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In Memoriam

  • Lillian Hawthorne, 88, died on Feb. 20, 2013, in Brooklyn, New York. Professor emerita and assistant dean for student affairs at the USC School of Social Work, Hawthorne, MSW '71, is credited with transforming the school’s field education program, the first to conceptualize field experience as pedagogy.