Vieillot, Marie-Therese, 1888-1985

Marie-Thérèse Vieillot, social worker, was born in France about 1888. While working as an army nurse during World War I, she met Dr. Richard Cabot and Henry Copley Greene, who encouraged her to go to Boston to study social work. She studied at the Simmons College School of Social Work, l920-1921, and became friendly with many leaders of the social work movement, including Ida M. Cannon at Massachusetts General Hospital. On her return to France, MTV introduced social case work and medical social service at the Baudeloque hospital in Paris. She was a founder member of the Ecole Pratique de Service Social in Paris, and directed studies in social work in Paris, Strasbourg and Rouen. In 1934, she returned to the U.S. and studied at the New York School of Social Work.

MTV received the Médaille des Epidemies for her service during World War I, and the Médaille de la Resistance for her work in the Resistance during World War II. She also received the Ida M. Cannon award for her contribution to medical social work. MTV died in Paris on March 28, l985.

French social worker, Vieillot worked with the Red Cross during World War I, studied social work in Boston and N.Y.C., and was the first Frenchwoman to receive an M.S.W. from Simmons College. She founded the Juvenile Court in Paris, a home for young delinquents, and went on to head schools of social work in Strasbourg and later in Rouen.