FALL 2008
LEAD THE WAY
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BOSTON COLLEGE
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RESILIENCE
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Widowed and abandoned survivors of
the Indian Ocean tsunami holding their
micro-credit loans from Kalangarai, a
nongovernmental organization in the
Nagapattinam district of India.
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thirty years ago, i was scheduled to meet the leader
of a remote village in the Ecuadorian Andes, some
10,000 feet above sea level. As a delegate of an international aid agency, I was to propose a development project
that would facilitate access to clean water. The leader, an
impressive man with long white hair, addressed me in
the local dialect of Quechua, the language of the Incas.
My interpreter translated that the leader had no interest
whatsoever in collaborating with us. He explained to me
that some years ago another “gringo” agency made similar promises, started with a pompous opening ceremony (media and local politicians included), and then several months into the project, abandoned the site as
the agency’s headquarters rearranged priorities.
It took me some time to overcome my frustration and appreciate the precious gift
that the village leader had given me. The encounter taught me that we should be
cautious about engaging in collaborative activities if we are not sure that we will be
able to stay in the game and follow through. Otherwise, we risk compromising the
capacity of our partners to meet their own needs and we lose credibility and trust.
This axiom of the sustainable development concept reaches far beyond the field of
socio-economic development. It is a moral principle that can guide us through our
professional endeavors.
If we as a School of Social Work make a public commitment to excellence in
teaching and research, we are accountable to our stakeholders. As you will read in
this issue of our magazine, GSSW faculty have been deeply invested in a multitude
of initiatives such as improving students’ learning experiences or understanding
resilience in the face of major natural disasters. At a recent event for incoming students, one attendee said the reason she decided to come to BC was that she got the
sense that we are very serious about our business. The student was right; we hold
ourselves to the highest standards and we are in it for the long run. Once we engage
in a “contract” with our stakeholders, we do everything we can to walk the talk.
I never went back to that secluded village in Ecuador’s Altiplano, but I certainly
recall the stern expression on the face of that noble old man. Maybe aid workers who
followed were better prepared to persuade him that something positive could come
out of relationships with foreigners. Maybe they worked harder to understand the
local needs and priorities and were more committed to building long-term, reciprocal bonds. The villagers and their leader certainly deserved that kind of unconditional respect and deference.
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Q&
A
A Champion of Change
Benaree Wiley discusses leadership, social diversity
boston college trustee benaree “bennie” pratt wiley
served for 14 years as President and CEO of The
Partnership, an organization that assists businesses in the
Boston area to attract, retain, and develop professionals of
color. Wiley has a BA in marketing from Howard University
and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She was
also a past chair of the directors of the Children’s Museum
in Boston, a director of the Greater Boston Chamber of
Commerce, and a director of the Boston Foundation. Wiley
introduced herself to the GSSW when she attended the 2nd
annual Pinderhughes Diversity Lecture last spring.
Q. Can you point to a milestone in your
life that led to what you have become
today?
A. When I was growing up in
Washington, DC, it was very much the
segregated South. One of my most vivid
memories was May 17, 1954, the day of
the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. I
was eight years old, and my dad came
home and we celebrated the passage. He
wanted to make a toast to us; it was a
way of making real what happened to us
on that day. He sat us down and
explained the Supreme Court decision
and said from now on we can be whatever we wanted to be. I could feel my dad’s
energy and excitement and hope for us.
At that time I began to understand what
integration, segregation, and racial issues
were.
Q. How did you become interested in
business?
A. When I started taking classes at
Howard University, I thought I would go
into education because education and
nursing were mainly the careers of
women during those years. Then a professor encouraged me to take a few business classes, and I liked it. Like so many
things in life, this came kind of serendip-
itously. When I later enrolled at Harvard
Business School, there were very few
women in our class; there were actually
more blacks. I felt a lot of pressure
because I was a woman and a person of
color. So when I graduated there was
pressure that I take a traditional job with
some company on Wall Street or some
other advanced career job. However,
when I asked myself what works for me,
what is good for me, I knew it had to be
something that made an impact. So
directly out of business school, I went to
work for Abt Associates, a for-profit
social science research consulting firm
that is mission-driven, and I worked with
spin-offs of Abt for a number of years.
Q. How did work-life issues influence
your career choice?
A. I was married when I graduated from
Harvard and soon became pregnant with
my first child. I knew I could not continue work at Abt at the same intensity
level. My mother died when I was two
years old. So being a mother had a great
meaning to me with respect to how I
wanted to have time with my kids. I
decided that I wanted to explore if I
could work on a flexible schedule, which
hardly existed at that time. The CEO of
Abt was fine with giving me a chance,
and it turned out to be so successful that
others decided to work in similar ways
and the company became known as a
family-friendly organization. I then
worked part-time for 15 years.
Q. What qualities define a leader?
A. Being a leader is not as innate as people suggest it is. It includes taking risks,
which people of color hesitate to take; we
are afraid to fail because broader society
does not allow us to fail. And you have to
be self-aware. You need to get a better
understanding of what your strengths
are, what areas you like or need to develop, what your priorities are, how you
present yourself, what messages you
leave about yourself—not just what you
communicate but also who you are. It’s
also important to understand that you
have to have technical skills, that they are
fundamental to succeed, and that there
are social, political, and influence skills
you need to develop. The more you
ascend, the more critical these skills
become.
Q. What role does race or gender play in
developing leadership skills?
A. When race or gender is in play, it adds
a level of complexity. You may have an
issue with someone else at work and you
are trying to manage it. When race and
gender are in the room, you are trying to
assess to what extent is it chemistry—is
it because of something I did, is it
because I am a woman, is it because I
am black? You have to get rid of all that
stuff, so that you can hone in on what is
really at play so that you use your social
and political skill to manage the
relationship.
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Q. Is leadership only for those at the top?
A. You can be a leader wherever you are
in an organization or hierarchy.
Leadership is about being able to influence and effect change and to get results.
It is not a position or a title. Clearly, you
can have greater influence in certain positions, but you can also have no influence
whatsoever despite your position or title.
Clarity is a key prerequisite of leadership.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
How does what you currently do fit in
with where you see yourself in five years?
If you know what is important to you and
what you want to do, then you can figure
out ways to overcome the obstacles.
However, it is not always easy to get that
sense of clarity. That is why it is important to have a network of people to support you. People whom you trust and
respect, whose opinions you value, who
have good judgment, and who will be
candid and help you to think through
what is getting in your way so you can
focus on what you should be really
focusing on.
Q. How do you develop a group of
mentors?
A. It takes time, it is a process, and it is
about quality, not quantity, though it
should be more than one person. It does
not have to be somebody who is older, or
who is a professional, or who you work
with, but it has to be somebody who has
your best interests in mind. You should
not ask people to be your mentor. Ask
them instead to have coffee or lunch with
you, engage them in a conversation, and
then let the relationship evolve. Ask them
for their opinion on an issue that is
important to you and tell them that you
will follow up.
Q. What were strategies you used to build
your own network?
A. We came along in a time when there
were only a few people of color in posi-
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tions of influence. There was no group of
black MBAs or black lawyers. In order to
meet other black people, my husband and
I joined the Association of Black Social
Workers. Neither of us was a social worker, but you didn’t have to be to get
involved in the association. We also
bought a home in Roxbury, a black neighborhood in Boston, and lived there for
about 13 years. There was a consciousness
at the time to build black neighborhood
communities.
Q. For 15 years you were president of The
Partnership. Can you talk about the
history and mission of that Boston
organization?
A. Originally, there were two organizations, both trying to address the issue of
racial disharmony and tension. One was
created by the Mayor, the other was
founded by Hubie Jones, the former dean
at the BU School of Social Work. Mostly
for funding reasons, the two organizations merged and became a partnership.
Father Donald Monan, who was president
of Boston College at the time, has been
very involved with The Partnership. This
is how I got to know Father Monan and
eventually became a BC Trustee.
It is important to mention that I did not
create The Partnership as a concept but
The Partnership as it exists is my creation.
Our assumption was if we were able to
create a critical mass of African
Americans who would stay in Boston and
take on leadership positions and influence and affect change, then it would be
possible to change the social, political,
economic, and cultural fabric of the city.
The target group today are people of
color, but at the time the racial tension
was really a black issue. Boston had difficulty attracting black people because of its
reputation around busing and other
issues. But it also had problems with
retaining people. They would come, get
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their degree, and work for a couple of
years, but never considered Boston a
place to stay. What we have been doing is
identifying, retaining, and supporting
that talent so they would want to stay in
Boston.
Q. Where are we today in terms of
race relations?
A. In some ways, we have made phenomenal progress and in some ways, we are
farther behind, and that worries me. I am
talking about blacks; that is where my
passion is. Yes, we have many more
blacks in leadership positions, many
more in the business community, many
more entrepreneurs. The fact that Barack
Obama is even the Presidential nominee.
I never thought this would happen in my
lifetime, remembering 1954.
However, I worry about the increasing
divide. You have a segment of us who are
the beneficiaries, like me, of the Brown
decision, and at the same time a segment
that is getting deeper and deeper into
poverty, incarceration, teen pregnancy,
and all those things. I feel when I was
growing up we had a collective dream, we
had a collective sense of what we were
working towards as black America. We
not only focused on developing ourselves
as individuals, but also were equally committed to the role we were playing in
advancing and impacting the broader
community. Over time it seems it has
become too individualistic. Therefore, as
one segment is advancing, others aren’t,
and that’s what I’m focusing my energy
on. What is the role of we who are in
these companies, who are starting businesses, who are able to penetrate the economic mainstream? How do we create
more connections, how do we build our
collective dream?
A CULTURAL CRUCIBLE
Expert finds therapist’s family history crucial to effectiveness
by Native Americans? Or that
to do one’s genealogy generBrooklyn in 1776 had the highest
ally means to trace one’s lineage
slave population north of the
back through time to fill in a
Mason-Dixon line?
family tree. But Dr. Monica
Removing such cultural blindMcGoldrick, who spoke at the
ers, McGoldrick said, can only be
2nd Annual Pinderhughes
achieved with awareness. To that
Diversity Lecture Series in April,
end, she traveled to Ireland, believhas taken that study to new
ing that her family’s behaviors only
depths. Her investigation into
made sense in their native context.
her own clan’s background has
She began to see, she said, that her
exposed cultural revelations she
family’s not that different, they’re
believes offer important insights
just Irish. “Things I’d been so judginto the impact of heritage on
mental about were just their best
social work practitioners.
adaptive strategies,” she realized.
McGoldrick’s personal
At the lecture, McGoldrick preresearch has upended some of
her previously accepted truths
Monica McGoldrick, left, with Elaine Pinderhughes at the lecture on sented a genogram, an extensive
genealogy’s role in cultural understanding.
map of her family, and explained
about the therapist-client relathat such a chart can be used as a
tionship. She was taught in school
diagnostic tool. “If I were in trouble,
to be a sort of blank screen, bringFamily Life Cycle (3rd Ed., 1999), Ethnicity
you would need to know these people,”
ing nothing to the client-therapist relaand Family Therapy (3rd Ed., 2005), and
McGoldrick said. “Because they’re the peotionship, but she said that model ignores
Genograms in Family Assessment, Women
ple who make me strong, who help me
the background, experiences, and prejuin Families, Living Beyond Loss (2nd Ed,
out, and they’re the context in which I try
dices of the clinician. “Every interaction
2004). She integrated many personal
to figure out how to do better.”
we have is a cultural interaction,” she told
experiences into her talk, “Culture
As she began to process her privileges
the Boston College audience.
Matters: But What Difference Does It
and prejudices, McGoldrick realized that
Elaine Pinderhughes, the lecture
Make?” to illuminate how essential culher work suffered from a limited cultural
series’ namesake, said her colleague’s
tural knowledge is to effective communiperspective. “I’m beginning to see the
work has been critical in helping clinication and understanding.
racism in a lot of my work,” McGoldrick
cians realize how their own background,
She recalled, for example, growing up
admitted. For instance, she said that
including race and class, may affect their
Irish in Brooklyn in the 1960s and being
when she talked about couples and famiperspective. “She is the expert on cultural
a big fan of Jackie Robinson. Indeed, for
lies or spoke about women’s issues,
difference in family therapy,”
her eighth birthday, she sat right behind
genograms, and family therapy, her thinkPinderhughes said. “She made it very
the player’s dugout and watched him take
ing didn’t include people of color.
clear how these things are part of her—
the field, a thrill she still recalls vividly.
“I believe we need to create a crucible
and very much control what we can see
Yet, she also acknowledged that at the
that can contain the history of all of us,”
and what we can hear—and, as a clinician
time she had no idea what his story was;
McGoldrick concluded. “If we recognize
and professional, how to apply that to
she didn’t know what he’d had to go
our connections to each other and help
someone you are working with.”
through while breaking baseball’s color
each other to acknowledge all of our hisMcGoldrick is a nationally recognized
barrier. Now a scholar, McGoldrick put
tory, then we can work together to change
family therapist and director of the
the matter to the Boston College audience
the future.”
Multicultural Family Institute in
rhetorically. As a child, she asked, why
— DAN MORRELL
Highland Park, N.J. Her books include
didn’t I know that I traveled down
Re-Visioning Family Therapy, The Expanded
Brooklyn streets whose paths were paved
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SCHOOL PROGRESSES WITH DIVERSITY AGENDA
when in the fall of 2006 the graduate school of social
Work decided to embrace diversity as a challenge and
opportunity, the community knew it was in for the long
haul. Being aware of diversity means understanding the
roots and consequences of the various forms of oppression
and discrimination, which have been in place for centuries.
In order for the School to establish and sustain a culture
of diversity, a number of key factors and processes needed
to be in place:
• First, the initiative had to become an essential part of the
GSSW’s operations.
