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38 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z F E W E L L FEWELL CHRISTINE [HUFF] THEN AND NOW 4 B.A. 4 M.S.W., University of Chicago 4 Ph.D., Social Work, New York University FAMI LY 4 Husband, Charles 4 Daughter, Anna 4 Son, John 4 Granddaughters ADDRESS 4 4 Nichols Dr. Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706 CONTACT 914 478-0951 cfewell@gmail.com I O F T E N T H I N K how remarkable it was that I was fortunate enough to get to Antioch. If I hadn’t worked part time in high school in the li- brary and hadn’t scoured the cata- logues in that old green file cabinet and read one from Antioch, would I have found it? Growing up in the Panama Canal Zone and struggling with the strange situation of colo- nialism, from which I benefited but also suffered in observing the pov- erty and lack of privilege of others, set the stage for wanting to do some- thing about social justice.The virtual apartheid that existed in the Canal Zone, where people of color could not hold government jobs above a certain rank and therefore only qual- ified to live in segregated towns and use segregated schools and stores, was a source of great conflict for me growing up. Antioch shaped what I have done for the rest of my life in that my co-op jobs and travel led me to real- ize what I wanted to do was work with people in a social justice con- text. This led me to earn an M.S.W. at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration af- ter graduation from Antioch and I have been practicing and teaching social work since that time. For the past 20 years I have been teaching at NYU School of SocialWork. I com- bine this with a private psychother- apy practice at my office located a few blocks from NYU. I often think how co-op jobs were such good preparation for helping M.S.W. stu- dents understand and deal with the conflicts that arise in their field in- ternships, another position I hold as a faculty advisor. After a year of post-master’s work in foster care in Chicago, I moved to NewYork and began working in the mental health field, first with people with severe mental illness and then was fortunate to move to a position in a newly formed alcoholism pro- gram in 1970, the era when treat- ment for substance use disorders first bloomed with the passage of the Hughes Act and the establish- ment of the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. For seven years I worked at Roosevelt Hospital during that era of growth of the field, an experience that al- lowed me to develop an expertise that I have utilized in my teaching and writing since that time. I married Charles in 1971. We met on a street corner on a very cold December day at the scene of an ac- cident we both became involved in helping with. He is a lawyer and our converging interests in helping peo- ple from different perspectives has continued to be a source of great en- joyment for us. I left full time agency work when my daughter Anna was born in 1975 and continued the psycho- analytic training I had begun at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. I began a part-time private practice while I finished training. In 1980 my son John was born. Anna and her husband will have had their baby girl by the time this is published. She is also a social worker who does therapy with the children of people in domestic vi- olence situations. My son is the di- rector of operations of a nonprofit and recently married. I feel fortunate that they both live in the New York City area. Once I began teaching at NYU School of Social Work I realized the advantages of having a Ph.D. and en- rolled in the program at NYU and finally finished the dissertation in 2006. It was worth it! I’ve enjoyed the intellectual challenge of putting together a piece of scholarly work and making a contribution to the field. I am continuing to teach at NYU School of Social work and coordinate a program for students in substance abuse agencies. I combine that with a busy private practice. I have also enjoyed editing for a journal, being a peer reviewer of articles, and writ-