Social Work and Social Living

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Collection Overview Reynolds, Bertha Capen, 1885- Bertha Capen Reynolds Papers1907-1994 1925-1979 MS 128 21 boxes, 2 volumes, microfilm (9 linear ft.) Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

Social worker and professor. Reynolds' professional career is well documented, including her years as associate director of the Smith College School for Social Work; as case supervisor at National Maritime Union; and as a teacher of social work. She also published numerous texts on the practice of social work. Material includes correspondence, published and unpublished writings, lectures, oral histories, and memorabilia. English. Biographical Note

by Rachel A. Levine Literary Executor

Bertha Capen Reynolds, n.d.

It is thanks to the Centennial Committee of a small core of professional colleagues convened by Jack Kamaiko; to Vida S. Grayson, oral historian, Smith College School for Social Work; and to Dorothy Green, research associate, and Susan Grigg, director, Sophia Smith Collection, that Bertha Capen Reynolds and her writings are being resurrected from virtual oblivion. The centennial programs are to commemorate her birth and her achievements as scholar, teacher, and writer like no other; and to introduce recent generations of students and practitioners, and those to follow, to her rich, thought-provoking, trail? blazing contributions to the social work literature and to the teaching and practice of social work. It would be logical for these people to ask, as some have, why they had not known about so eminent a person during the course of their education and training.

In historical perspective, reasons tend to become obscured or rationalized; but stripped to raw essence, it is for the reason that for the later period of her productive years a conspiracy of silent ostracism, not unlike a gentlemen's agreement, prevailed among the established leadership in the profession and among the prestigious schools of social work and social agencies; and her writings were omitted from the reading lists of schools of social work. The consequences were two-fold: the loss to students of original and stimulating learning materials; and the loss to Bertha C. Reynolds of her lifeline to all levels of contacts that she characterized as "nourishing," as well as the loss of the means of earning a livelihood.

Because such a phenomenon had not occurred in the profession before Bertha C. Reynolds's time and has not occurred since, as far as I know, an explanation is in order. Her writings trace the historical events and the process which brought her to self-liberation from the constraints of time-honored doctrine.

She believed that catastrophes like war, cyclic economic depression, chronic poverty, hunger, and a host of others, and their effects upon the human condition, and on a global scale, are but the symptoms of underlying causes which are rooted in societal values and systems; therefore, the searchlight should be beamed on, and work directed to, the elimination of the causes. Moreover, social work, the profession most intimately knowledgeable about the tolls of such disasters in human misery, and deeply involved in its alleviation, has a role in helping to change value systems in a society which tolerates the degradation of body and spirit of masses of humanity. These principles were (and still are) in sharp contrast to those held acceptable by individuals and groups in power. But what "cooked her goose," to quote a phrase, was that she used Marxist ideology as a frame of reference for her beliefs and its science of society as the key to the solution of such widespread socio-economic-political disasters. And, she dared to present her views in public! Yet paradoxical as it may seem, her abiding faith in her beloved America, and in its people, and in the profession, to show the way to the changes needed for a better world for all peoples, never wavered. "This book is dedicated to an unbreakable tie with the interests of humanity" is the dedication in her book, Social Work and Social Living.

The legacy of the writings of Bertha C. Reynolds to her profession contains searching questions and insightful, incisive answers which are as relevant, if not more so, to today's world as when they were written. Is this legacy worth her sacrifices of creature comforts and of the acclaim which undoubtedly would have been hers had she made compromises to conformity; will it enlighten and inspire others to creative thinking, and to the courage to speak out for infusion of new ideas, without which a profession remains static? I asked her several months before her death, what message would she send to young people entering the profession today? Her response was, "Do not get locked into traditional molds."

Bertha C. Reynolds's writings attest to the wisdom in the Confucian saying, in paraphrase: to understand the present and the future, one must study and know the past. The inference is that the past is a harbinger of the present and the future, the three being linked in a continuum. Judgments as to the veracity of this linkage and its manifestations (as her writings indicate) will no doubt vary when examined in the light of the contemporary American and world scene. But beyond doubt is the rare treat which is in store for those who study her writings for the first time.

February 1985

CHRONOLOGY

Bertha C. Reynolds was a pioneer educator and practitioner in the field of social work and an innovative writer on broader social subjects. These are some principal events in her personal and professional life:

