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10-1995

Stimulus, Vol. 19, No. 1

UT College of Social Work

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examples in the electronic files for of the remote locations begins to students to download. Connectus will speak, the professor and students m also provide improved access to the the other two locations can see the Internet and the Work-Wide Web, a speaker on television monitors in the1r rapidly growing global multimedia respective locations. This two-way information resource. Future benefits linkage of the three locations allows fo of Connectus may include enhanced a rich exchange of information and field-agency support as agencies ideas between social work students develop e-mail resources, improved across the state. contact with Alumni, and desk-top Interactive television makes it video conferencing between CSW possible to offer courses that previ­ locations. ously had been taught in a single location to all locations--for example, Interactive Television substance abuse treatment. Addition­ ally, interactive television now makes it In the summer of 1994, the CSW began possible to offer classes that would to use interactive television as a Dr. David Patterson, who helped de1•elopthe multimedia lab at the UT College of Social Work, have had low enrollment in one demonstrates to .1·tudent.� how interactive media works. teaching tool. Interactive television location to larger numbers of students allows a professor in any of the across the three location of the college. locations to teach to students in all To date, Drs. Muammer Cetingok, The rapid advancement of in­ mail (e-mail) access to one another and three CSW locations. Moreover, the Marsha Marley, Elaine Spaulding, and I formation technology into personal, to the various academic committees of professor can interact with students in have all taught interactive television social, cultural, and economic realms is the College. all locations. Anytime a student in one perhaps an inescapable fact of modern Improved e-mail access helps (continued on page 14) life. Access to and competence in minimize two significant barriers to utilizing information technology is communication and consensus-building becoming important to the empower­ for staff, faculty, and students: (a) it ment of the so·cial work profession and removes "place" as a barrier to dialogue UT School of Social Work the clients it serves. The College of on specific subjects, and (b) it elimi­ Social Work has recently responded to nates the barrier of "time" (i.e., "I've got the opportunities and challenges posed to be ready to listen when you are Is Reaccredited by the information age by embracmg ready to talk,") because e-mail can wait College engaged in minor revisions of three applications of information until one has the time to deal with it. the master's curriculum. These changes technology--the development of a This improved communication capacity will be implemented beginning with the college-wide computer network, an will enhance collaborative efforts in the fa ll semester of 1995. Changes include interactive television-instruction areas of research, scholarship, teaching, program, and a multimedia lab. and College administration. + Moving from a one-semester to Students across the three one-year foundation. All students will I Wide-Area Network locations will have e-mail to access each I be required to take three social work The name of the college-wide com­ other and faculty through off-campus practice courses (including one course , , puter network is Connectus. When modem dial-in or via the computer lab \ in macro-practice) and two courses in completed, this wide-area network in each location. Students will be able human behavior, as well as courses in (WAN) will electronically integrate the to access databases, CSW-related research methods, social welfare policy, Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville oppression, and field practice. documents (e.g., the College catalog) ,./ I ., \ ..--- locations, along with the B.S.S.W. and and course material made available on .._ J + Changing the Administration and Ph.D. programs, the new Children's Connectus. Connectus will serve as T his past sprin� the Counc on Planning concentration to Management Research Center, and the statewide electronic document repositories for all Social Work Education reaccredited� and Community Practice and renaming offices of the Social Work Office of regular and interactive television the UT. College of Social Work's the Social Work Treatment concentra­ Research and Public Service classes. Instead of using handouts, M.S.S.W. program. The College's tion "Clinical Social Work Practice." (SWORPS). Faculty and staff in all faculty will be able to place study program has full accreditation status + Changing the minimum require­ offices will have easy-to-use electronic guides, charts, graphics, notes, and case until 200 I. At the same time, the ments from 57 semester hours to 60 (continued on page /4) is published by the UT College of Social Work

Eunice Shatz, Dean Jeanette Jennings, Associate Dean, Knoxville Hishashi Hirayama, Associate Dean, Memphis William Beil, Assoc1ate Dean, Nashville Paul Campbell, Director. SWORPS Margot Morrow, Editor

We welcome news and announcements from alumni, faculty, staff, and the field. Submit material to Stimulus, Social Work Office of Research and Public Service, Henson Hall, Rm. 3 19, 1618 Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37996-3334. Publication number EO 1-40 I 0-004-96. (95054)

Alumni Profile: Pam Wolf ('92), L.C.S.W.and Instructor at UT Law School �H�:tHcNWJ�

As an instructor in the UT Law but once Wolf was approved--in ing to get their babies, then swearing drous events of the past two years, School, Pam Wolf, a 1992 graduate of january 1995, it was only four more before Chinese officials that they would Wolf says, "The most complicated part the UTCSW, supervises 12 M.S.S.W. months before she was assigned a child never abandon these children, then of the process was getting approval students who coordinate with third­ for adoption. going through a brief getting-to-know­ through the INS. They do a police year law students to provide services you period in the hotel where they report, check potential adoptive to legal clients. These students see 40 An Unforgettable Journey were staying in Hong Kong. parents' financial standing, complete a to 45 clients at any given time, most of On April 3, 1995, at I 0:00 a.m. Wolf "We occupied a whole wing of 9-hour home study--it is very intrusive, whom have complicated legal problems received a Federal Express package one hotel," says Wolf. "The hotel but_th_e social workers are very good." stemming from untreated mental Wolf says the Service also requires illness, homelessness, and lack of social seven references, requires applicants to security benefits. And like most social have a thorough medical evaluation, and work professionals, Ms. Wolf is no provides the Chinese government with stranger to red tape and paperwork. photographs of applicants and their Still, her most challenging recent homes. All this careful scrutiny is "assignment" was not in her profes­ understandable, says Wolf, even though sional life; it instead involved a 7-year it might seem to contradict the Chinese quest to adopt a baby. government's childbirth policy, which is "I have wanted a child for a at the root of child abandonment-­ long time--but I had to finish graduate particularly of infant girls. school first," says the petite, energetic "The Chinese system provides 39-year-old. She explains that the for only one child per couple, and there demands of adoption were not just on is still such a strong preference for a her time, but also on her pocketbook. male child that many baby girls are "The cost is between $15,000 given up for adoption--there were only and $17,000 for most people, because little girls at the orphanage--about 70 of you must pay for the trip to China and, them. On the one hand, we're support­ once you get there, for transportation ing the Chinese birthing policy by to the orphanage to get your baby." adopting their babies, but we're also Wolf traveled first to Hong Kong, then Pam Wolfbrought baby Anna Li Wolffor a vi.�it with Dean Shatz. Ms. Wolf, a single mom, saving a lot of children." to Changsha, then was bussed along adopted Anna Li from China af ter a lengthy process that involved traveling around the world. Wolf adds that people in with 22 other prospective parents to China neverthess love babies and want Yue Yang, in Hunan Province. from the Chinese government telling borrowed strollers, and we were a to know that they are well cared for. Wolf says that after trying her that she had the opportunity to sight taking all those babies up and "Strangers came up to me and other with little success to adopt an infant in adopt 6-month-old Anna Li. In the down the halls of the hotel!" She adoptive parents to thank us," she says. the U.S., she learned of Chinese package was a photograph, a medical explains that they didn't dare take the Children's Adoption International in report, Anna Li's birth date, weight, her babies out into the street because the Chinese Children'.� Adoption Interna­ Littleton, Colorado, which does all the birth place, and a message asking Wolf throngs of people made it impossible to tional, 303-347-2224, sends a group of paperwork necessary to adopt through if she would accept this child or not. At move around safely with a stroller. adoptive parents to China about once a the Chinese government. It took 18 I 0:05 a.m., Wolf called to say yes. "There are 1.3 billion people in China. month. You mu.�t be between the age.� of 35 months to complete all the required Within a few days, Wolf was It's amazing," says Wolf. and 50 to adopt, and only child/e.,·.� forms, home studies, and financial on a plane to China along with 22 individuals and couple.,· are assigned an evaluations through the U.S. Immigra­ other expectant parents. They spent The Paper Chase infant-those who already have children tion and Naturalization Service (INS), the next I I days together, first travel- When she thinks back on the won- can adopt a child older than age two. Contents Tribute to Mary Ann Jackson..... 4 Donors to the College ...... 8 Rural Social Work Conference Report ...... 12 Social Work Enters the 21st Century Campaign Results 4 Calling All Alumni--Where Are Information Age ...... I They Now? ...... 8 Continuing Education Family, Faculty, and Staff Roundup ...... 13 9 UT College of Social Work is Campaign Results ...... 5 College News...... Reaccredited ...... I NIMH Center Update ...... 13 Alumni News...... 5 Ellie Moses Retiring...... I 0 Alumni Profile: Pam Wolf...... 2 Student News...... IS Romila Wallace Honored...... 6 Faculty News ...... I 0 Professional Social Work and Upcoming Events...... l6 Public Wefare...... 3 Alumni Profile: George Spain...... 6 Melinda Bailes Joins Staff ...... 12

October 1995 3

Professional Social Work and Public Welfare--A Rocky �c w�� 52-Year Relationship �

This article was excerpted fr om a speech given last their brain child, had gone bad. Many Faculty often reinforced the image of separate counties, there remained a

