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Excerpt from Social Work With Families and Individuals: A Brief Manual for Investigators Diagnosis of the disabilities of applicants and the cooperation of different agencies in treating them have come to be part of a definite process. Every charitable service to a disabled family or individual should be preceded by an inquiry into the history and present condition of the applicant which will yield the facts nec essary to intelligent action. This inquiry has come to be known technically to social workers as an investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Porter Raymond Lee was born in Buffalo, New York. He was the third son and third of five children of Reuben Porter Lee, a Buffalo banker, and Jennie (Blanchard) Lee and a descendant of English ancestors who settled at Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1652.
He graduated from Cornell University in 1903. He later studied in the graduate schools of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.
In 1903 Lee entered social work as assistant secretary of the Charity Organization Society of Buffalo. In 1909 he went to the Society for Organizing Charity of Philadelphia as general secretary. After three years in that position he joined the faculty of the New York School of Philanthropy, which became the New York School of Social Work in 1918 and an affiliate of Columbia University in 1940. There he remained for the rest of his active life, as teacher and, from 1916 to 1938, as director. The only interruption came in 1930-1931, when he served as a member of President Hoover's Emergency Committee for Employment. Lee made notable contributions to the profession of social work. As a teacher he was a pioneer in the use of case material, basing his instruction on discussion of case records drawn from actual practice. He avoided didactic methods but assisted his students to search for the causes of specific human problems and to analyze remedial proposals. Thus he led them in the direction of an imaginative grasp of the fundamentals of case work and made learning an exercise in personal discovery. He encouraged the development of an understanding, sympathetic attitude toward individual and family problems, but he never regarded emotion as an acceptable substitute for scientific inquiry.
During Lee's directorship the New York School grew in attendance from a few hundred to an enrollment of some 1, 500 full- and part-time students--the largest social-work school in the country. The curriculum was enlarged and developed, the field of community organization receiving greater emphasis and courses in group work and social psychiatry being added. A course in statistics grew into a department of social research. Courses in social philosophy were inaugurated, and the study of labor problems was extended. Through his imaginative thinking and organizing ability Lee contributed to the philosophy and genius of social work.
He helped to establish the American Association of Social Workers, a professional body, and served later as president of the National Conference of Social Work (1929). The American Association of Schools of Social Work grew out of a meeting in his office in 1919. An important contribution to the thought and content of social case work came from a conference group, of which Lee was the leading spirit, which met annually for a week or ten days from 1923 to 1927. The report of this "Milford Conference, " which has become a social work classic, was written by Lee and published by the American Association of Social Workers under the title Social Case Work, Generic and Specific (1929).
As interim director of the New York Charity Organization Society at a critical time in 1933 Lee effected some important changes in administrative structure. Lee's warm, outgoing personality won him friends everywhere and the devotion of students and colleagues. Impatient crusaders sometimes found fault with his somewhat conservative approach to social action, but their admiration for the qualities that made him a trusted leader never waned. A former student of his, later a colleague, has spoken of the stimulating effect of his "disarmingly simple teaching" and his example and leadership, which "kept his colleagues more productive than they knew how to be, more imaginative than they had learned to be, more courageous than they really wanted to be. "
After illness put a stop to Lee's favorite exercise, golf, he found the necessary diversion from professional duties in cooking, becoming skilled in the making of desserts and the invention of new dishes. Throughout his life he was an enthusiastic amateur gardener. Lee died of a heart condition at his home in Englewood, New Jersey. Following cremation, his ashes were scattered outside his summer home at Elma, New York.
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On January 30, 1905, Lee married Ethel Hepburn Pollock of Buffalo. Their children were Porter Raymond, James Pollock, Margaret T. , Jean Hepburn, and Ruth Tenney.
