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
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Brianna Cashman Loop

June 14, 2005

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.

Woody Johnson

June 6, 2005

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

Jean K. Quam

June 1, 2005

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.

lorraine gutierrez

May 31, 2005

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.

Michael Reisch

May 31, 2005

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 will miss her very much.

Susanne Schroeder

May 31, 2005

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.

Linda Stanton

May 31, 2005

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.

Deb Schreiner-Brecht

May 31, 2005

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.

Anthony Bibus

May 31, 2005

On behalf of the Social Work Department at Augsburg College, I express our deepest sympathies to Jan's family, friends and colleagues. We will miss her caring, her leaderhip, her advice, her analysis, and her steady devotion to social justice. One consolation will be her books, articles and her teaching, which will stay with us, in our minds and hearts.

Alex Gitterman

May 30, 2005

When we think about Jan (which we will do often), we will realize that there are stars whose radiance are visible on earth though they have long been extinct. Jan's intelligence, articulateness, inner and outer beauty, dignity, and style will continue to illuminate our lives though her physical being is no longer with us. Her radiance will be particularly bright when the night is dark.

Charles Garvin

May 30, 2005

Janice was a very fine addition to the human race. She worked hard for social justice and to help create a more decent world. She had many talents as a writer and especially as a creator of oral histories. She was an extraordinarly valuable leader of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. This year's symposium in Minneapolis was largely her doing and should be especially dedicated to her memory,

Richard Godoy

May 29, 2005

My heart and prayers go out to the family. The social work community has lost one of it's brightest stars, but there is a bright star shining in the heavens up above us.

Jean Haley

May 28, 2005

I am so sorry to hear of Jan's death. Her class was the reason I decided to enter the profession of social work at the age of 54. She was an inspiring teacher and person.

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