Burns, Eveline M. (Eveline Mabel), 1900-1985

Economist.

From the description of Reminiscences of Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309731693

From the description of Reminiscences of Eveline Mabel Burns : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513098

From the description of Reminiscences of Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122620040

Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns (1900-1985) was Professor of Social Work, New York School of Social Work, 1946-1967.

From the description of Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns papers, [ca. 1930]-1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 609578092

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns (1900-1985) was Professor of Social Work, New York School of Social Work, 1946-1967.

From the guide to the Eveline Mabel Burns Papers, [ca. 1930]-1985., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, )

Eveline Burns was a public policy economist and noted authority on Social Security. She also taught at Columbia University.

From the description of Eveline Burns papers, 1935-1985. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63300118

Eveline Burns was a public policy economist and noted authority on Social Security. She also taught at the New York School of Social Work (Columbia University) from 1946 to 1967.

Eveline Burns, a social economist, played an important role in the creation and maintenance of the American Social Security system. Born in 1900 in London, England, she married Arthur Burns in 1922, and received her Ph.D. in 1926 from the London School of Economics. In 1928, she moved to the United States to take a position at Columbia University as a lecturer in the graduate department of economics. In 1934, she became a consultant to the federal Committee on Economic Security, which formulated the first Social Security program passed by Congress in 1935. Burns left her position at Columbia in 1942 to take a post at the Federal Security Agency's Social Security Board. She reentered academia in 1946, assuming a professorship in the Columbia School of Social Work. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955, which allowed her to travel to England, France, and Italy to study their social security systems.

Throughout her career, Burns served on numerous boards and committees for the federal government and non-profit agencies including the National Resources Planning Board in the 1940s, the Federal Advisory Council on Employment Security, the Organization of Health Services in the 1960s, and the Federal Advisory Council on Social Security in the 1970s.

Burns retired from the Columbia School of Social Work in 1967 as professor emeritus. In 1971, she took a position with the Community Service Society in New York City as a consultant economist. She also accepted an appointment to the Puerto Rico Commission on Social Security in 1975 to help create their social security system. After retiring from the Community Service Society in 1981, she remained active in issues for the aging, participating on a committee concerned with legislation for continuing care facilities for the elderly. She died in 1985.

More detailed biographical information about Eveline Burns is available in the biographical file in Box 1 of the Eveline Burns papers.

From the guide to the Eveline Burns papers, 1923-1985, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Social Welfare History Archives [swha])