In Memory: Hana Staub
Hana Staub.
National Association of Social Workers member Hana Staub, a social work master’s degree student at the University of North Carolina, committed suicide on May 31. She was 25 years old.
“We do not want to hide this,” her father Jacob Staub said in this article in the Daily Tar Heel. “It has become an epidemic.”
Hana was an excellent student and very active on campus. She was awarded the 2008 Summer Policy Fellowship by the National Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors. She also worked with the Homeless Initiative of Asheville and Buncombe County to help reduce and prevent homelessness.
SocialWorkersSpeak.org offers its sympathies to the Staub family and to Hana’s friends, classmates and instructors.
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I am so saddened and I didn’t know her.. No; not true, I really knew her. I knew of how great of a person she must had been to choose the profession of social work. I know she was what embodies a great human being. She gave so much in her lifetime and through her family she is still giving..Educating others, and inspiring others. Hoping the family know that God will give them the strengths they need to endure such hard times. God bless everyone that knew Hana and she is definitely an angel now with our Lord and was an angel here on our earth..
I am so sorry for your loss.
I was just reading the Fall 2011 issue of the Owl and Spade (our college’s magazine) and saw Hana’s name. We went to the same college, Warren Wilson, and I assisted in the social work dept. my senior year. Thank you to her family for not covering up her loss. May Hana and her family find an end to suffering. May other people find the courage to speak and sit with those on the edge of the light.
I went to college with Hana – what a beautiful soul. There are no words to convey fully the depth and breadth of warmth that radiated from her. She was always smiling, always laughing, and always trying to find a way to make a difference in the lives of others-on campus and beyond. She radiated love, acceptance, and compassion for others. Years later, I find her popping into my head and heart, unexpectedly, like tonight. I’m so thankful her parents are using her story to educate about, and prevent, similar tragedies. May her family and other friends all find peace, somehow. May we all.