Chworsky, Martin P. collection Martin P. Chworsky collection, 1978-1967 M 10 A Collection in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Collection
number M 10.
Martin Philip Chworsky was born on 28 January 1900, in San Antonio, Texas. In 1922, he matriculated from Harvard, spending
the next four years at the Harvard Law School. He received his LLB in 1926 but never practiced law. He began his teaching
career in a Connecticut secondary school and remained in the field of education for the rest of his life. He became a lecturer
in education at the University of Pittsburgh in 1931. While at the University of Pittsburgh he earned his Master's degree
in 1934 and his Ph.D. in 1936.From 1939 to 1946, Dr. Chworsky was an associate professor of psychology and education at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology. He left this post to work for two years as the associate director of the Commission on Educational
Organization of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. At Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Chworsky was
coordinator of that college's program in Intergroup Education from 1948 to 1951.The newly founded Albert M. Greenfield Center
for Human Relations chose him as its first director and he remained in this post until the dissolution of the Center. Following
this, he joined the Sociology Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He retired from VCU in 1970 and died 29 April
1975.
The Martin P. Chworsky collection consists of excerpted articles in the area of human relations by various authors, certain
of Dr. Chworsky's writings and lecture notes, and miscellaneous data and correspondence related to his years as director of
the Albert M. Greenfield Center for Human Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. All materials are basically from the
period 1957-1964 which coincides with his major period of publishing activity, 1955-1966.
Materials are arranged by title or subject and chronological therein. There is one exception. Collection 10- a contains the
majority of materials relating to the Albert M. Greenfield Center for Human Relations, and all materials in collection 10
relating to this subject have been moved to 10-a for convenience.
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