Janice Peterson Andrews-Schenk

What a wonderful woman that joined me to rock Washington, DC in the mid 1970´s! I enjoyed every moment, it just didn´t last long enough ! Clifford T Springer 2025

Jan's history and philosophy of Social Work was my first class on my first day of graduate school. I remember thinking to myself that if every one of my professors were as vibrant and dynamic as she, I was in for the best experience ever! She got me so geared up to get in and get involved with the program! I will miss her enthusiastic spirit.

To know her was to love her. There will be a void in many lives in her passing. Carl and John you had the joy of her for to short of a time. Jan will be remembered for a long time by all the many she has touched. I know I miss her already. Woody

On behalf of the faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, I extend my condolences to Jan's family and friends. Jan's writings about the history of our profession are a great legacy. She will be missed.

I was so sorry to hear of Jan's passing. She has done so much to preserve our social welfare history. She will be missed.

I first met Jan in 1980 when she was a doctoral student at the University of Maryland and I was a new Assistant Professor. I got to know her well while serving as co-chair of her dissertation committee. Over the past 25 years we have been friends, colleagues, and co-authors (of a book and numerous articles and papers). I will remember Jan for many things, but particularly for her intelligence, her wit, her fire, her sense of decency and humanity, her compassion, and her utmost integrity. I...

Jan inspired her students to honor the work of the first generation social workers. She chaired my clinical paper during graduate school, providing encouragement, enthusiasm and insight. She was a great tribute to the social work profession and taught us all that our work is a true privilege.

I will remember Jan for her professionalism, her documentation of the life of Giesela Knopka, and her contributions to the field of Social Group Work. It is a great loss.

Jan was my advisor for the MSW program through St. Thomas/St. Cate's back in the late 90's. She was always supportive, always positive, always available, and was such a good role model for what social workers should be. I am sad to hear about her illness and death, and send sincerest and heartfelt sympathy to her family.