Smith College School for Social Work: In Brief - June 2010
Volume 4: Issue
10 - July 2010
In This Issue:
In Depth Class Notes Wanted for Fall Issue
Annual Conference Lecture
End of Life Care Certificate Program
S.S.W. Summer Update
Executive Committee Nominations Wanted
Alumni Association Executive Committee June Meeting Report
SSW Annual Fund - Thank you for your Support!
Planned Giving Update
Faculty in the News
Alumni Volunteers On-Line Form
On-Line Directory and Listservs
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right to edit submissions for space. We look forward to hearing
from you.
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Annual Conference
Lecture
This Friday, July 23, as pas part of the School's Annual Conference, Judith
Kay
Nelson, M.S.W., Ph.D. will present "Seeing Through Tears: An
Attachment
Perspective on Crying in Psychotherapy." This lecture will
be presented in John M.
Greene Hall at 7:30 p.m.
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End of Life Care
Certificate Program
Program Dates:
October 7 - 10, 2010 and April 13 - 17, 2011 This
program is
co-sponsored by Baystate Medical Center, a part of Tufts N.E.
Medical Center. The
End of Life Certificate Program carries 57 Continuing
Education Credits for social
workers. For more information, please visit:
http://www.smith.edu/ssw/acad_cont_graduate_elc.php
The application
deadline is September 7, 2010.
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S.S.W. Summer
Update
With Term 2 starting this week, we wanted to give you a quick update on
what
has happened so far this summer and what is coming up.
The largest first year M.S.W. class in many years finished its first
term asignments
and earned a much needed respite during break week which
took place last week.
Five lectures from the Summer Lecture Series have
been presented and have been
extremely well attended.
Barbara Leiner, L.C.S.W.,
"Intergenerational Effects of War"
Mary Hall, M.S.W.'66,
Ph.D., "Silent Racism: Citizens of African Descent and
the American
Imagination"
Gary Bailey, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., "The Color of Fear: The Paradox of Race and
Oppression
in the New Millennium"
Neil Altman, Ph.D.,
"Race and Clinical Work in the Office and in the
Community"
Joan Berzoff, M.S.W.'74,
Ed.D., "The Transformative Nature of Grief and
Bereavement"
This week resident faculty member Yoosun Park, Ph.D. will address the
topic of
"Whom Should we Serve? Analyzing Social Work Practioners'
Views of
Undocumented Immigrants", and on August 9th Adjunct Professor
Marie Breen
Smith, M.A.S.S., Ph.D. will speak on "Geographies of
Vulnerability and Silence:
Meanings and Effects of Political
Violence." Please make plans to join us on
campus in the Mendenhall
Center for the Performing Arts. For more information,
please visit: http://www.smith.edu/ssw/acad_cont_lectures_summer.php
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Executive
Committee (Alumni Association Board) Nominations Wanted
We would like to ask you to consider running for a position on the S.S.W.
Alumni
Association Executive Committee. Vacant positions beginning July 1,
2011 are:
Region
II Representative
(NY, NJ, Eastern PA-including Philadelphia)
Region
III Representative
(AL, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN,
VA,WV, DC)
Region
IV Representative
(AR, KS, IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH,
Western PA, SD, WI,
Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Quebec,
Newfoundland, Prince Edward
Island, Nova Scotia)
Region Representatives are key volunteers for the School and are
influential in
helping connect graduates with students in their regions,
planning events and
acting as advocates for S.S.W. throughout the country.
