Beverly
Benner Cassara Vita
The
Adult Education History Project
Based
on Information in the Syracuse University Library Archives
Translated
for the WWW by Roger Hiemstra
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Beverly
Benner Cassara.
[Beverly
Benner; Beverly Cassara; Mrs. Ernest Cassara]
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Edited by
Roger Hiemstra from data gathered by Annamary Zappia Allen, ATE 611 student,
Fall, 1990, and by compilers for published resource guides.
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Some
information may be found in the Adult Education Association [AEA-USA] and
Commission of Professors of Adult Education [CPAE] collections at Syracuse
University, Arents Library.
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Born in
Hanover, MA, daughter of the Reverend Guy Percy Benner and Julia Caroline
Whitney Benner. Married Ernest Cassara,
1949-02_-07. Children: Shirley Cassara, Catherine Cassara, Nicholas
Ernest Cassara. On the adjunct faculty
in Education at the University of Southern
Maine. Named as "Woman of
Achievement" by WETA, Washington, DC, 1978. Citation for outstanding service to adult education by the
District of Columbia Public Schools, 1976.
Recognition Award, Vermont Council for the Social Sciences, 1968. President's Merit Award, Adult Education
Association of the USA [AEA-USA], 1978.
Directed adult education students who worked in the Jubilee Housing
Project on Columbia Road. Directed a
similar project at the Montana Terrace Housing Project, Washington, DC. Has
directed several international adult education conferences. Recently retired and living in Bethel,
Maine.
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19220802
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WHO'S WHO OF
AMERICAN WOMEN, 1975_76; Personal Vita of Beverly Cassara.
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1944-1947--A.B.,
Colby College, MN.
1954--M.Ed.
1962-63--Visiting
Scholar, Cambridge University, England.
1970--Ed.D.,
Boston University, Boston, MA.
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1947-48--News
Editor and Broadcaster, WBET Radio Station, Brockton, MA.
1951-54--Teacher,
Public Schools in Hanson and Abington, MA.
1961-62--Teacher,
Bartlett School, Arlington, MA
1963-64--Director
of Personnel and Counselor to Students, Albert Schweitzer College, Churwalden
(GR), Switzerland.
1966-70--Director
of Adult Educaton, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT.
1970-90--Professor
of Adult Education, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC.
1971--Instructor,
Fairfax County Adult Education Program, Fairfax, VA.
1971-72--Instructor,
Northern Virginia Community College, Fairfax, VA.
1971-72--Instructor,
University of Virginia Center for Continuing Education, Falls Church, VA.
1972-76--Acting
Director, Institute for Continuing Education for Women, Federal City College,
Washington, DC.
1973-85--Dean,
Graduate Studies, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC.
1974-79--Adjunct
Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.
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Adult
education.
ADULT
LEARNERS.
International
adult education.
Women as
adult learners.
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Angela Cass.
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Adult
Education Association of Metropolitan Washington.
Adult
Education Association of the United States [AEA_USA].
Adult
Education Association of Virginia.
Adult
Education Peace Network.
American
Association of Adult and Continuing Education[AAACE].
American
Association of Higher Education [AAHE].
American
Society for Training and Development [ASTD].
Coalition of
Adult Education Organizations [CAEO].
Commission
of Professors of Adult Education [CPAE].
Committee on
Illiteracy, National Program of the United Way.
Committee on
Issues and Planning of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools.
Conference
of Deans of Black Graduate Schools.
Council for
the Advancement of Experiential Learning [CAEL].
Council of
Graduate Schools of USA.
Fulbright
Alumni Association.
Graduate
Record Examination Board.
Higher
Education Group of Washington, DC.
International
Associates in Adult Education.
International
Congress of University Adult Education [ICUAE].
International
League for Social Commitment in Adult Education.
National
Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
National
Association of Black Adult Educators.
National
Science Foundation Forum.
Planning
Committee of the United States Council of Commission on the Status of Women.
Society for
International Development/Women in Development.
Southeast
Fairfax (Virginia) Civic Association (Membership Chair, 1976-77; President,
1973-74).
State
Advisory Council on Adult Education.
Vermont
Governor's Commission on the Status of Women (Chair, 1969-70).
Washington
Women's Forum.
Women's
Equity Action League.
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Cofounder
and President, Washington Women's Forum, 1978_87.
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University
of the District of Columbia (formerly Federal City College), Washington, DC.
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Numerous
articles, monographs, books, and book chapters. Some of her most important works are as follows:
Cassara,
Beverly, B. (Ed.). AMERICAN WOMEN: THE CHANGING IMAGE. Boston:
Beacon Press, 1962.
Cassara,
Beverly, B. (Ed.). ADULT EDUCATION IN A
MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY. London:
Routledge, 1990.
Cassara,
Beverly, B. The lifelong learning
act--an assessment. CONVERGENCE 12
(1979).
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