Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 81, September 2018
Newsletter of the Group Analytic Society International
Newsletter of the Group Analytic Society International
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Newsletter – Autumn <strong>2018</strong> 49<br />
OBITUARY<br />
Dorothy Stock Whitaker<br />
Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of York<br />
1925-<strong>2018</strong><br />
Dorothy Stock (as she then was) grew up in an immigrant<br />
neighbourhood in the South Side of Chicago; an only child, but with<br />
easy access to her large extended family nearby. She attended a vast<br />
High School where girls predominantly learnt domestic and secretarial<br />
skills. She had soon had enough of this and opted in to the academic<br />
stream. More than that, she declared, she was going to go to university.<br />
In the face of her family’s bafflement, she quietly held her ground and<br />
followed her course. Of the 800 students in her school year, only two<br />
went to university – ‘Dorrie’ and one other.
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