ’92, MSW ’99 Sarah Morrill, BA ’88 Edward F. Morrissey, MSW ’58 & Carolann Morrissey Anna Y. Moynahan, MSW ’04 Ellen M. Mullane, MSW ’84 Walter Mullin, PHD ’00 & Kathleen P. Mullin Gwendolyn H. Murphy, MSW ’63 Jennifer Cowen Murphy, MSW ’94 Kenneth C. Murphy, MSW ’61 Michael J. Murphy, MSW ’61 Thomas M. Murphy, BS ’50, MSSW ’56 Nancy Elizabeth Myerson, MSW ’78 Col. Donald A. Myles, Ph.D., MSW ’62 Paula Beebe Nannicelli, MSW ’74

Barbara Etchingham Nash, MSW ’68 Barbara L. Neel, MSW ’74 & Stephen E. Neel Cathy A. Neidich, MSW ’80 Tema C. Nemtzow, MBA ’86, MSW ’86 Frances J. Newcombe, MSW ’82 Susan J. Newman, MSW ’70 Eugene R. Nigro, MSW ’54 Tatyana Nikitina, MSW ’07

Laurence F. Noonan, Jr., MSW ’69 & Louise A. Noonan Lorraine Noone, MSW ’48 Barbara Nordstrom, MSW ’93 Gina A. Nunziato-Smith, MSW ’86 Paul J. Oates, BS ’59 Kimberly H. M. O’Brien, MSW ’05 Edward J. O’Connell, Jr., MSW ’67 Margaret Farrell O’Keefe,

MSW ’73 Phyllis Finnegan O’Keefe, MSW ’81 & Luke F. O’Keefe Rhonda M. Ollquist, MSW ’82 Mark R. Olson, MSW ’69 Gregory R. O’Meara Joseph M. O’Neil, Esq., BA ’55 Michelle F. Oosterman, BA ’83 Jennifer M. Orcutt, MSW ’91 Ellen R. Orlen, MSW ’59

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS distinguished alumni awards 2009 Nominate an MSW or PhD alumna/us of the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work for the 2009 Distinguished Social Work Alumni Awards. These awards recognize contributions to the practice of social work made by a BCGSSW alumna/us that include: • • • • • • •

enhancing the profession of social work in the larger community improving social work education enhancing an area of public service supporting practice issues within the profession (clinical and macro) changing or improving social policy helping BCGSSW students and alumni, and/or representing a lifetime of achievement in the profession of social work

The award must go to an alumna/us of the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work (MSW or PhD). Current BCGSSW Alumni Association Board members are not eligible. Nominations can be made by alumni, faculty (past and present), administrators, and current students. Nominations must be completed and received by 5 p.m., March 6, 2009.

To nominate, submit a resume of the nominee and include the following: 1. Your name, address, daytime phone, and email.

2. Candidate’s name, address, daytime phone, and email.

Please describe the candidate’s outstanding achievements and include the following information: area of contribution, area of practice, educational history, employment history, personal history, publications, other awards.

Nominations can be submitted in three ways: Email all of the nomination information to gsswalumni@bc.edu.

Mail the information to: Boston College Graduate School of Social Work 140 Commonwealth Ave. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Attn: Alumni Award Nominations Fax this information to 617-552-1095 Attn: Alumni Award Nominations You may also download a nomination form at: www.bc.edu/schools/gssw/alumni.html Questions? Contact the GSSW Alumni Association at gsswalumni@bc.edu or 617-552-4020.

† = Deceased

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we apologize that, because of a technical error, some donors from FY 2006 and FY 2007 were not included in the donor report published last fall. it is with much gratitude that we here acknowledge those generous contributors.

FY06 gasson society ($10,000 and higher) Mary Anne Lambert Litwack & David A. Litwack Mark W. Holland ’71 & Jo Ann Hilliard Holland NC ’75 Joseph C. Maher, Jr., Esq. ’71, JD ’75 Joan Fallon Maher ’71, MEd ’75 Gilead Sciences, Inc.

