Reminiscences of Stanley Powell Davies : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Social welfare executive.

Scope and Contents

Childhood experiences in Pennsylvania, family background; Bucknell University, A.B., 1912; studying economics at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University, Ph.D. in sociology, 1923; staff of Surgeon-General of the Army in World War I; executive secretary of the Committee on Mental Hygiene of the New York State Charities Aid Association, 1919-1923; changing sociological attitudes and practices toward mental disabilities in the 1920's; Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University, 1923-24; general director of the Charity Organization Society; work for Community Service Society, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, New York State Mental Health Association, the New York City Office of Mental Hygiene, and many other mental health organizations.

Subjects

• Community Service Society.
• Davies, Stanley Powell, 1894-1985.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Grayson, Vida S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Mental health.
• New York (State)--Social life and customs.
• Oral histories.
• Public welfare.
• Social service.
• Social workers--Interviews.
• Sociology--Study and teaching.
• Sociology.

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