1942-1943: (Jeanne Sylvain’s Education and Return — After Receiving Her Degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago in 1942 Jeanne Returning Home to…
1942-1943: (Jeanne Sylvain’s Education and Return — After Receiving Her Degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago in 1942 Jeanne Returning Home to Work Before Continuing Her Studies, Her Return Coinciding with Lescot’s Wartime Effort to Build the Haitian Economy and Establish Strong Regional Partnerships Within Pan-American Networks): After receiving her degree in social work from the University of Chicago in 1942, Jeanne returned home to work before continuing her studies. Her return home coincided with Lescot’s wartime effort to build the Haitian economy and establish strong regional partnerships within Pan-American networks — the Chicago-educated social worker returned to a Haiti that was being remade by the same global forces she had studied abroad.