Gertrude Vaile Explained

Gertrude Vaile
Birth Date:January 20, 1878
Birth Place:Kokomo, Indiana, U.S.
Death Date:October 15, 1954 (aged 76)
Occupation:social worker
Known For:Reformer and pioneer in social work education[1]

Gertrude Vaile (January 20, 1878 – October 15, 1954) was an American social worker. Gertrude became the executive secretary to the committee of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in 1916, and was elected to head the National Welfare Workers in 1925 at the National Conference of Social Work.[2]

Early life and education

Gertrude Vaile was born in Kokomo, Indiana,[3] [4] January 20, 1878. Her father was Joel Frederick Vaile, a national authority on general business, mining, and railroad law. Her mother was Charlotte Marion White Vaile (d. 1902), an author of children's books.[5] A brother, William, was a law partner in his father's firm, and a member of Congress. There was a younger brother, Louis F. Vaile, and a younger sister, Lucretia,[6] who served as president of the Colorado Librarian's Association in 1922.[7]

She came to Denver, Colorado at the age of four years.

After graduating from the East Denver High School, she went to Vassar College, where her work was principally in the department of economics and social science, before graduating in 1900.[8] That summer, she sailed for Europe.[9]

After her mother's death,[10] she then spent several years at home housekeeping,[11] and was active in various club and philanthropic societies. Her father then married Anna Louisa Wolcott.[12]

In 1909, Vaile went to Chicago and graduated at the School of Civics and Philanthropy; this school required field work with social or philanthropic agencies, also one term with the United Charities.

Career

Vaile relocated to Denver, Colorado, where, in 1912, she was appointed a member of the Board of Charities and Corrections by Mayor Henry J. Arnold. She then entered definitely into the employ of the United Charities, first as a "visitor,” investigating cases of need and carrying out the treatment decided upon by the District Superintendent.

Immediately after, she returned to Chicago, where she served as superintendent of the Englewood district. During her stay in Chicago, she lived at social settlements and other like places where charity work was done. She served as one of the investigators in a study that the Russell Sage Foundation made of the operation of the Mothers' Pension Law in Illinois.

Back in Denver by 1916, she served as Executive Secretary, Bureau of Charities and Correction,[13] and was still in that position in 1925.[14] It was reported in 1919 that through Vaile's efforts, the public poort department of Denver was socialized and converted into a modern progressive organization. At the outbreak of World War I, Valie organized the civilian relief work of the Mountain Division of the American Red Cross and served for some time as director of civilian relief in that difixion. She later became education director under the Red Cross in the same section.[15]

Vaile was the western states field representative of the American Association for Organizing Family Social Work for four years, resigning in 1923, which was occasioned by her desire to settle down in one community.[16]

By 1926, Vaile was in Ames, Iowa, where she served as Executive Secretary and Overseer of the Poor for the Ames Social Service League.[17]

She was a member of the American Association for Organizing Family Social Work.[18]

Personal life

Vaile was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She died October 15, 1954. Subsequently, Gertrude's sister, Lucretia, sent two boxes of material to Columbia University School of Social Work for the Gertrude Vaile Archives.[19]