• Second, a cultural change had to be well planned and
the steps leading to the transformation carefully
implemented.
• Third, to learn from best practices, the GSSW had to
reach out to experts from other schools of social work and
related disciplines.
• Fourth, transformational efforts had to be shared with
the wider community.
Fortunately, the decision to move forward with this
endeavor came from within the organization, having been
jointly proposed by faculty, students, and staff. The process
of a school-wide buy-in and follow-through moved the initiative from an ad-hoc project to an institutionalized planning structure.
A Diversity Task Force was formed, chaired by GSSW
faculty member Paul Kline, and it evolved into a standing
committee of members of the School’s four concentrations,
plus key administrators and student representatives. Five
subcommittees that focus on curriculum, research, field,
admissions, and climate issues were also established to
examine how diversity was addressed in each area.
Professor Emerita Elaine Pinderhughes interviewed faculty
and wrote an assessment of curriculum and teaching issues
related to diversity.
The Diversity Committee established an initial plan
through 2010 in which each academic year the School
would examine a primary aspect of diversity via speaker
series, trainings, diversity retreats, and meetings and discussions with faculty, staff, and students. The three thematic areas selected were: race and racism (2007-2008),
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sexual orientation (2008-2009), and immigration/refugees
(2009-2010).
Incorporating all four of the key factors into its 20072008 programming on race and racism, the GSSW
launched the initiative with the following events:
• The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond provided
a two-day Undoing Racism training in October 2007 for
faculty and staff as part of a newly established annual
Diversity Retreat.
• Field Director William Keaney organized and sponsored,
through the New England Consortium of Graduate Social
Work Field Education Directors, a 16-hour workshop
focused on race and racism entitled Cultural Competence
in Field Education for about 40 field staff from New
England schools of social work. The training was facilitated
by faculty from the UT Austin School of Social Work.
• Dr. Rowena Fong, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor
in Services to Children and Families at the University of
Texas at Austin School of Social Work, and Associate
Professor Dr. Leslie Hollingsworth from the University of
Michigan School of Social Work lectured and met with faculty and students in November and February, respectively.
• In April, prompted by Senator Barack Obama’s speech on
“Race and America,” the GSSW sponsored a forum on race
led by Dr. Janet Helms, the August Long Professor in
Counseling Psychology at BC’s Lynch School of Education.
A few weeks later, Monica McGoldrick, professor of clinical
psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and
director of the Multicultural Family Institute, presented
“Culture Matters: What Difference Does It Make?” at the
second annual Pinderhughes Lecture (see story page 5).
To document the School’s diversity initiative, several
GSSW faculty members, under the leadership of Othelia
Lee, prepared a paper, “More than a mission statement:
Implementing diversity and social justice initiatives in a
school of social work,” which is being presented at the 2008
Council on Social Work Education conference this October.
A second paper is being presented this fall at the 2008
Diversity Challenge Conference on Race, Culture, and
Trauma sponsored by the BC Lynch School.
— RUTH MCROY
Global engagement was a central theme at the three-day conference.
International Conference Focuses
on Sustainability
boston’s bustling faneuil hall marketplace and
historic waterfront did not divert attention from
the proceedings at the second annual, three-day
International Social Work Conference (ISW) at
the Omni Parker House in June. A select group
of social work professionals participated in the
event, which was co-sponsored by the Council
on Social Work Education (CSWE), the National
Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of
Social Work (NADD), and 14 individual schools
of social work.
The theme and title of the 2008 conference
was “How to Build Sustainable Initiatives.”
Keynoter Dr. Michael Sherraden, director of the
Center for Social Development at Washington
University, spoke on social work’s potential for
international engagement, understanding, problem solving, and development. A reception at
the Boston College Club followed the opening
session.
The remainder of the conference featured plenary sessions and group discussions on issues
such as safety and risk management, international field education, and funding opportunities.
The director of international programs at the
University of Hawaii’s School of Social Work, Ron
Matayoshi, for one, was impressed by the large
number of universities and colleges that have
made it their responsibility to take social work
education to an international level. “The various
models and funding methods shared at this conference were very beneficial to me and our future
efforts in Asia and other Pacific Rim countries,”
he said. “I would like to see more frequent sharing of opportunities between institutions.”
The 2009 ISW conference, organized by the
Monmouth University and Rutgers University
schools of social work, will be held July 10-12 at
the Jersey City Hyatt Regency.
— SERENA HEARTZ
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PROFILES IN COURAGE
Three students learn the hard realities of international placements
by tracey palmer
Juliana LaBoube surrounded by school children she helped in Vietnam.
JULIANA LABOUBE, MSW ’08
VIETNAM
Juliana Laboube began her field placement in Vietnam with a non-profit
organization that protects orphaned,
homeless, and poor children from forced
labor and abuse through educational
scholarships and direct relief efforts. The
29-year-old from Boston was one of only
three staff members in the field and she
didn’t speak Vietnamese.
“At first, I felt like, ‘Who am I, this
sheltered American white girl counseling
these people who have been through so
much?’” she says. It wasn’t long before
she found her answer—it came in the
forms of a garbage dump and a little boy
with a kite.
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“at first, i felt like, ‘who am
i, this sheltered american
white girl counseling
these people who have been
through so much?’” it
wasn’t long before she
found her answer—it came
in the forms of a garbage
dump and a little boy with
a kite.
~ Juliana Laboube
As Laboube came to learn, many
impoverished Vietnamese children and
their families spend long hours scavenging through rubbish for something to eat
and for items, like cans or plastic bags, to
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sell. Living in filth, they are susceptible
to disease or worse, all for the prospect
of earning about a dollar a day. As part of
an effort to help 300 such people move
into safer housing and jobs, Laboube
developed educational tools for her
English-speaking Vietnamese co-workers
to use. Thanks to micro loans and job
training, one by one, the adults in the
program became taxi drivers, hairdressers, and mechanics. Some even
started cooperative businesses. Most
moved into better housing and allowed
their children to enroll in a new school.
“Sometimes the best way to help a
child is to help her family and community first,” Laboube observes. “I learned
that in terms of individuals, you could
empower one person to empower the
whole community.”
Sometimes the most instructive experiences fall outside the formal job
description. In Vietnam, children must
pay for school, books, and uniforms, a
cost many families can’t afford. The
foundation not only provides scholarships, but also monthly food aid to families, to offset what the children would
make if they were working instead. In
return, parents sign a contract, promising to keep their children in school.
At one school, Laboube got to know
well a 10-year-old boy named Yieu. He
couldn’t afford school, and at the time,
the scholarship program didn’t include
boys. Regardless, Laboube says, Yieu
came to school daily, stood outside the
classroom window, and listened.
“Every day he’d come with his kite,
and each day, the kite would be more and
more elaborate,” Laboube recalls. “He’d
keep rebuilding it and enhancing it with
bits of string and plastic he’d find in the
trash, as if he was trying to impress us.”
She wanted to engage Yieu and encourage his curiosity. She couldn’t invite him
into the class; so instead, she invited him
to play games with her in her off time.
“We did art projects, played tic tac toe, and
twister. I really felt close to him, despite
the language barrier,” she says.
After her return to the United States,
Laboube learned that the Foundation was
now making scholarships available to
boys. Yieu was officially in school. And
Laboube knew that she had made a
difference.
DOROTHEE STÄNGLE, MSW ’08
SOUTH AFRICA
It is not always easy to see the bright side
of life while working with HIV-positive
patients in a rural South African health
clinic, but that’s what Dorothee Stängle
learned to do.
A German native who now lives in
Colorado, Stängle did her field placement
at a community clinic run by a non-profit
organization specializing in HIV disease
management. The clinic is located in the
remote Mpumalanga Province and serves
the 2,000 patients who cannot afford to
travel to the government treatment site
40 kilometers away. At first, the obstacles
overwhelmed Stängle.
According to UNAIDS statistics, close
to 1/5 of adults ages 15-49 are infected
with HIV, but many people don’t seek
care. When they do, Stängle learned, they
often prefer trusted local traditional healers, not western health care workers. Still
other patients deny their illness and
refuse to take medication, convinced
instead that they are “bewitched.”
Stängle narrowed her focus to those who
needed her most. “Women and children,
especially in South Africa, are really vulnerable,” she says, noting that the
women are typically financially dependent on their spouses. Some women are
unknowingly infected by their husbands,
but even a wife who knows her husband
is infected cannot easily afford to protect
herself by leaving the marriage. And
since communities tend to ostracize HIV
patients, many infected women deny
having the disease and don’t seek treatment. Others are commanded by their
husbands to stay away from the clinic
and keep quiet.
Children don’t fare any better. Often
infected by their mothers, many are
never told about their health risks or
receive treatment. These children are frequently orphaned when their own HIVpositive parents die.
For Stängle, the most frustrating scenario was when families from rural villages mustered the courage to seek help,
then couldn’t afford the taxi fare to get to
the clinic.
She faced many challenges, but the
lesson Stängle took away from her experience is that people are resilient. She
witnessed this regularly in the support
group she co-founded for HIV-positive
children and their families. One HIVpositive woman whose husband had died
of AIDS stands out in her mind.
“She had five children, no food, no
education, and tuberculosis, the number
one killer of people with HIV in Africa,”
Stängle recalls, “but she came to the clinic with a smiling face every month.” The
woman’s grace and fortitude changed
Stängle’s perspective from despairing to
hopeful. She began asking, “What are the
strengths and positives and how do we
build on those?”
This new outlook was the basis of the
in-service training she provided for the
clinic staff, 80 percent of whom were
patients themselves.
“We spent so much time in the classroom at BC talking about sustainability,”
Stängle says. “It was great being out in
the field experiencing everything we
talked about.”
Dorothee Stängle enjoying a smile with the HIV/AIDS care team in Mpumalanga Province.
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ANDREA COLE, MSW ’08
M A L AW I
“Vicarious traumatization” was a major
concern for Andrea Cole when she
arrived at a refugee camp in central
Malawi.
“I was nervous about hearing their
stories,” admits the 28-year-old from
Virginia, and afraid of being traumatized
by the refugees’ horrific experiences, like
those of a Rwandan widow Cole got to
know.
The woman told Cole that she, her
husband, and their seven children were
forced to flee their village when a rebel
group attacked. Later, the husband went
back to their home to check on their
cows. He never returned. Soon after, the
woman returned to her village, but the
rebels came again. This time, she and
her children hid. When she thought it
was safe, she went down the road to get
water, leaving the children hidden at
home. When she returned, they were all
lying dead on the ground, hacked by
machetes.
“This woman lost everything,” Cole
recalls. “She lay in bed for a month. She
didn’t want to live.”
Stories like these are common in the
camp, which serves 10,000 refugees
from Rwanda, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Burundi, Somalia, and Ethiopia,
but Cole never got used to hearing them.
At first, she didn’t think there was anything she could do to help, but eventually
she learned that listening was crucial.
“Just bearing witness to what happened
to them helped,” Cole says, “and they
were so thankful.”
In Cole’s support group for widows,
the Rwandan woman became one of the
most resilient, compassionate members,
helping others with their grief. “Some of
them have so much hope and so much
faith,” Cole says, “and in some ways, it’s
all they have. They have lost everything.”
Through her groups and in individual
Andrea Cole, far left, with coworkers who serve the refugee community in Malawi.
conversation, Cole tried to give the
women and their children the tools to
cope with their trauma and to move on.
“Victims feel powerless,” she observes,
“but often they are the ones who start the
healing and forgive. It really made me
realize that, in some ways, women in
that part of the world have borne the
brunt of all the war and violence that
men have started.”
Cole credits her BC education for her
ability to connect with the refugees. “A
class in trauma with Paul Kline really
gave me the blueprint,” she says. “If I
hadn’t had that class, I would have been
in the dark, completely.”
Cole says Kline taught her about the
three steps to trauma treatment: 1) safety
and relationship building with the traumatized client; 2) allowing the client to
tell the trauma story; and 3) helping the
client look toward the future as he or she
reconnects with the community and a
new identity. “These were tremendously
important concepts,” says Cole, “since
every single one of the women I worked
with in Malawi had been traumatized by
the war in their country.”
She is thankful BC gave her the opportunity to participate in the program. “My
experience,” she says, “taught me that I
could handle a lot more than I thought I
could, and about what I could give back.”
A key component of the GSSW Global
Practice Concentration is the three-month
international field placement during the
students’ final semester. In 2007, 21
students experienced learning opportunities in 16 international locations. In 2009,
16 students will be placed in international
agencies. More than half of this year’s
students will be staying longer than the
required three months.
A view of Inda Selassie, a town in northern Ethiopia, the site of one of the GSSW global placements...
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school emphasizes classroom excellence
TEACHERS
WHO MAKE AN IMPACT
Professor Paul Kline and Professor
Katie McInnis-Dittrich know how to
engage students and have often
been praised as first-rate teachers.
b y t h o m a s w a l s h a n d v i c k i s a n d e rs
As chair of teaching support services, McInnis-Dittrich is sharing
It’s 9 a.m. on a brilliant, cloudless July day, but
their successful techniques with
other GSSW faculty.
in the cool, windowless confines of Higgins
265, thunderclouds are everywhere. Twenty-one
students are gathered in a semicircle facing
Professor Paul Kline for the final lesson in course
number SW822, the Impact of Traumatic
Victimization on the Developing Child and
Adolescent. Behind him is a video screen, upon
which a tragic story of incest and its aftermath
will soon play out.
p h o t o gr a p h y b y s u zi c a m a r a t a
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world as malevolent,” he says,
expanding on the student’s definition. “It results in a pathological,
emotional loyalty to the perpetrator, a
Geriatric Social Worker, Center Communities of Brookline
trauma bond that endures weeks,
months, years after the experience.”
