Reminiscences of Clare M. Tousley : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Social worker.

Scope and Contents

Family background and relations; Oberlin College; Charity Organization Society, 1912-1939: promotional and fundraising activities, relations with Board members, case work staff, effect of the Depression, rivalries; formation of Community Service Society: director, Department of Public Interest, 1939-1955; instructor in social work and communications for Barnard, Junior League, and University of California, 1926-1955; philosophy of social work; psychoanalysis in case work.

Subjects

• Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.
• Community Service Society of New York.
• Grayson, Vida S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Social case work.
• Social work administration.
• Social work education.
• Social workers--Interviews.
• Tousley, Clare M. (Clare May), 1889-1985.

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