clinical social work), in a unique collaboration with her prominent psychiatrist husband. Coming of age in the Progressive era, Maida Solomon was a rebel who fused her interests both imaginatively and constructively throughout her life. She was founding President of the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers in 1926; and she helped found the Massachusetts Academy of Psychiatric Social Work in the 1970’s. The Solomons’ book, Syphilis of the Innocent, from 1922 is a classic of the field; and Maida Solomon’s study of the field from the 1940’s was used as a text in schools of social work throughout the country. Her research group in the 1960’s and ’70’s published many seminal books and articles. During a long career as a social worker and professor of social work, she blended mentoring, program development, research, and work on the institutional development of her profession, while supporting the training of social workers in a human service philosophy and methods that enabled the emergence of a fully modern professional social work. Accompanying the memoir are short excerpts from documents by contemporaries, historians, and Solomon herself; and two longer essays, "Reflections on the Career of Maida Solomon: Program Development, Research, and Training" by Helen Z. Reinherz, Professor at the Simmons College School of Social Work, and "Notes on the Professional Partnership of Maida Solomon and Harry Solomon – from ‘Taped Interviews with Dr. Harry C. Solomon,’" by Judy Radner.

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