September at UT's Bicentennial Celebration. social workers distanced themselves the failed bureaucracy by holding the fundamental connection. Buried out of from the "Welfare Department" and all department and its sister agencies casual public view of many professional 0 ffering comments on the occasion it represented. By the time I came to across the nation up as examples of social workers was a consistent and of the 200th anniversary of the Univer­ school in the mid-1 970's, social work failure. When I maintained I wished to quite dedicated core of professionals, sity of Tennessee presented me with a delivered in public welfare settings was make a professional career out of trying schooled at UT and at other graduate daunting task, since it is the past 52 held in low esteem by many social work to make the system work, many of my social work programs. This core group, years of that history that interests professionals. The failings of the fellow students thought me mad. which over the years included such social workers most--the 52 year nation's child welfare system were luminaries as Vallie Miller, Hurston history of the College of Social Work. legend. The necessity of having an I t was not always so. In fact, the roots Burkhart, Jean Bowman, Pat Lockett, That history is interwoven with the 58- ample pool of employees in every of social work education, and indeed and Tommy Perkins, sought to quietly year history of public welfare in county in the state and the low salaries professional social work in this state, and effectively maintain the connection Tennessee. It is that connection that, as established by elected officials made are intricately interwoven with the between the values of our profession I understood it, resulted in my being maintenance of professional qualifica­ early history of the Department of and the values and practices instilled in asked to speak at the Bicentennial tions impractical. Human Services. The social crisis of the 900 front-line practitioners struggling Celebration. 1930's galvanized government and to meet their clients' need across the Even our client population was professional leaders to action. Out of state. In fact, many of those who sought Unfortunately, the connections drawing less interest from some in the that crisis came the Social Security Act, graduate preparation a decade or more between professional social work professional community as social work and in the years that followed, the ago are many of today's leaders in the education--indeed many social work found new customers in more middle creation of the professional schools of Department of Human Services. People professionals--and the public welfare class populations. Public social work social work. We shared a common like Mary Lou Chambers, Susan Steppe, department has been strained in those clients were, and still are, often client base--one born of poverty and Ed Lake, Marilyn Whalen, Linda 52 years. Many professional social impoverished. Not surprising when you neglect. On a more human level this Williams, and others have kept the faith workers view public welfare depart­ consider most of the problems we school and the public child welfare alive. ments as large, ineffectual bureaucracies confront flourish in poverty. Many of agency were intertwined. The first class with little relationship to professional our clients enter the system involun­ of students were recruited away from I must admit that while the contribu­ social work. While the 1940's and tarily and are angry at the very people the public agency staff, and our child tions of these folks is immense, the real 1950's saw a close alliance between the who seek to help them. I remember welfare director (who passed away last heroes of professional social work in a then Tennessee Department of Public being quickly disabused of my naive year), Vallie Miller, was the school's public setting in my book are the rare Welfare and the School of Social Work, expectations of thankful children being first field work director. individuals who, after coming to work the dramatic public social service rescued from abuse and grateful in the department, realized our clients expansions of the 1960's placed new parents accepting my intervention. We This was a promising beginning for needed and deserved more than they pressures on public social work work in an area of social work where the school, the profession, and the could give with their undergraduate administrators. The political and there are few "satisfied" customers department. Unfortunately, somewhere preparation and chose to return to financial realities in this state of creating thanking you for entering their lives. In between the 1940's and the 1970's we school, often on their own, to seek a a large work force with offices in every fact, no matter what we do, there is appeared, to many observers, to professional education. For these county drove a wedge between the usually one interested observer wander apart. While admittedly a form heroes, the graduate degree is not a ideal we aspired to and the reality we standing ready to tell how wrong we of estrangement appeared to develop ticket to a promotion or a job in a had to accept. The result was the shift are. Cleaner environments with more on the surface, born of shifting political more "professional" environment. away from a professional work force, willing clients and greater personal and winds, limited resources, hard deci­ Rather, graduate education is simply a with increasing reliance on bachelor­ financial reward and clearer profes­ sions, and the sheer complexity of means to improved service delivery. trained practitioners. To some in social sional prestige were calling new social making one of the largest organizations People like Katie Finney, a lady who has work education, public social services, work graduates to other settings. in the state operate effectively in 95 excelled in her work while regularly (continued on page 14) Requiem for a Hero--Mary Ann Jackson ('48), Head of Nashville's YWCA

Mary Ann Jackson, a 1948 graduate of of wisdom and compassion and as a Middle Tennessee. The agency success­ the U.T. College of Social Work at builder of people. Professionally, most fully conducted a $2 million campaign Nashville (at that time known as the people will remember Mrs. Jackson leading to a new and larger facility, Nashville School of Social Work), died through her 12-year tenure as the developed a shelter for battered of cancer in early April, 1995. Mrs. executive director of the Nashville women long before others were talking Jackson was described by the Nashville YWCA During her period of leader­ about domestic violence, and created a Tennessean as a "pillar of the commu­ ship, the YWCA became the premier model training program for displaced nity," and was well-loved as a woman agency for services to women in homemakers. Prior to her work with

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Making a Difference: The 21st Century Campaign

A five-year, $250 million campaign As part of UT's 21st Century informed by the science and art of Excellence in Teaching for all UT campuses was announced in Campaign, the College of Social Work social research and human behavior. First and last, the educational program October 1994 to raise funds for faculty assessed its role in this mission and Scholarships and fellowships and the profession is about people. support and research. scholarships and determined the following priorities and make it possible to accept the most National searches have brought to us fellowships, expanded service to goals to properly sustain it. qualified and promising applicants creative teachers and skilled business and industry, and other without regard for their ability to pay researchers ...women and men who The College's total campaign academic program development. The and graduate a new generation of have honed their knowledge in the real goal is $4 million. 21st Century Gampaign is the most educated citizens while providing skilled world of social work agencies, commu­ ambitious fund-raising drive in the nities, and policy-making institutions. University's 200-year history. Seeking, attracting, and retaining the National campaign chair of the talent and diversity of these women 21st Century Campaign is William and men who are on the leading edge Stokely, Ill ('63), chairman and presi­ of research and professional experience dent of The Stokely Companies. is a highly competitive and costly Honorary cha1r is Senator Howard activity. Baker, Jr. ('49), former Senate majority Income from an endowed leader and White House Chief of Staff. faculty development fund will make it Jim Haslam ('52), chairman of Pilot possible for the college to periodically Corporation, heads the UT Knoxville invite nationally and internationally portion of the campaign. recognized experts to join the faculty In announcing the campaign, of the college for teaching and scholarly Stokely said. "The University of activity. These individuals will also Tennessee 1s at a critical moment in its participate in conferences and activities history. State assistance s1mply cannot in Tennessee and in the southeast prov1de the margin of excellence region, adding their expertise in aresas needed to move us into the top tier of such as working with children at risk. state universities. My commitment to Visiting distinguished scholars will bring the 21st Century Campaign is built on global perspectives and fresh insights to my confidence in the university's vision our college community, state, and of its future." region. Faculty enrichment resources Helping kick off the Campaign were (1. to r.) UTK Chancellor BillSnyder, Margaret Snyder, will provide salary supplements and Challenges and Choices Natalie Haslam, and Jim Haslam ('52), who lead.� the UTK portion of the campaign. research grants for distinguished faculty The vision of the College of Social who regularly teach in our programs. workers to the profession. Many are Work was recently defined by Dean Promoting Student Excellence Funds will also expand our current Eunice 0. Shatz as "a creative commit­ Since its inception, the College has students in mid-life with families and knowledge in the use of information ment to the values of social justice, sought out the most talented and jobs. Scholarships allow them the technology such as interactive instruc­ enhanced quality of life, and productive academically able students. Committed chance to work part-time, focus on tion and distance learning. These new activity which is respected in environ­ to diversity, the college attracts many studies, and complete degrees sooner. teaching tools serve both our degree ments made more human by those who first generation college graduates-­ Others come from poverty, move into students as well as practitioners in the inhabit them." young men and women from Appala­ the profession, and, through example, community through programs of The College is committed to chia and minorities of color. They enter knowledge, and skill, challenge others continuing education. providing a high quality statewide the profession with the commitment to to overcome similar obstacles. program of professional education, work in communities and neighbor­ The College will seek $1 million in while contributing to increasing the hoods to deal with problems many of The College will seek $2 million in endowment funds from the 21st social science knowledge base through them battled themselves to overcome endowed funds for scholarships Century Campaign for faculty research and public service. in their youth. Theirs is an ideology and graduate fellowships. development. Mary Ann jackson will be long remembered for the contributions she made to establishing quality services for the women of Middle Tennessee. <:7

the YWCA. Mrs. Jackson had been a throughout her career, including the social worker for Family and Children's 1986 HCA Award for Excellence m Serv1ces in Nashville, director of social Management of a Non-Profit Organiza­ services at McKendree Manor, execu­ tion and the 1993 Athena Award. She tive director of Florence Crittendon will be remembered in this area and in Home for Unwed Mothers, and an the greater social work community as a intenm executive director of Alive human1tanan and an advocate for Hosp1ce. She earned several awards positive change.

October 199 5 5

I A�N�4 I Research-Supported Advocacy This year, the College received a five­ uring 1996, the UT College of Dons T roxeil (Class of '92) year grant from the National Institute D Social Work Alumn1 Council seeks to Therap1st for Mental Health, making us the be more act1ve in all areas of Tennes­ Tennessee Commumty Support Program second of only three national soc1al Bristol Regional Counseling Center work research centers in the country see. Regional associations are being Johnson City, TN 37629 awarded funds to establish such formed, and each of the five regions will 423-989-4558 programs. Granted $2.5 million, the involve severai additional alumn1.

Center is committed to conducting Tom Burton, president of the For Chatanooga: research on children at risk in the areas Alumni Council, comments, "With Ferrell Cooper (Class of '67) of the quality of service delivery, alumni in every part of the state and Associate Director accurate measurement and diagnosis of Family and Children's Services with three locations, we have opportu­ 300 troubled children, problems and issues East 8th Street nities to involve more of our alumni Chatanooga, TN 37403 in the child welfare system, and and connect them with the school 615-755-2800 treatment of violent adolescent youth. without requiring them to travel across We will then disseminate that the state. For our own business, the information to parents, human service For Nashville: '91) agencies, and policymakers to use in council has been able to use the Hazel Arthur (Class of interactive classrooms, which gives us a Instructor their decision-making processes, Department of Social Work through the Institute for Southern more regional identification." David Lipscomb University Children in Poverty. This model To provide your input to the Nashville, TN 37204 program for distributing the informa­ Alumni Council, contact any of the 615-269-1000 tion, uncovered by the Center's following: Roderick N. Burton (Class of '73) research. will benefit agencies in the President: Director of B.S.W. Program and Co-Director for ent1re Southeast to link others and as a Center on Aging Tom Burton (Class of '72) source of information exchange. Tennessee State University Executive Director, AGAPE P.O. Box 1312 The Institute for Southern 4555 Trousdale Drive Nashville, TN 37209-1651 Children m Poverty will present the Nashville, TN 37204 615-320-3639 findings of the Center's research to 615-78 1-3000 students, community decision makers, For Knoxville: legislators, and lay persons throughout Vice President: Sara Jane Tinker (Class of '90) the region to assist them in making Nell McKerley (Class of '72) Private Practice informed policy and fiscal decisions that Director, Dept. of Community Service Individual and Family Therapy Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency 7 Forest Court affect fam ilies and children. Through P.O. Box 846 Knoxville, TN 37919 conferences and seminars, newsletters, Nashville, TN 37202 423-588-7333 and clearinghouse activities, the 615-252-8521 Institute will make the Center's B.S.S.W. Representative: research findings available in language Michael Williams Directors: PHC Home Health Care that is lively, clear, and readily under­ For Upper East Tennessee P.O. Box 189 standable. Moreover, this information Carl Anderson (Class of '74) Celina, TN 38551 brought into the classroom will ensure Administrator of Family Services 1-800-382-3341 that social work students will have Holston United Methodist Home for Children access to state-of-the-art information. P.O. Box 188 Greeneville, TN 37744 Ex-Officio as Immediate Past 423-638-4171 President: Barbara Grunow, Director The College will seek $1 million in Sharon W. Ham mat (Class of '91) Human Resource Development endowed funds for the Institute for Clinical Supervisor Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Southern Children in Poverty. Child and Family Services Therapy Center Mental Retardation 357 Ellis Avenue 706 Church Street Susan Leonard is Director of Development (or UT Maryville, TN 37804 Nashville, TN 37243-0675 College of Social Work. 423-983-9390 615-741-2289 Rom ilia Wallace ('78) Receives Lucille Evans Dean Symposium Award