1885 born in Brockton, Massachusetts, on December 11 to Mary (Capen) Reynolds (1853-1947) and Franklin Stewart Reynolds (1853-1887). 1889 moved to the Capen family farm in Stoughton, Massachusetts, after her father's death. 1897 entered school for the first time after home tutoring by her mother. 1904-08 attended Smith College with support of her aunt, Bessie T. Capen, principal of the Capen (later Burnham) School in Northampton; graduated Phi Beta Kappa. 1909-11 taught in the high school department of Atlanta University; left because of ill health. 1912 had brief psychotherapy with James J. Putnam, M.D. 1912-13 enrolled in the Boston School for Social Workers (later the Simmons College School of Social Work). 1913-18 employed as caseworker for the Boston Children's Aid Society. 1914 received B.S. degree from Simmons at the end of one year's employment as a social worker. 1918 participated in the first course in psychiatric social work at Boston Psychopathic Hospital under Elmer E. Southard and Mary C. Jarrett. completed the first Smith College summer session for social workers, the Training School for Psychiatric Social Work (which later became the Smith College School for Social Work), established to train workers to rehabilitate shell-shocked soldiers. 1919 publication of a monograph, The Selection of Foster Homes for Children, with Mary S. Doran. 1919-23 worked as director of social services at Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts. 1923-25 worked in new clinics for behavioral training of pre-school children in the Division of Mental Hygiene in Boston. 1925-35 served as associate director of the Smith College School for Social Work, teaching courses in the summer term and supervising students' field placements during the rest of the year; conducted research and had clinical assignments at the Child Guidance Clinic in Philadelphia and at the Institute for Child Guidance and the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York. 1927-28 began an intensive psychoanalysis with Frankwood E. Williams, M.D. 1930 presented her first major paper, "The Role of the Psychiatric Social Worker in Therapy," at the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene. 1930-67 traveled around the country giving speeches and conducting in-service institutes for social workers. 1931-42 publication of many articles in The Family on casework and the relationship of social work to society. 1932-33 resumed psychoanalysis with Dr. Williams after five-year interval. was a member of the Milford Conference study group and served as committee secretary. 1934 became a member of the advisory council and an important contributor to Social Work Today, a journal of the rank-and-file movement made up mainly of public relief workers who advocated unionization of social workers. publication of Between Client and Community: A Study in Responsibility in Social Case Work. 1935 changed positions at the School for Social Work to become associate director in charge of advanced courses; established and taught the first advanced course, Plan D, for the training of supervisors and teachers of social work. 1937 offered her resignation to Everett Kimball, director of the School for Social Work, due to their disagreement over the direction of the program, her political activities, and the termination of Plan D. 1938 left the School for Social Work after teaching the last group in the Plan D program. publication of "Re-Thinking Social Case Work." 1939-42 self-employed as a consultant in staff development for social work agencies. 1942 publication of her major work for social work educators, Learning and Teaching in the Practice of Social Work, describing the contributions of psychology and the social sciences to the problems of practice and teaching in social work. 1943-47 appointed by the United Seamen's Service to the Personal Service Department of the National Maritime Union, where she became case supervisor. 1948-54 taught a seminar at the William Alanson White Institute in New York on the relationship between social work and psychiatry. 1948 retired to the family home in Stoughton, where she studied Marxist works, corresponded with friends and former students, had a small clinical practice, and worked as a volunteer on community projects, for the Methodist Church, and the Stoughton Historical Society. 1951 publication of Social Work and Social Living, drawing on her National Maritime Union experience. 1963 publication of her autobiography, An Uncharted Journey. 1964 publication of "The Social Casework of an Uncharted Journey" in Social Work. 1964-76 was honored by Boston University; the Adelphi, Columbia, Fordham, Hunter, New York University, and Yeshiva schools of social work; the New York City chapter of the National Association of Social Workers; and the alumni of the Smith College School for Social Work. was honored by the town of Stoughton for participation in community affairs.

Bertha C. Reynolds died at home in Stoughton on October 29, 1978.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Bertha C. Reynolds Papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed materials, memorabilia, and miscellaneous papers. They are concentrated in the period following Reynolds's appointment as associate director of the Smith College School for Social Work in 1925 and are strongest for her final decades in Stoughton.

The most outstanding segment of the papers is Reynolds's correspondence with her friends and former students. The letters addressed to her are mainly from the 1960s and 1970s, but her own letters include sequences from the 1930s and 1940s (saved by those who received them). This correspondence is distinguished by its long and thoughtful discussions of professional, political, and religious topics as well as by reports on personal activities. The political and religious interests also appear in printed material gathered over the years and in unpublished writings.

Direct documentation of Reynolds's social work teaching and writing is excellent for some kinds of activities and significant for all others. Her work as associate director of the Smith College School for Social Work is represented by correspondence with Director Everett Kimball spanning the entire period and by notes for an alumnae seminar. Many of her lectures and her contributions to institutes, conferences, and seminars are documented by unpublished texts as well as by correspondence and printed materials. The items related to her published writings consist mainly of correspondence and copies of the publications, but there are also a few manuscripts and typescripts. Her work at the National Maritime Union is represented by staff minutes and position papers, printed material, and correspondence following the termination of the program; this section provides the best documentation of her approach to clinical practice. Her independent consultations are documented in such materials as speeches, correspondence, and brochures, but there are no immediate records of this professional work. Many of these activities are also treated in letters to friends and in autobiographical writings.

Other papers document Reynolds's earlier and later years. Her youth is represented by a diary she compiled retrospectively from family letters, by an unpublished autobiography, and by a few of her undergraduate papers. Aside from her retrospective writings, there is nothing for the period between her graduation from Smith in 1908 and her return in 1918. Her final years in Stoughton are well documented in correspondence, writings, and printed materials about her work on behalf of the Stoughton Fair Housing and Human Rights Association, the Stoughton Historical Society, and the Methodist Church; in correspondence and printed material concerning the honors that she received in the 1960s and 1970s; and also in the aforementioned correspondence with friends.

Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized as follows:

I. CORRESPONDENCE II. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES III. WRITINGS IV. SUBJECT FILES V. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, PHOTOGRAPHS, and MEMORABILIA BOOKS ON SHELF MICROFORMS ORAL HISTORIES ADDITIONS TO COLLECTION Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

The Bertha C. Reynolds Papers are open for study and research without any special restrictions.

The copyright owner of the Bertha C. Reynolds Papers is unknown. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Bertha Capen Reynolds Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

History of the Collection

The greater part of the Bertha C. Reynolds Papers was bequeathed to the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, by Bertha C. Reynolds in her will written in 1969. Reynolds transferred some items in 1968; the rest were received after her death, in part through the efforts of Vida S. Grayson, Rachel A. Levine, and Orrin Hansen. These materials have been augmented by gifts of Reynolds's letters and other papers and photographs from Rachel A. Levine, Jack Kamaiko, Eleanor Flexner and Helen Terry, Charlotte and Ray Koch, Ruth Middleman, Clara Rabinowitz, Constance Kyle Lamb, Rose Noble, Tomannie Walker, Ruth Newman Schwarz, Norma and Wesley Stinson, Vivian Pataki, Ruth Harper, Tessie Berkman (via Devora Schwebel), Fay Goleman, and the Stoughton Historical Society.

Processed by Dorothy Green and Susan Grigg, 1985. Finding aid revised 2007.

Search Terms Jarrett, Mary C. (Mary Cromwell) Kimball, Everett, 1873- Reynolds, Bertha Capen, 1885- Southard, Elmer Ernest, 1876-1920 William Alanson White Institute Psychiatric social work--United States--History--Sources Smith College. School for Social Work--Administration--History--Sources Social case work--United States--History--Sources Social work education--United States--History--Sources Social workers--United States--History--Sources Additional Information Series I. CORRESPONDENCE (1933-1978) 1.0 linear ft.

This series has three sections: Individual Correspondence: Incoming; Individual Correspondence: Outgoing; and Miscellaneous Correspondence. Other letters are filed according to subject in other series.

Individual Correspondence consists mainly of letters exchanged between Bertha Reynolds and her friends and former students. All the letters have been arranged according to the name of Reynolds's correspondent.

Miscellaneous Correspondence is arranged by subject. The folders on "Religion" include exchanges with Dale White and Wesley Stinson, ministers of the Stoughton Methodist Church.

Series II. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (1919-1975) .75 linear ft.

This series has six sections: Danvers State Hospital; Smith College School for Social Work; Institute for Child Guidance; National Maritime Union; William Alanson White Institute; and Speeches, Institutes, Seminars.

The first section contains case studies used at Danvers State Hospital.

Reynolds's work at the Smith College School for Social Work is represented by papers related to a seminar for alumnae, correspondence with Everett Kimball, and two case histories probably used for teaching. Additional documentation of Plan D can be found in the Smith College Archives.

Institute for Child Guidance has a very small amount of descriptive material about the organization, and the proposal and notes for the final report of a study by Reynolds about adolescent girls in a Harlem school. Her letter of appointment to the institute is also included in this folder.

The papers in the National Maritime Union section consist of minutes of some staff meetings, staff papers on policy matters, and some general descriptive material. A letter in the United Seaman's Service folder (Reynolds being their representative to the NMU) describes her work in detail.

The seminar taught by Reynolds at the William Alanson White Institute in New York is described in a bulletin. There is also correspondence about her appointment and work at the institute.

Speeches, Institutes, Seminars contains, in chronological order, texts or notes of most of the speeches given by Reynolds and some routine correspondence; there are also programs, reprints, session transcripts or notes, and correspondence for most of the institutes and seminars that Reynolds gave or participated in from 1929 to 1975 and a text that she used in a debate in 1919.

Series III. WRITINGS (1918-1975) 2.25 linear ft.

This series is divided into Correspondence about Publications and Published and Unpublished Works.

Correspondence about Publications consists mainly of letters exchanged with the group of friends who organized themselves into the Publication Committee for her autobiography, An Uncharted Journey. The rest of this section, arranged by title of the work, consists mostly of routine communications with editors and publishers.

Unless otherwise noted, Published Works contains only writings in their final printed form.

Unpublished Works consists of the "Informal Autobiography," Reynolds's annual greeting in verse, and writings on religion and other personal subjects written mostly in her retirement years.

Series IV. SUBJECT FILES (1922-1979) 1.0 linear ft.

This series contains materials collected by Bertha Reynolds. The first section, Organizations, consists almost entirely of printed materials of professional associations, unions, and organizations for political and social action. There is a completed form about her history in the Communist party in the folder on that organization. The second section, Miscellaneous, consists mostly of printed materials spanning many of Reynolds's interests plus a transcript of a case history (not by Reynolds) and a typewritten memoir of an unidentified survivor of the Holocaust.