AREA OF EXPERTISE:
Before showing the video, Kline
Older Adults & Families
engages the class, throwing out quesSPECIAL INTERESTS:
tions—“What is projection?” “What
Clinical Practice, Elderly Women, Social Policy
is identification?”—encouraging students to dig deeper and deeper for
I’m an official card-carrying member of the Katie McInnis-Dittrich Fan
explanations even as he adds perClub. From the first day I entered the School, I heard murmurs in the
spective and nuance to the dialogue.
student lounge about what a great teacher she was. It wasn’t until my
“Projective identification—watch for
final year that I got to take her classes; she was BC’s gift to me in my
evidence of this in the video,” he
final year of the program. In class you don’t realize how much you are
urges, reminding them that the
learning because she is so engaging and entertaining. She provided a
daughter has asked for the meeting
beacon and guidepost for all of the students who worked with a geriwith a particular therapeutic objecatric population. In traditional classes, the geriatric material was tacked
on at the end of the semester, but in Katie’s classes, the geriatric contive in mind. He provokes the stutent was the main focus. It’s not easy talking about people with demendents further: “Does she achieve her
tia who can no longer tie their shoes, but with Katie, the class resonatgoal?”
ed with humor and stories about her own mother, grandmother, and
By the time the lesson ends three
90-year-old neighbor that brought the human touch to everything we
hours later, Kline has covered a lot of
were studying. She was very demanding, but demanding in the most
territory. He has moved from the
user-friendly way. She offered a simple contract—she would be the
father/daughter screening to analymost wonderful teacher, if you would be the most wonderful student—
sis of effective trauma therapies to
and the entire class responded to her message. She thrives in the classdiscussion of a child abandonment
room. It’s like Katie being Katie; she was born for this.
case to interpretation of drawings
that he passes around by another sexually abused girl. And that was just
one class in Kline’s pedagogical
repertoire.
Afterward, student Brooke Booth says she’s
First, though, Kline must prepare his students to
understand the psychological storm created by this already been able to put Kline’s lessons to use in her
sexual trauma and the nature of the encounter they clinical encounters. He heightened her awareness of
are about to witness between father and daughter. the possible role of trauma in her clients’ lives. “It’s
The two haven’t seen each other since the father’s made me question some of my clients’ statements. Is
arrest and imprisonment three years before. Both there residual trauma? Before, I probably wouldn’t
have undergone extensive counseling. The daughter have articulated that there might have been something trauma related.”
has requested this meeting.
Such powerful, if subtle, evidence of a teacher’s
“What is a trauma bond?” Kline begins. He leans
effectiveness is the backbone of a Graduate School of
forward in his seat, his voice earnest, eager, his eyes
sweeping the class. He asks again, and this time is Social Work initiative that has made excellence in
teaching a top priority.
rewarded with a reply.
While doctoral programs in almost any field insist
“Yes, yes, it’s a kind of transactional experience, an
attachment that has the power to shape a child’s sense that their students master the skills of academic writof self as deserving of maltreatment and view of the ing and research, the challenging skill of teaching
JEFFREY SAVIT, MSW ’06
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McInnis-Dittrich and Kline are ebullient people whose energy creates sizzle in their classrooms.
receives a lot less attention. “It is surprising how
higher education takes the art of teaching for granted,” says Dean Alberto Godenzi. “Teachers in K-12
schools undergo rigorous instruction to be effective
in the classroom, but we pay insufficient attention to
the training of university teachers. We evaluate them
after the fact, but we don’t necessarily provide the
foundation for them to be successful.”
The junior faculty who joined the GSSW in recent
years came from top ranked universities. At their
alma mater, they acquired some of their teaching
skills by serving as teaching assistants or by co-teaching a course with an experienced faculty member.
When taking on their first teaching assignments at
BC, however, they often were anxious about their onthe-job training, Godenzi explains.
To alleviate their stress and to offer the students
optimal learning experiences, the GSSW created a
structure that provides support through mentoring
and a designated Chair of Teaching Support Services.
The inaugural occupant of the chair is Associate
Professor Katie McInnis-Dittrich, recipient of the
2004 University Distinguished Teaching Award. She
provides regular training seminars on teaching,
observes class sessions, and provides consultation for
any issues that may arise in the classroom. She also
makes herself available to the School’s own doctoral
students, enhancing their teaching skills so they will
arrive at their future academic homes with a strong
foundation.
“Our philosophy is that we can have excellent
scholars who are also very good teachers,” McInnisDittrich says, adding that faculty generally have been
receptive to assessing their classroom strategies.
With the expectation that excellence in teaching is a
prerequisite for tenure, young professors see the
benefits of taking advantage of the new support systems. Besides, there is precedent for evaluating faculty work; scholars commonly submit articles to their
peers for review before publishing. Why not a similar
process for their classroom techniques, McInnisDittrich asks?
In addition to the high expectations for faculty in
the classroom, the GSSW has created an environ-
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first year, and was ranked third among GSSW faculty by the students.
McInnis-Dittrich says the emphasis on teaching
comes in part in reaction to the changing conRegional Director of Recruitment, Peace Corps, Boston
sumer population. “This generation of students
grew up on MTV and learned to count with
AREA OF EXPERTISE:
“Sesame Street,” she observes. “They are very visuChildren, Youth & Families
ally oriented and their attention span is shorter.
SPECIAL INTERESTS:
Child Therapy, Effects of War and Conflict on Children
We need to be very visual in response and more
diversified in our approaches. Students today want
Paul Kline was my greatest mentor when I was a student and he contina lively experience.”
ues to be my greatest mentor. Wherever I have been assigned to work—
First-rate teachers can have a lasting impact on
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ecuador, Liberia, or Sierra Leon—I have relied on
students or bring routine subjects to life. Adrienne
Paul to offer guidance and help whenever I was faced with a challenge.
Pisoni ’08, for one, was surprised by how interestWhen I was working with refugees from Sierra Leone in a camp in
ing a research methods course became in the
Liberia, Paul actually came to Liberia to provide training and consultahands of Assistant Professor Margaret Lombe.
tion to my staff on how to work with children who have been trauma“She really cares about students having a positive
tized by war. That led to our publishing an article together, “Coping with
experience,” Pisoni says. In fact, Pisoni was so
War: Three Strategies Employed by Adolescent Citizens of Sierra Leone.”
impressed, she reorganized her schedule to be
Paul’s teaching at Boston College is legendary—how else do you fill a
able to take Lombe’s class in Program Evaluation.
classroom on Friday morning at 8 a.m. with students sitting on the edge
Jennifer Tilghman-Havens, MA/MSW ’01,
of their seats to hear every word, and lamenting that the class has to
end? He is passionate about his work with children and adolescents and
associate director in the Office of Jesuit Mission
his passion is contagious.
and Identity at Seattle University, provides evidence that a good teacher can have a life-long
impact on students. Recalling her experience in
Kerry Mitchell’s classroom, she says: “Many bits of
wisdom from Dr. Mitchell’s classes stay with me,
ment in which every teacher can be successful. MSW even after 11 years. I still find myself referencing his lecProgram Director and Associate Dean Tom Walsh regular- tures on couples and family work—professionally, but also
ly asks students about their experiences in GSSW courses. personally, especially now that I’m married and have a child
“I am very pleased that the number of complaints remark- of my own.”
ably decreased since we made a strategic commitment to
Leida Cartagena (MSW ’04), an adjunct professor of
teaching,” Walsh says. “And when students raise concerns social work at Elms College, finds herself trying to give stuabout a faculty’s teaching efforts, there is an effective dents the same opportunities she was given by Professor
process in place on how to address the issue.”
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes. “She allowed me to learn about my
Further evidence of the School’s emphasis on teaching is strengths and challenges as we tackled each new topic in
the hiring this fall of three full-time clinical assistant profes- class,” says Cartagena. “She was readily available whenever
sors, Kerry Mitchell, Susan Tohn, and Robin Warsh, all highI needed assistance with my class work or projects and
ly rated teachers adept at bringing their clinical experience demonstrated in her teaching that as social workers we all
into the classroom (see story page 21).
continue to change, grow, and learn from each other and
New full-time tenure-track hires have been equally our environment.”
impressive in the classroom. Stephanie Berzin, who joined
Meanwhile, McInnis-Dittrich, who specializes in gerithe School in 2006, has proven to be a versatile teacher atric social work, is doing her best to spread her passion for
teaching practice, policy, and research courses. She ranked teaching to her colleagues so that all students will experifourth among student evaluations of all faculty in her first ence what Pisoni, Tilghman-Havens, and Cartagena did.
year. A more recent addition to the full-time faculty,
The secret of McInnis-Dittrich’s own success? Her
Thomas Crea, PhD, taught Program Evaluation during his answer is unequivocal. “I love what I teach.”
ERIN MONE, MSW ’99
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A child's drawing done at a children's workshop soon after the Indian Ocean tsunami.
recovering from
DISASTER
GSSW professors study
SURVIVORS in INDIA
and NEW ORLEANS ,
finding they have much
IN COMMON
BY JULIE MICHAELS
EVERY DECADE HAS ITS QUOTA OF NATURAL DISASTERS.
But the past four years have brought calamities of historical proportion such as the 2004 tsunami in South
Asia and the 2005 devastation of the Gulf Coast by
Hurricane Katrina. They caused the death and dislocation of millions, and placed enormous demands on
government and social service systems that struggled to help victims.
These two events have given those who study social
behavior an opportunity to explore the impact of such
disasters on a community. Researchers have gone into
the field to learn about human needs and determine
best practices.
Two GSSW faculty who felt an obligation to reach
out to disaster survivors are Professor Thanh Tran, who
is studying the resilience of the Vietnamese community in New Orleans and Biloxi, MS, after Katrina; and
Professor Karen Kayser, who led a delegation of graduate students to Tamil Nadu, India, to record the impact
of the tsunami on emergency relief workers.
Though the two professors ventured to different
parts of the world, they found similarities in the human
response to disaster. Professor Kayser’s Indian research
revealed five common ways that disaster victims cope
with tragedy, many of which could apply to the New
Orleans Vietnamese community as well: (1) returning
to routine, (2) rebuilding family structures, (3) communal sharing of resources, (4) emotional expression of
grief and loss to a supportive listener, and (5) finding
benefits from the disaster experience.
Professor Tran, himself a refugee from Vietnam,
came to Mississippi when he was 19 years old, where he
lived in a refugee camp for a few months until he was
sponsored by an American couple and then attended a
community college to learn English. The Katrina disaster offered him an opportunity to study a group he
knew intimately. There are about 20,000 Vietnamese
living in the region: fishing families live along the coast;
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others are concentrated in East New Orleans, an area
completely devastated by flooding.
“What was remarkable to me,” says Tran, “is how
quickly the community recovered. Compared to other
still-damaged neighborhoods, East New Orleans has
been completely rebuilt. The vast majority of people did
not relocate. They returned home as soon as they could.”
Already a people who had weathered war and dislocation, the Vietnamese seemed more prepared psychologically to cope with a second upheaval. Also, they are
a strong community anchored by the Catholic Church
and Buddhist temples. “The people hung together and
renewed their social commitment to each other,” Tran
explains. Vietnamese from all over the U.S. sent donations. Katrina also helped the younger generation—
many of whom are educated professionals—step up
and become leaders in the community. “They were the
ones who knew how to handle government bureaucracy,” the professor explains.
The Vietnamese did not wait for the government to
act. They cleaned up their own neighborhoods and
worked together to rebuild each others’ houses. “Any
government aid they received, they saved,” says Tran.
“They never paid for hotels, but instead stayed with
family. As a result, they had the money to spend on
reconstruction.”
For the Vietnamese, there is a strong sense of “the
extended family,” says Tran, who told of one woman, a
pharmacist, who relocated to Houston with her entire
family after Katrina. “When her employers wanted her
to return to New Orleans, she said, ‘Fine, but you have
to move everybody back with me.’”
This devotion to New Orleans as home was very
strong among the Vietnamese. The older generation
had suffered through one dislocation and they were
adamant that they would not be forced out of their communities again. Because of this determination, says
Tran, “they committed to rebuilding as soon as the
floods subsided.”
P
rofessor Karen Kayser witnessed a similar
kind of social cohesion when she took her
students to the southeast coast of India in
2005, one year after the tsunami
destroyed many local villages. Through
teaching a course on human services in developing
countries, Kayser welcomed the opportunity to study
how other cultures cope with a major natural
disaster.International research is new for her, but she
welcomed the opportunity to observe how other cultures react to a different kind of crisis.
“When I take students on a field trip like this, they
don’t want to observe, they want to get involved,” says
Kayser, whose team of 10 graduate students decided to
study the effects of the tsunami on first responders.
Fortunately, Boston College has close ties with Catholic
relief agencies. Through the Jesuits, the professor and
her group connected with Fr. Paul Michael Raj, SJ who
is the director of Kalangarai, a non-governmental
organization (NGO) established to provide relief services to vulnerable or marginalized groups after the tsunami. He welcomed the researchers and quickly lined up
subjects for them to interview.
The impact of their tsunami research on Kayser and
her students has been profound. One graduate student
changed her concentration to global practice, while others reassessed every aspect of their lives. “I sat in my
apartment and looked at all the junk I have…,” one student remarked to Kayser.
“You can’t help but be moved by the resiliency of
people in situations like this,” says Kayser, who is continuing her research in India. In May of 2007, the
Boston College professor began a study of 1700 Indian
widowed or abandoned women who have received
microcredit loans from Kalangarai. As one condition
for the loans, the widows are required to participate in
self-help groups where they meet to discuss their
progress and challenges. Kayser found it was the self-
S hared Sur vival
S T R A T E G I E S
H elp Victims Cope
GSSW researchers discovered that no matter
what the crisis, people’s responses to disaster are
similar in order to save themselves and rebuild
their communities. Here are some of Karen
Kayser’s findings:
• Victims want to return to normalcy as quickly
as possible. “Refugees were not interested in prepackaged food and Western clothes,” says
Professor Kayser, who is studying survivors of the
2004 South Asia tsunami. “They said, ‘Give us a
pot, oil, vegetables, and rice, so we can cook for
ourselves.’”
