[Oral History Program interview with Norma Berkowitz, 2008]

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Berkowitz, Norma, interviewee

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Abstract: Norma Berkowitz received a master's degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the 1960s several years after receiving her undergraduate degree at Penn State. She...

Abstract: Norma Berkowitz received a master's degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the 1960s several years after receiving her undergraduate degree at Penn State. She discussed the system approach to social work studies that makes the UW-Madison program unique. In 1993 after retiring from the UW-Madison she founded the Friends of Chernobyl Centers United States (FOCCUS) which provides support, education and consultation to 13 community centers in Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine.

Key Words: Beaver Falls, PA; music; Geneva College; Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); social work; Madison, WI; divorce; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Raymond Munts; Imogene Higbie; Ann Minahan; Allan Pinkus; systems approach to social work; Jack Westman, Wisconsin Cares, Inc.; Waisman Center; London; Leonard Berkowitz; Martin Loeb; Social Work Students for International Outreach; Susan Kidd Webster; retirement; Friends of Chernobyl Centers, US (FOCCUS); Chernobyl, Ukraine; awards; travel.

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