Reminiscences of Corinne Howell Wolfe : oral history, 1991.

Biographical Note

Federal administrator, social worker, advocate.

Scope and Contents

Family background in New Mexico; reflections on becoming a social worker in Texas during the Depression and World War II: reflections on Southern Texas politics and public welfare, work in Civil Defense planning and Veterans Administration; experiences at U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW); descriptions of prominent women administrators at HEW; transition at HEW during Nixon administration; public policy and social work education in New Mexico; work as a human services advocate and professor in New Mexico; work as lobbyist in New Mexico State Legislature.

Subjects

• Civil defense--Texas.
• Interviews.
• Lobbying--New Mexico.
• Oral histories.
• Parker, Jacqueline K., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Political planning--New Mexico.
• Social service--Depressions--1929--Texas.
• Social service--Texas--World War, 1939-1945.
• Social work education--New Mexico.
• Texas--Politics and government.
• Texas--Public welfare.
• United States. Veterans Administration--Texas.
• United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)
• Wolfe, Corinne Howell, 1912-
• Women lobbyists--Interviews.
• Women social workers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

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