PIONEERS IN SERVICE

Service work and organizations weren't around forever in their current forms. Famous and not-so-famous individuals helped define current service organizations by their dedication to fairness and those less advantaged. These intellectual biographies, a product of a UNC-CH Masters in Social Work research class on Foundations of Social Welfare taught by Dr. Iris Carlton-LaNey, trace the development of great "unknown" pioneers of service and their contributions to the current state of Service in this country.

These researched biographies trace not just what they accomplished, but how service pioneers have came to be and who influenced them... making for an inspiring study of how ordinary beginnings can lead to extraordinary people that do amazing things. Learn about...

• Jane Addams (1860-1935): Founder of the Settlement House movement and winner of Nobel Peace Prize.
• Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958):- Historian, author, activist, established field of women's studies.
• Ida Maude Cannon (1877-1960):- Founder of medical social work.
• Paul U. Kellogg (1879-1958): Radical journalist and pacifist, editor of the Pittsburgh Survey and the first major professional social work journal.
• Julia Lathrop (1858-1932): Child Advocate, Hull House worker, instrumental to establishment of first juvenile court, Chief of the Children's Bureau.
• Mary Eliza Church Terrell (1863-1954): Lifelong community leader, organizer and civil rights activist. First president of National Association of Colored Women, first woman on the Washington DC Board of Education.