• People move quickly to rebuild family structures. “Men who lost their wives in the flooding
often remarried within two weeks,” says Kayser.
“They needed someone to care for their children.”
Unfortunately, the men tended to marry much
younger girls, ignoring the needs of widows who
were not sufficiently valued.
• Victims acted as a community rather than as
individuals. “In one fishing village,” says Kayser,
“relief workers were welcome only if they agreed
to help everyone in the village.” In fact, villagers
often refused to move into new housing until the
entire community was rebuilt, when they could
move together.
• First responders found that people wanted to
tell their stories. “This is a culture where you can
mourn openly,” says Kayser, “and people did.
Villagers cried readily and shared their experiences willingly.”
• Money came into the disaster area and
changed lives for the better. Many were employed
in the rebuilding effort; others qualified for microcredit loans that helped them start small businesses, like selling fuel oil or goats in the market.
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RESEARCH
faculty hires
Three clinical professors join School full time
MITCHELL
TOHN
Tohn has co-authored numerous publications and delivered keynote and professional presentations to dozens of organizations across the country. She is an active
member of the Massachusetts Chapter of
the National Association of Social
Workers.
Tohn’s passion for teaching is matched
by her enjoyment of athletic activities such
as dancing, skiing, and climbing.
WARSH
new clinical professorships
Three part-time faculty have been selected for the newly created full-time Clinical Assistant
Professor positions. With the School’s emphasis on excellent teaching, the GSSW petitioned and
received permission from the University to create the slots for social work practitioners to teach
clinical practice courses. A search yielded three well known GSSW instructors who have routinely been ranked in the top 10 in student evaluations. The importance of these positions is that they
allow and encourage the faculty to keep active in their clinical practice in order to strengthen
their classroom instruction.
received his MSW from
Simmons College and his PhD from
Boston College and he brings more than
30 years of clinical experience to his new
position. Prior to joining Boston College
as a part-time faculty member in 1995, he
was the clinical director for North Shore
Catholic Charities, where he managed the
Department of Social Services Child in
Need Service Program. For the past 13
years, he has served GSSW in a number of
capacities, including course lecturer and
coordinator, student advisor, trainer in the
Continuing Education Program, and
member of the Academic Standards
Review Committee and Health and Mental
Health Concentration Committee.
Mitchell operates a private psychotherapy practice and provides consultation to the
Greater Manchester Christian Counseling
Services and Somerville’s Brother of Hope.
He draws on his multiple roles as therapist,
teacher, mentor, and coach to inspire students in the classroom to develop their theoretical and practice skills.
Mitchell has been spotted driving to
work in his vintage British sports car, a
KERRY MITCHELL
Clockwise from top right: Temporary housing for Katrina victims on the land of the Mary Queen of Vietnam Church. Professor Kayser, far right,
next to Gloria Tower '07 with a research team of students from the Madras School of Social Work in India. The remains of a house one year
after the tsunami. Professor Tran inside the Vietnamese Buddhist Church with Venerable Thich Thien Tri, the chief monk of the church.
help groups, as much as the loans themselves, that
enabled the women to succeed. “Talking to others
helped these women move to a second level,” says
Kayser, “from individual empowerment to community
empowerment.”
Professor Tran, meanwhile, will be continuing his
study of the Vietnamese in New Orleans. He will return
this fall with a 250-question survey aimed at gathering
more complete information about the community’s
Katrina experience.
“The work of these two professors is very much an
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example of our mission at the GSSW,” says Dean
Alberto Godenzi. “Our faculty uses their research skills
to tackle vital societal challenges, locally and globally.
They find their research questions by engaging with
people and communities, by listening to their concerns
and dreams, and by learning from their resiliency in the
face of disasters. I am confident that based on such an
inclusive and collaborative approach, the research of my
two colleagues will not only enhance our understanding
of how to respond to disasters but also benefit the lives
of the survivors.”
1961 MGA. When he is not teaching, you
may find him surfing in Cape Cod’s
Wellfleet Harbor.
has been a part-time faculty
member at the GSSW since 1999. During
that time she has built lasting relationships with her students and frequently
provides weekly clinical supervision to
GSSW alumni.
Before earning her MSW from Boston
University, Tohn lived and studied in
Israel where she honed her social work
skills in a small developing town.
Currently, she operates Solutions, a private
practice providing clinical training of
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to individual and institutional clients. Tohn also
serves as a consultant to the Roxbury
Multi-Service Center and the Massachusetts Department of Children and
Families, where she developed curriculum
for investigators, assessment workers, and
managers. She brings diversity and real
world stories from these experiences into
the classroom to enhance the learning
process.
SUSAN TOHN
ROBIN WARSH, who holds her MSW from
the University of Connecticut, joined
GSSW as a project director in 1992. She
has taught eight different courses, developed course materials and evaluations,
and served as a faculty advisor. Currently,
she chairs the Academic Standards Review
Committee, which oversees all student
program modifications.
Warsh has been in private practice for
22 years and treats a wide range of mental
health conditions for individual adults and
couples. She has co-authored four books
and has written articles for a wide variety
of publications, including the Journal of
Teaching in Social Work and the Children
and Youth Services Review. (A gourmand,
she has also been a contributor to Gourmet
magazine.)
Warsh is certified in Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
and is currently enrolled in two, year-long
therapy programs entitled Working with
the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma and
Level One Training in Internal Family
Systems.
In her new position, Warsh will continue to create teaching moments from what
arises spontaneously in the classroom.
Her highly interactive style is known for
actively engaging students in their learning process.
— SERENA HEARTZ
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BCGSSW | RESEARCH |
G S S W 2007—20 08
G R A N T AW A R D S
JUDI CASEY
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“Sloan Work-Family Network—
Year 2 of 3”
$486,684
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“Sloan Work-Family Network—
Year 1 of 3”
$499,678
TOM CREA
• Case Western Reserve University
“Family 2 Family Process Evaluation”
$20,000
• UNC Chapel Hill/Casey Foundation
“Evaluation of the Family to Family
Initiative”
$10,000
TARA EARL
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“A Different Point of View: MultiRacial/Ethnic Patient Perceptions of
Quality Mental Care”
$54,090
JIM LUBBEN
• Hartford/GSA
“Hartford Doctoral Fellowship: Jessica
Johnson, Fellow—Year 1 of 2”
$50,000
• Hartford/GSA
“Hartford Doctoral Fellows in Geriatric
SW—Year 1 of 5”
$841,594
VINCE LYNCH
• Gilead Sciences, Inc.
“20th Annual National Conference on
Social Work and HIV/AIDS”
$25,000
• Abbott Laboratories
“20th Annual National Conference on
Social Work and HIV/AIDS”
$6,000
BCGSSW | RESEARCH |
KEVIN MAHONEY
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Sustaining the Clearinghouse for
Home and Community Based Services
(hcbs.org)
$99,982
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
faculty hires
McCoy is mental health scholar
HENRIKA MCCOY,
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Bridge Grant for the Cash &
Counseling Program
$99,103
• ASPE
Intergovernmental Personnel
Agreement
$124,562
• The Atlantic Philanthropies
“Developing a Business Plan to
Expand the Cash & Counseling Model
to 36 States Not Participating in the
Program”
$215,000
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“Developing a Business Plan to
Expand the Cash & Counseling Model
throughout the Rest of the United
States”
$99,840
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“Cash & Counseling: Technical
Assistance and Direction”
$815,791
KEVIN MAHONEY/
VIDHYA ALAKESON
• ASPE/DHHS
“Intergovernmental Personnel
Agreement” (Alakeson )
$44,388
MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“The Sloan Center on Aging & Work;
Workplace Flexibility and the 21st
Century Multi-Generational
Workforce”
$1,681,974
• MetLife Mature Market Institute
“Engaging in the 21st Century/
Multi-Generational Workforce”
$55,000
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LCSW,
PhD, joined the GSSW
in July as its newest faculty member in the
Health/ Mental Health
concentration. Her
broad and diverse background is an asset to
the school’s teaching and research efforts.
As a social work practitioner, McCoy
encountered many adolescents whose mental health issues precipitated their involvement in the legal system. This situation provided the impetus for McCoy to obtain her
Master of Jurisprudence in Child and Family
Law from Chicago’s Loyola University. She
later earned her PhD from the George Warren
Brown School of Social Work at Washington
University in St. Louis.
McCoy’s dissertation explored the differences in how African American and
Caucasian males interpret the Massachusetts
Youth Screening Instrument, version 2, the
mental health screening tool used in detention centers throughout 48 states. Her longterm goal is to translate her findings into
mechanisms that will decrease disparities in
the receipt of mental health services by
underserved and vulnerable populations.
McCoy was one of three Washington
University doctoral students inducted into
the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor
Society at a ceremony at Yale University. The
Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding
scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and
the professoriate.
McCoy recently moved to Boston with her
two rescued cats in tow. The GSSW trusts
that her affection for the Chicago White Sox
leaves enough room for becoming a BC
Eagles fan.
— SERENA HEARTZ
Here are highlights from among the
many accomplishments of the full-time
faculty in the 2007-2008 academic
year.
Berzin, S. C. (2008). Difficulties in the
transition to adulthood: Using propensity scoring to understand what makes
foster youth vulnerable. Social Service
Review, 82(2), 171-196.
Berzin, S. C., Thomas, K. L., & Cohen,
E. (2007). Assessing model fidelity in
two family group decision-making programs: Is this child welfare intervention being implemented as intended?
Journal of Social Service Research, 34(2),
55-71.
Brennan, M., & Lee, E. O. (in press).
Religiousness and social support:
Examination of the social support
hypothesis. NOVA Scientific Books.
Crampton, D. S., Crea, T. M.,
Abramson-Madden, A., & Usher, C. L.
(forthcoming). Challenges of streetlevel child welfare reform: The case of
Team Decisionmaking. Families in
Society.
dementia incidence in elderly women.
American Journal of Public Health.
De Marco, A. C., & Berzin, S. C.
(2008). The influence of family economic status on home-leaving patterns
during emerging adulthood. Families in
Society, 89(2), 208-218.
Farone, D., Tran, T. V., Fitzpatrick, T. R.,
& Phan, P. (2007). The joint effect of
poor physical function and childcare
on psychological distress among elderly Latinos. Journal of Intergenerational
Relationships, 5(1), 21-37.
Findler, L., Wind, L. H., & Mor Barak,
M. E. (2007). The challenge of workforce management in a global society:
Modeling the relationship between
diversity, inclusion, organizational culture, and employee well-being, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. Administration in Social Work,
31(3), 63-94.
Fitzpatrick, T., Aleman, S., & Tran, T. V.
(in press). Factors that contribute to
independent living among a group of
Navajo elders. Research on Aging.
Crea, T. M., Barth, R. P., Guo, S., and
Brooks, D. (2008). Externalizing behaviors of substance-exposed adopted
children: 14 years post adoption.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,
78(1), 11-19.
Hill, E. J., Grzywacz, J. G., Allen, S.,
Blanchard, V. L., Matz-Costa, C.,
Shulkin, S., & Pitt-Catsouphes, M.
(forthcoming). Defining and conceptualizing workplace flexibility.
Community, Work and Family.
Crea, T. M., Barth, R. P., & Chintapalli,
L. (2007). Home study methods for
evaluating prospective resource families: History, current challenges, and
promising approaches. Child Welfare,
86(2), 141-159.
Iatridis, D. (2008). Policy practice. In T.
Mizahri & L. Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia
of Social Work, 20th edition (pp. 362368). New York: Oxford University
Press.
Crea, T. M., Crampton, D. S.,
Abramson-Madden, A., & Usher, C. L.
(forthcoming). Implementation of
Team Decisionmaking (TDM): Scope
and compliance with the Family to
Family practice model. Children & Youth
Services Review.
Crooks, V. C., Lubben, J. E., Petti, D. B.,
Little, D., & Chiu, V. (in press). Social
network, cognitive function and
Ivanoff, A., Blythe, B. J., & Walters, B.
(2007). The conduct of ethical
research. In R. Grinnell & Y. A. Unrau
(Eds.), Social work research and evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative
approaches, 8th edition (pp. 29-59).
New York: Oxford University Press.
Kayser, K., Watson, L., & Andrade, J.
(2007). Cancer as a “We-Disease”:
Examining the process of coping from
a relational perspective. Families,
Systems, & Health, 25(4), 404-418.
Kayser, K., Wind, L., & Shankar, R.
(2008). Disaster relief within a collectivistic context: Supporting resilience
after the tsunami in South India.
Journal of Social Service Research, 34(3),
87-98.
BERZIN
Kayser, K., & Johnson, J. (2008).
Divorce. In T. Mizrahi & L. Davis
(Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Work,
20th edition (pp. 76-85). New York:
Oxford University Press.
Kayser, K. & Scott, J. (2008). Helping
couples cope with women’s cancers: An
evidence-based approach for
practitioners. NY: Springer Publishers.
BLYTHE
Kline, P. M., Lezott, E., & McMackin,
R. (forthcoming). The impact of the
clergy abuse scandal on parish communities. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.
Kline, P. M. (2007). Merton’s ‘true
self’: A resource for survivors of sexual
abuse by priests. Pastoral Psychology,
55, 731-741.
Lee. E. O. (2007). Mind-body-spirit
practice and perceived self-efficacy for
mental health promotion: An
exploratory study. International Journal
of Mental Health Promotion, 9(3),
12-24.
