Show Profits By BERT BOYACK Service to her community has been the hallmark for Eva Hancock evidenced by the many years of education which she the kind of work she as well as the volunteer efforts in which she became ALTHOUGH her entry In the social work field per se came her earlier experiences were working with particularly young For two years after tion from the University of she taught French and English at South Davis Junior High School named Bountiful Junior LEAVING Davis she served as Executive Director of Camp Fire Girls in and was caught up in the war effort and helped organize local operations for United Service Organizations and was appointed Associate Executive for the West Coast with offices in Seattle and San AT THE war's she returned home and to the University of Utah for a master's degree in sociology and a certificate in the graduate school of social During this time she was elected to Phi Kappa later received her Master's Degree in Social Welfare from the University of California at EVA'S career included several national positions located in and working out of New York City for a number of As a Field Representative for the National Association for Mental she covered ten western states and as Field Representative for the National Board of she covered the As coordinator of the International Leadership Project of the National Social Welfare Assembly in conjunction with the U. 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State she helped youth leaders from foreign countries learn how communities in America solve their HER FIRST professional position in a community council was in Seattle with the Seattle-King County Health and Welfare Returning to Utah in Eva joined the Utah State Department of Health as its Director of Community Mental Health In she was appointed Executive Director of the community services Salt Lake and she served in that position for 14 years until her retirement in January of this SHE HAS been active in social work circles for many years and has held both elected and appointed She has taught community organization in the graduate school of social work and lectured in other departments of the University of Beyond her activities as a community worker in her professional she has served in wide variety of state and national HER community service included the Governor's committee in Goals for Technical Review Utah State Division on Advisory Committee to the Division of Continuing Education and Project for the Prevention EVA HANCOCK and Control of Juvenile University of Area White House Conference on Children and Board of Salt Lake Area Community Action State Advisory Pupil Personnel State Board of Veteran's Administration Hospital Advisory Board of Utah Public Health Board of Utah Consumer Credit Counseling Salt Lake City Citizen's Advisory SHE HAS served in many capacities with the Utah Conference on Social Welfare for which she received an Honorary Life Membership in She is still serving on the nominating Her interest in health and mental health services has continued over the In she was the recipient of the Salt Lake Kiwanis Club's Health Service Award for outstanding contributions to the community in the health wA SPECIAL citation from the Salt Lake City-County Health Department recognized her assistance in the merger of the City and County Health She has been a member of the Utah State Comprehensive Health Planning Council since it was organized and presently serves on its Executive Committee and Chairman of its Action Planning She also serves on the public Health Residency Training Advisory Committee of the Utah State Division of SHE IS a member of the Davis County Mental Health Advisory Council and has served as its She is on the board of directors of Davis County's Community Services Eva is a proud Utahn of pioneer At the present time she lives in Centerville in the family home with her who is 94 years ONE Harvey well-known in business and sports lives in He makes visits to Utah and Centerville in particular twice yearly to see his mother and Commenting about her field of she has my work over the years yet challenging in the vast diversity of activities which I have had opportunity to of helping things happen in the one of the most satisfying experiences in the last fifteen years has been the contacts which I have had with both lay and of all from all walks of from various colors and pro- have been an ta- J part of my These relationships I hold AM proud of the advances of many of the graduate students who trained with as I am of the staff members who worked with me have made in moving into top flight positions in highly recognized professional Even though some of them are widely scattered they still keep in Writing has been a long time interest for Eva and still remains an avid reader as a writing seemed to be a natural some of the adventure and written as an romance yarns eighth grader brings a chuckle now but for which I had a ready audience AS A high school student at West High School she found English Composition and Drama fascinating with opportunity for creative During her college days she worked on the staff of the year book and the a campus She even did a bit of news coverage for the old Salt Lake When she was a Beehive Leader for the Hollywood Stake in she prepared trainee material for the ward leaders of the Leadership training always required writing skill and was a part of all the positions she MISS HANCOCK has done some professional writing but plans to expand this interest with the prospect more available time and some in collaboration with She has had little time for vacations or although she now has plans for She has found it difficult to leave her at the office and is still involved in the identification of community problems and the resources apathy of too many citizens about social problems in the communities is of deep Davis rapidly growing in both population ahoT is now demanding the awareness and mobilization of citizen and organizational is need for a commitment to provide new and to improve services to individuals and families so that t major problems can be Influencing the legislative process to strengthen existing services to people is becoming increasingly EVA further believes that t out the talents and ideas of people and putting these to work in our communities and their neighborhoods is long Solving community problems is not for government alone or a few articulate citizens but for all who have something worthwhile to |