Leona Bevis (SAS ’43) was an executive director of The Welfare Federation of Cleveland, now known as the Center for Community Solutions. A champion for dialogue across agencies, she was instrumental in the creation of the Center for Human Services, now called the Center for Families and Children, to ensure access to vital social services across Cleveland. Marguerite Haynam (SAS ’41) was an assistant professor of child welfare at the Mandel School from 1948 to 1950.
The Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professorship in Community Development supports a faculty member at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences who is a national leader in the field with both the academic credentials and direct experience to work with communities in promoting progress through social planning and action.
