By Paul R. Pace, News staff NASW Social Work Pioneer® Elaine Brody, who died on July 9 at age 91, is being remembered as one of the first social work practitioners to simultaneously conduct research of clients. Her efforts helped launch the specialization of aging...
Memorials & Tributes
Brody was one of first social work practitioners to conduct research
By Paul R. Pace, News staff NASW Social Work Pioneer® Elaine Brody, who died on July 9 at age 91, is being remembered as one of the first social work practitioners to simultaneously conduct research of clients. Her efforts helped launch the specialization of aging...
Remembering Katherine Kendall
Katherine Kendall (1910 - 2010) Click a quote below to view a video segment. "All well-educated people must have a world view." "When you know you have really helped, it makes life nice." "This award recognizes all the things I have loved, and that makes me very...
Congress Remembers Dr. Dorothy I. Height
Social work pioneer and civil rights leader, Dr. Dorothy I. Height passed away on April 20. Within 24 hours, the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives passed separate resolutions celebrating Dr. Height’s life of and recognizing her lifelong dedication and...
Remembering Dr. Mary Ann Quaranta
Dr. Mary Ann Quaranta, of Larchmont, NY, died Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Dean Emerita of the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, and former President of the National Association of Social Workers, was a social work pioneer, educator and leader in...
Carla Beth Howery: In Memoriam
Carla Beth Howery - On March 31, 2009 at her Takoma Park, MD home with her family around her. Loving mother of Andrew Victor Fremming and Kevin Carl Fremming. Preceded in death by her sister, Marcia Howery; and her father, Victor I. Howery. She is also survived by her...
Louise Frey
NASW Social Work Pioneer® Louise Frey dies at 84 Louise Frey, a professor emerita at BU’s School of Social Work, died in California on February 13 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. She was 84. Born on April 5, 1924, Frey earned a bachelor’s degree from Queens...
In Memoriam: John B. Turner, African American NASW Social Work Pioneer
NASW Social Work Pioneer® John B. Turner, Ph.D., whose career in social work spanned more than 40 years and whose efforts and leadership helped earn national recognition for the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died on Friday,...