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Correspondence of Beatrice Saunders with Gordon Hamilton with related biographical materials on Professor Hamilton (CUSSW) and two photographs of Hamilton.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Beatrice Saunders Correspondence with Gordon Hamilton.; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Gift of Anne Leslie Saunders, 2005.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.
Beatrice Saunders, whom everyone called Bea, has been the inspiration and a backbone behind the publication of Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. She also served a relief administrator for the New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration taking a leave of absence from the school from 1935 through 1936. Earlier she had been Associate Director of Social Services and later, Adviser on Research at Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. In addition she was an International Social Welfare advisor through work with the Church World Services and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration from 1944 until 1952.
Gordon Hamilton, social work educator at the New York School of Social Work at the Columbia University School of Social Work from 1923 to 1957. He served as the first editor-in-chief of Social Work (1956-1962), the banner journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).
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