Series V. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND MEMORABILIA (1907-1979) 1.75 linear ft.

The first section, Biographical Material, consists of biographical articles, obituaries, and diaries; Smith College undergraduate papers and alumnae materials; correspondence, notes, and printed materials documenting Reynolds's work on behalf of the Stoughton Fair Housing and Human Rights Association, the Stoughton Historical Society, and the First Methodist Church in Stoughton; miscellaneous papers about Reynolds's life in Stoughton; and correspondence and printed materials, including testimonies by leading social workers related to honors and tributes. The second section, Photographs, contains a small number of photographs of Reynolds and others taken from 1925 to 1979. Memorabilia contains a plaque from the Stoughton community, books and papers given by friends, sometimes with inscriptions, and a family history by her brother Frank W. Reynolds.

[See also Additions to Collection and Oral Histories at the end of Container List]

Series I. CORRESPONDENCE (1933-1978) Individual Correspondence: Incoming 1 1 A-J, 1951, 1971-78 1 2 M-W, 1961-76 1 3 Arrington, Winifred, 1969-72 1 4 Deschin, Celia, 1964-70, n.d. 1 5 Eden, Marilyn, 1971-73 1 6 Engel, Judith, 1968-74, n.d. 1 7 Flexner, Eleanor, and Helen Terry, 1961-73, n.d. 1 8 Glass, Robert, 1966-72, n.d. 1 9 Hayes, Dorothy, 1966-71 1 10 Kamaiko, Jack, 1974-76 1 11 Koch, Ray and Charlotte ("Chucky"), 1962, 1969-75 1 12 Levine, Rachel A., 1952-57 1 13 Levine, Rachel A., 1958-61 1 14 Levine, Rachel A., 1962-69, 1978 1 15 Marsh, Marguerite, 1966-70, n.d. 1 16 Middleman, Ruth, 1974-76 1 17 Reed, Mildred, 1957-77 1 18 Van Kleeck, Mary, 1943, 1949, 1963 1 19 Weed, Verne, 1967-74, n.d. Individual Correspondence: Outgoing 1 20 B-W, 1961-74 1 21 Berkman, Tessie, 1933-39 1 22 Berkman, Tessie, 1940-46 1 23 Berkman, Tessie, 1950-59 1 24 Berkman, Tessie, 1960-75, n.d. 1 25 Boggs, James, 1963 2 26 Flexner, Eleanor, and Helen Terry, 1954-57 2 27 Flexner, Eleanor, and Helen Terry, 1958-59 2 28 Flexner, Eleanor, and Helen Terry, 1960-61 2 29 Flexner, Eleanor, and Helen Terry, 1962-72 2 30 Goleman, Fay and Judith, 1952-71 2 31 Harper, Ruth, 1962-66, 1973 2 32 Koch, Ray and Charlotte, 1955-61 2 33 Koch, Ray and Charlotte, 1962-67 2 34 Koch, Ray and Charlotte, 1968-75 2 35 Levine, Rachel A., 1952-55 2 36 Levine, Rachel A., 1956-58 2 37 Levine, Rachel A., 1961-63 2 38 Levine, Rachel A., 1964-69 2 39 Levine, Rachel A., 1971-75 2 40 Middleman, Ruth, 1974, 1976 2 41 Noble, Rosel, 1959-65 2 42 Pataki, Vivian (includes Pearl Turk, Lois, and Murray Kaufman) 1948-73, n.d. 2 43 Rabinowitz, Clar, 1944-73 2 44 Schwarz, Ruth Newman, 1937-56 2 45 Stinson, Norma and Wesley, 1961-69 Miscellaneous Correspondence 2 46 Readers' comments on An Uncharted Journey, 1963-64 2 47 Readers' comments on other works by, Bertha C. Reynolds 1932-73 2 48 Congressmen, 1966-68 2 49 Religion, 1931 2 50 Religion, 1950-68 2 51 Professional subjects, 1939, 1951,1968-75 2 52 Social Work Today, back issues, 1959-64, 1975 Series II. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (1919-1975) Danvers State Hospital 3 53 Case studies, 1922 Jan Smith College School for Social Work 3 54 Seminar on case work: notes, 1932 3 55 Everett Kimball: correspondence, 1924-36 3 56 Everett Kimball: correspondence, 1937-39 3 57 Case histories, 1932, 1934 Institute for Child Guidance 3 58 Attitude Study: preliminary draft, report,printed materials, 1930, n.d. National Maritime Union 3 59 Staff meetings: minutes, 1944-45 3 60 Staff policies and procedures: position papers, notes, 1944-46, n.d. 3 61 Clippings and other printed materials, 1943-47, n.d. 3 62 Pamphlets, 1942-45, n.d. 3 63 United Seamen's Service: correspondence, 1947-52, n.d. William Alanson White Institute 3 64 Seminar: bulletin, correspondence, 1949, 1954, 1955 Speeches, Institutes, Seminars 4 65 First International Conference on Mental Hygiene: correspondence, abstract, printed material, 1929-30 4 66 First International Conference on Mental Hygiene: proceedings, program, 1930,1932 5 67 Invitations to speak: correspondence, 1947-75 5 68 Speaking dates and institutes: lists made by Bertha C. Reynolds, 1933-57 5 69 Consultant in Staff Development: brochure, 1940 5 70 Association of Massachusetts State Hospital Social Workers, debate: typescript -, 1919 Jul 10 5 70 Institute on Supervision, Cleveland:typed notes, 1932 Oct 25-26 