Romelia Wallace was selected for 1995 graduate of the UTCSW Nashville Department of Human Services. as the recipient of the 9th annual location and has enjoyed an active and Currently she is the executive director Lucille Evans Dean Symposium Award, fascinating career as a professional of the 18th Avenue Family Enrichment which was established at the Nashville social worker. She has been Director of Center. location to celebrate Black History Social Serv1ces at the Salvation Army, The Center was established in Month by honoring an outstanding Program Coordinator of the Martha 1934 to provide services to families and African Amencan social worker m the O'Bryan Center in Nashville, and state individuals residing m the North community each year. Ms. Wallace is a mmority adoption specialist for the Nashville area. These serv1ces include

Alumni Profile: George Spain ('60), Director of Columbia Mental Health Center �rtJ�E��

At first sight, George Spain For nearly 40 years Spain and his wife, New Year's and other times that are life that meant everything to him. He reminded me of a cowboy with his Jackie, have had close contact and special to our group." shared a sudden realization with his jeans. bandana, and handlebar mus­ friendships with five other couples, Spain recalls a crossroads in wife: "We will never come home again. tache. That was in the '60s in a lecture three of whom are career social his career, when a critical choice had to We will live in Boston, Baltimore, or auditorium at UTSSW in Nashville at a workers. They include Nick Boone, be made between a great professional Europe." Spain's decision to stay in continuing education workshop. Now I who is Executive Director of the opportunity and a life closer to home Columbia has never been one that he know he gets his air of rugged indepen­ Madison Children's Home, and Mary that woud keep him attached to regretted. dence from his Native American roots­ Spain's influence as a social -he is a descendent of James Vann, the worker is evident in his family of five last Cherokee Chief of Uppertown children, four of whom have chosen to before the Trail of Tears movement. work in people-helping fields. His Most social workers know oldest son, Brad, has established close Spain through his role as the Executive personal relationships with Sioux Director of the Columbia Mental Indians on a reservation in South Health Center, a position he has held Dakota and has been invited to their smce 1968. Prior to that, he was at sacred Sun Dance Ceremony. Son Vanderbilt University Hospital Depart­ Lynch is a special-education teacher ment of Psychiatry for e1ght years. who has worked at the Wounded Knee Spain is recognized for many School in South Dakota with the achievements in the field of mental Ogalala Sioux Indians--the tribe that health. Though stable, his life has never was featured in Dances with Wolves. been m a rut. One of his sayings is "You Spain's middle child, Trina Flynn, has ought to have adventures in life." Each worked both as a social worker in child morning, he leaves his home in Nash­ care and as a therapist. She is currently ville at 6:00 a.m., drives to his job in employed at AGAPE. And his youngest Columbia, about an hour away, child, Darwin, is a physical therapy constantly on the lookout for wild student. Soon, Spain may become animals as he drives. He says, "If you George Spain'.� love of wildlife, family, and friend.� i.� apparent from the painting.� and are looking for them, you see them." photograph.� that decorate hi.1· office at Columbia Mental Health Center. known for more than his professional For many years, Spain had a accomplishment--he has written a book farm in Williamson County, where he Brazil, Williamson County Director of his roots. Spain's relatives were very entitled The DSM 13, which is a spoof could be closer to the wildlife he loves. the Department of Human Services. proud of his being the first in his fam ily of the DSM 3, and is also the author of While there, he established the first Typically, these couples throughout the to attend college and then graduate a play, A Legacy of Fear, based on the life falconry regulations for the State of years have been together at least once school, followed by work at Vanderbilt. of a female psychologist in Sewanee, Tennessee. This grew out of a project a week. Of these friendships, Spain says, All of these accomplishments repre­ Tennessee, who was rumored to be a of taking injured birds of prey and "We are a support group. We have sented moving ahead. So when his witch. This play is currently being rehabilitating them. Injured hawks were gone through the loss of a child, work at Vanderbilt with a supervisor considered for performance at prepared to reenter nature through the marriage problems, and all of life's who had known Sigmund Freud offered Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, falconry techniques that Spain used. problems. Close and open with each Spain the opportunity be a lay analyst in California, and is in the process of being Like any other social worker, other, we don't waste time on trivia. London, it was as if Spain had hit the big adapted as a film script. Spain understands the importance of We never run out of things to discuss. time. He was ready to go when he relationships. On his resume, he lists We celebrate traditions. In all of our realized that what seemed like success Tom Burton, M.S.S.W., is UTCSW Alumni Council family and friends among his interests. years, we continue to be together on would actually separate him from a President and head of AGAPE in Nashville. Romelia Wallace was recognized as an exceptuonal leader who has worked to 1mprove commu­ mty life, both in her professional capacity and through her involvement in c1vic affaris.. <7'

pre-school and school-age child care; In addition to her professional holiday food and toy assistance; contributions, Mrs. Wallace serves the tutoring; group services for seniors; community as a member of the board Girl Scouts; Boys Club; summer camp; of Project Return, which provides social and other community services. The services to ex-offenders, and she is the agency serves more than 1,000 indi­ Chair of the Nashville Wesley Founda­ viduals each year and employs IS full­ tion and a member of the Private time and a two part-time workers. Industry Council (PIC).

October 1995 7 r------, I I Ballot for UTCSW Alumni Council Board

" " H� Y(1M tc 5� � T(1Md The following nominations for directors for the 1996-1997 term of the Board of the UTCSW Alumni Council are

presented for your approval. Please mark the box below and mail your ballot to us!

President: For Chatanooga: Board Members continuing for the remainder of For Nashville: Tommy Perkins Sr. (Class of '59) the 1995-'96 term: George Spain (Class of '60) Hazel Arthur (Class of '90) 708 Oak Crest Lane Executive Director, Columbia Area Instructor of Social Work Hixton, TN 37343 Camprehansive Mental Health Centers David Lipscomb University For Upper East Tennessee: 615-875-3988 1219 Trotwood Avenue 390 I Granny White Pike Carl Anderson (Class of '74) P.O. Box 1197 Nashville, TN 37204-9930 Administrator of Family Services Columbia, TN 38402-1 197 615-269-1000, ext. 2243 Holston United Methodist Home for Children 615-381-2335 For Memphis: P.O. Box 188 Julia Hyde (Class of '93) Greeneville, TN 37744 Vice President: B.S.S.W. Representative: Counselor 423-638-4171 Joyce Pollard (Class of '94) Michael Williams (Class of '91) Family Services of Memphis I 0616 Castle Bridge Court PHC Home Health Care 2400 Poplar, Suite 500 Sharon W. Ham mat (Class of '91) Knoxville, TN 37922 P.O. Box 189 Memphis, TN 38 I 12 Clinical Supervisor 423-521-8603 Celina, TN 38551 901-324-3637 Child and Family Services Therapy Center 1-800-382-3341 357 Ellis Avenue Secretary/Treasurer: Maryville, TN 37804 David Jordan (Class of '88) For Nashville: 423-983-9390 Ex-Officio as Immediate Executive Director, AGAPE Child and Mary A. Jones (Class of '95) Past President: Family Services, Inc. I 0 15-B South Douglas Avenue Tom Burton (Class of '72) I 882 Union Avenue Nashville, TN 37204 For Chatanooga: Executive Director, AGAPE P.O. Box 11411 615-297-1502 Judi Byrd (Class of '74) 4555 Trousdale Drive Memphis, TN 38 I I I Director, Hamilton County Nashville, TN 37204 901-272-7339 Department of Social Services 615-78 1-3000 317 Oak St.. Rm. 215 1996-'97 Directors Chatanooga, TN 37403 615-209-6840 For Upper East Tennessee: Larry Rose (Class of '80) Director of Program For Memphis: East Tennessee Christian Home Grover Alford (Class of '92) P.O. Box 1147 School Social Worker Elizabethton, TN 37644 Berclair Mental Health Center 423-542-4423 Memphis, TN 38 122 901-761-8760

�------� r------, I I approve the above slate of Officers and Directors who are designated for new terms of office. I I D I 1 I would also like to suggest the following candidate(s): 1 I D I I I I I : Please return this election ballot by December I, 1995, to Office of the Dean, UT College of Social Work, I 09 Henson Hall, : Knoxville, TN 37996-3333. �------� 1966--Mrs. Mary Chamorro; Miss Betty Glasscock; 1974--Mr. Carl Anderson, Jr., Ms. Sandra Cambeilh; Ms. Donors Make a Difference! Mrs. Susan Kneeland; Mrs. Sarah Kreutziger; Scarlet Cardwell; Mr. William Conner; Mr. Mrs. Rose Martin; Mrs. Lynda Weems Wallace Fairfield; Ms. Martha Pryor, Mrs.

We express deep appreciation to the individuals and 1954--Mrs. Kathryn McCullough; Mrs. Dorothy 1967--Mrs. Betty Campbell; Ms. Eloise Eller; Mrs. Helen Kathleen Stu lee; Mr. Terry Stulce; Mrs. Jeanette

companies listed below for their support during the past Stone; Ms. Cooper Thompson Ericson; Mrs. Elaine Haas; Mrs. Vernon Jenkins: Wadsworth; Ms. Pearl Wong

fiscal year--J uly I. 1994 through June 30, 1995. 1955--Mrs. Mary Blair; Mrs. Cla1re Hale Dr. Manuel NakaniShi 1975--Mr. Bruce Besse; Mrs. Ann Kirkland; Mrs. Robin

Contributions by these alumni, faculty, staff, friends, and 1956--Miss Betty Snyder 1968--Mrs. Mary Gillespie; Mrs. Metre Kellon; Mrs. Zalkin-Nurick Brown; Ms. Caroline Page; Mr.

firms make a stronger College of Social Work possible. If 1958--Mrs. J. Carolyn Self Joy Larue; Mr. Stephen Whitaker; Mrs. Mary Robert Pugh; Mrs. Mary Sherrell; Mr. Eugene

we have inadvertently omitted your name. or if you 1959--Mrs. Martha Cunmngham; Mrs. Sue McCiamroch; Wingfield Wilson

would like to make a donation, please contact Susan Mr. Tommy Perkms, Sr. 1969--Mrs. Susan Bell; Mrs. Betty Cathey; Mrs. Georgia 1976--Miss Phyllis Betz; Mr. Andy Black; Ms. Joanne

Leonard, D�rector of Development, at 61S-974- 76 17'. 1960--M!Ss Betty Lighton; Miss Ann Norman; Mr Moody; Dr. Nevin Trammell, Jr. Fessler; Mr. Jack Hollis; Miss Susan Marsolek;

Alumni: Hugh Vaughn 1970--Dr. Paul Campbell; Mrs. Ann MacVaugh Mr. James Ware; Mr. Gary Whitfield

1948--Miss Ruth Dropkin 196 2--Ms. Martha Greathouse 1971--Mrs. Ruth Carr; Mrs. Virginia Rubin; 1977--Dr. Chnstina Blanchard; Ms. Cathenne

1949--M!Ss Florence Wolf 1963--Mr. Ben Disharoon Mrs. Cara Smith; Mrs. Sharon Themer Blumberg; Mrs. Helen Findley; Mrs. Melinda

