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2022 Social Work Pioneers Honored for Blazing Trails

2022 Social Work Pioneers Honored for Blazing Trails

By Paul R. Pace Five Black women who are NASW Social Work Pioneers® have been honored for their dedication to the profession, improving their communities, and leading the way as trailblazers. Their achievements continue to inspire social workers today. Bernice C....

2022 Social Work Pioneers Honored for Blazing Trails

By Paul R. Pace Five Black women who are NASW Social Work Pioneers® have been honored for their dedication to the profession, improving their communities, and leading the way as trailblazers. Their achievements continue to inspire social workers today. Bernice C....

In Memoriam: Warren Clark Lamson

August 20, 1914 -May 5, 2008 Mr. Warren Clark Lamson, 93, of Solomons Island, MD died May 5, 2008 at his residence in Solomons, MD. He was born in Neligh, Nebraska, August 20, 1914 to the late John Wesley and Laura Alice Lamson. Mr. Lamson graduated from Wayne State...

Grace L. Hewell

Grace L. Hewell, 89, a retired social worker and federal education specialist, died March 7 of congestive heart failure at Providence Hospital in the District. She was a resident of the District and Chattanooga, Tenn. Dr. Hewell was born in Chattanooga and graduated...

Esther Glasser

NASW Pioneer Esther Glasser died Saturday, February 2, 2008 in Arlington, VA Click here for her NASW Pioneer Biography Click here for her husband Mel Glasser's NASW Pioneer Biography GLASSER Esther K. Glasser (Age 91) On Saturday, February 2, 2008, Esther K. Glasser,...

Joan K. Parry in Memoriam

NASW Past Board Member Joan K. Parry died January 9, 2008 in La Jolla, CA Read the Obituary Dr. Joan K. Parry Dies at 79 in her La Jolla Home. Joan K. Parry, DSW, ACSW, LCSW, passed away the morning of January 9th in her own La Jolla home where she had expressly...

Betty Broadhurst

NASW Social Work Pioneer Betty Broadhurst died Monday, December 31st , 2007 in Fort Collins, Colorado Click here for the Obituary Click here for her Social Work Pioneer Biography Dr. Betty P. Broadhurst, 88, a Denver, Colorado native passed away peacefully December...