Evelyn Ginsburg, 74, a social worker and teacher, began working for the Chicago Board of Education in 1968 as a social worker. She wrote two books on applying social work theory in the classroom.
A resident of Evanston, she died Friday in St. Francis Hospital in that suburb.
”She was essentially low-keyed,” said her husband, Jacob ”Jack”
Ginsburg. ”She still made home visits. She was very clear about what she wanted to do and wrote her books from notes she accumulated over the years.”
Mrs. Ginsburg, a native of New Haven, Conn., received her bachelor`s degree from New Haven State Teachers College in 1938. She worked in Oak Ridge, Tenn., as a social worker during World War II, then obtained her master`s degree from the University of Chicago.
Following that, she worked for several years at the Jewish Community Center in Chicago.
From 1959 to 1962, she taught in Iran. She returned to the U.S. and trained and taught social workers at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Loyola University.
Her two books are ”School Social Work: A Practitioner`s Guide Book-A Community Approach to Practice” and ”Effective Intervention-Applying Learning Theory to School Social Work.”
Other survivors include a daughter, Anna; a brother; and a sister.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in Beth Emet Free Synagogue, 1224 W. Dempster Ave., Evanston.