1951--Mr. John Glenn 1964--Hibbard Thatcher 1972--Mrs. Charlotte Spencer; Mrs. Billie Spicuzza; Mr. Groom; Ms. Emily Gumn; Mrs. Sandra Looney;

1952--M!Ss Dorothy Fitzwater; Mrs. Rachel Porter 1965--Miss Johnnie Bell; Mr. Gerald Swanson Frank Sp1cuzza Mr. Dav1d Poteat, Jr.; Mr. Robert Williams

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Where are they now? Johnson; Peggy Johnson; Terry Johnson; Carol Jones; In the past few years we have lost track of some of Craig; John Creech; Patricia Crighton; Robert Crouch; Jane Powers; Susan Pralle; Janey Pritchett; Charles Pryce;

Robert Jones; DeborahJudd; Ruth Julien; Helen Jump; our College of Social Work alumni. If you know Mark Crowell; Jeanette Cursey; Judy Daniels; Alex Jackie Puckett; Zane Ragsdale; Bill Railo; Helen Ramsey;

Kevin Justis; Shigenobu Kabashima; Cathy Kajut; Blonea any of the people whose names appear below, Darabaria; Linda Darl:>y; Bonnie Davis; Dianne Dav1s; Tanya Ramsey; Adam Randolph; Bernice Randolf; Ralph

Kaufman; Jamce Keeling; Cheryl Keller; Jacquelyn Kelly; please help out by giving us a call or dropping a James Dav1s; Karen Davis; Margaret Davis; Robert Randolph; Ronald Randolph Sr.; Ruth Ransdell; Christine

James Kelly; Donna Kerns; Harriet Kessler: Sharon Keys; note to tell us of their current addresses. Thanks! Davis; Betsy Day; Diana Decker; Evelyn Demidio; James Rapp; Ellen Rardin; Odean Raspberry; Elizabeth

James Kiehna; Ja-W on-Kim; Leigh Kingsley; Susan Kirby; Michael Abrahams: Eva Acker; Jennie Adams; Marsha Demontigney; Roy Denton; George Depee; Barbara Rasmussen; C.J. Rawdon; Von Rayford; Carolyn Reese­

Marcia Kleyensteuber: Jeffrey Knight; Sarah Koelling; Adams; Rebecca Adams: Margaret Ajax: Elizabeth Devaney; Kathleen Devitt; James Devries; Billie Dukes; Maureen Reeves; Arthur Reichstadt; Janet Reid;

Rosemary Kollstedt; Daniel Krachey; John Krachey; Albright; Patricia Aldredge; Momca Alexander; John Dickinson; Cindi Dingier; Samuel Dinicola; Dorothy Willow Reilly; Sheryll Rhodes; James Richardson; Janice

Ceceil Kramer; Linda Ladd; Janie Lambert; Susan Alford; Ruth Alfrey; Elizabeth Algar; James Allen; Thelma Dobbins; Cosby Dobson; Neika Dockins; Choya Ricketson; Mary Riegler; Christopher Ringwalt; Judith

Landenwich; Nanci Langer; Karen Lawhorn; Karen Allen; Deborah Allison; Becky Alverson; H. Aaron Dodge; Elizabeth Donelson; Peter Donets; Dellarose Ris.tler; Mary Roberts; Louisa Rogers; Wallace Roseboro;

Lawman: Julie Lawrence; Larry Lawson; Patricia Lawson; Ambeau; Roy Anderson; Stephen Ankiel; Claire Archer; Dowler: Rebekah Downs; Penelope Driver; Walter Linda Rosen; Nelson Smith; Patricia Smith; Phyllis Smith;

Richard Lee; Teila Lee; Bill Leffew; Joanne Legette; Judy Candace Arlington; Jinnny Armstrong; Teresa Armstrong; Drudge; Joe Duley; Ethel Duncan; Larry Duncan; Sandra Smith; Susan Smith; Virginia Smith; Sue Smithson;

Lengsfield; Barbara Lesch; Muriel Levin; Nancy Irene Arnold; Lorita Audette; Mary August; Patricia Margaret Duncan; Debra Dunn; Chrisune Dupree; Mavis Snow: Hussein Soliman; Gary Solomon; Lucy

Lewandowski; Andrew Lewis: Lawrence Lewis; Sidney Auxier; Patricia Ayers; Collin Babcock: Cary Bahlinger; Richard Dworaczyk: Nancy Eagar; William Earnhardt; Sowell; Lisa Spencer; Rosalie Spivey; James Stafford;

Lichtenstein; Martha Linder; Susan Lippman; Oralia Mary Bales; Deborah Barbee; Donnie Barnes; LISa Barrell; Cecilia Echols; Wanda Edmondson; Jamie Edwards-Orr; Josephine Stanley; Gail Stapp; Kay Stelling; Jane

Loiselle; Charles Long; Wallace Long I I I; Carole Lontz; Pamela Barrett; Ralph Barrett; Melisa Barnnger; Alta josephine Enlow: Donna Enoch; Sue Erwin; Helen Estes; Stephenson; Carol Stevens; Earline Stewart; Jahn Stoker:

Carolyn Lowe; Emily Lowe; Samuel Lowe; John Lowery Barwick: Jan Barwin: Carol Bass: Naomi Bass; Mary Lynda Eubank; Dorothea Evans; Carolyn Everett; Vern Ann Stomkin; Susan Stone; Harley Strickland; Alice

Jr.; Emily Lowry; Judith Lubar; Alice Lucan; Jaqueline Bassham; Dennis Bates; Winton Batson; Ruby Bean; Faatz;Jenni fer Faircloth; Gregory Falk; William Farnum; Stuart; Betty Suggs; Elizabeth Sullivan; C.W. Summey;

Lucas; Jacqueline Lunsford; Ann Lusk; Karen Lykins; Jean Thomas Beasley Ill; Janice Beaty; Barbara Becher: C.W. William Fascitelli; Michael Faulkner; Sylvia Faulkner; Portia Swain; Nancy Swift; Roy Tannis; James Tate;

Lynch; Susan Lynch; Karen Mabry; Mary Maddox; jennifer Balgard; James Bell; Susan Bell; Shirley Bengston; Billy Eloise Faull; Irving Faust, Jr.; Thomas Fecco; Everett Curtis Taylor: Marc Taylor: Sheila Taylor; Willie Taylor;

Madison; Paul Maiden; Robert Manning; Ann Marchino; Bennnett; Natalie Berkley; Marsha Berosier; Carmen Fields; Mattie Fields; Alfra Fisher: Diann Fisher; Linda Albert Taynai Jr.; Ronald Teed; Robbie Tennial; Helen

David Marshall; Kay Marshall; Frances Martin; Susan Besselli, Manan Biberdorf; Roberta Birkner; Julia Fitz; Barbara Ford; Susan Fort; Helen Foster; James Fox; Thigpen; Mary Thomas; Malinda Thompson; Robert

Martin; Larry Marwedel; George Massengill Jr.; Janice Birmingham; Dale Black; William Blackwell; Walter Roy Franklin; Carol Frye; Leslie Fuller; Pauline Fulmer: Thompson; Yvonne Thompson; Linda Todd; Sean Todd;

Matthews; Ruby Maxwell; Thelma May; George Maynard; Blanchard I I I; Deborah Blount; Hilton Bolton; Janelle Susan Fulton; Carl Gadfis; Grace Ganley: Douglas Susan T ollerson; Jack Tomer: Tong Man-Yiu; James

Nancy McAfee; Minnie McBeth; Jacque McBride; Parker Bolton; Linda Bonds; Ronald Bordelon; Francis Boulet; Gauss; Claire Gavm; Alice George; F.O. Geske; Erna Travis; Paul TrussellJr.; Sharon Tuck; Cornielia

McBride; Thomas McClure; Virginia McDaniel; Carolyn Marlene Bowling; Darrell Boyd; Gerald Boynton; Timothy Gibson; Harold Gieb; Susan Giebel; John Givens Ill; Turnbow; Shearly Turnbull; Cynthia Turner; Mary Tyler;

McDurmont; Allyson McEacharn; David McElroy; Carol Brady; Teresa Bramblett; Mary Brandon; Robert Paula Givens; Tracy Glascoe; Marilyn Goggins; Diane Virginia Upson: Amy Vawter; Roxie Venzen; G.R.

McGrath; Linda McGrath; Stephen McGrath; Beverly Bransford; Jana Brent; Cornelius Bretz; Judy Bretz; E. C. Goldberg; Susan Goldzweig; Floyd Grant; Linda Graves; Versen; Apostolos Vouyioukas; Lindee Wade; Madlyn

McKee; Wayne McKiernan; Betty McMahon; Betty Brewer; Velma Brewer: Sue Brichetto; Joni Brilliant; Betty Dana Gray; James Greene; Dorothy Greer; Elke Wade; Alinda Waites; James Wakefield; Carol Waker:

McMillan; Edward McMillan; Mary McMillan; Elizabeth Bnnson; Elouise Brooks; Cathy Brown; Dale Brown; Jill Gudehus; Sandy Guest; Dana Gullett; Marrene Haley; Carol Walker; Elizabeth Walker; Homer Wallace;

McMullen; Suzanne McNabb; Shelah Michael; Gloria Brown; Rachel Brown; Sally Brown: H. Carl Brunson; Arden Hall; Carl Hall; Diana Hall; Jeannie Hall; Robert Jennifer Wallace; arah Wallace; Walter Wallace; Clara

Miller; Stephen Miller; Gust Mitchell; Henry Mitchell; J.D. Mildred Brunson; Janet Buckner; Nancy Sullens; Lisa Hall; Donna Hancox; John Harbour; Lynda Hargraves; Waller; Madeline Walton; Sarah Walton; Diane

Mitchell; Jacquelyn Mitchell; Carl Moore; Joanna Morat; Brugesss; Madgelene Burgess; Harriet Burns; Carol Nancy Harm; Edward Harper; Vickie Harris; Lynn Wamsley; Shyan-Daw Wang; Margaret Ward; Beth

janet Morgan; David Moulder: Jennifer Moulder: Jume Burton; Pamela Butler, Vanessa Butler. Brian Buuck; Harrrison; Monem Hashem; Mary Hayes; Diana Haynes; Warriner; Lynn Watkins; Sue Watson; Meta Weaver;

Mull; Bonnie Mullen; M. elaine Murphy; Christy Murray; Camilla Caldwell: Thomas Caldwell; Kay Callahan; Rosie Hazlett; Kay Henderson; Sidney Henderson; Tina Webb; Steve Webster; Anna Weeks; Larry Weese;

Sally Murray: Marilyn Naylor; Tafadzwa Nderere; Ernest Cnsuna Calonge; Jeanette Campbell; William Campbell; Sarah Hendricks; Anthony Hendrickson; Joanna Harriet Weglarz; Martha Weigel; Margaret Weiland;

Neal; Mary Newson; Joseph Nicholson; Darlene Nolle; Rosalind Carroll; Aneta Carter; Mary Carter: Lawrence Hendrix; Lana Henley; Jennifer Henry; Susan Henry; Raymond Weinberg I I I; Judith Weissinger; Ameilia

