Feldman Wins Leibovitz Award for Service to USC Emeriti Center

January 16, 2006

The USC Emeriti Center presented the Leibovitz Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service to Seniors to Frances Lomas Feldman, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Social Work, at the annual Provost's Faculty Retiree Luncheon held in November.

"Frances has played a major role in a host of university and community committees. Her insightful knowledge has added to the growth of the Emeriti Center and the Emeriti Center College, and we are especially grateful to Frances for her expert consolidation and summarization of the Emeriti Center's strategic plan and strategic retreat initiatives, which together have produced a solid road map for the future of the Emeriti Center and Emeriti Center College," said Janette Brown, executive director, USC Emeriti Center.

For Feldman, 93, USC has been a part of her life for more than 70 years, including 36 of them as a professor, teaching social welfare history, policy and administration at the School of Social Work. Always an active volunteer in civic and social agencies at the local, state and national levels, she has continued to be active in university and community affairs since retiring in 1982, even retaining an office in the School of Social Work.
In 'retirement,' she has chaired the Senate's task force on the endangered university library system, served on the Planning Board of the Emeriti College and the Board of Retired Faculty. She has also served on the Academic Convocation committee since its inception and formerly chaired the committee on the University's Centenary and Inaugural events.

Colleagues recognize Feldman as a true social work pioneer. Among her accomplishments, she helped establish the first employee counseling service to operate in a university setting, which is known today as the USC Staff/Faculty Counseling and Consultation Center. She also helped found the California Social Work Archives, an organization of volunteers dedicated to preserving the history of social work and social welfare in California.

An author of 10 books and numerous book chapters and articles, her most recent publication is Human Services in the City of Angels: 1850-2000, an institutional study of the role of the City of Los Angeles in human services. It was completed under the auspices of the Los Angeles City Historical Society and brought her the 2004 Wheat Award from the Southern California Historical Society.

In 2005, she was inducted into the California Social Work Archives Hall of Distinction, where her leadership and role in shaping society's response to social need are recognized and preserved for future generations. The USC Emeriti Center also named her an Albert and Elaine Borchard Lecturer, an award that fosters the continuing service of retired USC scholars to society.

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