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Class of 1968Ann Shaw, MSW '68, recently received the Community Leadership Award from the Julian C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Peter Breen, MSW '67, was elected mayor of San Anselmo in 2009, making it his fourth stint in the city’s top seat. Breen’s professional career began in 1963 as a social worker in the Bureau of Public Assistance in the Los Angeles County Department of Charities, followed by a second career in public service in 1993. He has also worked in the Department of Social Services as a child welfare worker and was an assistant program deputy when he left Los Angeles and became the county welfare director in Marin County in 1972. During this time, he was elected president of the American Public Welfare Association in Washington D.C. After retiring from county service in 1989, he became the executive director of Centerforce at San Quentin, which provides services to over 300,000 visiting children at California's 33 state prisons. He also served on the National Advisory Board of the National Resource Center for Children of Incarcerated Children. After retiring in 2003, he became a senior fellow for the Child Welfare League of America.
Raymond Scurfield, MSW '67, DSW '79, is associate professor and director of the Katrina Research Center at the University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast in Long Beach, Miss. He has recently published the second and third volumes in a trilogy of books about war trauma and its impact: Healing Journeys. Study Abroad With Vietnam Veterans (Algora, 2006) and War Trauma. Lessons Unlearned From Vietnam to Iraq (Algora, 2006). In addition, he has written an opinion piece that was published in three newspapers in March 2007.