CREA
GODENZI
Lee, E. O., & Barrett, C. (2007).
Integrating spirituality and social justice in social work practice and education: A pilot study. Journal of Religion
and Spirituality in Social Work, 26(2), 1-21.
Lee, E. O., & Bertera, E. (2007).
Teaching diversity by using instructional technology: Application of self-efficacy and cultural competence.
Multicultural Education and Technology
Journal, 1(2), 112-125.
IATRIDIS
Lee, E. O., Blythe, B., & Goforth, K. (in
press). Can you call it racism?: A multicultural organization in Mexico. Journal
of Social Work Education.
KAYSER
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KLINE
LEE
Lee, E. O., Brown, M., & Bertera, E. (in
press). Using technology to facilitate
dialogue on diversity: An experimental
design. Journal of Teaching in Social
Work.
Marts, E., Lee, E. O., McRoy, R., &
McCroskey, J. (in press). Point of
engagement: Reducing disproportionality and improving child and family
outcomes. Child Welfare.
Pitt-Catsouphes, M., & Matz-Costa, C.
(forthcoming). The multi-generational
workforce: Workplace flexibility and
engagement. Community, Work and
Family.
Lee, E. O., & McRoy, R. (2008).
Multiculturalism. In T. Mizahri & L.
Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social
Work, 20th edition (pp. 276-282). New
York: Oxford University Press.
Mellini, L., Yodanis, C., & Godenzi, A.
(2007). On par? The role of au pairs in
Switzerland and France. European
Societies, 9(1), 45-64.
Sciegaj, M., Simone, K., & Mahoney, K.
(2008). State experiences with implementing the Cash and Counseling
demonstration and evaluation project:
The case of New York. The Journal on
Aging and Social Policy, 20(1), 81-98.
Lombe, M., Buerlein, J., & Dahl, A. (in
press). Do the benefits of debt relief
filter down to vulnerable individuals
and households? Some prescriptions
for future inquiry. Social Development
Issues.
Lombe, M., Nebbit, V., & Buerlein, J.
(2007). Impacts of asset ownership on
the construction of future possibilities.
Families in Society: Journal of
Contemporary Social Services, 88(3),
463-471.
LOMBE
Lombe, M. & Ochumbo, A. (in press).
Child-headed households in SubSaharan Africa: Challenges and opportunities. International Social Work.
Lombe, M., Ochumbo, A., &
Norstrand, J. (in press). Attainment of
basic needs as a predictor of civic
engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Some implications. Journal of
Comparative Social Welfare.
LUBBEN
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Lombe, M., Putnam, M., & Huang, J.
(in press). Exploring effects of institutional characteristics on saving outcomes: The case of the Cash and
Counseling Program. Journal of Policy
Practice.
Lombe, M., & Sherraden, M. (in
press). Inclusion in the policy process:
An agenda for participation of the marginalized. Journal of Policy Practice.
MAHONEY
Lombe, M. & Sherraden, M. (in press).
Impact of asset ownership on social
inclusion. Journal of Poverty.
Lubben, J. E. (2008). Social Work
Education: Doctoral. In T. Mizrahi & L.
Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social
Work, 20th edition (pp. 114-117). New
York: Oxford University Press.
MCINNIS-DITTRICH
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Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., LaPoint, V., &
Bryant, D. (in press). Social and individual correlates of academic performance among urban African American
adolescents. Journal of Negro
Education.
Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., & Lindsay, M.
A. (2007). Perceived parental behavior
and peer affiliations among urban
African American adolescents. Social
Work Research, 31(3), 162-169.
Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., & Williams, J.
H. (in press). Assessing the moderating effects of anxiety sensitivity on
antisocial behavior among urban
African American youth. Journal of
Health Care for the Poor.
Norris, F. & Wind, L. H. (in press). The
experience of disaster: Trauma, loss,
adversities, and community impacts.
In Y. Neria, S. Galea, & F. Norris
(Eds.), Mental health consequences of
disasters. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
O’Hare, T., & Sherrer, M. V. (forthcoming). Impact of the most frequently
reported traumatic events on community mental health clients. Journal of
Human Behavior in the Social
Environment.
O’Hare, T., Shen, C., & Sherrer, M. V.
(2007). Validating the Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder scale with persons
who have severe mental illnesses.
Research on Social Work Practice, 17(6),
720-728.
Ong, P., Xu, Q., Chow, J., Hardina, D.,
et al. (forthcoming). Welfare reform
and family stress: The experiences of
Asian immigrants and refugees. AAPI
Nexus.
Scott, J. L., & Kayser, K. (in press).
Enhancing coping with cancer using a
couples-based approach. In E. Saita
(Ed.), Psico-oncologia. Elementi di psicologia della salute nella prospettiva
relazionale. Milano: Unicopli.
and the many meanings of work. In R. Hudson
(Ed.), Boomer bust? The new political economy
of aging. New York: Praeger.
MITCHELL
Smyer, M. A., & Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (in press).
Work-life policies: The changing landscape of
aging & work. In A. C. Crouter, & A. Booth
(Eds.), Work-life policies that make a real difference for individuals, families, and organizations.
Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
O'HARE
Shen, C., Sarkisian, N., & Tran, T.
(2008). Economic development, social
inequality, and the state: A crossnational analysis of child mortality in
less developed countries. China Journal
of Social Work, 1(2), 172-188.
Shen, C., Smyer, M., Mahoney, K. J.,
Loughlin, D. M., Simon-Rusinowitz, L.,
& Mahoney, E. K. (2008). Does mental
illness affect consumer direction of
community-based care? Lessons from
the Arkansas Cash and Counseling
Program. The Gerontologist, 48(1), 93104.
Shen, C., Smyer, M., Mahoney, K. J., et
al. (in press). Consumer direction, personal care, and well-being for Medicaid
beneficiaries with mental health diagnoses: Lessons from the New Jersey
Cash & Counseling Program.
Psychiatric Services.
Sherrer, M. V., & O’Hare, T. (forthcoming). Clinical case management. In K.
Mueser & D. Jeste (Eds.), Clinical
Handbook of Schizophrenia. New York:
Guilford Press.
OLATE
Wind, L. H., Brooks, D., & Barth R. P. (2007).
Influences on risk history and adoption preparation on post-adoption services use in U.S.
adoptions. Family Relations, 56(4), 378-389.
TOHN
Xu, Q. (2007). Community participation in
urban China: Identifying mobilization factors.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 36(4),
622-642.
Stone, S. I., Austin, M. J., Berzin, S. C., & Taylor,
S. (in press). Exploring the knowledge base of
HB&SE using the concept of reciprocity. Journal
of Human Behavior and the Social Environment,
16(3).
Xu, Q., & Pearson, D. (2007). Resetting refugee
children. In B. A. Arrighi, & D. J. Maume (Eds.),
Child poverty in America today (Vol. 4: Children
and the state) (pp.146-160). Westport, CT:
Praeger.
Sweet, S., Pitt-Catsouphes, M., Mumm, J., &
Casey, J. (2008). Teaching work and family to
undergraduate students: Catalyzing pedagogical, curricular, and programmatic innovations.
Teaching Sociology, 36(1), 58-65.
The multitude of presentations made by GSSW
faculty at scholarly conferences in the U.S. and
abroad are not included in this magazine.
Though these are very important scholarly activities, they could not be referenced due to space
limitations.
TRAN
VEEDER
faculty assume new leadership roles at two research hubs
PITT-CATSOUPHES
ROWLAND
Simon-Rusinowitz, L., Martinez-Garcia,
G., Mahoney, K. J., Schneider, B. W.
(2008). Consumer-directed care. In E.
A. Capezuti, E. L. Siegler, & M. D.
Mezey (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Elder
Care, 2nd edition (pp. 160-163). New
York: Springer Publishing Co.
Smyer, M. A., Besen, E., & PittCatsouphes, M. (in press). Boomers
Smyer, M. A. & Pitt-Catsouphes, M. (in press).
Collaborative work: What’s age got to do with
it? In S. J. Czaja & J. Sharit (Eds.), The future of
work for an aging population. Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press.
Tran, T. V., Sung, T., & Huynh-Hohnbaum, A.-L.
T. (2008). A measure of English acculturation
stress and its relationships with psychological
and physical health status in a sample of elderly
Russian immigrants. Journal of Gerontological
Social Work, 50(3/4), 37-50.
SHEN
The GSSW’s oversight of research-centered units at Boston College expanded this year with
the establishment of the new Boston College Institute on Aging and the receipt of a renewal grant for the Sloan Center on Aging and Work. Both hubs are headed by GSSW faculty.
Professor James Lubben, the School’s Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor, was appointed director of the Institute on Aging. Lubben is a leading scholar in social gerontology with
an active research agenda examining social support networks among older populations. He
is also the National Director of the Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program in Geriatric Social
Work. The new Institute on Aging will provide an integrated framework for fundraising,
research, teaching, and knowledge dissemination for three aging research centers at Boston
College, two of them housed at the GSSW: The Sloan Center on Aging and Work and the
Center for the Study of Home and Community Life, as well as the Carroll School of
Management's Center for Retirement Research.
GSSW Associate Professor Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes became the sole director of the Sloan
Center on Aging & Work upon the departure of co-director Michael A. Smyer last spring. In
June, the center, widely recognized as one of the few university-based research centers studying aging and work to successfully traverse the worlds of the workplace and academia,
received a three-year, $3.5 million renewal grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In
2008, the Center, in partnership with Middlesex University in London, launched global initiatives to expand the Center’s focus on work and aging issues.
“Today’s universities are in need of innovative research centers that anticipate demographic and socio-economic trends, develop policies based on sound evidence, leverage
interdisciplinary collaborations, and are capable of building bridges between academia and
broader society,” says GSSW Dean Alberto Godenzi.
“Boston College is extremely lucky to have in James Lubben and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes
leaders of such distinction to advance these centers’ vital missions.”
WARSH
WIND
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COMM U N I T Y
AIDS Conference Turns 20
ALUMNI NEWS
to post an update, email gsswalumni@bc.edu or call 617-552-4020.
Founder Lynch honored for vision
when vince lynch, gssw’s director of continuing
education, first proposed running a national conference on social work and AIDS in 1988, little could he
imagine the scale and impact of what he set in
motion. Twenty years later, the annual four-day conference draws more than 500 national and international attendees and consistently attracts funding to
support its ongoing mission: to provide the most upto-date information available on AIDS care and treatment. This kind of information is essential, given that
social workers continue to play a vital role in the fight
against HIV/AIDS.
This year’s event, “Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders
in HIV/AIDS Social Work…Today” addressed the transition to new leadership as long-term social workers
experienced in AIDS treatment begin to retire. The
conference featured plenary sessions, more than 100
workshops, a job fair, exhibits, and opportunities to
network and bond with other attendees.
The conference attracts social work practitioners,
people living with AIDS, teachers, researchers, and
medical professionals, many of whom attend on a
yearly basis. As one participant remarked, “I’ve been
coming every year since 1995….I get replenished and
more committed to my HIV work each time I attend.”
Said another, “It is the only conference I go to where
I can meet people who work in settings similar to
mine.”
Two decades ago, Dr. Lynch envisioned a symposium that would fill the gap in education opportunities addressing psychosocial aspects of AIDS care.
This year’s conference organizers and volunteers presented him with an award for his distinguished contributions.
NEW CASES
A preview of surveillance data recently released by the CDC
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) documents an
annual 40 percent under-reporting of new HIV infections in the
U.S., at least for the past 10 years.
PREPARING NEW SOCIAL WORK LEADERS
In anticipation of the retirement of large numbers of “baby
boom” social workers in 5 to 10 years, new leadership needs to
be cultivated, especially in this climate of new challenges in
AIDS care.
THE NUMBERS
HIV/AIDS is the largest pandemic in history, spanning all continents. Over 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 74
percent of those infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa.
According to the Until There’s a Cure Foundation, by the year
2010, five countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, China, India, and Russia)
with 40 percent of the world's population will add 50 million to
75 million infected people to the worldwide pool of HIV disease.
In the United States alone, the CDC estimated that approximately 56,300 people were newly infected with HIV in 2006 (the most
recent year that data are available).
THOSE MOST AT RISK
Men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be the highest
at-risk group for HIV/AIDS (accounting for 53 percent of new
infections in the U.S. in 2006), especially adolescent and adult
MSM who are of color. Compared to white women, women of
karin elliott, msw ’98, has been named
director of the National Partnership for
Educational Access (NPEA), an organization that provides underrepresented students with academic preparation, placement services and counseling, and ongoing support to ensure enrollment at fouryear colleges. Elliot joins NPEA from
Summerbridge Cambridge, where she was
the executive director.
catherine hardaway, msw ’93, was honored as a 2008 Massachusetts
Community Unsung Heroine at a ceremony at the Massachusetts State House in
May for her leadership serving elders and
youth for more than 30 years. She is the
executive director of Central Boston Elder
Services and president of the Advisory
Council for the Greater Boston Step
Association, a youth-run organization she
helped to incorporate.
color are at most risk for HIV infection. They contract HIV from
their male sex partners or through IV drug use.
THE PROGNOSIS
There is no cure for HIV/AIDS. As a result, research continues to
test and explore other biomedical and behavioral methods to
reduce rates of HIV infection. For example, interventions that focus
on changing risky sexual behaviors or intravenous drug use are
common. Biomedical approaches are focusing on a number of vaccines and microbicides intervention approaches.
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jillian agostino, msw ’06, has founded
and directed a fundraiser in Cusco, Peru,
called Bringing Basics Back. With the
funds raised, they were able to build an
addition onto an underprivileged school,
get running water to the school, and provide educational and clinical materials for
the children.
anita mclaughlin, msw ’98, is now
Anita Riley. She and her husband John
live in Sherborn with their four children.