Selected works

Books

Articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vaile, Gertrude . Social Welfare History Project . 22 May 2022 . 21 January 2011.
  2. OUR NEW PRESIDENT . National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.) . Bulletin of the National Conference of Charities and Correction . August 1925 . The Conference . 1 . 28 . 4 . 22 May 2022 . en.
  3. Book: Denver (Colo) City and County . The City of Denver . 1912 . Denver City and County . 6 . 22 May 2022 . en.
  4. Miss Gertrude Vaile. 24857 . Daughters of the American Revolution . Lineage Book . 1908 . 306 . 25 . en.
  5. Web site: Gertrude Vaile papers, 1892-1954 . Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries Finding Aids . findingaids.library.columbia.edu . 22 May 2022.
  6. Book: Ferril . William Columbus . Sketches of Colorado: In Four Volumes, Being an Analytical Summary and Biographical History of the State of Colorado, as Portrayed in the Lives of the Pioneers, the Founders, the Builders, the Statesmen and the Prominent and Progressive Citizens who Helped in the Development and History Making of Colorado . 1911 . Western Press Bureau Company . 145 . 22 May 2022 . en.
  7. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=82001010}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Flower-Vaile House]. National Park Service. October 21, 1982. July 4, 2018. With
  8. Book: Eighteenth Annual Report of the Board of Education of School District No. One, Arapahoe County, Colorado, August 1, 1892. Revised Courses of Study and General Regulations of Denver High School, District No. 2, Denver, Colorado, 1894/1895. Manual Training High School, Denver : Courses of Study, Requirements of Admision, General and Special Information, 1896. Denver High School, District Number One : Courses of Study, Requirements for Admission, General and Special Information, Members of the Alumni, 1898. North Side Public Schools, District No. Seventeen, Denver, Colorado : Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Board of Directors for the School Year Ending June 30, 1900. Denver Manual Training High School, School District No. One, Arapahoe County, Colorado : Courses of Study, Requirements for Admission, General and Special Information, 1902. Salary Schedules Adopted by the Board of Education, November 10, 1920, and February 9, 1921 (Denver Public School Monographs ; No. 5). The Denver Program of Curriculum Revision, 1927 . 1892 . 60 . 22 May 2022 . en.
  9. Book: The Vassar Miscellany . 1900 . Vassar College. . 465 . 22 May 2022 . en.
  10. Book: The National Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1921. J. T. White. 332.
  11. Book: Krainz . Thomas A. . Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West . 2005 . UNM Press . 978-0-8263-3025-3 . 22 May 2022 . en.
  12. Book: James Bretz. Denver's Early Architecture. 2010. Arcadia Publishing. 978-0-7385-8046-3. 114, 115.
  13. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF CHARITY IN DENVER, by Gertrude Vaile, Executive Secretary, Bureau of Charity and Correction of Denver . Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the ... Annual Session Held in ... . 1916 . 43 . 415–18 . 22 May 2022 . Press of Geo. H. Ellis . en.
  14. National Conference on Social Welfare . The Cost of Maintaining Good Case Work in a Public Agency. Gertrude Vaile, Secretary, Department of Charities and Correction, Denver. . The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting . 1925 . 52 . 238–46 . 22 May 2022 . National Conference on Social Welfare . en.
  15. 1900 . Vassar Quarterly . 1919 . 5-6 . 215 . 22 May 2022 . Vassar College. . en.
  16. American Association for Organizing Family Social Work . The Family . 1922 . 3-4 . 119 . 22 May 2022 . American Association for Organizing Family Social Work . en.
  17. National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.) . Division III. Health. . Bulletin of the National Conference of Charities and Correction . 1926 . 30-31 . 5 . 22 May 2022 . The Conference . en.
  18. National Conference of Social Work (U S.) Session . DIVISION IX-PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND ADMINISTRATION . Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work at the ... Annual Session Held in ... . 1922 . 40 . 432 . 22 May 2022 . The Conference . en.
  19. Columbia University School of Social Work . Report for the Year . 1957 . 67 . 22 May 2022 . en.
  20. Book: United States Federal Security Agency Library . Accession List . 1947 . 110 . 22 May 2022 . en.
  21. Book: Selected Articles on Mothers' Pensions . 1915 . H.W. Wilson Company . 80 . https://books.google.com/books?id=4UNAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80 . 22 May 2022 . en . Survey. 31:673-5. February 28, 1914. Administering Mothers' Pensions in Denver. Gertrude Vaile..
  22. National Conference of Charities and Correction (U S.) Annual Session . Principles and Methods of Outdoor Relief . Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the ... Annual Session Held in ... . 1915 . 479–84 . 22 May 2022 . Press of Geo. H. Ellis . en.
  23. National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis (U.S.) . "Interstate Control of Tuberculosis. Will the Kent Bill Help?", by Gertrude Vaile, Denver . Transactions of the ... Annual Meeting . 1916 . 12 . 316–25. 22 May 2022 . Irving Press . en.
  24. Devine . Edward Thomas . Kellogg . Paul Underwood . Federal Aid for consumptives . The Survey . 1917 . 37 . 352–56 . 22 May 2022 . Survey Associates . en.
  25. Settlement Laws as an Element in the Solution of the Problem of the Migratory Consumptive . Journal of the Outdoor Life . 1917 . 14 . 110–13 . 22 May 2022 . Journal of the Outdoor Life Publishing Company . en.

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