Word: switzer
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During Commencement ceremonies Founders' Awards will be presented to Mary E. Switzer, a former Radcliffe trustee and currently Administrator of the Social and Rehabilitation Strvice of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and to G. Wallace Woodworth, professor of Music and for 33 years director of the Radcliffe Choral Society...
Living Proof. Now six months old, the Theater of the Deaf was founded by David Hays of the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation, Psychologist Edna Levine and Administrator Mary Switzer of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, backed by a $331,000 grant from the Federal Government. Although only one of the 14 actors has had any conventional theatrical experience, the company has had directorial help from such top Broadway professionals as Arthur Penn and Joe Layton. Justifiably proud of their mimetic skills, the actors are living proof, on stage at least, that a word in the hand may sometimes...
...director, Miss Switzer will draw the same $26,000 annual salary as before, though she will now hold down the biggest administrative job of any woman in government. At a time when the whole philosophy of welfare is undergoing thorough reassessment, she is the first to admit the shortcomings of the present system. The trouble with most welfare programs, she admits, "is that it is easier to support people on relief than to come to grips with the problems that put them there." Agreeing with critics who charge that welfare programs put a "premium on not working, rather than working...
...post, lanky, greying Mary Switzer will administer $4.8 billion in federal funds, oversee 1,900 employees, and be responsible for aiding 7,600,000 Americans (nearly 4% of the population) who now receive welfare payments. Also included in her bailiwick: more than 6,000,000 needy who receive medical services through Medicaid, more than 600,000 children helped with adoption or foster care, 450,000 handicapped children receiving special medical services, more than 250-000 birth control recipients, and millions of elderly citizens...
...expert in public welfare or social work," says Miss Switzer, a Radcliffe graduate ('21) in international law. "But I am an expert in finding ways to make programs more responsive." That is the kind of accomplishment, says she, that is "worth all the sweat and all the tears...