Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-21
SOCIAL WORK SCHOOL
CLOSES ITS FIRST YEAR
Nineteen OF Students Exceeded tho
Hopes OF Those Who Pro-
noted Institution.
DIR. HIBBs NOW AT CAMP LEE
Strong Demand for Graduates in De-
pnrtment of Social Work and in
the Home Service lnStitute-Nany
Come From Rural Districts.

The closing OF the first years work
OF the school OF Social Work and Pub
lie Health offers timely opportunity
for comment upon the surprising sue
cess of this newest OF EiChmord's cdu-
cltional institutions In number of
students tho school has far exceeded
the hopes OF the most sanGuin" Forty
three students We're granted ccrtiti-
cafes al the graduation exercises on
Friday. and TINS does not include the
entire student body. The registration
has rsa he'd nearly hundred. counting
The students IN tho extension depart
,rcnt who have siNen only a fe" hours
4 week to study
-Four Or the graduates arc in The
department OF gocial work: eighteen III
nuhlic health nursing. and twenty
,h-ec il Red Cross home service. Posi-
tons haN" been secured for all the
graduates who are ahlc to begin work
Immediately after graduation 81 tho
public health nurses tho greater part
VII he sent into the smaller towns
and rural counties where the war has
created i serious health problem as
the result Of the ,uroilmcut of such a
large number OF doctors for military
Scrvie" rHc. however. viii 20 into
school NURSING one into Infant wei
care work. ana one into Industrial
nursing
OF the graduates of the department.
~ Scriai "orh, one mas accepted a posi-
ton AS welfare worker in a cotton
mill village, another a position in pro-
'"ttive work for girls. ana another as
Red Cross home service. or civilian
relief visitor.
The graduates of the home service
institutes were with one exception sent
20 them official representatives or
chapters In many cases the CHAPTERS
n2id tho students expenses. sh. in turn
agreeing To give her services as "A vol
untcer when she returned home.
Tire students in this institute come
from the rural counties as vel! as the
cities-Grccnbrier County. W Va:
Madison. Orange and l.oudoum Counties
for example.
MELI.-KNow MEN
SERVE on COMMITTEES
The Finance Committee NJ Mil
Ter, jr.. chairman: T. /. Bcmis. =. NJ
case. Wyndham r. Meredith. Il Walton
Moore y. Strudwick
The board of trustees is composed Of
leading business men. health officers
social workers, ministers and rcprcen-
tai!NoS OF womcns Organizations as
follows Rev. j. J. Scherer. Jr.. rrcSi-
DENT: Wortlcy +. Rudd. vice presic ,.nt.
+. =. Duntord treasurer: Mrs. Roy *.
Flanagan, secretary, J. NJ. Miller. Ir.
Wyndham l. Meredith. DR.. Ennion g.
Williams. K. Walton Moore George w
Stevens. pr. II. n. {. Maclachlan. DR..
J. 7. Masttn, Father Charles Naunigan.
l'r. J. :. G.. Chandler Mrs Is e Mum
ford Hishop II j. O'Conncll. / MAJ.
cuse Miss Virginia Mckinney. Mrs. w
NJ Morton. MISS Helen u. Christian j.
Vaughan Gary Charles Straus pr
iarr! 7 Marshall. DIR. Frank w Pratt.
Mrs II. a. kuyk. Or. o. l. Hatcher
The work Of the school during It's
nrsI wear has been along three main
AAcs The training Of public health
nurses: the training Of social WORKERS
and snort emergency courses in Rod
Cross or civilian relief work ana other
forms OF emergency social work a,
home.
As originally planned The school
"as TO have only one full-timc teach-
.-'ne director. With the growth of
,he studen, body and the complete
success OF the school three Others have
been added during the year. as follows.
Henry II. Hibbs, Jr., director. Who mas
teeA recently drafted for military ser
wee. and IS now al Camp Lee: Miss
LOOMS Logan case work and super
visor OF social work; Miss Maud r
Morse. supervisor Of public health
nursing; Miss Lou MAYO ErowD sa,.
Ietary ana registrar
The staff lecturers are drawn IRON,
among the leading publc health and
lows: Miss Na,fr..e J., ia;inor sunartn-
tendent. lnstriic,iNe yistiu. Nurse As
soc!ation: Miss Anna NJ. Petersen. SUI
terinteudent. Virginia iiome aid In
dusir'a! School 10. Girls. Miss Agnes
~ R'nG"!ph executive secretary. vir-
Einla nti-Tubcrculosis Association: i
H0Se Kicks. justice. Juvenile and pn-
nestle Relations Court. Miss MARY
S'ni'h director, home economies de-
LiartHlent. y " e.. s.. Dr Ennion q
Williams. 'taIc Commissioner or
Health D. y Thomas Emmett. mcdi
cal director Richmond Public SCHOOLS:
Dr Roy X Flanagan. chief health
otticer OF Hichmond: Mrs. T. J.. Isari.
chief nurse. Richmond Health Depart.
ment, Or. William II Higgins. al
rector, nsychopathic clinic, Medical
College OF Virginia