Patricia Norns-Broady; Lana Norton;Janet Nye; Ellen Cartney; June Casey; Gayden Caskey; Robert Caspar; Alix Ronald Herren; Jeanette Hernnann; Michael Hernnann; Welch; Barbara Wells; Donald Wells; Elaine Welsh;

O'Bryan; Louis O'Connor Jr.; Helen Odom; Donna Causby; S1e Cjaffin; Miss C.J. Chambers; Dorothy Chance; Mavis Himebaugh; Esther Hoade; Jill Hodges; Barbara Donna Wenn1ng; Karen Westbrook; Walter Wheeler;

Ogilvie: Patricia O'Hearne; Susanne Oliver; Howard Lawrence Chance; Margaret Chase; Linda Chester; Boon Honeycutt; Darlene Hong; Audrey Horn; Lori Hudgens; Pamela White; Marilyn Wiest; Michael Wilkins; Carroll

O'Neal; Carolyn Orr; Merle Orr; Hames Orten; Larry Chm; lou1s Chnstian; Penelope Christian; Dennis Leanor Hudspeth; Thomas Huffman,Jr.; Barbara Williams; Penny Williams; Darla Wilson; Kay Wilson;

O'Shaughnessy; Helen Oshima; Ann Pace; John Page; Christiansen; Brendlyn Clark; Eleanor Clark; Norman Huggms; Alice Hughes; Mark Humphrey; Carolyn Hunt; PeggyWineman; Carol Winn; Patricia Wiseman; JOseph

Nancy Page; Susan Pare; Kethy Pascoe; Sandra Pelfrey; Cohen; Sandra Cohn: Mary Cole; Nancy Cole; G. Miriam Shirley Hunt; Michelle lchimura; Mary Isbell; Doretta Wittenstein; Pamela Womack; Mildred Wood; Jeffrey

Lin Pelter: Myrna Peralta; Carolyn Perry; Revecca Collier; Jerry Collier; Brenda Collins; E. LouiSe Combs; Jackson; Elizabeth Jackson; M.A. Schmittle-Jackson; Woods; Kay Worthington; Deborah Wright; Jack

Glona Comfort; Charlotte Connor; Mabel Cook: Allen Donna Jared; Jane Jarrell; Gloria Jenkins; MaryJenkins; Peterson; Shirley Peterson; Mary Petro; Loretta Petty; Wright; Cher Wunderlin; Chwi-Young Yang; Virginia

Edna Phelps; Elizabeth Phillips; Wendy Pitts; Nancy Cooper; Geraldine Cooper: James Cooper; Ruth Cooper; Gail Jennings; Joyce Jennings; Betty Joblin; Alfred Yeiser; Debra York; Philip Young; Tandy Young; Steven

Porter; Pamela Potter; Richard Powell; Elizabeth Powers; Sara Cooper; Rilla Cornelius; Barry Cournoyer: Pamela Johnson; Charlcie Johnson; Mary Johnson; Myra Zahl; Sandra Zelly 1978--Mrs. Patricoa Boggs; Mr. Chrostopher Cameron: 1987--Mrs. Julia Nance; Mr. Arthur Prince; Galia Other Contributors: Mr. and Mrs. James Allen; Ms. Glinda McKinney; Ms. Betty Moore; Miss Helen Morton;

Mrs. Susan Hatter: Ms. Martha Hammond Williams Norma Battle; Mrs. A. C. Treadwell Beasley; Dr. William Mr. james Murphy; Ms. Martha Myers; Mr. William

1980--Mrs. Patr1c1a Barnett; Ms. Susan Belgrad; 1988--Mr. Brian King; Mrs. Rose Klimek; Mr. Paul Bell; Dr. Edward Blanchard, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Broyles; Newbern; Dr. and Mrs. Roger Nooe; Mr. Timothy Page;

Ms. Patricia Nash; Mrs. Andrea Thaler Schandevel: Mr. Paul Webb Mrs. Susan Campbell; Mrs. Charles Carr: Mr. Abe Mr. james Pryor: Mrs. Dorothy Gunther Pugh; Mrs. Gail

1981--Mrs. Lisa Claytor: Mrs. Donna Hampton; Miss 1989--Mrs. Brenda Black; Miss Ellen Dav1dson; Mrs Cathey; Mr. Derald Clark; Dr. Randal Claytor: Mr. Floyd Reitter: Mr. Frank Reimer; Dr. James Rob1nson; Mr.

Mary Sm1th Patr1coa Gomez; Mrs. Robin Van Bommel Cogley, Jr., Miss Jennie Collier: Dr. and Mrs. Chalmers T. Robert Robinson; Dr. Hiasaura Rubenstein; Mr. Laurence

1982--Mrs. Anna Becker; Mrs. Helen Clark; Mrs. 1990--Lynn Hodge; Jamie Myers; Mrs. Betty Robinson; Cruthirds, Jr.; Mrs. Maryanne Cunningham; Ms. Vickie Rubin; Mrs. Elizabeth Sammons; Mr. and Mrs. Johnny

Cynthia Deporter: Mrs. LISa Holt: Mrs. Gen Ms. Barbara Seals; Mrs. Martha Williams Dacey; Mrs. Lyda Deloach; Mr. James Dodson; Mr. and Sexton; Dr. Eunice Shatz, Ms. Bonnie Shermer; Ms.

Renn1e 1991--Ms. Patr1coa Fague; Ms. Sharon Hammat; Mr. Mrs. C. W. Elder; Mr. Jerry Ensley; Mr. E. P. Encson; Mr. Marian Sm1th; Mrs. Seattle Snodderly; Mrs. Viola Thorpe;

1984--Ms. Patricia Abbarno; Mrs. Rebecca Dodson; Dennis Hogan; Ms. Donna Humbert: Mrs. and Mrs. Oscar E. Evans II; Mrs. Megan Fairfield; Miss Mr. Michael Threlkeld; Mrs. Jane Tracy; Mrs. Martha

Mrs. Beverly Glass; Mrs. Kimberly Hudson; Mr. Margaret Hunt; Ms. Darlene Lawson; Ms. Andrea Margaret Fernea; Dr. and Mrs. Gideon Fryer: Mr. Carl Trammell; Ms. Clevonne Turner: Ms. Susan Vickerstaff;

James Wilson Reynolds; Mrs. Jamce Threlkeld Hardin; Mr. George Harroson IV; Mr. Richard Herbert: Ms. Sherri Webb; Ms. Mary Jane Werthan; Ms. Shirley

1985--Mrs. Laura Breeden: Ms. Judy Havner: Waldemar 1992--Mr. Michael Maurer; Ms. Susan McCormick Dr. and Mrs. R.S. Herndon; Mr. Larry Holt; M_s. Karen Williams; Ms. Kathy Wilson; Mr. Edward Wingfield

Seltzer: Mrs. Dons Thornton; Mrs. Janet 1993--Ms. Gail Green; Ms. Annice Overall; Ms. Cheryl Homer: Miss Janice Hughes; Ms. jenna johnson; Mr. Organizations and Firms: The Bankers Trust

We1smark Sevigny james Kneeland; Mr. William Larue; Mrs. Susan Leonard; Foundation; B.S.S.W. SWO: Cigna Company; Monsanto

1986--Mrs. Mary Hamel Mr. Jerry Looney; Mr. and Mrs. Don MacMorris; Ms. Company; National Hardwood Magazine Inc.

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200th anniversary of UT, and all three locations held special events to commemo­ Nashville rate the occasion. The Knoxville and Nashville location celebrations occurred in September and October of last year and The Nashville locat1on has had a Achievement Award from the City of were covered in your 1994 issue of successful academic year, graduating 67 Knoxville Knoxville. Stimulus.] students. jane Fleishman was the Faculty members have also recipient of this year's Chancellor's been active in publications, research, The Memphis Bicentennial Award for Academic Achievement/ In 1994-95 UT Knoxville graduated 27 and public service during the past Celebration was held Friday, Professional Promise. The honor is B.S.S.W. students, 66 M.S.S.W. stu­ academic year (please see Fa culty News November I I, 1994, under the theme given each year to a graduating student dents, and four doctoral students. on pages 8 and 9). of Health Care Reform and New Roles who achieved an extraordinary aca­ Students remain busy and actively of Social Work. The gala attracted demic record and demonstrated exceptional professional promise. involved in the University, College, and more than I 00 practicing social work location. (Please see the Student News Memphis· alumni and friends from the western column on page 13.) Gayla Patterson Tennessee region. The event was Facility Improvements The Nashville location is in the process was selected by the University for opened by Associate Dean Hisashi of making several additions to its having the highest grade point average The Memphis location graduated 80 Hirayama, who served as a modera­ facility, most of which will be housed of any B.S.S.W. student graduating from students in 1994-95--the largest group tor for the event. Dr. john Peters, on the sixth floor of our existing the College of Social Work. Gayla also in the history of the Memphis program, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, building. The most exciting addition is received the Chancellor Award for at a hooding ceremony attended by came from Knoxville to offer his installation of a Wide Area Net­ Academic Achievement. Phi Kappa Phi, approximately 1,300 guests. greetings. Dean Eunice Shatz gave a work, which will provide connection an Interdisciplinary honor society State of the College Report. Twenty between the three locations of the whose members are selected on the The Field Instructors Appre­ agency administrators and practitioners College. It will also provide a network baSIS of academiC excellence, high ciation Luncheon took place in who made significant contributions to system within each location. achievement, and outstanding charac­ April, attended by 55 field instuctors, the development of the Memphis We are in the process of constructing a ter, initiated the following Social Work faculty, and students. Four field instruc­ program were honored by the College, Distance Education Classroom that students: from the B.S.S.W. program-­ tors--Bob Bernstein, Sonya M. each receiving a certificate of apprecia­ TV Denise Denton, Kim Long, Gayla Herron, Emmett A. Presley, and tion from Dr. Peters. Those honored will provide interactive connection between locations, with the potential of Patterson, and Laura Richardson; Anna M. Whalley, received certifi­ were Robert Bernstein, Anna from the M.S.S.W. program--Yael cates of appreciation for their ten or Clark, Norma Crooks, Kerry Culp, connecting to other such facilities Epstein, Rebecca Fritz, Terri more years of service in field instruc­ jean Dycus, Peggy Edmiston, Mary across the state as well as to parts of Barber, Sowyma Muthu, Sharon tion. Barbara King, Director of the Fehr, Albert jones, Shari Lee, the country. During this last academic Stumb, and Terri Parsons. The Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Alnita McClure, Brian O'Mally, year, several classes were conducted Knox area branch of the NASW as well Center, spoke about the Americorps Marilyn Paavola, David Poteat, across locations using existing distance as the state chapter named Lori Project. judy Reed, jeanne Richardson, education facilities at each location. Rollins B.S.S.W. Student Social Herschel Schwartz, Robert Silver, What's new for next year is a construc­ Worker of the Year. julianna Koob The UT Memphis Research Web Smith, Linda Williams, and tion of a new facility at th1s locat1on, was named the local NASW M.S.S.W. Day Poster Session was a big Sloan Young. Dr. Susan Vickerstaff, over which we will have more control Student of the Year, and she rece1ved success for the location last spring. Five Assistant Professor at the CSW of use. A Larger Student Com­ the Chancellor Award for Professional Memphis faculty presented their Memphis location, spoke on the main puter Lab will contain twice as many Promise. Rebecca Fritz received the completed studies, speaking to mostly theme, followed by a panel presenta­ computer stations as in the past, from Rhoda 0. Meara Award, which recog­ psychosocial issues in health care. A tion by Ellen Schmidt, Case Manage­ 12 to 24. This additional space will nizes an outstanding graduate who is total of I 03 research posters were ment, Eddie Holmes, a 2nd-year allow students even more extensive committed to returning to public social displayed, representing all colleges and student, Brian 0' Malley, Catholic use of the new educational programs. services. Kim Long, who is the programs on campus. The focus of Charities, Dr. Sloan Young, North­ An Additional Classroom that will president of the B.S.S.W. Social Work most other posters were biochemical, east Mental Health Center, and comfortably seat 45 to 50 students is Organization, received the Margaret medical, and physiological issues. Norma Crooks, Baptist Memorial part of the addition. This classroom can Elizabeth Hodges Scholarship. Larry Hospital. Ed Pomerantz, Field be subdivided via a collapsible wall, Taylor received. the Ebony Male [Editor's note: 1994-95 marked the Practice Coordinator, moderated. which will add to its usefulness. Ellie Moses Retires After 20 Years of Innovative Te aching at U.T.