McLaughlin is clinical supervisor at
Spectrum Health Systems Framingham
Outpatient Site, where she’s been since
2007. Prior to that she was the assistant
director of the Emergency Service
Program at the Edinburg Center in
Lexington. She presented at BC last June
for the 20 CEU conference Current
Perspectives in the Treatment of
Substance Abuse through the Continuing
Ed program.
cheryl sachs, msw ’79, formerly Cheryl
Sachs Lallo, received the Social Worker of
the Year Award from the RI Chapter of
NASW in June. She has been in the field
of clinical social work since 1980 as a
school social worker in the North
Smithfield, RI, School Department.
clifford scott, msw ‘80 has been
named academic dean at New England
College of Optometry, where he has
taught since 1970. He also serves as chair
of the college’s Department of Community
Health. Previously, he was chief of the
optometry section at the Veterans’
Administration Center in West Roxbury
and clinic director of the Massachusetts
Laborers’ Vision Center.
YOUR ASSOCIATION IS HERE FOR YOU
Events, programs invite participation
September ushered in a new academic year and renewed activity for the BCGSSW
Alumni Association. If you feel like you have lost touch with the School since graduation, now is the perfect time to reconnect. Participating in Alumni Association activities is a great way to experience educational enrichment, see classmates again, and
advance your career. There are numerous events designed to benefit alumni or to offer
you an opportunity to help new students entering the field.
The Alumni Association kept up its busy pace this past year, offering several networking events (for alumni and current students) and career panels to connect job
seekers with agencies or areas of interest. The association worked to respond to the
continuing education needs of its members by providing several certificate programs
and has designed a wellness retreat for social workers to be held this fall. Work was
conducted with the Admissions Office to help recruit new social work students, and
the annual dinner continued to bring people together to celebrate our profession and
honor one of our own.
These activities will form the core of the work we do in the upcoming year, but we
are always looking to improve upon them. If you have suggestions for the association,
please let us know or get involved in the planning committees. All of our events are
posted on the GSSW website, http://socialwork.be.edu/alumni/ or you can contact
the Alumni Board’s liaison at the School, Susan Callaghan, at callaghs@bc.edu or call
617-552-4095 for more details.
We were very pleased by the participation in last year’s events and look forward to
another successful year. I hope you will all take advantage of the resources offered to
you as graduates of the BCGSSW. You’ll find a great community of dedicated social
workers who are eager to help fellow alumni.
—Susan Moriarty, MSW ’99, past GSSW Alumni Association President
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Godenzi Named President
of National Deans Association
gssw dean alberto godenzi was elected
president of the National Association of
Deans and Directors of Schools of Social
Work (NADD) and assumed his new role
in June, succeeding Dean Katharine
Briar-Lawson of the University at Albany
School of Social Work. He will serve for
three years.
“I am humbled and thrilled to work
with such a distinguished group of leaders
of social work programs,” Godenzi said.
“The challenges ahead of social work education are tremendous, both in terms of
our contribution to higher education and
in regard to larger social problems. But
with the amazing leadership talent across
our schools, we are in a great position to
seize many exciting opportunities.”
Educated at the University of Zurich,
Godenzi came to BC in 2001 from the
University of Fribourg and the directorship
of its department of social work and social
policy. He is the second NADD president
from Boston College; the first was Dean
June Gary Hopps, who served
from 1986 to 1988.
NADD is a volunteer membership
organization that advances effective leadership and innovation in education, research,
and service and consists of more than 200
graduate programs in the U.S. and Canada.
STUDENT AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
MSW PROGRAM
Distinguished Alumni Award
Goes to Kirkpatrick ’78
william j. kirkpatrick ’78 won the
Distinguished Alumni Award this year
for his work as director of clinical social
work for the Lifespan Academic Medical
Center in Providence, RI, and for his
fight to maintain one of the last remaining clinical social work departments in
the region. The award is given annually to
honor a graduate who has made a significant contribution to the practice of
social work.
Kirkpatrick succeeded in his advocacy
effort by being able to show the efficacy
of traditional, clinical social work in a
medical setting. Its importance was
proven by the immediate and comprehen-
William Kirkpatrick, right, was nominated by
James W. Alves ’80. Alves was a past president
of the GSSW Alumni Board.
sive response of his social work staff to
the tragic Station nightclub fire in Rhode
Island in 2003, in which 100 people died.
Kirkpatrick continues to teach on
issues of patient rights, overcoming language barriers, end-of-life care, organ
donation, and caring for patients, families, and communities during a crisis. His
efforts to maintain the quality of care
received by clients and provided by social
workers have made him a distinguished
graduate.
Andria Burton
Christine Smith Scholarship
Gayla Melendez
Christine Smith Scholarship
Jana Tarpinian
William Evrant Doctor Educational Fund
PHD PROGRAM
Jacqueline Dyer
CSWE (Council on Social Work Education)
Minority Fellowship
Jessica Johnson
Hartford Doctoral Fellowship
Jessica Johnson
Boston College University Research
Excellence Award
GSSW ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION BOARD
MEMBERS 2008 – 2009
The mission of the GSSW
Alumni Association is to represent Boston College Graduate
School of Social Work alumni
and to serve their needs and
interests in order to foster
their continuing commitment
to, and involvement in, the
activities and direction of the
School, the social work profession, and the social welfare
field. For more details and
resources for alumni, visit
www.bc.edu/gssw/alumni.
President
Anita Riley, MSW ’98
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Vice President
Megan O’Brien
Contribution to Community Award
Cheryl Snyder, MSW ’83
Adrienne Pisoni
Academic Achievement Award
Treasurer
Heather Wind
GSSW School Award
Heidi Hart-Gorman,
MSW/MBA ’03
Secretary
COMMENCEMENT AWARDS
Andrea Cole
school jumps to 14th in rankings
The Graduate School of Social Work leapt 10 places this year to 14th in the US News & World Report’s 2009
America’s Best Graduate Schools rankings. Previously, the GSSW was ranked 24th. The last time the GSSW
enjoyed a rank of 14th was in 1997.
US News & World Report ranks social work programs solely on the basis of a peer assessment survey. Programs,
therefore, work hard to excel in key areas such as scholarly publications, external research funding, innovative
program offerings, student-to-faculty ratio, and endowment. Ultimately, what likely influences the rankings most
are the overall reputation of the school and its host university and the school’s impact through achievements
of faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
Lynda Ketcham, MSW ’92
Leo P. Haley & Reverend John Essien
Memorial Award
Jessica Bedney, MSW ’08
Tiffany Horne
M. Rita Walsh Memorial Award
Michael Lohwater
Matthew L. Pisapia Memorial Award
Rebecca Mylecraine
Helen J. Crowley Memorial Award
Nellie Schultz
Matthew L. Pisapia Memorial Award
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Lisa Bello, MSW ’97
Audrey Boucher (McAllister),
MSW ’83
Jennifer Breneisen, MSW ’07
Mary Byrne, MSW ’55
Frank Cotter, MSW ’72
Catherine Solomon
M. Rita Walsh Memorial Award
Kate Durrane, MSW ’04
Liana Fantasia, MSW ’93
Andrea Gieryic, MSW ’00
CLASS OF 2007 POST DEGREE FELLOWSHIPS
Dean Alberto Godenzi attributes much of the GSSW’s success to the community’s efforts to reassess its mission and implement a strategic plan that asserts its focus on key societal issues. “Our school community has
shown itself to be committed to, and capable of, doing what needs to be done to keep the GSSW going forward,” he told the Boston College Chronicle when the rankings were announced last spring.
Board Members
Mike Gutierrez, MSW ’82
Erin Hoffman
Presidential Management Fellowship
Adrienne Pisoni
Harvard University Social Work Fellowship
Catherine Tuttle
Harvard University Social Work Fellowship
Susan Moriarty, MSW ’99
Kristena O’Hara, MSW ’04
Danielle Sutton, MSW ’01
boston college | graduate school of social work |
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BCGSSW | COMMUNITY |
STAFF COMINGS & GOINGS
dan bairos was hired in March as
GSSW’s technology consultant. He is
responsible for assisting faculty and staff
with implementing and maintaining university hardware, software, and networking standards. Bairos brings seven years
of experience at Boston College to his current position.
susan callaghan began in October ’07
as the School’s Director of Marketing and
Communications. Susan worked for
many years in the Boston College Office
of Marketing and Communications. Most
recently, she ran her own graphic design
firm, serving many higher education
clients. She has received a number of
design awards for alumni magazines at
Boston College and Boston College
Law School.
christie cohen joined GSSW as its
grant manager in May. She previously
worked as the assistant director at the
Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies
at Brandeis University, where she managed budgets, personnel, and office
administration. Cohen replaced sveta
emery, who was promoted to associate
dean of finance, research, and administration.
catherine himmel began at GSSW in
July as the academic program assistant
supporting faculty in the Health & Mental
Health and Children Youth & Families
concentrations. Himmel earned her BA
in psychology and sociology from
Wesleyan and will be pursuing a masters
of science in administrative studies at the
Woods School of Advancing Studies.
dianne kayala, MS, joined the Center
for the Study of Home and Community
Life as the associate project director of the
Cash and Counseling Consumer
Direction Module Project, a software program designed to help manage personal
care services for Medicaid beneficiaries.
Before coming to GSSW in February,
Kayala was the administrator of adult
health and strategic planning in the
Rhode Island Department of Human
Services, Medicaid Division.
mirna panameno, LICSW, a BC alumna,
became the newest field education specialist in February. Her responsibilities
include agency recruitment, student
placement, and advising. Panameno also
is employed at the Boston Medical Center
as a clinical social worker, where she provided outpatient therapy and case management and coordinated the child psychiatry Latino team.
buddy rutzke came to GSSW in April
from BC’s Center for Corporate
Citizenship. Rutzke serves as the information and program specialist for the
Center for the Study of Home and
Community Life Clearinghouse Project.
He is responsible for administering the
website for the national clearinghouse of
technical assistance related to home and
community-based services. Rutzke
replaces brenda vitale, MSW, who after
four years of service, was promoted in
February to associate director for the
clearinghouse project.
libby sands started as an academic
program assistant supporting the Global
Practice and Older Adults & Families concentrations last fall. Sands, who has a BA
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in Latin American studies from Brown
and an MAT in secondary education from
Boston College, has been a business
owner and teacher at the secondary level.
jeannine kremer, MSW, LICSW, joined
GSSW’s Hartford Doctoral Program in
Geriatric Social Work as research
associate. She has many years’ experience
working in the criminal justice system in
the areas of domestic violence and elder
abuse.
S A V E
T H E
D A T E
2009 GSSW
ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER
This annual event is open to all
GSSW alumni near and far. It is a
wonderful opportunity to network,
earn CEUs, support our distinguished
award winners, gather with your
classmates, and enjoy a nice meal.
When:
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2009
Location:
WALSH Function Room
Time:
CEU presentation at 5:00 p.m.
Dinner at 6:00 p.m.
Cost:
$25 dinner, $5 presentation
Consider planning a reunion with
members of your class. We would be
happy to reserve a table for your
group. We hope to see you there.
Questions? Contact GSSW Alumni
Association at gsswalumni@bc.edu
or 617-552-4020.
BOSTON COLLEGE
| GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK |
Donor Report * 2007 ~ 2008
BCGSSW | DONORS |
REPORT ON GIVING
THANK YOU!
Donations have risen again. We appreciate your generosity. Your gifts mean more financial aid for our students and
more optimism regarding the strength of the GSSW community. Every gift, large or small, benefits the future of
social work.
We worked hard to make this list as accurate as possible;
if your name or degree is listed incorrectly or omitted,
please accept our apologies and let us know so we can
make a correction.
