What does the Fruit and Flower Mission have in common with the McGann Lectures?
Inspired by McGann and Finney’s publication, History of Social Work in the Leland Stanford Jr. University School of Medicine, 1913-1981, Lane was proud to exhibit From the Fruit and Flower Mission To the McGann Lectures: An Historical Record of Social Work at Stanford University . The exhibit chronicled the history of social work at Stanford from 1913-1981. Both Leona M. McGann and Flora M. Finney contributed their original correspondence and memorabilia for the exhibit. These items together with photographs and documents from Lane’s Special Collections and Archives combine to tell the story of the history of social work at Stanford. In the early years, the Stanford Department of Family, Community and Preventive medicine collaborated with the small town of Livingston in the Central Valley (18 miles north of Modesto) and established a student volunteer clinic, primarily serving migrant workers. When McGann joined Stanford, she assumed responsibility for recruiting volunteer medical facu
