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The question as to who is responsible for professional growth cannot be answered without a look at the duties and functions of the training school. We should assume: first, adequate courses of study; second, adequate field work opportunities; third, a careful selection of intake.

There should be a choice at the doors of the training school as to who should go into social work. One executive of a large social agency employing only graduates of training schools reports one casualty in five; others, one in three. "You could tell at a glance that she would never make a social worker; why did they let her graduate?" is a remark frequently heard. Let us admit the prime essential of personality. There is a type of person who can do research work brilliantly and who makes a pathetic failure of case work. The training school ought to recognize these types.

The training school is the logical place for giving some remedial treatment for undesirable traits. The common failings are: harshness, egotism, those who feel self-pity, those who disrupt agencies, pessimists, optimists, standpatters, gushers, sentimentalists, chronic complainers, unconstructive critics, those who have strong personal prejudices, professional reformers and uplifters, those who always have a physical alibi, those who are slovenly in dress, manners, or speech, those who do not possess the spirit of social work, have felt no vital call, and those whom it is impossible for any man, woman, or child to love. Sometimes it is true that worth-while persons show some of these traits. They should be mercilessly pointed out in the training school. If correctional measures are not effective, the student should be told to seek some other field of activity where he cannot do so much harm. There is ample room in the training school for sorting out, and it is urgently needed.

Let us consider what responsibility the individual should bear. In reality he must bear all the responsibility. As Havelock Ellis says, when we are confused and harassed with the chaos of the modern world, there remains the individual. The individual cannot be free from responsibility for the general progress of social work. He must himself be a well-adjusted individual, capable of hard work without depression. Although he should find his chief outlet in his task, he must be secure enough in his own personal and social relationships so that he need not derive all of his emotional satisfaction from his clients. He should be preeminently loyal, and capable of an adequate response to leadership. He must possess adroitness, serenity, and patience. He should be seeking professional growth with all the power of his being. He should not be deterred by the kind of executive who lacks confidence in his ability, nor the academic man who said: "What we want to produce is mere case workers; we want them to stay contented as such, and not strive for higher positions."

It is important for us all to remember that professional growth is only partly a matter of acquiring skill; it is chiefly an affair of the spirit. And the true social worker is a team worker seeking his complete expression in the world of other human beings.

C. BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

C. BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

PART 1

BUSINESS ORGANIZATION OF THE CONFERENCE FOR 1925

OFFICERS

President-William J. Norton, Detroit.

First Vice-President-Helen T. Woolley, Detroit. Second Vice-President-J. Prentice Murphy, Philadelphia. Third Vice-President-George W. Kirchwey, New York. Treasurer-C. M. Bookman, Cincinnati.

General Secretary-William Hammond Parker, Cincinnati.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Ex-officio-William J. Norton, President; Helen T. Woolley, First Vice-President; C. M. Bookman, Treasurer. Term expiring 1925-C. M. Bookman, Cincinnati; Frank J. Bruno, Minneapolis; J. Prentice Murphy, Philadelphia; Rev. John A. Ryan, Washington; Term expiring 1926-M. Edith Campbell, Cincinnati; Martha P. Falconer, New York; John L. Gillin, Madison; M. C. MacLean, Toronto; Amelia Sears, Chicago. Term expiring 1927-Edith Abbott, Chicago; James F. Jackson, Cleveland; Eugene Kinckle Jones, New York; Julia C. Lathrop, Rockford; Robert A. Woods, Boston. Chairmen of Divisions-.Edith Abbott, Chicago; LeRoy E. Bowman, New York; John A. Brown, Indianapolis; Louis I. Dublin, New York; Sherman Č. Kingsley, Philadelphia; George W. Kirchwey, New York; E. C. Lindeman, High Bridge, N.J.; Emma O. Lundberg, Washington; Stockton Raymond, Boston; Douglas Thom, M.D., Boston.

COMMITTEE ON PROGRAM

William J. Norton, Detroit, Chairman; Grace Abbott, Washington; George A. Bellamy, Cleveland; James E. Hagerty, Columbus, O.; George A. Hastings, New York; Harry L. Hopkins, New York; William Hammond Parker, Cincinnati.

COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS

Martha P. Falconer, New York, Chairman; Edward N. Clopper, Cincinnati; Fred R. Johnson, Detroit.

COMMITTEE ON NOMINATONS

Arch Mandel, Dayton, Chairman; Edith T. Bremer, New York; Mary J. Condon, Pittsburgh; Anna B. Fox, Buffalo; Florence Hutsinpillar, Denver; Joseph C. Logan, Atlanta; A. Percy Paget, Winnipeg; Ralph J. Reed, Des Moines; James Hoge Ricks, Richmond.

COMMITTEE ON TIME AND PLACE

Gertrude Vaile, Denver, Chairman; George Bedinger, Philadelphia; C. R. Bradford, Salt Lake City; John A. Brown, Indianapolis; Irene F. Conrad, New York; Mrs. R. S. David, Denver; T. J. Edmonds, Des Moines; Katharine Ewing, Cedar Rapids; James Fitzgerald, Detroit; Frances Hollingshead, Buffalo; Cheney C. Jones, Boston; Robert W. Kneebone, Charleston; Oscar W. Kuolt, Rochester; Eugene T. Lies, Chicago; Edward D. Lynde, Cleveland; Mrs. W. L. Murdoch, Birmingham; F. D. Preston, Omaha; Sarah Selminski, Detroit; Elwood Street, St. Louis; William Wachs, Memphis; Forrester B. Washington, Philadelphia; Walter W. Whitson, Kansas City; Hattie P. Williams, Lincoln.

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COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL WORK

William Hammond Parker, Cincinnati, Chairman; Jane Addams, Chicago; C. M. Bo man, Cincinnati; Paul U. Kellogg, New York; Robert W. Kelso, Boston; Owen R. Loves New York; Rev. John A. Ryan, Washington; Robert A. Woods, Boston; Helen T. Woor Detroit.

COMMITTEE ON DIVISIONAL REORGANIZATION AND KINDRED GROUPS

Grace Abbott, Washington, Chairman; Allen T. Burns, New York; C. C. Carstens, No York; Karl de Schweinitz, Philadelphia; Rowland Haynes, Cleveland; Henry S. Hulbert, L troit; Rev. Frederic Siedenburg, Chicago.

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DIVISION II-DELINQUENTS AND CORRECTION

Chairman, George W. Kirchwey, New York.
Vice-Chairman, Jessie F. Binford, Chicago.
Secretary, Edward R. Cass, New York.

H. H. Antels (1925).
Sanford Bates (1926).
Jessie F. Binford (1925).
Lucia Johnson Bing (1927).
Edith N. Burleigh (1925).
Edward R. Cass (1927).
Emerson Coatsworth (1927)
Martha P. Falconer (1927).
Bernard Glueck (1927).

Lincoln, Neb.
Boston
Chicago
Columbus

. Boston
New York

Toronto

Samuel D. Murphy (1926).
Virginia Murray (1925).
Valeria H. Parker (1925).
Herbert C. Parsons (1927)..
Anna M. Peterson (1926)
Louis N. Robinson (1926).
Carrie Weaver Smith (1926).
Leon Stern (1926)..

Arthur W. Towne (1926).
Miriam Van Waters (1925).
Franklin Wilson (1926)..

New York
New York

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DIVISION III-HEALTH

Birmingham
New Yor
New Yori

Bostor

Niant

Swarthmore

Gainesville, Ter
Philadelphia
.New York
Los Angeles
Muncie, Pa

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