If you would like to make a gift, please visit at
www.bc.edu/friends/give. Select “GSSW” if you would
like your gift to be designated to the School. Donations
made after May 31, 2008 will be acknowledged next fall. If
you need to report an error or omission, please call Susan
Callaghan at 617-552-6234 or email callaghs@bc.edu.
gssw gifts:
june 1, 2007 to
may 31, 2008
gasson gift society
($10,000+)
Msgr. Joseph T. Alves, BA ’44,
MSW ’48
Daniel F. Coughlin
Mark W. Holland, BS ’71 &
Jo Ann Hilliard Holland, BA ’75
Joan Fallon Maher, BA ’71, MED
’75 & Joseph C. Maher, Jr., Esq.,
BS ’71, JD ’75
Navyn Datoo Salem, BA ’94 &
Paul J. Salem
Lynn H. Stahl, MSW ’79
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
The Salem Foundation
The Stahl Family Foundation, Inc.
president's circle
($5,000-$9,999)
Abbott Laboratories
Exxonmobil Corporation
fides gift society
($1,000-$2,499)
Agnes Cox M. Carson, MSSW ’41
Cassandra M. Costa, MSW ’68
Jean Dunsmuir Donahue,
MSW ’61
Peter C. McKenzie, BS ’75 &
Maureen Quinn McKenzie,
BA ’75, MSW ’95
Margaret M. Reiser, MSW ’68,
DSW ’93
William H. Scannell, Jr., BA ’38 &
Ellen Dalton Scannell,
MSSW ’42
William R. Slater III, BS ’85 &
Lisa R. Slater, BS ’86
Carol M. Volpe & Louis J. Volpe
Foundation
general gssw gifts
Merrill B. Adler, MSW ’73
Sarah Alexander, MSW ’93
Louis F. Alfano, BS ’43 &
Ella G. Alfano, MSW ’79
William J. Allen, MSP ’71
Carol Freiberg Almasi, MSW ’65
Amy Amatangelo, MSW ’93
Maryann Reilly Appicelli, BS ’64 &
William F. Appicelli, MSW ’70
Laura B. Archambault, MSW ’82
Cornelia M. Archey &
† Peter D. Archey, MSW ’67
Alberta Jean Baccari, MSW ’89
Rev. Paul F. Bailey, MSW ’62
Linda Baltes, MSW ’83
James C. Barker, MSW ’95
Callan Barrett, MSW ’05
Elise M. Beaulieu, MSW ’80
Kathleen K. Bedula, MSW ’82
Deborah Y. Beers, MSW ’07
Robert N. Belle, MSP ’76
Ann Murphy Bellotti, MSW ’68 &
Michael P. Bellotti, MSW ’67
Donna M. Benoit, MSW ’84 &
Robert J. McConnell
Denise Gearan Bilotta, MSW ’84
Mary B. Blackman, MSW ’94
BCGSSW | DONORS |
Mary Bobola, MSW ’94 &
John M. Bobola
Eugene W. Boehne, Jr., MSW ’64
L. Michael Bohigian, BA ’99
Meredith Bolden, MSW ’07
Edward A. Bonenfant, MSW ’62
Natasha F. Bonhomme, BA ’05
Sara S. Booth, MSW ’79
Mary F. Bordes, MSW ’87
Mary T. Brackett, MSW ’74
Mary Brainerd, PHD ’02
Kristen J. Bray, MSW ’95
Douglas Breunig, MSW ’83
Marilyn Bronzi, MSW ’90
Roxanna Brophy, MSW ’03
Carol Barr Brown, MSW ’71
Victoria Brown, MSW ’94
Patricia Ann Bruno, MSW ’88
Elaine G. Bucuvalas, MSW ’48
Marilyn A. Bunnewith, MSW ’68
Carrie Burke, MSW ’07
Dianne Lockhart Burke, MSW ’73
Edmund M. Burke, MSW ’56 &
Leocadia Bajek Burke, MSW ’56,
PHD ’73
Beth Guren Burnes, MSW ’81 &
Michael J. Burnes
Margarita Burpee, MA ’02,
MSW ’02
Mary Byrne, PHD ’06
Mary Crudden Byrne, MSW ’55
Adrianne Cady, MSW ’76
Peter M. Caesar, MSW ’82
David W. Callagy, BA ’58,
MSW ’62
James J. Callahan, Jr., MSW ’59
Ambrose R. Canty, MSW ’64
Marilyn C. Carey, MSW ’78 &
James W. Drisko, DSW ’83
Rosemary Carney, MSW ’95
Virginia A. Carter, MSW ’77
Elyse Cotton Caruso, MSW ’84 &
Matthew G. Caruso, MSW ’84
Wendy Bosworth Case, MSW ’74
Yolande Fontaine Casey, MSW ’51
Anne S. Castelline, MSW ’83
Phyllis B. Cater, MCP ’79
Patricia A. Cawley, MSW ’82
Patricia M. Cedeno-Zamor,
PHD ’99
Ronald John Celio, MSW ’77
Kathryn Chapman, MSW ’83
Marcel Charpentier, MSW ’73
Geraldine Chase, MSW ’73
Seana Kelley Chase, MSW ’95
Robert D. Clark, MSW ’52
Yolanda Coentro, BA ’00
Amy Cohan, MSW ’97
Sherry S. Cohen, MSW ’80
Marylyn Dunlap Colburn,
MSW ’84
Anita Lanciaux Collins, MSW ’65
Adam J. Combies, Esq., BS ’03
John Paul Consolo, MSW ’96
Clement E. Constantine, MSW ’48
Elizabeth O’Neal Conway,
MSW ’88
Mary T. Cook, MSW ’80
† = Deceased
Nancy Ryan Cook, MSW ’71
Myrna W. Cooperstein, MSW ’66
Maria Copses, MSW ’96
Wendy Cordeiro, MSW ’94
Joseph M. Costa, MSW ’86
E. Carol Cotter, MSW ’59
Myrtle Rivers Crawford, MSW ’57
Diane Casey Crowley, MSW ’97
Edward Cunningham, MSW ’91
Kenneth E. Cunningham,
MSW ’74, MBA ’75
Margaret M. Curran, MSW ’92
Kenneth A. Cwikla, MSW ’67
Gary A. Dauer, MSW ’82
Robin Davidson-Catalano,
MSW ’83
Nancy A. Davis, MSW ’02
Patricia H. Davis, MSW ’80
Charleen M. De Stefano,
MSW ’99
Carol Hathaway DeLemos,
MSW ’61
Donald R. Delery, MSW ’73
Mary Louise Dell’Olio, MSW ’67
Denis G. Demers, MCP ’75 &
Margaret M. Demers
Lt. Col. Maurice A. Demers,
MSW ’68
Katherine Chaplin Dervin,
MSW ’63
Ronald G. Desnoyers, MSW ’81
Barbara E. DiCocco, MSW ’71
Donna M. DiCorpo, MED ’81 &
Andrew James Dawley,
MSW ’88
Estate of Mary L. Dillon,
MSSW ’41
Mary Frances Dionne, MSW ’63 &
Peter L. Dionne, MA ’63
Barbara A. DiRusso, MSW ’69
Cecilia A. M. Dohrmann,
MSW ’93
John E. Doyle, MSW ’68
Angeline R. Duane, MSW ’99
Ellen M. Heffernan Dugan,
MSW ’89
Gloria Spaulding Dugan,
MSW ’64
Doreen M. Dunton-Brooks,
MSW ’87
Mary Ellen Reynolds DuVarney,
MSW ’64
Margaret Ann Dwyer, MED ’56,
HON ’98
George R. Earley, MSSW ’59
Carol M. East, BA ’76, MSW ’83
William Baker Eaton
Kathleen M. Egan, MSW ’85
Michelle Fagnano, MSW ’83
Robin A. Famighetti, MSW ’80
Carol Densberger Fanning,
MSW ’55
Kathleen M. Fay, MSW ’72
Helen Guiney Feleciano, MSW ’48
Jean M. Ferrovia, MSW ’74
Marianne E. Ferry, MSW ’88
Averil C. Fessenden, MSW ’90
Maria Andros Rodriguez Fields,
BS ’79, MSW ’84
Wayne M. Firstenberg, MSW ’83
Ann McClorey Fisher, MSW ’80
John F. Fitzgerald, MSW ’60
John R. Fitzgerald, Jr., MSW ’69 &
Alice M. Fitzgerald
Andrea C. Flint, MSW ’91
William J. Flynn, Jr., BS ’67,
MBA ’72 &
Madeleine L. Flynn, MSW ’72
Jillian D. Foley, BA ’01, MSW ’07
Kathryn E. Foley, MSW ’05
Karen Lind Folland, MSSW ’72
Carol Senopoulos Forbes,
MSW ’74
Anne Cloherty Fortune, MBA ’04,
MSW ’04
Diane Levin Gall, MSW ’73
Ellen M. Galligan, MSW ’74
Melinda A. Taranto Garnis,
MSW ’81
Sara J. Garofalo, BA ’96
Marylou P. Gauvin, MSW ’79
Frances Vozzella Gay, MSW ’61
Ronald J. Giard, MSW ’57
Andrea M. Gieryic, MSW ’00
Mary Finn Goggin, MSW ’56
Margaret A. Goode, MSW ’82
Elisha P. Gould
Susan Reynolds Gould, MSW ’88
Francis Grady, MSW ’73
Nancy Lee Graf, MSW ’66
Celia Wicker Grand, MSW ’88
Lisa A. Granda, MSW ’01
Elizabeth Cox Gravelle, MSW ’67
Ashley B. Griffin, MSW ’07
Amy Chin Guen, MSW ’52
Mary Jolene Guerra, MSW ’69
Jina S. Guimond, MSW ’87
Thomas M. Gunning, MSW ’84
Michael E. Gutierrez, MSW ’82
Ginger Montenegro Hadley,
MSW ’79
Felicia A. Hagberg, MSW ’85 &
Peter K. Hagberg
Mary Jo Burns Haggerty,
MSW ’76
Meredith R. Hamer, MSW ’87
Judith A. Hanlon, MSW ’72
Elizabeth Harrison, MSW ’92
Alice Noonan Hart, MSW ’62 &
Robert F. X. Hart, BA ’60,
MSW ’62
Francis J. Helverson, MSW ’63
Paula Henry, MSW ’04
Ruth A. Hensley, MSW ’72 &
Francis J. Quinn, Jr., MSW ’75
Jocelyn R. Hermoso, MSW ’95
Kristina D. Hevenor, MSW ’91
Diana L. Hilberman, MSP ’76
Armando C. Holguin, MSW ’05
Ann Bernice Holleran, MSW ’90
Timothy P. Hoover, BA ’03
Judith A. Houghton, MSW ’80
William Howard, MSW ’76
Susan Howe, MSW ’79
Mary Gavin Hull, MSW ’58
Phyllis N. Hurley Davis, MSW ’50
Robert J. Hurley, MSW ’73
Anne Kathleen Hutton, BA ’96,
MSW ’99
Elizabeth L. Iarrapino, BA ’02,
MSW ’07
Paula McPhail Inglee, MSW ’76
Christine Irwin, BA ’98
Jacquelyn B. Jackson, BA ’76
Joseph F. Janas, MSW ’79
Marie E. Jennings, MSW ’79
Anna W. Johnson, MSW ’87
Lois M. Jones, MSW ’92
Ann Maguire Joyce, MSW ’47
Stacy H. Kaplan, MSW ’99
Noreen Coyne Kavanaugh,
MSW ’81
Michael E. Kay, MSW ’77
Susan G. Kelley, MSW ’86 &
Timothy M. Kelley
Edmond J. Kelly, Jr., BSBA ’58,
MSW ’60
William H. Keough, BSBA ’59
Mary O’Toole Kerrigan, MSW ’52
Eleanor D. Kilbourn, MSW ’51
Mary Coyle King, MSW ’64
Nicole Blanchette Kinsey, BA ’98
William John Kirkpatrick,
MSW ’78
Carol A. Klein, MSW ’66
Theresa Kenny Kline, MSW ’82 &
Stephen A. Kline
Deborah Knapman, BA ’89
Debra A. Konieczko, MSW ’03
O. Kathleen Korgen, PHD ’97 &
Jeffry O. Korgen, BA ’88,
MSW ’95
Pamela Johnson Kovacs,
MSW ’79
Katherine M. Kranz, PHD ’01
Andrea Caporrella Krause,
MSW ’98
Jeannine Kremer, MSW ’95
Bernita M. Krueger, MSW ’85
Elaine Kunigonis, MSW ’91
Yayoe Kuramitsu, MSW ’70
Janet D. LaBelle, MSW ’95
Kathleen A. Labrie, MSW ’85
Alicia McCarthy Lainas, MSW ’90
Susan Rodrian Lambert, MSW ’70
Michael Laudati, BA ’96,
MSW ’97
Timothy Gartland Lena, MSW ’88
Lois Leonard Stock, MSW ’04
Bruce E. Levison, MSW ’69
Carolyn T. Lewis, MSW ’70
Amy H. Li, MSW ’64
Hyman Litwack &
Bessie Litwack
Jean M. Lochiatio, MSW ’81
Linda J. Logan, BA ’76, MSW ’80
Pauline R. Ludwig, MSW ’90
Betsy L. Lundell, MSW ’83
Lisa R. Luxemberg, MSW ’91
Edith Snyder Lyman, MSW ’04
Heather A. MacDonald, MSW ’85
Donald MacGillivray, MSW ’73
Elizabeth L. Mackler, MSW ’68
Elizabeth A. MacLeod, MSW ’82
John N. MacPhee, MSW ’69
Edward P. Madaus, MSW ’75
Anne Marie Magill, MSW ’99
Kathleen Magnant, MSW ’91
Elizabeth A. Maguire, MSW ’48
Mary T. Mahoney, MSW ’68
Sally Mahoney, MSW ’93
Francis David Mainville, MS ’93
Lisa Rouleau Majewski, BA ’83,
MSW ’87 & Andy Majewski,
BA ’84
Ellen Manning, MSW ’67
Claire E. Markowitz, MSW ’52
Adele Hanna Martz, MSW ’54
Jerry D. Marx, MSW ’84
Kim Marie Matte, MSW ’96
Helene Caryl Mayer, MSW ’82 &
Kenneth E. Virgile
Mary-Elizabeth Maynard,
MSW ’89
Judith A. McAllister, MSW ’66
Alice O’Hara McCarter, MSW ’97
Francis P. McCarter, MSW ’79 &
Carol Lemay McCarter,
MSW ’79
Mildred A. McCarthy, MSW ’40
Angelo Wayne McClain, PHD ’01
Diana Newton McClure, MSW ’69
Marjorie McDonald-Dowdell,
MSW ’89
Amy McFarland, MSW ’91
Maureen Robb McGeehan,
MSW ’71
Katherine E. McGillivray,
MSW ’62
Brenda G. McGowan, MSW ’66
Mary Ellen Flynn McGowan,
MSW ’68
Joseph W. McGreal, MSW ’64
Paul E. McGuinness, MSW ’65
Carmen M. McNamara, BS ’63
Linda D. Meehan, MSW ’81
Rosemarie Downing Mello,
MSW ’69
Carmen M. Mercer, MSW ’91
Linda K. Mertz, MSW ’90
Sylvia I. Mignon, MSW ’75
Ann H. Miller, MSW ’83 &
Henri Flikier
John Marmelo Mimoso, MSW ’89
Michael P. Monaghan, MSW ’99
Susan Zebley Morang, MSW ’76
Susan E. Moriarty, BA ’92,
MSW ’99
Sarah Morrill, BA ’88
Edward F. Morrissey, MSW ’58 &
Carolann Morrissey
Anna Y. Moynahan, MSW ’04
Ellen M. Mullane, MSW ’84
Walter Mullin, PHD ’00 &
Kathleen P. Mullin
Gwendolyn H. Murphy, MSW ’63
Jennifer Cowen Murphy, MSW ’94
Kenneth C. Murphy, MSW ’61
Michael J. Murphy, MSW ’61
Thomas M. Murphy, BS ’50,
MSSW ’56
Nancy Elizabeth Myerson,
MSW ’78
Col. Donald A. Myles, Ph.D.,
MSW ’62
Paula Beebe Nannicelli, MSW ’74
Barbara Etchingham Nash,
MSW ’68
Barbara L. Neel, MSW ’74 &
Stephen E. Neel
Cathy A. Neidich, MSW ’80
Tema C. Nemtzow, MBA ’86,
MSW ’86
Frances J. Newcombe, MSW ’82
Susan J. Newman, MSW ’70
Eugene R. Nigro, MSW ’54
Tatyana Nikitina, MSW ’07
Laurence F. Noonan, Jr.,
MSW ’69 &
Louise A. Noonan
Lorraine Noone, MSW ’48
Barbara Nordstrom, MSW ’93
Gina A. Nunziato-Smith,
MSW ’86
Paul J. Oates, BS ’59
Kimberly H. M. O’Brien, MSW ’05
Edward J. O’Connell, Jr., MSW ’67
Margaret Farrell O’Keefe,
MSW ’73
Phyllis Finnegan O’Keefe,
MSW ’81 &
Luke F. O’Keefe
Rhonda M. Ollquist, MSW ’82
Mark R. Olson, MSW ’69
Gregory R. O’Meara
Joseph M. O’Neil, Esq., BA ’55
Michelle F. Oosterman, BA ’83
Jennifer M. Orcutt, MSW ’91
Ellen R. Orlen, MSW ’59
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
distinguished alumni awards 2009
Nominate an MSW or PhD alumna/us of the Boston College Graduate
School of Social Work for the 2009 Distinguished Social Work Alumni
Awards. These awards recognize contributions to the practice of social work
made by a BCGSSW alumna/us that include:
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enhancing the profession of social work in the larger community
improving social work education
enhancing an area of public service
supporting practice issues within the profession (clinical and macro)
changing or improving social policy
helping BCGSSW students and alumni, and/or
representing a lifetime of achievement in the profession of social work
The award must go to an alumna/us of the Boston College Graduate School
of Social Work (MSW or PhD). Current BCGSSW Alumni Association Board
members are not eligible. Nominations can be made by alumni, faculty (past
and present), administrators, and current students. Nominations must be
completed and received by 5 p.m., March 6, 2009.