5 70 Institute, St. Louis: typed notes, 1933 Apr 8-9 5 70 "The Relationship Between Psychiatry and Psychiatric Social Work," American Association of Psychiatric Social, 1934 5 70 Workers, Kansas City: text "Critic's Response," American, 1935 Feb 22 5 70 Orthopsychiatric Association: text "Loyalties," the Supervisors Association,of the Emergency Relief Bureau, New York: notes and correspondence, 1935 Dec 5 70 Child Welfare Training Supervisors' Institute, Cleveland: transcribed notes, 1936 Feb l8-19 5 71 "Changing Attitudes in Case Work,"Detroit Regional Conference of Social Work: text, 1936 Apr 17-18 5 71 "Mental Hygiene in Social Work,"Frankwood E. Williams memorial meeting, New York: text, 1936 Nov 15 5 72 "Inter-relations Between Group Work and Case Work, and What a Course in Case Work can give to Group Workers-in-Training That Will Meet Their Needs in Their Own Field," seminar, Temple University, Philadelphia: outline, reports of planning committee meetings, notes, 1936 Nov-1937 Jan 5 72 "Worker-Client Relationships, or Responsibility in Social Case Work," Institute, New England Inter-City Conference of Family Welfare Societies, Cambridge: report of sessions, 1937 Feb 26-27 5 72 Radio talk, Community Forum, St. Louis: text, 1939 Jan 21 5 73 In-Service Training Course, Seminar on Interviewing, Domestic Relations Court, New York: reports of sessions, 1939 Nov-Mar 5 73 Institute, State Supervisory Staff, Dept. of Public Welfare, Richmond: letter describing one session, 1940 Nov-Jan 5 73 Staff Discussion Group, Medical Social Service Department, Bellevue Hospital, New York: reports of sessions, 1940 Feb-Apr 5 73 "Social Breakdown," Psychiatric Social Workers' Round Table, Providence: notes, 1940 Feb 7 5 74 "Supervision of Supervisors," Summer Institute, Michigan State College, East Lansing: notes, 1940 Jul 15-19 5 74 Discussion of paper of Almena Dawley, American Orthopsychiatric Association: text, 1939 5 74 "Diagnostic Case Recording," Institute,Council of Social Agencies, Dayton: summary, 1941 Jan 23-24 5 74 "Conversation Overheard This Morning," Psychiatric Supervisors' Seminar, New York School of Social Work: notes, 1941 Mar 19 5 74 "Social Work Trying to Practice Democracy," Institute, AASW Chapter, Columbus: text, 1941 Apr 24 5 74 "Case Work-Group Work: Relationships and Cooperative Services," seminar: notes, 1941 May 19 5 74 Institute on Supervision, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge: outline, 1941 Jul 7-11 5 74 "Social Work in the National Emergency," Conference on Social Work in the National Emergency, Social Service Administration Club, University of Chicago: summary, 1941 Aug 15-16 5 75 "Personal Service to Seamen," National Conference of Social Work, Cleveland: text, 1944 May 5 75 "Health Security in Post War America," Second Wartime Conference on Labor Health Security, New York: text, 1944 Dec 8 5 75 "Recognition of the Right to Assistance and its Effect on Social Work in a Public Assistance Agency," National Conference of Social Work, Buffalo: text, correspondence, 1946 May 23 5 75 "Social Psychiatry and Personal Service in a Social Agency-Trade Union Setting," American Orthopsychiatric Association: text, discussion, 1947 Feb 5 75 "Our Future in Social Work ... With What Allies?" Local 19 and National Social Service Division, UOPWA: transcript, 1948 Feb 14 5 75 "Are Private Agencies Meeting Their Responsibilities?" National Conference of Social Work: announcement, 1948 Apr 5 75 "Preparation of Social Workers for Meeting the Emotional Needs of People," South East Regional Conference on Student Education, Nashville School of Social Work, Nashville: text, 1948 Jun 9 5 76 "Supervision as a Means of Professional Growth," Institute on Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley: summary, 1948 Jul 23-24 5 76 "Responsibility of Social Work to the People It Serves," National Conference of Social Work, Cleveland: announcement, 1949 Jun 5 76 Consultations, Menninger Foundation: correspondence, schedule, 1950 Jan 30-Feb 1 5 76 "Differences within Labor and their Effect on the Social Work Field: From the Point of View of the Profession," National Conference of Social Work, Atlantic City: text, announcement, correspondence, 1950 Apr 5 76 "The Child's Needs in the Family," panel leader, National Bread and Butter Conference on Child Welfare, Chicago: proceedings, program, 1950 Apr 15-16 5 76 "Some Contributions and Challenges of