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[Memo from Mary Stanton to George Wyman regarding the History of Social Welfare in Los Angeles, July 17, 1962]

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Title	[Memo from Mary Stanton to George Wyman regarding the History of Social Welfare in Los Angeles, July 17, 1962]
Creator	Stanton, Mary
Date Created	1962 July 17
Description	A 3-page, typewritten memo from Mary Stanton to George Wyman identifying and correcting perceived innacuracies in the contents of the History section of a 1962 orientation booklet for the Welfare Planning Council, Los Angeles Region. She notes inaccuracies in dates pertaining to the founding of certain social agencies, the omission of the name of a president of the council, and presents a narrative description of the development of two different social committees in Los Angeles, one the precursor of the Welfare Planning Council, by two rival organizations. She also draws attention to the belief that Los Angeles has a community organization program older than Pittsburgh and Milwaukee and concludes with a narrative on the foun of the Volunteer Bureau.
Historical Background	Mary Agatha Stanton was the Executive Secretary of the Council of Social Agencies (later known as the Welfare Council of Metropolitan Los Angeles), from 1935 to 1941. George Kerker Wyman was a public administrator who served in several posts relating to social selfare. He served as the director of the California State Department of Social Welfare before becoming the Executive Director of the Welfare Planning Council of the Los Angeles Region in 1960. The Welfare Planning Council of Los Angeles is a social welfare planning agency responsible for research and development of health, welfare, and recreation programs for the Los Angeles area.
Physical Description	3 leaves ; 28 cm
Form/Genre	Letters (correspondence);
Subject (Name)	Community Chest (Los Angeles, Calif.); Alliance of Social Agencies (Los Angeles, Calif.); Council of Social Agencies (Los Angeles, Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Federations, Financial (Social service)--History--California--Los Angeles; Community welfare councils--History--California--Los Angeles; Social history--California--Los Angeles; Public service organizations--California--Los Angeles;
Country of Creation	US
Item/Call Number	Workman Family Papers CSLA-9, Series 2: Margaret Workman, Box 20, Folder 13
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University Library.
Identifier	clloy_216
Collection Identifier	http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8870232n
Copyright Status	Public Domain
Copyright Statement	Materials in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Type	text
Language	eng
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
ARK Identifier	http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2p30336x
Project note	Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php

Title	CLLOY_216_PAGE001
Identifier	CLLOY_216_PAGE001
Transcription	July 17, 1962 To: George Wyman From: Mary Stanton Re: History of Social Welfare in Los Angeles Following our chat of last Wednesday, I am submitting in this memorandum some thoughts I expressed then; and am enclosing a copy of the story of the first 50 years of the Los Angeles Children's Bureau, which I pulled together quickly for their cele-bration. If you were not pressed in withdrawing from your place in history in Los Angeles, I would also attach a copy of my history of child care in California from the days of the Missions up to 1925. We have so much rich historical material and so few of our early leaders left, that it is really tragic that we do not collect the stories for a complete and accurate history of social welfare in Los Angeles. The section entitled ""History"" in the 1962 Orientation Booklet is of particular interest to me as I started the treck [sic] which led to a Council report entitled ""Outline of History of Development of Social Welfare and Related Events in Los Angeles until the Organization of the Community Chest, 1850-1925"". This was prepared by Helen Dean of the Council research staff and submitted on July 11, 1939. The ""Outline"" is not entirely accurate and Helen planned to make the corrections when she wrote the history. To my knowledge this was never done so the ""Outline"" is the only compendium available at this time. The section on ""History"" in the Orientation Booklet covering page 1 and the first paragraph of page 2, contains information from the first 12 1/2 pages of the ""Outline"". From the ""Outline"" and my memory, may I submit the following comments:
Project note	Funding for a portion of this collection came from a Local History Digital Resource Project grant . The Local History Digital Resource Project is supported by the U. S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. For more information, please visit: http://www.califa.org/lhdrp.php

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