The School of Social Work would like to announce the establishment of two new endowments intended to benefit candidates in the doctoral program. 
 

Dr. Helen Rehr '45 '70DSW has established the Fizdale Doctoral Dissertation Support Fund to honor the late Ruth Fizdale.  Best known for her nineteen years as the executive director of the Arthur Lehman Counseling Service, Fizdale developed a fee-for-service system in for-profit agencies.  She chronicled ALCS's first decade and a half in Social Agency Structures and Accountability, a landmark work used in graduate schools, agencies, and private practice to standardize quality social work services on a fee basis. The Ruth Fizdale Estate, Dr. Rehr, Dr. Barbara Berkman '70DSW, and Ruth Fizdale's family and many friends made the endowment of the fund possible.  It will support CUSSW doctoral candidates whose dissertations focus on clinical social health care services for older adults and their families. Dr. Rehr has also established the Helen Rehr-Ruth Fizdale Professorship in Health and Mental Health at the School.

By supporting doctoral candidates in this area, the Fizdale Program will help increase knowledge about older adults.  It will also facilitate the preparation of doctoral candidates who educate future geriatric social workers.  Rehr-Fizdale Professor Barbara Berkman will direct the program.  Alumni/ae and friends of the School wishing to contribute to this important endeavor may send contributions to the Ruth Fizdale Doctoral Dissertation Support Fund, CUSSW, 622 West 113th Street, NY, NY, 10025.
 
 

Dr. Charlotte J. Dunmore '54 has endowed a fund to provide scholarships for doctoral students at the School of Social Work.  Aware of the critical shortage of social work graduates with doctoral degrees, how this state of affairs has already impacted the profession severely, and how much more it will continue to do so into the 21st century, Dr. Dunmore created this endowment. The Fellowship will address a situation of growing concern to social work educators, namely, to ensure that CUSSW’s doctoral graduates will be available, at the very beginning of the millennium, to providing leadership where it is sorely needed.  Dr. Dunmore states that she had a good experience at the School of Social Work and couldn't have completed her own education without scholarship assistance.  Her gift to the School is an expression of her deep appreciation to it.