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SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS NEWSLETTER Current News and Cumulative Reference A Report to the Membership ISSN 1084-6816

Advocacy and Action in Support of Group Work Practice, Education, Research, and Publication. Enhancing the Quality of Group Life throughout the World. Published at the University of Akron School of Social Work by the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups, Inc., An International Professional Organization. Vol. 21, #3, Issue #58 January 2006

THE PRESIDENT'S PEN A MIRACLE! SYMPOSIUM 2005: January 2006 Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS Dear Colleagues, was a SALUTES YOU! Happy New Year! Sincere good Renewal of wishes to you for 2006 in all areas of Spirit The Minnesota AASWG 2005 Plan- your lives, including groupwork! Enthusiasm ning Team extends our great appreciation My intent is twofold in writing this Hope for your passion for social group work first "President's Pen" since taking office Activity. and for your contributions toward the at the Minneapolis Symposium. First, I GET ON 27th Annual International Symposium on want to update you on AASWG news, AND Social Work with Groups. With your noting some excellent recent accomplish- HANG ON, help, the Symposium was a raving suc- ments as the result of efforts of many GO GROUP WORK cess! While the primary "...reward for a Board and Committee members. The GROW AASWG! job well done is having done second objective is to acknowledge the it" (Emerson), we want to extend a heart- wonderfully positive momentum that has WELCOME THE NEWLY felt thank you for making the Symposium been evident, much of it continuing from ELECTED "well above average" (Keillor). previous years, and some of it newly gen- "Building Bridges of Hope over erated. I would like to reaffirm the value NANCY E. SULLIVAN, PRESIDENT Troubled Waters", the 27th Annual Inter- of each one of us who contributes in ac- TIMOTHY B. KELLY, national Symposium on Social Work tion and/or spirit in the work to maintain VICE PRESIDENT Continued on page 8, Minneapolis AASWG. People participate in countless AT LARGE: MARCIA COHEN, ways, all important parts of the whole. MARK DOEL, JOAN LETENDRE IN THIS ISSUE Please know that an open invitation Our new President, NANCY SULLI- Books and Other Publications ...... 3, 11, 20 Calls for Papers...... 6, 23 stands for everyone interested to be an VAN, returns to the leadership role she Chapters, Affiliates and Organizing Units .6, 17 active AASWG supporter. Besides serv- temporarily occupied while Toby Ber- Conferences and Symposia...... 7, 9 ing on the Board and Committees, you man-Rossi was on leave a couple of years Contributions Received ...... 4 can participate, for example, by: ago. She is well known to AASWG as Features, Queries, etc...... 12, 15, 21 In Memoriam ...... 20 * taking part in web-based activities such Vice President, Chair of the Toronto Organization and Membership News...1, 13, 16 Continued on page 2, President’s Pen Continued on page 12, Elected Page 2, Vol. 21, #3, Issue #58, January 2006, SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS NEWSLETTER

President’s Pen, continued from page 1 trally instrumental: "Restructuring", SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS as Member to Member Connections headed by Alex Gitterman, and NEWSLETTER ISSN 1084-6816 * Chapter work "Institutional Membership", chaired by Vol. 21, # 3, January 2006, Issue #58 * attending and presenting at professional Carolyn Knight. The Restructuring Com- Published three issues per year at development events, locally and at our mittee has been tackling possible recon- The University of Akron annual symposium figurations of AASWG if our present School of Social W