FY06 president’s circle ($5,000 - $9,999) Jean M. Fallon Cunningham ’71 & Richard Cunningham DIME

FY07 gasson society ($10,000 and higher) Neil Budnick ’76 & Anita Cobb ’76 Mark W. Holland ’71 & Jo Ann Hilliard Holland NC ’75 Joseph C. Maher, Jr., Esq. ’71, JD ’75 & Joan Fallon Maher ’71, MEd ’75 Gilead Sciences, Inc. John F. Wissler ’57, MBA ’72 * & Jeanne MacDonald Wissler ’88, MSW ’94 *

* Planned Gift/Shaw Society

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Claire O’Toole, MSW ’49 Robert F. Ott, Jr., MSW ’66 & Rosalinda J. Ott Richard F. Papalia, MSW ’62 Andrea Limon Parada, MSW ’94 Margaret Mary Patterson, MCP ’78 Anne Voss Pearlstein, MSW ’79 Kenneth F. Perry, MSW ’74 Shirley T. Perry, MSW ’60 Jennifer S. Peters, MSW ’06 Mary T. Pilkington-Casey, MSW ’75, JD ’86 & Paul W. Casey, BS ’70, MBA ’76 Heather K. George Pistell, MSW ’77 David J. Porter, MSW ’71 Joan Langhorn Power, MSW ’59 Joseph P. Powers, MA ’81, PHD ’84 & Kathleen O’Brien Powers, MSW ’70 Carey Baumgarten Price, MSW ’88 Denis P. Pringle, MSW ’95 Janice M. Prochaska, PHD ’98 Janet E. Proctor, MSW ’65 & Francis R. Proctor, Jr., BS ’54, MSW ’61 Jesse Quam, MSW ’05 Micheila Questell, MSW ’05 Kathleen Houlihan Rao, MSP ’74 Nancy Reiche, MSW ’77 Elizabeth S. Reidy, MSW ’52 Carol A. Renaud, MSW ’82 Melanie Renaud, MSW ’98 Kristen J. Reynelds, MSW ’99 Marilyn J. Reynolds, MSW ’88 Anthony F. Ricciardi, MSW ’81 Rebekah K. Richardson, MSP ’74 Robert J. Ridick, MSW ’59 Kimberly Riley, MSW ’03 Martin J. Robb, MSP ’72 & Nancy Patton Robb, MSSW ’72 Virginia Bogdan Robertson, MSW ’54 Karrie Zampini Robinson, MSW ’71 Virginia W. Robinson, MSP ’74 Lorraine A. Rogstad, MSW ’64 Roland L. Rose, MSW ’75 Sandra E. Rosenblum, MSW ’76 Alice Rotfort, MSW ’92 Colette M. Rowland, MSW ’95 Anne R. Rowley, MSW ’87 Helen J. Rubel, MSW ’76 Sherry G. Rubin, MSW ’76 Barbara Naglin Ruchames, MSW ’72 Mary W. Ruell Joseph F. Ryan, Esq., BS ’59 & Nancy Welch Ryan, MSW ’60 Thomas M. Sadtler, MSW ’77 Nancy J. Sanders, MSW ’74 Nancy Gould Sandman, MSSW ’72 Linda Ann Saucier, MSW ’83 Nancy Dalsheimer Savage, MSW ’86 Sandy Schneible, BA ’95 Margo P. Schulter, MA ’74