If you are interested in
submitting your name for one of these critical
positions, please contact Gay Lee,
M.S.W.'94, Nominations Committee Chair,
at gayleercsw@hotmail.com. To
view
the position description, please visit:
http://www.smith.edu/ssw/about_alumni_committee.php
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Alumni Association
Executive Committee (Board) June 2010 Meeting
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Report
The Smith School for Social Work Alumni Association Executive Committee
meeting was held June 18-20 on campus. At the meeting, the Association
welcomed four new Board members:
Ray Fisher, M.S.W.’03, Vice
President
George Herrity, M.S.W.’09,
Treasurer
Natasha Bob-Semple,
M.S.W.’99, Chair, Alumni of Color Standing Committee
David Kells, M.S.W.’06,
Region I Representative
The Board also took note of the great work done by the outgoing Board
membersAlice Chornesky, M.S.W.’78, Ph.D.’90, President, Ashley Varner,
M.S.W.’99,
Treasurer, Mike Langlois, M.S.W.’94, Region I Representative and
Sujin Lee,
M.S.W.’04, Chair, Alumni of Color Standing Committee. New Executive Committee President Tanita Teagle, M.S.W.’99 brings great
leadership to her new role, and is focused on ways that the S.S.W. Alumni
Board
can better support and serve our graduates and students. Over the
course of the
weekend, there were reports given by the Dean, Field
Department, Admissions,
Alumni of Color Standing Committee, Nominations
Committee, and Development
and Alumni Affairs.
Some key initiatives that the Board will focus on this year are:
Improving the ways in which
the Alumni Board and the Administration
communicate with the S.S.W.
alumni body.
Providing resources to help
alumni recruit potential S.S.W. students for the
Master’s and Doctoral
Programs.
Help in the planning of
regional S.S.W. events which bring faculty members,
graduates and
students together to engage in important conversations
about the
social work discipline.
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S.S.W. Annual Fund
- Thank You for Your Support!
The School’s fiscal year ended on June 30, 2010, and this year through
the
generosity of our graduates, friends and other supporters, we raised
over
$140,000 from over 600 donors! The funds that were raised from July 1,
2009 to
June 30, 2010 support student scholarships.
Thank you to those of you who joined or renewed your membership in the
1918
Fellowship Society this year. In addition, we extend a heartfelt thank
you also to
the fundraising efforts of our 1918 Fellowship Society
Committee members who
reached out to graduates and other constituents
nationwide. This year, the
Committee was ably chaired by Clara Genetos,
M.S.S.’54 and we thank her for her
very active fundraising effortts on
behalf of the School.
One of the critical areas Director of Development and Alumni Affairs,
David Brown,
will focus on this fiscal year (2011) is our donor
participation number.
Participation is an important metric as it can
help determine our access to
additional sources of grant and foundation
funding for the School.
If you have not made a contribution to S.S.W. in some time, we urge you
to
consider reinvesting in the future of the School through an S.S.W.
Annual Fund
gift this year!
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Planned Giving
Update
Please let us know if you have included the Smith College School for Social
Work
in your estate plans or might consider making a gift of stock or a
related security.
David Brown, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs,
would enjoy speaking
with you about ways that you might consider supporting
S.S.W. through a gift of
an annuity or other giving vehicle.
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Faculty in the
News
The faculty at SSW have been very busy writing, volunteering, etc. For
more
information about the SSW faculty visit:
http://www.smith.edu/ssw/about_news.php
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Alumni Volunteers
On-Line Form
We are working diligently on updating our S.S.W. Volunteer Opportunity Form
to
more easily capture information on the areas of volunteer interest of
our
graduates and other constituents. The School relies very heavily on the
efforts and
goodwill of our alumni to help us in the areas of prospective
student recruitment,
mentoring current students, providing reduced rate
psychotherapy to students,
hosting and attending S.S.W. events and
participating in our fundraising effort. In
the near future, we will
be sending out a revised Volunteer Opportunity Form that
will hopefully
spur you to think of the way(s) that you might want to get more
involved in
our work at the School – thank you in advance for filling out our
Volunteer
Opportunity Form when it arrives!
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On-line Directory
& List Serves
Find classmates and search for SSW alumni in a particular geographical
location!
This self-service tool is available to you now through the
on-line directory. General
information about networking and navigational
tips specific to SSW can be found
at: http://www.smith.edu/ssw/alumni/networking.php;
to log into the on-line
directory, go to: http://alumnae.smith.edu/ where you
will find the log-in box in
the upper right corner of the page.
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