2008 Awards

 2008 Alumni Hall of Fame Awards

Alvin Hadley, MSW '59
Distinguished Career Award

• Executive Director, Columbus Metropolitan Area Church Council, 2000-2008
• Retired administrator of Franklin County Children Services (29 years of service)
• Served on 30 human service boards and religious organizations, and as chairperson of 15 organizations

• Retired Dean and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of School of Social Work, Portland State University
• Former Dean and Professor of School of Social Work, University of Alabama
• Former Associate Dean of Mandel School of Applied Social Science, Case Western Reserve

• Past President of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the nation's oldest historical Black Institution of Higher Learning
• Former Dean and Professor of Graduate School of Social Work, Denver University
• Past President of the National Conference of Graduate Deans and Directors

• Manager and Chief of the Office of Forensic Services, Ohio Department of Mental Health
• Former Chair of the National Association of State Mental Health Directors Forensic Division
• Co-chair, Supreme Court of Ohio's Advisory Committee on Mental Illness in Courts

• Professor and Chair of Department of Social Work, Anthropology and Sociology, Mansfield University
• Item writer for the Association of Social Work Board (ASWB) and former Examination Committee Member of ASWB
• Consulting Editor for the Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work