{"id":169610,"date":"2021-05-28T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T11:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=169610"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T15:16:22","slug":"uconn-magazine-esther-pahl-is-still-making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/05\/uconn-magazine-esther-pahl-is-still-making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Esther Pahl is Still Making a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Pahl\u2019s parents ran a neighborhood grocery store in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the 1940s. While they made ends meet, there was not much left for anything else, let alone money to help their daughter pay her graduate school tuition.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the reasons Esther Pahl \u201952 MSW was motivated to create an endowed fellowship to support graduate students at UConn\u2019s School of Social Work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realize there are students who are struggling now as I did when I was a graduate student,\u201d the 97-year-old says over a Zoom call from Potomac, Maryland, where she lives with her daughter Jamie Borns and her family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to set up a program for students who are marginally making it so they can study without the stress of worrying about paying the bills that are involved in basic living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1946 Pahl was one of UConn\u2019s first eight MSW graduates. \u201cIt was a bit of a pioneering experience,\u201d she says. \u201cAt the time, the School did not have its own building, so we met at Hartford [Public] High School. Most of our professors were visiting professors from Trinity College, the University of Chicago, Boston University, and Yale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2021\/02\/16\/esther-pahl-is-still-very-much-making-a-difference\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At age 97, Esther Pahl \u201952 MSW is still very much making a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":169611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1870,2235,102],"tags":[2254,2253,1293],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2162],"class_list":["post-169610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-ssw","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","tag-alumni","tag-magazine","tag-school-of-social-work"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 06:28:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169613,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169610\/revisions\/169613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/169611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169610"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=169610"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=169610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}