Dr. Ellie Moses decided to take a long­ created interest and pushed students to In her long career in the U.T. term disability at the end of the 1994- think about issues they had not College of Social Work, Dr. Moses 95 academic year. Dr. Moses joined the considered before. She earned the served on various university and college faculty in Knoxville m 1975 after reputation for being a dedicated scholar committees. She was also involved in a receiving her D.S.W. from the Univer­ and a teacher who is sensitive to the number of community organizations, sity of California at Berkeley. She is changing needs of students, and she and served as chair of the Commission known as an innovative. creative, and served as a mentor to faculty as well as for Women durmg its earliest years and mspiring teacher. Her classes always to students during her 20-year tenure. during the academic year 1978-79. At

women to report that their pregnan­ clinical social work practice concentra­ cies were unplanned and unwanted. tion. Dr. Davey obtained his M.S.W. from Florida State University in 1994. He has had nine years of full-time and part-time post-master's practice University and an M.S.W. from Wash­ experience with more than five years as ington University in St. Louis. She is an executive director of an emergency currently working on her doctorate in care help organization. For two years Social Work at Washington University. he was a medical social worker provid­ Her dissertation concerns social, ing social services to homebound economic, and political indicators of patients. Dr. Davey's dissertation vulnerability to toxic risk. Her research research focused on children living in interests center around the multifac­ families in homeless shelters. He is very eted connections between social interested in continuing his research on welfare, social justice, and environmen­ homeless families, particularly the child tal problems. Marcia Egan, a new member welfare aspects of this area. He is also of the Memphis faculty in the social interested in teaching direct practice, child welfare, and research. Ramona Denby has joined work treatment concentration, the faculty in Knoxville in the clinical received a doctorate from the Univer­ social work practice concentration. Dr. sity of Maryland at Baltimore, an Denby received a B.S.W. from Arizona M.S.W. from Western Michigan State, the M.S.W. from the University University, a B.A. in Psychology and of Nevada. Las Vegas. and the Ph.D. in Women's Studies from Indiana Univer­ Social Work from Ohio State Univer­ sity, and a nursing degree from South­ sity. Her research and teaching inter­ western Michigan College. Prior to ests are m the areas of direct practice being appointed to UT, Dr. Egan was methods, culturally specific service most recently a member of the delivery, research methods, child graduate social work faculty at the welfare, and children's mental health. University of Iowa. She brings extensive Dr. Denby's dissertation focused on a Ruth Alsup joins the Memphis experience in social work education in nationwide evaluation of the use of faculty in the area of research and clinical and multi-systemic practice, "targeting" in family preservation policy. She received her Ph.D. in Social evaluation, and qualitative research programs. The dissertation title is Work from the George Warren Brown methodologies. Dr. Egan's current Patricia Lockett has joined Imminent Risk and the Decision-Making School at Washington University in St. research and recent publication focus is the Nashville location faculty as a full­ • Process: Targeting Families fo r Family Louis. She believes that the next few social work practice in health care, the time adjunct faculty member for Preservation Service. years will put both our accountability influence of health-care reform, and academic year 1995-96. Ms. Lockett has and capacity to influence social policy marginalized women's experiences of taught several courses in a part-time to the test, and feels that all B.S.S.W. life-changing decision making. adjunct faculty role for many years. She and M.S.S.W. students should be received her M.S.S.W. from UTCSW in prepared with a solid knowledge of 1978. She has had more than eight research and policy skills in order to years' experience in undergraduate meet this challenge. Her particular social work education, most recently at area of interest is health policy, Western Kentucky University and prior specifically, differential infant mortality to that with Tennessee State Univer­ across areas of this county. The topic sity. She has had extensive experience of her dissertation was mothers' in administration, program develop­ perceptions of their pregnancy and ment, and supervision. From 1987 to prenatal care. She studied 500 women 1989 she was an assistant commis­ from all demographic groups who sioner for the Tennessee Department delivered babies at Barnes Hospital in of Human Services, from 1981-84 the Mary Rogge joins the faculty St. Louis and found that contrary to program administrator for the Family in Knoxville in the management and popular belief that AFDC motivates Resource Center, and prior to her community practice concentration. She women to get pregnant, women on Timothy Davey has joined masters degree, she worked for 16 received a B.A. from Kansas State welfare were more likely than other the Nashville location faculty in the years with Tennessee DHS. Dr. Ellie Moses helped shape the curriculum of the U. T. College of Social Work

during the past 20 years. (j/'

one point or another she served on and Gay Men: A Life-Issues Approach, co­ every committee in the college, and authored with Robert 0. Hawkins. This she chaired the Curriculum Committee book has now gone into its second and the Ph.D. program. printing. Dr. Moses's most notable Dr. Moses's contributions to contribution to the social work the college are greatly appreciated, and profession was the publication of the her dedication. enthusiasm, and spirited seminal book Counseling Lesbian Women teaching will be missed.

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Hisashi Hirayama, "Japanese Social David Patterson, "Field Trial of Voices and Perspectives." Dean Eunice Welfare: A View from the Outside," in GAFS-M (Global Assessment Function­ Shatz was one of the panelists. Presentations journalof the japanese Society fo r the ing Scale-Modified)" forthcoming in Study of Social Welfare, December, 1994 American journal of Psychiatry. Jeannette Jennings received the Uapanese language.) Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Ruth Alsup Cause and Effect Indicators Cynthia Rocha, "Use of Health Community Service. in Structural Equation Modeling: An Hisashi Hirayama, (with K. Insurance in County Funded Clinics: Empirical Comparison.The Council on Hirayama), 'The Use of Self in Group Issues for Health Care," forthcoming in Cynthia Rocha was named Public Social Work Education Annual Program Work: Power and Empowerment," in Health and Social Work. Relations Officer for the East Tennes­ Meeting, Quantitative Symposium, San Capturing the Power of Diversity: Selected see Region Advisory Board of the Diego, March 1995. Proceeding of the Xlllth Symposium on Cynthia Rocha, "A Comparison of Tennessee Department of Corrections. Social Work with Groups, Eds. M. Felt, J. Homeless Families with Poor Housed Hisashi Hirayama, ''japanese Social Ramey, J. Wodarski, A Mann., April, Families," forthcoming in journal of Cynthia Rocha was named as a Welfare: A View fr om the Outside." 1995. Sociology and Social Welfare, December, panelist for the Knoxville Peace, Justice, Keynote speech at the Annual Program 1995. and Ecology Center Forum on "How Meeting of the Japanese Society for the Hisashi Hirayama, (with Muammer the Proposed Contract with America Study of Social Welfare, Kyoto, Japan, Cetingok), "Amerasian Refugees: Elaine Spaulding, "Unconsciousness and the Republican Agenda Impacts Us October 1994. Social Characteristics, Service Needs, Raising: Hidden Dimensions of Locally." and Mental Health," accepted for Heterosexism," in Theory and Practice Hisashi Hirayama, (with K. publication by journal of Sociology and with Lesbians and Lesbian Families: A Susan Vickerstaff received a joint Hirayama), "Residential Treatment Social Welfare. Multiple Perspective, joan Laird (Ed.), faculty appointment from the UT Programs fo r Alcoholism in japan and the 1995. College of Medicine and medical staff U.S.A." The XVI Annual Symposium of Jeanette Jennings, "Effective Coping privilege from the Baptist Memorial the Association for the Advancement of Strategies of African Americans," in Hospital in Memphis. Social Work with Groups, Hartford, Social Work (March 1995). CT. October 1994. Awards

Karen Knox, "To Graph or Not to The University of T ennessee, Knoxville, Susan Vickerstaff, "Use ofthe Ecomap Graph: A Clinician's Perspective," does not discriminate on the basis of in Evaluation the Bariatric Surgery Patient" forthcoming in Research on Social Work Drs. Muammer Cetingok and Jill race, sex, color, religion, national origin, The National Meeting of the American Practice, January 1996. Jones are currently engaged in collabo­ age, handicap, or veteran status in Society for Bariatnc Surgery, Seattle, rative research with medical and provision of educational opportunities June 1995. or employment opportunities and John Orme, (with S. Zuravin and R. nursing faculty at UT Memphis Trans­ benefits. Hegar), "Predicting Severity of Child plant Surgery for which they have UT Knoxville does not received a $4,000 grant from UTK Abuse Injury with of Ordinal Probit discriminate on the basis of sex or Faculty Development Fund. Recently Publications Regression," in Social Work Research and handicap in its educational programs Abstracts, 18, 131-138, 1994. Dr. Jones, along with co-investigator and activities, pursuant to requtrements Irma Jordan of the UT Medical Group of Title IX of the Education Amend­ Ruth Alsup (with David Gillespie and john Orme, (with R. Hegar and S. Transplant Division, received a $2,500 ments of 1972, Public law 92-3 18; and Doris McGartland-Rubio), "Structural Zuravin), "Predicting the Severity of grant from the National Association of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of Equation Modeling: An Innovation for Child Abuse Injury: A Review," in Transplant Coordinators. 1973 , Public Law 93- 1 12, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Doctoral Social Work Curricula," in Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 9, 170- Public Law I 0 1-336, respectively. 183, 1994. Cynthia Rocha received a University journal of Social Work Education, 31, (2) This policy extends both to employ­ of Tennessee Faculty Research Award 219-227, 1995. ment by and admission to the Univer- John Orme (with M. Bloom and J. to conduct research, "Barriers to Slty. Ruth Alsup (with Aruna Gogenini and Fischer), Evaluating Practice: Guidelines Prenatal Care and the Impact of Inquiries concerning Title IX David Gillespie), "Meditation and fo r the Accountable Professional (2nd. ed.), TennCare." and Section 504, and the Americans Moderation in Social Work Research," 1995. with Disabilities Act of 1990 should be in Social Work Research, 19, (I) 57-63 directed to the Office of Affirmative Action, 403-C Andy Holt Tower, The 1995. John Orme, "Are Effect Sizes Better Honors than Traditional Hypothesis Testing for University of T ennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0 144; or telephone Evaluating and Interpreting Research Ruth Alsup (with S. Kaplan), "AIDS (6 1 5) 974-2498. Charges of violation of Findings in Social Work?", in Controver­ Judy Fiene along with colleagues at and Minority Populations: A Participa­ the above policy also should be directed tory Action Research Approach," in sial Issues in Social Work Research,W.W. UTK organized a panel, "Welfare to the Office of Affirmative Action. Convergence, 28, (I) 38-56, 1995. Hudson and P.S. Nurious (Eds.), 1994. Reform or War on Poor Women: Melinda Bailes joins staff as U.T. Nashville's Field Coordinator

