Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
not have very good health, but was a wonderful little pe
it very much. The th~ C-, however, when they felt th
afford it any longer and the social work o~ganization wi
of placement and counseling-I don't know exactly what t
now--they were in the s m categpry of looking for mney
leading social workers and public health people applied
organizations that were intemsted in demnstrations. F
sow of my field work I have worked out of East Harlem N
Service which was an experlmnt. It was in one of these
city where you clmed five flights of stairs to get to
SO on.
Q. Were you doing similar work in CMcago?
A. I was. I have to tell you though that we joined for
of the organization that cam out of all of this-we did
good arrangemnts for suppo& and we could charge fees a
the s m as comrcial agencies do. When they got a pos
us, initiated by us, why then they paid so much, I can't
the percentage.
Q. You were sort of an employment service for nurses?
A. Well it was placemnt and counseling. I gave them t
I conpiled their professional records with a staff of ty
and a secretary that could take dictation. I used the d
at ni@t s . That was the klnd of work I did to the end o
nursing. I had another job after this one. I was in Ne
two organizations all together 18 years. It was a wonde
for E, I loved the work. The social work people had th
and we had an outstanding social worker as a head of the
and she worked with the board.
Q. What was the mm of your combined organization?
A. The Joint Vocational Service for Social Workers and
Nurses.
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set some very
we dld just
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member exactly
? infomation,
tsts, clerks,
:taphone a lot
my career in
York at these
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Q. You mentioned reports.
A. And I was in charge of the nursing end of it. For I: rt of the tlm
I had an assistant as the work grew. Now when the tire :am for the
financial help we got, the gifts were being exhausted an I we were in
trouble again. Our fees weren't suff'icient to support i ,. Our offlces
were Fn the Russell Sage Buil@ag, a very lovely little luilding, but I
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think we paid no rent. 1
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Q. This is in New York now?
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A. Yes. Russell Sage was an outstanding person, I dont 8 remember what
he did especially. That was em a very nice part of tc rn and I was
able to get an apartmnt clos to it. At first I had tc cop across
New York City at the 23rd St et streetcar. You how wh ,n 1 came back
here at first I was calling e rything a streetcar then, but we had buses