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  • Moskowitz was a former headworker of Madison Street Settlement in Manhattan and a former resident of University Settlement.

    Settlement Houses in the United States. 2009

  • He was an author who devoted his life to writing after leaving his position as assistant headworker at the University Settlement in 1903.

    Miriam Finn Scott. 2009

  • In 1933, she resigned as headworker of Henry Street Settlement and retired to her house-on-the-pond in Westport, Connecticut.

    Lillian D. Wald. 2009

  • Heres some shrink's view of Brown from politicalbetting's blog, seems quite sound for a headworker...

    Brown Trounces Ming at PMQs 2007

  • One that I know does very good work in its meetings with the Settlement headworker and has a small collection of books and pictures from the main library for six months, and a more elementary bookshelf for a younger club with whom one of the members is reading the same subject.

    Library Work with Children 1917

  • In 1934, one year after she retired from her position as headworker of Henry Street Settlement House on New York’s Lower East Side, Lillian D. Wald recalled the lesson of her years there.

    Lillian D. Wald. 2009

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