Jeanne Mueller, creator of social work program, dies at 100 | Cornell Chronicle

"Jeanne Mueller, a professor emerita in the College of Human Ecology (CHE) who advised the U.S. and foreign governments on social services, died Nov. 2 in Rochester, New York. She was 100. Mueller, who became a professor emerita upon her retirement in 1998, joined the faculty at Cornell in 1972 and designed, implemented and directed the undergraduate social work program, which ended in 2001."

"Mueller spent two sabbaticals in Israel interviewing elderly kibbutz members in order to make recommendations to the Israeli government on services for senior citizens. She also received grant funding to develop and deliver training to caseworkers from the New York State Department of Social Services. In 1992, the New York Times reported on a Cornell course she taught in New York City, "Modernization and the Korean Family," which examined the cultural adjustment of Korean grocers to life in the U.S."

Jeanne Mueller, professor emerita in the College of Human Ecology, died Nov. 2 in Rochester, New York, at age 100. She joined Cornell faculty in 1972 and designed, implemented and directed the undergraduate social work program until its end in 2001. Mueller retired in 1998 and became professor emerita. She conducted two sabbaticals in Israel interviewing elderly kibbutz members to advise the Israeli government on senior services. She obtained grants to train New York State Department of Social Services caseworkers. In 1992 she taught a New York City course on Korean family modernization involving student research. She consulted on Project Follow-Through and studied Swedish daycare programs, presenting recommendations to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

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