Joming the faculty as our new location ville, four years as a rehabilitation social clinical and administrative social work field pract1ce coordinator is Melinda worker w1th Centenmal Medical as well as considerable experience in Bailes, who received an M.S.S.W. from Center Rehabilitation Center in training and program development. the Umvers1ty of Texas. Arlington Nashville, and more than two years as Bailes will assume the position School of Soc1al Work in 1987. Her the coordinator of social serv1ces with formerly held by Joyce Harns, who post-master's expenence mcludes two Pi Beta Ph1 Rehabilitation Institute at recently dec1ded to return to the years of social work with the Easter Bill Wilkerson Center in Nashville. Ms. practice community after havmg spent Seal Society m Fort Worth and Nash- Bailes comes with experience in both five years with the location. In addition

Rural Social Work Conference Report

We Celebrated Our Monday and Tuesday, there were a providing an historical perspective of ronism: The Perspective of 20 20th Anniversary series of presentations on distance the institute was an important feature Years of Experience and Debate. From July 23 through July 26, 1995, the learning and the use of the Internet. as we celebrated this 20-year mile­ The panel discussion and participant University of Tennessee College of We emphasized this as an especially stone. Following Dr. Edwards, Dr. Ron debate challenged the conceptions of W. Shipe, who is involved in environ­ Social Work and its Office of Research valuable track at the mstitute this year, rural life and institutions undergirding and the participants discussed its mental traming at the Tennessee Valley and Public Service hosted the 20th rural practice prescriptions of the last possibilities enthusiastically. Authority, discussed the Nil (Na­ Annual Rural Social Work Institute. 20 years. It offered hypotheses for a We also strongly encouraged tional Information Infrastructure, The major activity of this caucus is to new generation of scholars and be an advocate for social policy issues participation in the institute by those or information superhighway), which practitioners to test in light of rural needed for rural areas, as well as for who wished to discuss more traditional promises easy access to commu- realities after economic restructuring. related research initiatives into social work practice in rural areas. It also supports a presence for social work in Special Events rural areas w1thin our major profes­ On Sunday Phyllis Henry and Gideon sional associations. In addition, the Fryer, experienced hikers and volun­ caucus has widened the readership of teers for the Great Smoky Mountains the professional journal Human Services National Park, led a hike in the Smok­ in the Rural Environment and encourages ies. On Sunday evening, our welcoming its continued publication. reception took place at the East The first institute was held in Tennessee Historical Society. Knoxville in July 1976, so we were After a workday that included excited about having the conference return to its roots. This year's institute opening sessions, 30 workshops. and activities included an opening reception, the annual caucus meeting, we spent an openmg sess1on, more than 50 Monday evening enjoying Appalachian workshops, a Rural Social Work music and humor at the Laurel Theatre. Caucus meeting, focus groups, Sam Venable (a noted Appalachian roundtable discussions, poster sess1ons, humorist) regaled us, and Strangers in and a closing session. Paradise played Appalachian music. Although we wanted to avoid Tuesday's institute schedule the temptation of spending most of our included roundtable discussions, focus .. time together looking at the past, we groups, poster sessions, and more than believed that this meeting could help us The conference was headed up by Dr. Paul Campbell (right), director of the UT Social Work 25 workshops. Barbecue and music at appreciate the development, growth, Office of Research and Public Service. Dr. Charles Cleland (left) wa.� one of the pre.�enter.1·. the Living Museum of Appalachia was and evolution of the caucus. Among our achievements has been our methods of service delivery. We are nication networks, computers, data­ offered as the evening event. In a contribution to the growth in literature pleased that this conference was bases, and consumer electronics. fascinating setting, we had a pleasant, about rural populations. By refusing to approved for continuing education Representatives from TVA discussed informal dinner accompanied by units; the number of CEUs earned was portray rural life as quaint, we've federal policy and addressed partici­ bluegrass music. dependent upon the sessions that one helped to refute the stereotype that-­ pants' questions. The institute ended on attended. compared to urban life--rural life is On Wednesday morning, Dr. Wednesday at noon after a closing static. We can't afford to remain static Opening and Closing Charles Cleland, who teaches rural session about rural residents' access to either; exploring new communication Sessions sociology at UTK, discussed his 1994 resources that the larger society takes and delivery techniques is our next In the opening session on Monday Rurality Index. Following Dr. for granted, followed by a debate about logical step--and we did that at this morning, Dr. Richard Edwards, Dean of Cleland's presentation, Paul Campbell, the past and future of rural social work. conference. We discussed innovative the School of Social Work at the Roy T. Denton, joanne Mermelstein, approaches to service delivery by Umversity of North Carolina at Chapel Paul A. Sundet, and Steve Webster Joanna Cheatham, M.S., Ed.D., is an Instructional exploring the potential of new technol­ Hill, discussed his view of the rural participated in a discussion entitled Des1gn Consultant fo r UTCSW Office of Research ogy such as distance learning. On context in the past 20 years. His Rural Social Work Is an Anach- and Public Servie. Melinda Bailes will apply her experience in clinical social work, administration, and training and program development to her new position as Coordinator of Field Practice. r:ir

to doing an exceptional job of carrying the Middle Tennessee area. Through out her field-coordination responsibili­ their work in recruitment, mentoring, ties, she made a substantial contribu­ and financial support of the African tion to the program by developing the American students, the Committee has Mentors Committee for African added substantially to U.T. Nashville's American Students. This Committee success in recruiting and retaining consists of more than 40 African African American students. Harris will American Social Workers practicing in continue as chair of the Committee.

