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Show AMY LYMAN BROWN Elected to 1923 1925 daugher of utah pioneers John Brown and Margaret February 7, 1872 in Pleasant Grove, Utah. She married Dr. Richard R. Lyman, September 9, 1896 in Salt Lake City. (Mrs. They were parents of Wendell Brown Lyman and Margaret Alexander Schreiner). Amy Brown Lyman, Zimmerman, was born was graduated from the Normal School of Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah in 1890. She taught at Brigham Young Academy and. then in the Salt Lake City Elementary Schools. She attended Brigham Young Academy, University of Utah, University of Chicago, Cornell Amy University, Hull in House Chicago, and the University of Colorado. She became a pioneer in the new field of modern social work for which she gained national and international re c oqn i tion. She taught an course intensive in family welfare work at Brigham Young the first of its kind in University during the summer of 1920 Utah. This spearheaded 126 family welfare institutes a t t ended by 4155 volunteer workers throughout the western states. - Lyman served as an executive officer on the General Board of Relief Society of the Church of Jusus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 36 years from 1909 to 1945. During'the last five years she was general president. Here she undertook the task of adapting Mrs. the - recognized social welfare philosophies and casework procedures to Relief Society charity work. In 1919 she established the Social Service Department of the Relief Society General Board, including its employment bureau and child-placing agency. Later, when the graduate School of Social Work was inaugurated at the University of Utah, and Relief Society's Social Service Department became one of the In in-service training centers for university students. 1926 with personal funds, she instituted loans and scholarships training public health nurses and social workers. Both funds were augmented and continued by the General Board of the Relief Society. The one in social work was designated in her honor in for 1931, and in 1942 in acti ve (vice chair was transferred the to B.Y.U. for administration. American Red Cross, Sal t Lake Communi ty Amy Clinic 1920-1932), Utah State Welfare Commission (vice chair 1921-1925), Utah Tuberculosis Association (vice President 1930-1953), Women's Committee on Unemployment (state chair during the great depression), Utah State Conference of Social Work (one of the in 1925 and later organizers president), Family Service Society, Travelers Aid Society and Visiting Nurse Association. Her 28 years in social work encompassed both World War I and World War II, and the economic depression of the 1930's. was 74 |
