{"id":1264,"date":"2013-07-17T13:06:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2018-05-21T08:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:48:56","slug":"hassinger-bernice-shield-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"HASSINGER, BERNICE SHIELD, 1915-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social worker; civic leader. Born&#8211; June 15, 1915, in Hampton, Va. Parents&#8211; Elmer R. and Addie (Baines) Shield.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Richard Charles Hassinger, September 6, 1947. Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; College of William and Mary, B.S., 1937; University of Chicago, M.S., 1942. Social worker in Norfolk, 1937; worked for WPA in North Carolina, 1938-1940; social worker Columbus Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital, 1942-1944; supervisor and acting director of social services, Medical College of Virginia, 1944-1947; vice president and director of Transall, Inc., Birmingham, 1978-. Served as volunteer social worker at University Hospital; president of the advisory board, Lee McBride White School; vice president, board of directors, Visiting Nursing Association, Birmingham, member Women&#8217;s Committee of 100; and many social and civic organizations.\u00a0 Member, National Society of Colonial Dames; DAR. Outstanding alumna, William and Mary. 1988.\u00a0 Died July 1, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary, Birmingham News, July 2, 2004; Who&#8217;s Who of American Women, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hassinger Family, 1545-1983.\u00a0 Birmingham:\u00a0 Hassinger Publications, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson Steel; Birmingham&#8217;s First Steel. Birmingham, Ala.; Jefferson County Historical Commission, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The History of the Virginia Conference of Social Work from 1900 to 1942. Richmond:\u00a0 C. W. Saunders. 1942.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Social worker; civic leader. Born&#8211; June 15, 1915, in Hampton, Va. Parents&#8211; Elmer R. and Addie (Baines) Shield.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Richard Charles Hassinger, September 6, 1947. Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; College of William and Mary, B.S., 1937; University of Chicago, M.S., 1942. Social worker in Norfolk, 1937; worked for WPA in North Carolina, 1938-1940; social worker Columbus Medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8065,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/8065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}