Today," Tennessee State Conference of Social Work: text, 1950 May 5 5 77 "Civil Liberties and Peace," discussion, New England Conference of Minute Women for Peace: notes, 1950 Jun 24 5 77 "Problems Facing the Social Worker Today," Philadelphia Chapter, American Association of Group Workers: correspondence, program, 1951 Apr 7 5 77 "Social Work and Social Living," discussion, Los Angeles: announcement, 1951 May 10 5 77 "Casework in a Time of Stress" and "Social Workers' Professional Responsibilities," pre-conference seminars, Oregon State Conference of Social Work, Portland: program, 1951 May 23-24 5 77 "Social Work Faces World Conflict," Social Service Volunteers for Peace, New York: text, correspondence, broadside, 1952 Jan 30 5 77 "Social Work and Social Living," American Association of Group Workers, Detroit: notes, program. 1952 Apr 26 5 77 "We Are Responsible," American Association of Social Workers, Connecticut State Conference of Social Work, Hartford: text (part), program, 1952 Nov 13 5 78 Seminar on Social Work and Seminar on Social Group Work, courses given at Jefferson School of Social Science, New York: outlines, 1953 Mar-May 5 78 "Fear in our Culture," Cleveland Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions, National Conference of Social Work, Cleveland: text, broadside. 1953 Jun 4 5 78 "From Korean Truce to World Peace," National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, New York: broadside, outline, 1953 Sep 27 5 78 "From Mass to Individual; From Isolation to a Social Community," Family Service of Oakland County, Birmingham, Michigan: text, correspondence, 1954 Jan 26 5 78 "McCarthyism vs. Social Work," National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, New York: broadside, text (1954 May 5), 1954 May 12 5 78 "From Mass to Individual; From Isolation, toward a Social Community," Jefferson School, New York: text, 1956 Mar 8 5 79 Comment on "Social Work: A Profession Chasing its Tail," California Conference on Health, Welfare and Recreation, San Jose: clippings, text, correspondence, 1957 May 5 79 "Is Social Work a Profession Chasing its Tail? (Social Work in the Light of its History)," Family Service Staff, Los Angeles: notes, 1957 Jun 5 5 79 "Social Work and the World's Dilemma: What to Do with the Throwaways," institute, Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco: outline, 1957 Apr 25-26 5 79 Workshop on Staff Supervision, National Association of Social Workers, Los Angeles: schedule and bibliography, 1957 Jun 11 5 79 "Mental Health Concepts in the Practice and Teaching of Social Work," the Ruth Kotinsky Memorial Lectures, New York: text, correspondence, announcement, 1961 Apr 21 5 80 "The Social Casework of an Uncharted Journey," New York Chapter, Alumnae Association, Smith College School for Social Work, New York (also given to supervisors of Simmons College of Social Work, 1964 Apr 8): text, 1963 Oct 24 5 80 "Human Rights," Blue Hill Chapter, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: text, 1963 Dec 9 5 80 "Social Work and the Life of its Time," Maryland Chapter, National Association of Social Workers, Baltimore: text, 1965 Jan 21 5 80 "What Can Science Do for Warmth of Understanding," Social Service, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore: text, 1965 Jan 21 5 80 "Individual Freedom in an Advanced Industrial Society," Brandeis University, Waltham: text, 1965 Apr 29 5 80 "Learning and Teaching in the Practice of Social Work," Conference of Supervisors and Teachers, Boston University of Social Work: text, 1965 May 14 Series III. WRITINGS (1918-1975) Correspondence About Publications An Uncharted Journey 6 81 Publication Committee, 1959 6 82 Publication Committee, 1960 Jan-Sep 6 83 Publication Committee, 1960 Oct-Nov 6 84 Publication Committee, 1961-1962 Jun 6 85 Publication Committee, 1962 Jul-1963 6 86 Book contract and correspondence, 1962 Jul 6 87 "Advance or Retreat", 1948 6 88 "The American Family and Socialism", 1956-57 6 89 "Focus on Peace", 1952 6 90 Learning and Teaching in the Practice of Social Work, 1942-43, 1959-77 6 91 "The Press Lies about Relief", 1947 6 92 "Re-Thinking Social Case Work", 1948 6 93 Social Work and Social Living, 1948-51 6 94 Social Work and Social Living, National Association of Social Workers Classics Series, 1974-76 6 95 Social Work Today (England), 1970, n.d. 6 96 Correspondence about other articles and book reviews, 1941-73 Published Works

