Sociology & Social Work Dirk W. Creason, MSW, LCSW - Adjunct Instructor, Social Work Maribeth Downing, PhD - Assistant Professor, Sociology A. Louise Pace, MSSW, ACSW, LCSW - Assistant Professor, Social Work Mary R. Shock, MSSW, LCSW - Associate Professor, Social Work, & Program Director Terry Smith, MSW, LCSW - Adjunct Instructor, Social Work Francis Van Tate, PhD - Professor, Sociology Billy D. Verkler, PhD, LSW - Professor,Sociology, & Chairman Setting the pace. During one of her sociology classes, Miss Louise Pace orates a speech. Many students elected to take sociology for one of four required courses for graduation. - photo by Jerry Traughber. • mpressed by the volunteer work Harding social work majors have done at their local nursing home, Beverly Enterprises made available a fellowship for a social work major selected bv the department. Each month the senior social work majors recognized in chapel the "Resident of the Month" from each of the three nursing homes in Searcy. Dr. Clifton L. Ganus, Jr., president of Harding, presented each with an individualized certificate of recognition. The Social Work Program received from the Council on Social Work Education reaccreditation for a period of seven years, the maximum period for which accreditation is granted. The number of graduates with majors in both sociology and social work increased significantly during 1985-86 over the last few years. Also, the number of graduates entering graduate school increased. Dr. Bill Verkler, chairman of the department, took a group of students to the annual meting of the Arkansas Sociological and Anthropological Association in Fayetteville and directed the association's student's paper competition. Dr. Van Tate attended the annual World Mission Workshop, spoke at the Medical Missions Seminar, and directed Harding's Mission Prepare Program and International Festival. Mary Shock, director of the Social Work Program, and Louise Pace attended the annual meeting of the Council on Social Work Education. Teaching part-time in the department this year were Terry Smith of the Paragould Children's Home and Kathy Howard, a counselor in the Family Life Center of the College church. <3;> Sociology & Social Work 183
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