SCHOTTLAND, Charles Irwin (d. 1995). Social Security Commissioner. Dean of School of Social Work, Brandeis University. President, National Association of Social Workers.

Charles Irwin Schottland Interview. Interviewed by Frances Lomas Feldman. Date of interview: 1-6/7/8-87. 3 cassette tapes (3 duplicate tapes). Length of interview: 3.5 hours (approximately). Transcript of interview: 69 pp. (1 copy rough draft of transcript).

Topics of interview: Background; California State Relief Administration; elevation to position of Social Security Commissioner; career and developments in California State Dept. of Social Welfare; problems and issues of merit system; social work education, including UC-Berkeley's undergraduate programs in Economics Department and establishment of two year program at USC; categorical public assistance programs; OAS; George McClain; Myrtle Williams; adoptions; role of volunteers in adoption and in licensing of social workers; importance of social policy; social workers' approaches to shaping social policy; contributions of California Social Welfare to rest of nation.

Additional Materials:

LA Times and NASW News obituary notices. Four photographs of Charles Irwin Schottland; two with wife, Edna Schottland. Papers and publications of Charles Irwin Schottland, including The Social Security Program in the United States (New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1963). Also in Doheny Library. Additional oral histories (1992, 1993) on Jewish Big Brothers, including interview of Charles Irwin Schottland re subject. Correspondence dated 1-29-87 and 2-12-87 from Frances Lomas Feldman to Charles Irwin Schottland re interview. Letter dated 9-11-99 from Frances Lomas Feldman to Charles Irwin Schottland re assistance in grant proposal for California Social Welfare Archives. Memoranda from Frances Lomas Feldman to John Milner, Chair Oral History committee, re Schottland interview. 1 diskette of first draft of transcript of interview. CSWA oral history interview forms.