To nominate, submit a resume of the nominee and include
the following:
1. Your name, address, daytime phone, and email.
2. Candidate’s name, address, daytime phone, and email.
Please describe the candidate’s outstanding achievements and include the
following information: area of contribution, area of practice, educational
history, employment history, personal history, publications, other awards.
Nominations can be submitted in three ways:
Email all of the nomination information to gsswalumni@bc.edu.
Mail the information to:
Boston College
Graduate School of Social Work
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Attn: Alumni Award Nominations
Fax this information to 617-552-1095
Attn: Alumni Award Nominations
You may also download a nomination form at:
www.bc.edu/schools/gssw/alumni.html
Questions? Contact the GSSW Alumni Association at
gsswalumni@bc.edu or 617-552-4020.
† = Deceased
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BCGSSW | DONORS |
we apologize that, because of a technical
error, some donors from FY 2006 and
FY 2007 were not included in the donor
report published last fall. it is with much
gratitude that we here acknowledge those
generous contributors.
FY06 gasson society
($10,000 and higher)
Mary Anne Lambert Litwack &
David A. Litwack
Mark W. Holland ’71 &
Jo Ann Hilliard Holland NC ’75
Joseph C. Maher, Jr., Esq. ’71, JD ’75
Joan Fallon Maher ’71, MEd ’75
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
FY06 president’s circle
($5,000 - $9,999)
Jean M. Fallon Cunningham ’71 &
Richard Cunningham
DIME
FY07 gasson society
($10,000 and higher)
Neil Budnick ’76 &
Anita Cobb ’76
Mark W. Holland ’71 &
Jo Ann Hilliard Holland NC ’75
Joseph C. Maher, Jr., Esq. ’71, JD ’75 &
Joan Fallon Maher ’71, MEd ’75
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
John F. Wissler ’57, MBA ’72 * &
Jeanne MacDonald Wissler ’88, MSW ’94 *
* Planned Gift/Shaw Society
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Claire O’Toole, MSW ’49
Robert F. Ott, Jr., MSW ’66 &
Rosalinda J. Ott
Richard F. Papalia, MSW ’62
Andrea Limon Parada, MSW ’94
Margaret Mary Patterson,
MCP ’78
Anne Voss Pearlstein, MSW ’79
Kenneth F. Perry, MSW ’74
Shirley T. Perry, MSW ’60
Jennifer S. Peters, MSW ’06
Mary T. Pilkington-Casey,
MSW ’75, JD ’86 &
Paul W. Casey, BS ’70, MBA ’76
Heather K. George Pistell,
MSW ’77
David J. Porter, MSW ’71
Joan Langhorn Power, MSW ’59
Joseph P. Powers, MA ’81,
PHD ’84 & Kathleen O’Brien
Powers, MSW ’70
Carey Baumgarten Price,
MSW ’88
Denis P. Pringle, MSW ’95
Janice M. Prochaska, PHD ’98
Janet E. Proctor, MSW ’65 &
Francis R. Proctor, Jr., BS ’54,
MSW ’61
Jesse Quam, MSW ’05
Micheila Questell, MSW ’05
Kathleen Houlihan Rao, MSP ’74
Nancy Reiche, MSW ’77
Elizabeth S. Reidy, MSW ’52
Carol A. Renaud, MSW ’82
Melanie Renaud, MSW ’98
Kristen J. Reynelds, MSW ’99
Marilyn J. Reynolds, MSW ’88
Anthony F. Ricciardi, MSW ’81
Rebekah K. Richardson, MSP ’74
Robert J. Ridick, MSW ’59
Kimberly Riley, MSW ’03
Martin J. Robb, MSP ’72 &
Nancy Patton Robb, MSW ’72
Virginia Bogdan Robertson,
MSW ’54
Karrie Zampini Robinson,
MSW ’71
Virginia W. Robinson, MSP ’74
Lorraine A. Rogstad, MSW ’64
Roland L. Rose, MSW ’75
Sandra E. Rosenblum, MSW ’76
Alice Rotfort, MSW ’92
Colette M. Rowland, MSW ’95
Anne R. Rowley, MSW ’87
Helen J. Rubel, MSW ’76
Sherry G. Rubin, MSW ’76
Barbara Naglin Ruchames,
MSW ’72
Mary W. Ruell
Joseph F. Ryan, Esq., BS ’59 &
Nancy Welch Ryan, MSW ’60
Thomas M. Sadtler, MSW ’77
Nancy J. Sanders, MSW ’74
Nancy Gould Sandman,
MSSW ’72
Linda Ann Saucier, MSW ’83
Nancy Dalsheimer Savage,
MSW ’86
Sandy Schneible, BA ’95
Margo P. Schulter, MA ’74
Lisa Sechrest-Ehrhardt, MSW ’84
& David E. Ehrhardt
Grace Murray Sexton, MSW ’48
Francis B. Shea, MSW ’53
J. Gregory Shea, MSW ’66
Pamela M. Shea, MSP ’72
Joseph F. Sheehan, MSW ’61
Margaret A. Sheehan, MSW ’88
Catherine Fennelly Sherwood,
MSW ’64
Esther Dickinson Shott, MSW ’47
Harry Shulman, MSW ’69
Nancy C. Slamin, MSW ’74
Mary V. Slovic, MSW ’48
Barbara Franconi Smith, MSW ’76
Kathleen Keller Smith, MSW ’02,
MA ’03
Robert L. Smith, MSW ’82
Michelle Smith-Packard, MSW ’97
Janet S. Sneath, MSW ’77
Theresa Sweeney Sorota,
MSW ’71
Robert F. Spaziano, MSW ’69
Janet M. Spence, MSW ’88
Rose O’Brien Sperry, BS ’58
Adeline Hintlian Spivey, MSW ’50
Rachel Stephenson-Tribuzo,
MSW ’89
Alan C. Stewart, MSW ’67
Lois Sulahian, MSW ’92
John David Sulick, BA ’89
Elizabeth Daulton Sulin, MSW ’88
Florence Vitale Sullivan, MSW ’59
Kenna M. Sullivan, BA ’80
Thomas W. Sullivan, MSW ’52
Nancy Nichols Sundeen,
MSW ’83
Victoria Ann Sutton, MSW ’96
Colleen Cornish Swan, MSW ’93
Louis M. Swan, MSW ’76
Anne S. Sweeney, MSW ’63
Jessica Anne Swensen, BA ’06
Leslie Swiderski, MSW ’00
Katherine Barker Swindell,
MSW ’93
Mary Trepanier Sylvia, MSW ’56
Melvin Tapper, MSW ’73, DED ’96
& Jill C. Tapper, MSW ’75
Lisa M. Tarashuk, MSW ’87
Paul J. Tausek, MSW ’69
David S. Taylor, MED ’98
Christyn Thompson, MSW ’03
Jane K. Thompson, MSW ’64
Crystal E. Thorpe, MSW ’96,
MBA ’96
Therese A. Todd, MSW ’59
James E. Tooley, MSW ’76
Rev. Normand Tremblay, MSW ’65
Jennifer Tripp, MSW ’06
Amy Troxell-Mautz, MSW ’97
Mary A. Turvey, MSW ’76
Janet Urman, MSW ’70
Joseph W. Valentine, MSW ’63
Andrew S. Valeras, BS ’01 &
Aimee M. Burke Valeras, BA ’01,
MSW ’02
German M. Valtierra, MSP ’74
Dale L. Van Meter, MSW ’65
Rosemarie Sacco Verderico,
MSW ’69
Constance L. Wade, MSW ’87
Wayne K. Walker, MSW ’69
Margaret M. Wall, MSW ’52
Lisa Petra Wallace, MSW ’96
Richard D. Wallace, BA ’60,
MA ’67 & Sandra L. Wallace
Frank J. Walsh, MSW ’80
Lois Vachon Ward, MSW ’73
Loretta L. Warren-Barnes,
MSW ’86
Cynthia S. Wasserman, MSW ’80
Marguerite A. Waterman,
MSW ’87
Susan Abbott Weaver, MSW ’77
Lee Webster, MSW ’95
Clara M. Weeks-Boutilier,
MSW ’72
Judith Dio Wentzell, MSW ’85
Genevieve Madison West,
MSW ’53
Barbara R. Wexler, MSW ’74
Christine M. Whalen, MSW ’84
Doranne Whittredge, MSW ’84
Jason H. Wild, BA ’00 &
Norline R. Wild, MSW ’03
Allison Marie Williams, MSW ’96
Patricia Fay Wilson, MSW ’58 &
William R. Wilson, MSW ’58
John J. Winchester, Jr., MSW ’65
Hans Woicke, MSW ’05
Laura Woods, MSW ’91
Jill M. Wussler, MSW ’93
Stephen H. Yerdon, MSW ’82 &
Debbie Yerdon
Andrea Cohen Zack, MSW ’84
Joanne D. Zannotti, MSW ’68
Katherine A. Zeisler, MSW ’83
Ling Zhang, MSW ’92
Elisabeth Zweig, MSW ’77,
DHL ’02
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Adams Street Partners LLC
Fidelity Charitable Gift
Fidelity Investments
General Electric Company
HSBC
IBM Corporation
Insight Media
Kennametal Foundation
Northwestern Mutual Life
Reebok Human Rights
Foundation
The Shriners' Hospital For
Children
United Way of Rhode Island
GSSW Recruitment Fair
The annual GSSW Recruitment Fair is
one of the many services we offer our
students and alumni through the GSSW
Career Services Office. Close to 50
agencies from New England participated
in the 2008 GSSW Recruitment Fair
in March.
This successful event highlights
the interest agencies from across New
England have in hiring our students
and alumni.
The next Recruitment Fair will be held
March 20, 2009. We welcome you to
participate as an employer or job seeker.
About families CEDARR Center
hopeFound
Advocates, Inc.
Justice Resource Institute, Inc.
Arbour Counseling Services
Massachusetts Executive Office of
Bay Cove Human Services
Health and Human Services
Behavioral Health Network
May Institute, Inc.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
McLean Hospital
of Massachusetts Bay
MHM, Inc.
Bridgewell
MSPCC
Brockton Area Multi-Services, Inc.
NFI Massachusetts
CAB Health and Recovery Services
North Suffolk Mental
Child and Family Services of
Health Association
Old Colony YMCA
Newport County
Children’s Friend and Family Services
Riverside Community Care
Children’s Friend and Service, RI
Roxbury Multi-Service Center
Community Care Services
Social Work P.R.N.
Community Counseling of Bristol County
South Bay Mental Health Center
Community Healthlink
South Shore Mental Health
Community Resources for Justice
The Bridge of Central Massachusetts
Cornu Management Company, Inc.
Vinfen
Eliot Community Human Services, Inc.
Walker
Forensic Health Services
Wayside Youth and Family Support
Gateway Healthcare, Inc., RI
Network
Gould Farm-Boston Area Programs
Wediko Children’s Services
Harbor Health Services, Inc.
Y.O.U., Inc.
Health and Education Services
Youth Service Providers Network
The Home for Little Wanderers
Youth Villages
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GSSW assistant professors (l-r), René Olate, Stephanie Berzin, Tom Crea, and Margaret Lombe at the 2008 Commencement exercises.