Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 81

1-S THE SUNDAY V. FEATURES SOCIETY FASHION CLUB NEWS She Has Welfare at Heart By JOAN MdUNNEY TnMMW Stan WniOf Social welfare reform, as evenrooe knows, has had tup nrfrtritv AH fim'prrtor Rfaean's list of goals for his current administration, His appointments to the State Social Welfare Board, therefore, should be considered among the most important, since the seven-member board is charged with the responsibility of advising the Governor on welfare problems, and of i on demand or on its own initiative. It sounds like a job for a seasoned, if not hardened worker in the political and social service fields. So it was something ui a surprise to meet one of the latest appoint- guess they needed a fresh face and one from the Bay Area," laughed Susan Cotter Schwab, an attractive young woman who makes her home in Piedmont with her three children, Caroline, Virginia, and Sandy (Charles Robert Schwab Susan's face, with its dusting of light green eyes and tawny hair, is certainly a fresh one, but it takes more than that to make a good board member. Experience is a factor and.

though Mrs. Schwab admits to no background in the social wel- fidVJ in vfcri fvio long since won her spurs. A generation: UakJander. the daughter of the Ralph E. Cotters attended Piedmont High and Stanford, where she majored in history.

She married Charles Robert Schwab, former Santa Barbaran, in her sophomore year while he was in the graduate business school. "We had our first, Caroline, while I was still in college," she said, with the help of some dependable baby sitters, I graduated." The family then moved to Matin County, where Susan became active on the political scene jusi me minute banuy was out of diapers. In fact. I used to take him with me. on my back, when 1 went 'canvassing door to door.

"One winter I had an awful time keeping him out of mud puddles as we went down the street. Finally I suggested that he help me by ringing doorbells. Naturally he put his i on the bells and wouldn't let go! Now." she sighed in mock relief, "I think we are out of the woods." fdbwab, recently appointed by Gov. teagan to Social Welfare Board Believes old laws were tee lenient, new one will give help to 'people who need it' TVibinwphotot by Kwtti Omnium During (he time she. lived in Mann, from 1963 to 1970 Mrs.

Schwab served on the county's Republican Central Committee. She was local i Vivrtn paign in and then served for 18 months on the Governor's Study Commission on Educational Reform, resigning to work on his 1970 reelection campaign. "I was coordinator of the a bureau for California, with headquarters on Montgomery Street." she said. li lt was a part-time job and suited to someone with three children, since I could work during school hours." i that, campaign was so 1, Susan Schwab views her current appointment as "perhaps a natural In the 1 i m. the tXmtauo uiiu Susan moved '-back home" to Piedmont, entering her children in Havens School, "I never knew home could be so nice.

I have my family here, including my grandmother who plays golf three days a 'Week." (She's the senior Mrs. Ralph whom nine-year-old Vir-. ginia is named.) Though Susan Schwab's appointment to the Social Board is only a couple of months old, she has been "doing her homework," was eager to talk about the board's activities and the welfare reform bill which became law Friday. The board's most recent study, completed several months ago, was on the absent father-child support prob- she said. "Do you know that it found that only 14.7 per cent of the fathers of children butiodi to their support? "There are by Pnnrkt BrwVl.

At home in Piedmont with Virginia and Sandy (Caroline is on a camping trip), Susan Schwab studies foster care report children on welfare, so that means 230,000 fathers are not contributing. i have shown, that most absent fathers are not poor, not unemployed, not black and have 'not left the State. Furthermore, it is estimated that 87 wer cent of these fathers could mane support payments, very often TTKMjfti to get' their kids Mrs. a listed three "general" reasons for the, existence of this situation. Social workers, she claimed, regard child support as 1 and find it easier to give the mother a support check.

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