Colcord, Joanna Carver (1882–1960)
Colcord, Joanna Carver (1882–1960)
American social worker. Born Joanna Carver Colcord, Mar 18, 1882, on sailing ship near New Caledonia (overseas territory of France) in southwest Pacific Ocean; died April 8, 1960, in Lebanon, Indiana; dau. of Lincoln Alden Colcord and Jane French (Sweetser) Colcord; University of Maine, BS, 1906, MS in biological chemistry, 1909; studied at New York School of Philanthropy (1910–11); m. Frank J. Bruno (social worker and educator), 1950 (died 1955).
Worked for New York Charity Organization Society (1911–25), becoming supervisor of all district offices; served as Red Cross field representative in Virgin islands (1920); served as director of Russell Sage Foundation's Charity Organization Department (1929–44); was a member of the editorial board of The Survey (journal for social work, 1932–35); was a consultant to Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services during WWII; retired because of ill-health (1944). Wrote Broken Homes: A Study of Family Desertion and Its Social Treatment (1919), Your Community: Its Provisions for Health, Safety, and Welfare (1939), and a study of the impact of sailors' language on English idiom, Sea Language Comes Ashore (1945).