[see also Books and pamphlets on shelf]

6 97 Lists of writings, ca. 1968, n.d. 6 98 Articles, 1931-37 6 99 Articles, 1938-64 7 100 Article, "Is Homemaking a Helping Profession?": typescript, 1956 7 101 Book reviews by Reynolds, 1933-59 7 102 Reviews of Reynolds's books, 1935-75 7 103 Essays in books, 1948, 1958 7 104 Pamphlets and reprints, 1919-48 7 105 Published letters, 1955, 1970 7 106 Reports, Danvers State Hospital, 1918, 1919 Books, 1934-73 8 107 Between Client and Community: A Study in Responsibility: Social Case Work (New York: Oriole Editions, Inc., 1973), first published in Smith College Studies in Social Work 5 (1934): 1-128 8 107 ________Silver Spring, Md.: NASW Classics Series, National Association of Social Workers, Inc., 1982 ) 8 107 Learning and Teaching in the Practice of Social Work (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942 ) 8 107 ________(New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1942; 5th printing Mar. 1953 ) 8 107 ________(New York: Russell & Russell, Inc., 1965 ) 8 107 ________(Silver Spring, Md.: NASW Classics Series, National Association of Social Workers, Inc., 1985 ) 8 107 Social Work and Social Living: Explorations in Philosophy and Practice (New York: Citadel Press, 1951 ) 8 107 ________(Washington, D.C.: NASW Classics Series, National Association of Social Workers, Inc. 1975 ) 8 107 An Uncharted Journey: Fifty Years of Growth in Social Work (New York: The Citadel Press, 1963 ) 8 107 ________(New York: The Citadel Press, 1963 ) 8 107 ________(Hebron, Conn.: Practitioners Press, 1985 ) 9 108 An Uncharted Journey: typescript, 1963? 10 109 Social Work and Social Living: typescript , n.d. Other Published Works 10 110 Manuscripts and typescripts, 1917-65, n.d. 10 111 "Labor and Social Work": printed source materials, 1943-46, n.d. Unpublished Works 10 112 "Informal Autobiography": typescript, [1958] 10 113 Annual verses by Bertha C. Reynolds: scrapbook compiled by Reynolds and Rachel A. Levine containing printed texts with notes by Reynolds, 1935-73 10 114 Annual verses by Bertha C. Reynolds: printed texts, 1933-73 10 115 Religious subjects, 1961-67, n.d. 10 116 Miscellaneous writings, 1928, 1947-74 10 117 Miscellaneous writings, n.d. Series IV. SUBJECT FILES (1922-1979) Organizations 11 118 American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, 1957-75 11 119 American Institute for Marxist Studies, 1967-75, n.d. 11 120 Avon Institute, 1954, n.d. 11 121 Citizens Committee for Constitutional Liberties, 1968-71 11 122 The Claude Williams Committee, 1966-79 11 123 Communist party, 1969-76 11 124 Gould Farm, 1956-75 11 125 Methodist Federation for Social Action, 1937, 1967-76 11 126 National Association of Social Workers, 1963-79, n.d. 11 127 National Conference of Social Work, 1945-46 11 128 National Conference on Social Welfare, 1968-79 11 129 Packard Manse, 1965-75 11 130 Progressive Citizens of America, 1947 11 131 Radical Alliance of Social Service Workers, 1974-75 11 132 Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, and Morton Sobell, 1952-68 11 133 Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1968 11 134 Unions, Personal Service Departments, 1947-51, 1968, n.d. 11 135 United Texas Service Committees, 1954-58 11 136 Veterans of the Lincoln Brigade, 1964-69 Miscellaneous 12 137 Africa, Korea, India, 1948-70, n.d. 12 138 China, Cuba, Russia, 1954-71 12 139 Civil liberties, 1941-69 12 140 Environmental issues, 1942, 1973-77 n.d. 12 141 Housing, 1964, n.d. 12 142 Luscomb, Florence, 1956-71 12 143 "Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor", 1945 12 144 Minorities, 1947, 1963, 1971 12 145 Peace, 1959, 1975, n.d. 12 146 Religion, 1942, 1955 12 147 Vietnam, 1968, 1976 12 148 Vocabulary building, 1965, 1971 12 149 Welfare issues, 1947-69, n.d. 12 150 Williams, Frankwood E., 1929, 1936, n.d. 12 151 Women, 1935, 1950-73, n.d. Series V. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND MEMORABILIA (1907-1979) Biographical Material 13 152 Articles about Bertha C. Reynolds, 1964, 1971-77 13 153 Biographical dictionaries: completed formform letters, 1970, 1975-76 13 154 Obituaries: articles, clippings, correspondence, 1978 Oct-1979 Jan 13 155 "Diary," compiled by Bertha C. Reynolds,from family letters, 1894-1924, post-1946 13 156 "Diary," compiled by Bertha C. Reynolds from family letters, 1925-1935, post-1946 13 157 "Diary," compiled by Bertha C. Reynolds from family letters, 1936-1946, post-1946 Smith College 13 158 Undergraduate papers, 1907, n.d. 13 159 Class of 1908: correspondence, notes, transcript, 1923, 1933,1965-73 13 160 Training School for Psychiatric Social Work: memorabilia, reprints, 1918-19 13 161 School for Social Work, Alumnae Association: correspondence and form letters, 1943, 1959-75 13 162 School for Social Work, Alumni Study Questionnaire: completed form, 1978 13 163 School for Social Work: notes and printed material, 196?, 1960 Stoughton Fair Housing and Human Rights Association 13 164 Correspondence, 1964, 1971-72, n.d. 13 165 Notes and printed materials for history course, 1966 13 166 Newsletter, 1955-66 13 167 Questionnaire, printed material, 1963-70, n.d. 13 168 Clippings and printed materials, 1963-73 13 169 Historical Society, 1969-77, n.d. Methodist Church 13 170 Correspondence and writings by Bertha C. Reynolds, 1961-70 13 171 "FISH" and other church activities: printed materials, clippings, 1955-72, n.d. Personal Papers and Documents 14 172 Contributions and subscriptions: receipts, 1957, 1968-75, n.d. 14 173 Financial notes, 1963-77, n.d. 14 174 Frank W. Reynolds: miscellaneous papers, 1972-73, n.d. 14 175 Library of Bertha C. Reynolds: lists of books, professional papers, reprints, and journals received with the papers of Bertha C. Reynolds, n.d. 14 176 Memberships in organizations: certificates, letters, 1951-66, n.d. 14 177 Poems by various authors collected by Bertha C. Reynolds, n.d. 14 178 Political and community activities: form letter, notes by Bertha C. Reynolds, printed materials, 1948-49 14 179 Miscellaneous papers, 1948-77, n.d. Honors and Tributes 14 180 Smith College School for Social Work: correspondence, clippings, 1962, 1964, 1976 14 181 Smith College School for Social Work, Fiftieth Anniversary: correspondence, citation, printed material, 1967-69 14 182 Boston University: correspondence, citation, printed material, 1969 14 183 Other honors: citations, speeches about Bertha C. Reynolds, printed material, 1947, 1969-79 Photographs 14 184 Bertha C. Reynolds, 1938-76 n.d. 14 185 Friends, others, miscellaneous, 1925, 1967, 1972-79 Memorabilia 14 186 Professional papers by friends and colleagues, 1940-77, n.d. 14 187 "Sunday in the Park, 1726-1976": plaque, 1976 15 188 Books inscribed to Bertha C. Reynolds, 1938-74 16 189 Through the Years to Seventy, by Frank W. Reynolds (copyright by Frank W. Reynolds), 1957 17 Freedom of Information Act documents, 1943-56 BOOKS ON SHELF Reynolds, Bertha C., An Uncharted Journey: Fifty Years of Growth in Social Work (1963) Southard, E.E. and Mary C. Jarrett, The Kingdom of Evil (1922) MICROFORMS M48 Microfilm: "Bertha Reynolds - Gentle Radical," by Joan Barnert Goldstein. PhD dissertation, Yeshiva University, 1981