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health needs of maltreated and foster �c�-c� r� children for several years. Continuing Education Roundup On Friday, january 26. 1966, Dr. Robert Wahler of the Department I can't believe it's been almost a year! in administration, planning, and clinical put our distance-education plans on of Psychology here at UT will discuss The time has gone by very quickly, and practice. It focused on clinical assess­ hold for a while. We are fortunate to "Adaptive Parenting Strategies it's been great getting the Professional ment and momtoring, evaluation of have Mrs. Karan Bailey join us part time with Conduct-Disordered Chil­ Continumg Education Program offthe programs, and entrepreneurial funding. as our training assistant. The two of us dren." Dr. Wahler has been funded by ground. Dr. Sharon Pittman and I were We had a chance to meet some more will be on site for each program and the National Institute of Mental Health able to visit all of the M.S.S.W. pro­ of you, shared in problem solving, and look forward to seeing you as we again for many years, and his research in this grams and the B.S.S.W. programs first got to know each other better over travel the state. On the Road Again area of parenting is considered to be semester as we drove across the state lunch. This summer the College of should be our theme song! "cutting edge." to personally meet and greet as many Social Work hosted the 20th Annual On February 23, Dr. Larry people as we could. I want to thank Meeting of the National Institute on C/evonne Turner, M.S. W., is UTCSW's Assistant Williams of Purdue University will those of you who filled out our Social Work and Human Services in Director of Professional Continuing Education. present "Casual Models for Organi­ statewide needs assessment early in Rural Areas, July 23-26, 1995. zational Research." Dr. Williams will 1995 and provided us with feedback to We are now in the process of present both a beginning discussion of begin the planning process. We had finalizing plans for our fall and spring Update on structural equation modeling and a more than 200 respondents, and 68 programs. This fall, in response to the more advanced discussion of tests of percent of them were from UT College needs assessment, we are offering model fit. of Social Work alumni. With growing programs in mental health, health, and The NIMH On March 29, Dr. Susan social and political challenges, increas­ children and families on both a macro Zuravin, School of Social Work, ingly specialized interventions, and and micro level. We are also offering University of Maryland, will present licensure demands, social workers are some computer training for social Center "Methodological and Practical more motivated than ever to seek workers. The highlight of the fall Problems with Long-term Follow­ training to augment their formal offerings was the free Skills-Based The Children's Mental Health up Studies." Dr. Zuravin is conducting education--and in many cases, in order Symposium and Reception Dinner Services Research Center has an­ an ongoing long-term follow-up of just to keep their jobs. during Homecoming weekend on nounced its workshop schedule for the samples of abusive and non-abusive During the spring we were Friday, September 29, 1995. CEUs 1995-96 academic year. The workshops AFDC recipients and their children and able to offerfive continumg education were available for those who desired will be conducted by interactive will discuss the results of her latest programs, which were very well them. Refer to your fall brochures, television on the Knoxville, Memphis, follow-up of this sample. received. We hosted two interactive which feature programming across the and Nashville campuses. All are held Finally, on April 26, Dr. Rand satellite downlink teleconferences on state, for other upcoming events. from I 0:00 a.m. to noon. A reception Conger, Director of the Center for "Living with Grief: Children During our lifetimes, most of also will be scheduled to allow faculty Family Research 1n Rural Mental Health Mourning, Mourning Children," in us will change jobs at least seven times! and students to meet with each at Iowa State University, will present Nashville and Knoxville on March 30, Our social work skills have prepared us speaker in an informal setting. "The Influence of Economic 1995. I want to thank Corena Harris, for a variety of practice, advocacy, and On Friday, October 27, Dr. Hardship on Families and Adoles­ L.C.S.W. and UTCSW alumni from administrative roles to help us shift Lonnie Snowden will present "Mental cents." The work of Dr. Conger and Town and Country Home, Health, and with the times. However, we all need Health Services Delivery to Ethnic his Center has critical implications for Hospice for co-hosting and serving as help facing the cutbacks, shifts in Minority Children." Dr. Snowden is a the social work profession as well as site facilitator for the Nashville telecon­ careers, internal and external stress, Professor of Social Welfare and for our own Center. ference. She actually brought this and trying to keep abreast of the Psychology at the University of Califor­ "I am extremely pleased that national teleconference to our atten­ societal and financial challenges. We nia at Berkeley. He is perhaps the we were able to line up a program of tion with a simple phone call and her too have been challenged this year with nation's foremost expert on the mental workshops including such distinguished willingness to help! We were able to financial cutbacks and staff reduction. health service needs of African Ameri­ researchers," said Terri Combs­ offer this program free of charge to I'm sad to report that Dr. Sharon can and other minority children. Orme, Associate Professor and families and professionals. We pre­ Pittman resigned from the program and On Friday, November 17, Dr. Center Research Coordinator for the sented a one-day seminar in three will not be replaced. On a positive Kellly Kelleher will discuss "Naturalis­ Knoxville Campus. "I hope faculty and locations 1n May, ent1tled "The Sweet note, she was asked to start an M.S.W. tic Studies of Psychiatric Services doctoral students will all take advantage Smell of Success--Effective Prac­ program for Andrews College in in Managed Care Systems." Dr. of this tremendous opportunity to tice in the Helping Professions." Michigan this summer. She thanks all of Kelleher is a pediatrician and an broaden their horizons." Others in the This was a one-day comprehensive you for your support and encourages Associate Professor at the University of College who are interested in attending seminar designed to assist social you to stay in contact with her. She will Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He has the workshops should contact Dr. workers and human-service providers be sorely missed. To this end, we have worked in the area of child welfare and Combs-Orme at 974-3704. abuse. In the experimental testing of institutions remain entrenched. tomorrow's leaders of public social Information the program, students expressed + Twenty-four percent of American services. Some will lead from manage­ strong appreciation for computer-based children under age 5 live in poverty. ment, like the Ed Lakes and Mary Lou education as an instructional medium. + More than 300,000 more Chambers, some from program Age The College of Social Work is preschoolers live in poverty now than leadership roles like the Susan Steppes, on the edge of an exciting new frontier in 1990. some from academia like Dean Shatz, (continued fr om page one) in education. Our goal is to prepare + In all, more than 14 million children Joanne Thompson, Joyce Harris, students to face the challenges of in this nation live in Charles Glisson, Darlene Lawson, Tom courses. It is probably fair to say that delivering quality social work services poverty. Cruthirds, Pat for both students and faculty this new to the populations we serve. The + After a 20-year Lockett, Paul instructional modality represents a Charles Wilson recently emerging information technologies will decline in single Campbell, and challenge to traditional ideas about how resigned as DHS be vital tools in achieving this goal. parents the rate of others, and some to teach and how to learn. The birth to single Director of Family will lead from the development of Connectus should David Patterson, Ph. D., is an assistant professor in moms grew by 16 Services after 18 years of front line--like serve as a valuable tool supporting the UTCSW at the Knoxville location. percent since 1985. Katie Finney. interactive television through e-mail distinguished service to To create contact between students and profes­ When you accept the position of this next genera­ sors and with the electronic dissemina­ examine these Executive Director of tion of leaders for tion of class materials. issues closely, you the National Children's Rocky find that 50 percent public social of African American Advocacy Center in services, social work students Multimedia Computer­ children live below Huntsville, Alabama. Relationship the poverty line and need to hear a Based Education that African consistent message from the facility, their peers, and the A third area of information technology (continued fr om page three) American infants are twice as likely to broader social work community. They in which the CSW has taken a leader­ declining opportunities for promotion die before their first birthday than are need not to hear that public social ship position is in multimedia com­ so she can continue to do the job their white counterparts. services is the ideal place to work--it puter-based education. In September of which drew her to seek a masters In today's world, danger lurks 1994 at the European Network for degree and licensure as a social worker. on the streets. One American youth isn't for most of us. They need not to hear that it is the most rewarding place Information Technology and Human While some social work dies every three hours in this country Services, I demonstrated HyperSkills, an educators dismissed public social as the result of gunfire. Howard to work--it often isn't. They need not interactive multimedia program for services almost like a hopeless case, researchers have found in some to hear that it is the easiest place to training human-service workers in basic others continued to embrace the cause neighborhoods of D.C., children can work--it is not. But they need to hear helping skills. This program, though still of the clients of public agencies and the describe witnessing seven homicides that there are few places more impor­ tant to work. in an early prototype form, combines professionals who labor in them to before their 6th birthday, and high video film clips, sound, digitalized make them work for the benefit of the schoolers report attending at least one images, and test-based materials. children and families who depend on friend's funeral per month. HyperSkills was developed through them. Dorothy Harris's leadership in The home offers no safe haven College is SWORPS by Brenda Black, Claire NASW in the 1980's began a reinvest­ for many. After a dramatic decline in Keene, and Eric Evers, and me. ment by the profession in public child the number of child deaths attributable Recently, along with Dr. Lisa welfare. At this school, the arrival of to abuse from an estimated 5,000 a Reaccredited Pullen of the UTK College of Nursing Dean Shatz strengthened an ongoing year in the 1960's to under 1,000, we (continuedfr om page one) and Eric Evers, a graduate student in appreciation of what we sought to are seeing an increase, up 54 percent Computer Science, I developed and accomplish. Today this school is since 1986. Now, four kids die each day semester hours. empirically tested HyperCDTX. This is supporting the connection through in this country as the result of child + Establishing a uniform comprehen­ a multimedia computer program ever more flexible scheduling, flexible abuse; in one five-month period alone sive examination to be administered at designed to train graduate students and field placements, and a very integral in Memphis last year, 13 children were all three locations. professionals in substance-abuse involvement in evaluative research killed by their caregivers. In addition to the Council on treatment. This program uses 3-D examining everything from our training Today the need for an Social Work Education's approval of animation to illustrate the effects of programs to the effectiveness of the effective public social service delivery the master's program and its changes, drugs at the neurosynaptic level along serviceswe offer. system has never been stronger, and a the Graduate Council has also ap­ with diagrams, graphs, charts, digitalized As we near the end of the strong social service system has never proved the new curriculum changes. images, and test-based information to 20th century we must strengthen these needed the support and wisdom of convey information on assessment, connections more. The social problems professional social work more. Social joanne Thompson, Ph.D., chaired the Curriculum diagnosis, and treatment of substance that gave birth to our respective work education must prepare Committee fo r the UTCSW at the Nashville location. October 199 5 15 r------, I I I I and A professor emeritus once said "An established in 1995. At the Knoxville Clip hooding and recognition ceremony the academic program is only as strong as its students and graduates." This past B.S.S.W.-SWO presented Associate year, the focus has been on students Dean jeannette jennings a contribu­ and student accomplishments at the UT tion to this fund. Save College of Social Work. Any report about students and Throughout the year the their accomplishments may best be I concluded by using the students' own B.S.S.W. Social Work Organization (B.S.S.W.-SWO) initiated and partici­ words. Listed below are a few com­ pated in several projects and activities. ments taken from the 1995 portfolios Seven speakers from the community required of each B.S.S.W. candidate: Top ten ways to + provided their insight on practice issues "The College of Social Work has and policy development. One of them, changed me from a dreamer to a doer. show you have Major John Parris from the UTK From I would like to do this , to I can Army ROTC Department, identified do this!" the growing need and extensive + "The most influential phrase taken alumni spirit opportunities for social workers in the away from this college and program is military. The organization's commit­ that 'knowledge builds compassion.' " ment to providing service to the + Attend reunions and special events community continued with activities at "I have received a lot from this Lonsdale School, Volunteer Ministry program and I believe in reciprocity. I feel that one day I will in turn give Supervise a field work student Center, Volunteers of America, Big­ something back." Brothers/Big Sisters, and the Runaway Volunteer as a telephone mentor for Shelter. A small group of students from students and fellow alums the B.S.S.W.-SWO applied to establish Enrollment a local chapter of the national Phi Alpha Donate as generously as you can Honor Society. The application and the Projected total enrollment for chapter's constitution and bylaws were M.S.S.W. program for 1995-96 approved. The inaugural ceremony will Call or write us when you move ...we don't take place during fall term, 1995. want to lose track of you New Full Part Advanced Total Michael Rhodes, a second Admissions Time Time Standing year student in the M.S.S.W. program Send us information about your at the Knoxville location, was awarded Knoxville 41 13 8 62 Mem his 37 21 12 70 profession a $3 I ,000 grant from the State of p Nashville 38 18 8 64 Tennessee to implement a program of Total 116 52 28 196 Get involved Join the Alumni HIV Education for De-institutionalized and/or Homeless Adults with Serious Association Committee Returning Full Part Advanced Total and Persistent Mental Illness. Rhodes Students Time Time Standing wrote the grant as part of the require­ Use the library ments for Dr. Sharon Pittman's Knoxville 42 29 0 71 Financial Management and Resource Memphis 28 41 0 69 Nashville 31 26 0 57 Provide resume consultation for Development Class. The program will Total 101 96 0 197 graduating students be implemented by the Helen Ross Mcnabb Center, Rhodes's Field TOTAL 217 148 28 393 Send us announcements of open positions in Practicum for the '94/'95 school year. Total projected enrollment in the B.S.S.W. Due to the persistent efforts your agency for our Job Board program, which is located at the Knoxville of students and faculty, the Social Work location, is 35 juniors and 33 seniors. There Undergraduate Scholarship Fund was are 30 students enrolled in the Ph.D. program, which is also located in Knoxville. �------� r------, Don't Miss Out!

Computer Help for Our Troubled Working With Veterans Breaking the Cycle of Applications in Children: Clinical and And Their Families Family Conflict Human Services Agency Approaches Presenters: Tina Alston, Ph.D.; Mary Presenters: Michael Kerr, M.D.; Faulkner, M.A.; John Metilor, B.SW. Janet Johnson, M.D.; Sylvia Presenter: David Patterson, Ph.D. Presenters: Andrew Dziewulski, Landau, L.C.S. W.; Kip Salazar, L. C.S. W.; Heather Dziewulski, L.C.S.W.; Cindy Westcott, L.C.S.W. L.C.S.W., B.C.D. Sponsored by the University of In cooperation with the Social Work Tennessee Social Work Office of Program, Middle Tennessee State University Research and Public Service In cooperation with the Department of A two-day conference co-sponsored November IS, 1995 October 7. 1995 Social Work, East Tennessee State with Family Systems Associates, Inc. 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM University November 17 and 18, 1995 Central Christian Church University of Tennessee November 6, 1995 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 404 E. Main Street Room 20 I, Humanities Building 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Saint Francis Hospital Main Street and Maney Avenue Andy Holt Avenue Wesley Memorial Methodist Church Longinotti Auditorium Murfreesboro, TN Knoxville. TN 225 Princeton Road 5959 Park Avenue $25 (includes breakfast) $40 (early registration) Johnson City, TN Memphis, TN $35 (after November I) $50 (after September 22 $25 (includes breakfast) $125 (early reg1strat1on) CEUs: .6 (6 clock hours) CEUs: .6 (6 clock hours) $35 (after October 23) $140 (after November I) $10 CEU registration fee $10 CEU registration fee CEUs: .6 (6 clock hours) CEUs: 1.4 ( 14 clock hours) (if you wish to earn CEUs) (if you wish to earn CEUs) $10 CEU registration fee $10 CEU registration fee (if you w1sh to earn CEUs) (if you wish to earn CEUs) Workshop #SW009 Workshop # SWO I I Workshop # SWO IO Workshop # SWO I2

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