Newsletters and Newspapers – A history of the Smith College School of Social Work

Photographing and Celebrating Diverse Families, 2000

Photo of mother hugging adolescent daughter

By showing how different families can be, Peggy Elman Gillespie, M.S.W. 1969, and her Family Diversity Projects hope to convince us all that diversity is something to be celebrated.

HIV and AIDS in Provincetown, 1998

geometric drawing of intertwined people and stars

Provincetown (or P-town) residents responded quickly and thoroughly to the devastation that HIV and AIDS brought to their community in the early 1980s. In 1996 Pamela Peterson AC 1984, M.S.W. 1994 and her coauthor Jeanne Braham recognized P-town’s uniqueness and came to the Cape Cod community to interview those infected by HIV and AIDS as well as their families, friends, and caretakers.

Graduate Students Experience of Stress, Burnout, and Coping, 1989

Stress and burnout is not a new concern for SSW students. From the very first days, SSW professors who were also psychiatrists and psychologists sometimes served as therapists for students. By the 1980s, though, faculty and therapists had been separated into two different offices.

Dorothy Atwill on Achieving Work-Life Balance in 1928

In this article, a psychiatric social worker contends with challenges of work-life balance that will seem familiar to many working women ninety years later.

Elizabeth Moore Manwell, “Out of the Nest Means Mothers Too,” 1962

Elizabeth Moore Manwell, one of the first SSW graduates, wrote this essay for the Smith Alumnae Quarterly in 1962. She asked, “Society needs unselfish women leaders, now more than ever, for the great women pioneers have gone but injustice and misery have not. Who will take their places?”

Angelika Robertson, “Focus on Women,” 1979

In this 1979 essay, Angelika Robertson describes the projects she and other fellows pursued while at the SSW New Research Center. She frames the value of the center to her professional life through the lens of coming back to academia after having her second child.

Katherine Gabel on Encouraging Excellence in a Beleagured Profession, 1982

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Personification of the School: Tributes to Florence Day and Annette Garrett, 1958

Black and white photo of Annette Garrette at an indoor party.

Soon after the more expected death of Director Florence Day from cancer, Associate Director Annette Garrett died unexpectedly. In this issue of the Alumnae Association Newsletter, SSW faculty member and alumna Nancy Staver gives a “biographical tribute” to the controversial and devoted Garrett.

Golden Jubilee Edition, 1968

This Golden Jubilee issue contains a history of the Alumni Association, a letter from Dean Howard Parad on the cusp of curriculum changes, and reminiscences about the very first years of the SSW from Mary Cynthia Smith, M.S.S. 1920.

Students, Alumni and Faculty Evaluate Significant Changes in the Late 1980s

Black and white photo of classroom discussion

Significant changes instituted by Ann Hartman soon after she became dean in 1986 brought the attention of students on campus, of the Northampton Community and of alumni spread around the world.

Carolyn Jacobs becomes Dean, 2003

portion of 2003 InDepth article on Carolyn Jacobs appointment to dean

Essays include: “Joining Forces: The School and the VA Hope to Collaborate,” “An Appointment to Celebrate: Community Honors Dean,” “Returning to Our Roots: School Marks 85th Anniversary,” “Anti-Racism Project Raises Consciousness: Student’s Study Makes a Difference,” “Reaching for Excellence: A Special Week of Learning Planned”