Katherine A. Kendall (1910-2010): a brief biography
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Abstract
Introduction This chapter provides a brief biography of Katherine Kendall. There are two main reasons for this. First, we think readers will be curious about someone who has had an award named after her. Second, as an important figure in the ‘establishment’ phase of international social work, her personal and professional lives are a source of the ideas and interests that formed conceptions of international social work and its education. This biography draws on: interviews with Katherine Kendall (Billups, 2002c; Watkins, 2010; Foxwell, 2014b); biographies and tributes (Beless, 2004; Healy, 2008d); and Kendall's own published accounts of some of her activities in her lifetime (Kendall, 1994). Kendall's career-defining roles were a series of executive management posts at CSWE between 1952 and 1971. She always had significant international responsibilities. For most of this time she was also Honorary Secretary (1954-71) and then, after leaving CSWE, the first full-time paid Secretary-General (1971-8) of IASSW. In retirement, she was Honorary President of IASSW for over thirty years until her death in 2010. Her faithful service to IASSW and her time at the centre of international social work education thus spanned nearly 60 years. Her work with the UN, prior to her employment at CSWE and IASSW, meant she brought her understanding of international organizations, and the personal networks within them, into IASSW; this facilitated the development of its work with the UN. Childhood, marriage and early career Katherine Kendall was born in Scotland on 8 September 1910, the third of four children and the only girl. Her father, Roderick Tuach, emigrated to Canada in 1913, but joined a Canadian Scottish regiment and was seriously wounded fighting in France during World War I. He sustained a lifelong disability as a result. He returned to Canada doing war work, but then migrated to Chicago, to be joined by his family in 1920. Tuach and his wife returned to the family building and masonry business in Scotland when work in Chicago dried up in the 1930s depression, so Katherine maintained connections with Scotland for many years. Her letters show that she was in regular contact with her mother until the latter's death in 1980 (Klaassen, 2016a).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".