Alumnae Bulletin November 2008
News from The Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research
Message from the Director
These are exciting times at the School! We have been fully reaccredited
by CSWE, the College has reaffirmed its long-term commitment to
graduate social work education and the strong sense of community that
exists at the School, and we have launched a nationwide search for a
new director. Yet, as the cost of graduate education at private
institutions like Bryn Mawr continues to increase, scholarship money is
vital in allowing us to attract students who are academically strong,
experienced, and diverse. In this issue you will read about four alumnae
whose legacies of service to the profession of social work are being
honored through financial assistance to current students. It is my hope
that our general scholarship fund will continue to grow through the
leadership each of us as graduates of the School can provide by
contributing to the Graduate Fund.
—Marcia L.Martin, PhD '82
Extending the Legacy
The Bernard Fund
The Bernard Fund was created to provide
scholarships to lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgendered students, in addition to
supporting individual student research
projects in the areas of gender and/or
human sexuality, enhanced field placements
for students working with LGBT
populations, and speakers addressing
LGBT, gender and sexuality issues.
L. Diane Bernard, Ph.D. '67,
contributed significantly to social work
education, as a professor, dean and
interim executive director of the
Council on Social Work
Education, where she played
a leading role with
the Commission on the Role
and Status of Women. In 2004,
CSWE recognized her work with its
prestigious Presidential Award. The
Award specifically acknowledged
Bernard's profound influence on the
field by bringing women's, feminist's,
and sexual orientation issues to the
forefront of social work education.
Alexis Lake, a Bernard Scholar and
alumna of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University, is entering her final year of
the M.S.S. program. She is a “careerchanger,”
having worked in the field of
aeronautics for more than two decades.
Lake undertook a first-year field
placement at Lancaster General Hospital
in its acute care mental health unit. She
is doing her second-year field placement
at the Mazzoni Center's Open Door
Counseling Program, where she will
help provide accessible and culturally affirming
psychotherapy services for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer
and questioning individuals, couples and
families.
Amy Hostetter, a Bernard Scholar
and graduate of Mount Holyoke College,
is in her final year of the M.S.S. program.
Hostetter worked this summer at the
Mazzoni LGBT Community Health
Center, helping research protocol
content from other similar centers for
transsexual hormone therapy in order to
write a new,more effective protocol for
Mazzoni.Hostetter, who is doing her
second-year field placement at the
Pennsylvania Prison Society, is a member
of a subset of the Student Association
that is developing a mentorship program
for entering students. She is also the
creator of the School's first-ever blog,
http://socialwork.blogs.brynmawr.edu.
Tony Morelli, a Bernard Scholar and
Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of Dickinson
College, is a part-time student in the first
year of the M.S.S. program. He has
worked for the past 10 years as a
coordinator of volunteer programs for
non-profit organizations in Philadelphia,
spending most of that time at
ActionAIDs, Inc., an organization that
provides direct services, education and
advocacy for people living with or
affected by HIV/AIDs. At ActionAIDs,
Inc., Tony oversees a comprehensive
program involving more than 300
volunteers annually.
The Mayden Scholarship
The Mayden Scholarship recognizes
students in the Policy, Practice and
Advocacy concentration who have made
a commitment to serve urban
disadvantaged populations.
Ruth Mayden, M.S.S. '70, was a part
of the School's administration for 22
years, 14 of them as dean. Before coming
to Bryn Mawr,Mayden was the executive
director of the Day Care Association of
Montgomery County. On the national
stage,Mayden served as president of the
National Association of Social Workers
and as a director on the NASW National
Board. Currently, Mayden is director of
the Program for Families with Young
Children at The Annie E. Casey
Foundation, where she is responsible for the Foundation's emerging work in child
care, early childhood development, and
child health and mental health services.
Wanda R.Moore, the fourth
Mayden Scholar and an alumna of
Barnard College, is in her final year of
the M.S.S./M.L.S.P. program. She is
director of Peace in the Streets…Peace
on Earth a Chester-based nonprofit
organization that partners with Chester
Eastside Ministries and works to end
violence in the community. Under
Moore's leadership, Peace in the Streets was a 2006 recipient of Bryn Mawr
Presbyterian Church's Eugene C. Bay
Award for urban ministries.Moore is the
School's student representative to the
College's Board of Trustees and is doing
her second-year field placement at the
Center for Resolutions in Media.
The Lewis Scholarship
The Lewis Scholarship honors students
who reflect in their lives and work a spirit
of acceptance, openness, and inclusion.
Joyce Lewis, M.S.S. '54, began her
career as a social worker at Children's
Aid Society of Pennsylvania and later
worked at Norristown State Hospital,
Gloucester County Guidance Center,
Horizon House, Eastern Pennsylvania
Psychiatric Center, and Southern Home.
She joined the faculty of the School in
1965, and for 29 years taught courses in
clinical practice. Lewis initiated a
lesbian/gay support group at the School,
and for years was its advisor and
advocate. She was a founder of the
Gestalt Therapy Institute of Philadelphia,
where she
served as a
director and
teacher for
almost 20 years.
Following her
retirement in
1994, Lewis
returned to
school,
receiving her
master's degree
in theological
studies from
the Episcopal
Divinity School
in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Lewis died
in 2006.
Sarah Sterling '05, the first Lewis
Scholar, is in the final year of the M.S.S.
program. As part of her first-year field
placement at Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia (CHOP), Sterling helped
provide case management, advocacy, and
sexual health education services to
Philadelphia youth who are involved in
the juvenile justice system. In addition,
she led a book drive in conjunction with
CHOP and Books Through Bars that not
only was significant to the youth
incarcerated at the Youth Study Center,
but also strengthened relations between
YSC and CHOP. Sterling is doing her
second-year field placement at CHOP's
Adolescent Medicine Department.
The Winneker Award
The Winneker Award celebrates students
who returned to graduate school at a later
point in their lives, bringing both passion
and experience to their work.
Fern Winneker, M.S.S. '96, began her
social work career counseling families with
the Salvation Army Family Service in
Philadelphia in the early 1970s. She took
time off to raise her own family and in
1985 returned to work at Bucks County
Children and Youth as a caseworker in its
general protective services and intake
units. In 1994, she entered our M.S.S.
program as an interdisciplinary child
welfare trainee. Following graduation,
Winneker continued her work at Children
and Youth as a supervisor and remained in
that position until 2001, when she joined
the staff of JFK Medical Center in Edison,
New Jersey.Winneker died in 2007.
Elisabeth Mamourian Corona, the
Winneker award winner, is in her first year
of the M.S.S. program. An alumna of the
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Texas,
she completed her undergraduate social
work education as a married mother of
three. She undertook internships with a
county child welfare agency, providing
services to children in their own homes
and in foster care, and with a middle
school,managing cases and facilitating
groups. For the past year, Corona has
worked for a non-profit educational
organization focusing on internet safety,
and bullying in public and private schools.
She is doing her first-year placement at
Philhaven Hospital.
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