[see also Additions to Collection - Acc# 06-60]

ORAL HISTORIES Oral histories of Bertha C. Reynolds 18 Interview by Phyllis Lowinger, Stoughton, Massachusetts, 1 Dec 1973. Transcript with postscript by Reynolds, 11 pp. 18 Interview by Vida S. Grayson, Stoughton, Massachusetts, 23 Jan 1976. Transcript, 42 pp.; 3 audio cassettes. 18 Interview by Jack Kamaiko, Stoughton, Massachusetts, 6 March 1976. Audio cassette. 18 Interview by Joan L. Goldstein, Stoughton and Brockton, Massachusetts, 5 Dec 1975 - 5 Feb 1977. 5 audio cassettes; transcripts (for 12/5/75 and 2/5/77 only). Oral histories about Bertha C. Reynolds 18 Interview by Joan L. Goldstein with Rachel A. Levine, New York, New York, 16 March 1977. Transcript, 40 pp. 18 Interview by Dorothy Green with Eleanor Flexner, 22 Feb 1988. Transcript, 40 pp. ADDITIONS TO COLLECTION Writings by Bertha C. Reynolds and others 19 Bertha C. Reynolds, "Where Do You Get Your Ethics?" n.d. 19 Bertha C. Reynolds, "Discussion of Psychoanalysis: Ideological Instrument of Imperialism," n.d. 19 William Schwartz, "Bertha Reynolds as Educator," Catalyst, 1981 19 Louise Bandler, "Bertha Capen Reynolds: Social Worker of All Times," 1979 Slides 19 91st birthday 19 Bertha Capen Reynolds centennial 20 Miscellaneous writings (pamphlets, articles, reprints) by Bertha C. Reynolds and others 20 Class of 1908 Smith College yearbook 21 Accession #06S-60 (received Aug 2006) 21 Photographs of Reynolds (copies), 1976, n.d. 21 Correspondence, 1948-62 21 Tributes and other writings about Reynolds, 1969-75, n.d. 21 Biographical and autobiographical information, 1938-64, n.d. 21 Interview with Reynolds: audiocassette, 1975 21 Speeches, and published writings, 1937-61 21 Unpublished essays: "Where Do You Get Your Ethics?" (work in progress at the time of BCR's death; might have become a book), 1964 Goldstein, Joan Love 21 Correspondence re: donation of BCR writings to Institute for Marxist Studies, and to Wurtzweiler School of Social Work, 1982, 1994 Writings 21 BCR's essays about the relationship between Marxism and religion, (1984?) 21 Copyright registration for dissertation, "Bertha C. Reynolds: Gentle Radical," 1982

[see also Microfilm (M48)]

21 "Socialism and Religion": article or book chapter by Archibald Robinson, n.d.