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Danuta Mostwin (Pietruszewska)

Social worker, scholar, author

Born Aug. 31, 1921, Lublin, Poland; died Jan. 11, 2010 in Baltimore, MD; came to U.S., 1951; daughter of Tadeusz and Irena (Pazdzior); married Stanislaw Bask - Mostwin; child: Jacek.

Education: Warsaw Underground Medical School (Poland), 1940-44; Doctor of Social Welfare (D.S.W.), Columbia University, New York City, 1970.

Career: Maryland Department of Social Service, 1956-60; director, Maryland Children Aid, 1960-69; director, Clinical Family Study Center, 1969; prof. (social work), Catholic University of America (DC), 1969; prof. (psychology), Loyola College, Baltimore (MD), 1980; private practice, researcher and teacher.

Author: 15 books (published in Poland, France, United Kingdom) i.a.: Ameryko! Ameryko!, Trzecia wartosc, Emigranci polscy w USA, Transplanted Family, The Life Space Ecological Model, Social Dimension of Family Treatment; Cien ksiedza Piotra, Szmaragdowa zjawa, Tajemnica zwyciezonych (3 volumes saga); numerous articles in professional jourals on family mental health, Polish - Americans, Polish post - World War II immigration.

Member of: National Association of Social Workers; Studium - North American Study for Polish Affairs; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.); Kosciuszko Foundation; Polish Heritage Association of Maryland; Union of Polish Writers.

Honors: Polish Literature Award, London (United Kingdom), 1965; doctoral dissertation award, Kosciuszko Foundation, 1971; A. Godlewska Literature Award, Switzerland, 1975; awards, Perspectives (monthly), and Wiadomosci (United Kingdom), 1979: B. Prus Award (Poland), 1985, 1990; W. Pietrzak Literature Award (Poland), 1987; Distinguished Service award, American Council of polish Culture (A.C.P.C.), 1991; awards, Polish Heritage Association of Maryland, 1992, and World Federation of Polish Combatants Associations, 1993.

Affiliation: Democrat. Roman Catholic

Languages: Polish, English, French

Hobby: gardening

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996

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