Lisa Sechrest-Ehrhardt, MSW ’84 & David E. Ehrhardt Grace Murray Sexton, MSW ’48 Francis B. Shea, MSW ’53 J. Gregory Shea, MSW ’66 Pamela M. Shea, MSP ’72 Joseph F. Sheehan, MSW ’61 Margaret A. Sheehan, MSW ’88 Catherine Fennelly Sherwood, MSW ’64 Esther Dickinson Shott, MSW ’47 Harry Shulman, MSW ’69 Nancy C. Slamin, MSW ’74 Mary V. Slovic, MSW ’48 Barbara Franconi Smith, MSW ’76 Kathleen Keller Smith, MSW ’02, MA ’03 Robert L. Smith, MSW ’82 Michelle Smith-Packard, MSW ’97 Janet S. Sneath, MSW ’77 Theresa Sweeney Sorota, MSW ’71 Robert F. Spaziano, MSW ’69 Janet M. Spence, MSW ’88 Rose O’Brien Sperry, BS ’58 Adeline Hintlian Spivey, MSW ’50 Rachel Stephenson-Tribuzo, MSW ’89 Alan C. Stewart, MSW ’67 Lois Sulahian, MSW ’92 John David Sulick, BA ’89 Elizabeth Daulton Sulin, MSW ’88 Florence Vitale Sullivan, MSW ’59 Kenna M. Sullivan, BA ’80 Thomas W. Sullivan, MSW ’52 Nancy Nichols Sundeen, MSW ’83 Victoria Ann Sutton, MSW ’96 Colleen Cornish Swan, MSW ’93 Louis M. Swan, MSW ’76 Anne S. Sweeney, MSW ’63 Jessica Anne Swensen, BA ’06 Leslie Swiderski, MSW ’00 Katherine Barker Swindell, MSW ’93 Mary Trepanier Sylvia, MSW ’56 Melvin Tapper, MSW ’73, DED ’96 & Jill C. Tapper, MSW ’75 Lisa M. Tarashuk, MSW ’87 Paul J. Tausek, MSW ’69 David S. Taylor, MED ’98 Christyn Thompson, MSW ’03 Jane K. Thompson, MSW ’64 Crystal E. Thorpe, MSW ’96, MBA ’96 Therese A. Todd, MSW ’59 James E. Tooley, MSW ’76 Rev. Normand Tremblay, MSW ’65 Jennifer Tripp, MSW ’06 Amy Troxell-Mautz, MSW ’97 Mary A. Turvey, MSW ’76 Janet Urman, MSW ’70 Joseph W. Valentine, MSW ’63 Andrew S. Valeras, BS ’01 & Aimee M. Burke Valeras, BA ’01, MSW ’02 German M. Valtierra, MSP ’74 Dale L. Van Meter, MSW ’65 Rosemarie Sacco Verderico, MSW ’69

Constance L. Wade, MSW ’87 Wayne K. Walker, MSW ’69 Margaret M. Wall, MSW ’52 Lisa Petra Wallace, MSW ’96 Richard D. Wallace, BA ’60, MA ’67 & Sandra L. Wallace Frank J. Walsh, MSW ’80 Lois Vachon Ward, MSW ’73 Loretta L. Warren-Barnes, MSW ’86 Cynthia S. Wasserman, MSW ’80 Marguerite A. Waterman, MSW ’87 Susan Abbott Weaver, MSW ’77 Lee Webster, MSW ’95 Clara M. Weeks-Boutilier, MSW ’72 Judith Dio Wentzell, MSW ’85 Genevieve Madison West, MSW ’53 Barbara R. Wexler, MSW ’74 Christine M. Whalen, MSW ’84 Doranne Whittredge, MSW ’84 Jason H. Wild, BA ’00 & Norline R. Wild, MSW ’03 Allison Marie Williams, MSW ’96 Patricia Fay Wilson, MSW ’58 & William R. Wilson, MSW ’58 John J. Winchester, Jr., MSW ’65 Hans Woicke, MSW ’05 Laura Woods, MSW ’91 Jill M. Wussler, MSW ’93 Stephen H. Yerdon, MSW ’82 & Debbie Yerdon Andrea Cohen Zack, MSW ’84 Joanne D. Zannotti, MSW ’68 Katherine A. Zeisler, MSW ’83 Ling Zhang, MSW ’92 Elisabeth Zweig, MSW ’77, DHL ’02 __________________________ Adams Street Partners LLC Fidelity Charitable Gift Fidelity Investments General Electric Company HSBC IBM Corporation Insight Media Kennametal Foundation Northwestern Mutual Life Reebok Human Rights Foundation The Shriners' Hospital For Children United Way of Rhode Island

GSSW Recruitment Fair The annual GSSW Recruitment Fair is one of the many services we offer our students and alumni through the GSSW Career Services Office. Close to 50 agencies from New England participated in the 2008 GSSW Recruitment Fair in March.

This successful event highlights the interest agencies from across New England have in hiring our students and alumni.

The next Recruitment Fair will be held March 20, 2009. We welcome you to participate as an employer or job seeker.

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Community Counseling of Bristol County

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South Shore Mental Health

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Walker

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Wayside Youth and Family Support

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