So in the fall of 1940 I enrolled in a two year postgraduate course at the University of Toronto's School of Social Work. It was then directed by Agnes MacGregor, a woman in late sixties, who was one of the pioneers of Canadian Social Work. had the manner of a conventional Lady Bountiful, but the manner was deceptive. As I look back I believe delicate ladylike manner must have concealed a secret rebelliousness and a timid radicalism. was a woman who had moved very far from own background in order to become a social worker, and had probably had to struggle through many ambivalences to accept the differences in others.