"Harriet McCurdy Jacobucci"
OBITUARIES
Louis John Jacobucci
The Register, January 27, 2000
Louis John Jacobucci. 77. of South Dennis, who protected children in danger of abuse and neglect lor 25 years on Cape Cod, died Jan. I I at Eagle Pond Rehabilitation and Nursing Center alter a long illness.
He was born in Derby, Conn., where he graduated from high school.
He graduated from the University of Connecticut and received a master's degree from Columbia University School of Social Work.
During World War II, Mr. Jacobucci served in the Army as a radar mechanic, stationed in Shimya in the Aleutian Islands.
He was also an Army cook and baker.
A social work administrator for 37 years, he moved to the Cape in 1962 from Plainlield, N.J., to take charge of the Cape and Islands office of what was then called the Children's Protective Service, later known as the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
For 25 years, Mr. Jacobucci served as district director for Cape Cod and assistant regional director.
He retired in 1987.
He also was active in Barnstable housing issues and was elected in 1974 to the town's housing authority.
In addition, he was active in the Reverse Freedom Riders, the Cape Cod Community Council, now merged with United Way of Cape Cod.
He served on many boards of directors, including the
Cape Cod Mental Health Association, the
Cape Cod Homemaker Service, the
Community Action Committee of Cape Cod and the Massachusetts Conference of Social Welfare. He also was a teacher who published in his field. Mr. Jacobucci was an avid cat lover, birdwatcher and reader. He is survived by his wife,
Harriet McCurdy Jacobucci of Soulh Yarmouth; two sons.
Mark Jacobucci of Laguna Nigucl. Calif., and Andrew Jacobucci of Cambridge; two stepsons. Stephen Cameron of Georgetown, Del., and
Stanton Cameron of Baraboo Wis. two granddaughters, and three step-grandsons. Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association of Cape Cod, P.O. Box 953, Barnstable, MA 02630.
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #15:
"What happened after the Cub Scout Banquet?"
"That would have been in March of 1965 . . . "
"Here's something! First published April 1965 -- "
"Louis Jacobucci, Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother."
"Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Volume 46, Issue 4."
"Oh, look! They had references!"
“The Protective Service Caseworker: How Does He Survive Job Pressures?”
“Use of Homemaker Service in Families That Neglect Their Children."
“The Team Approach in Protective Service.”
"Character Disorders in Parents of Delinquents."
"There's more."
"That's OK."
Presently . . .
"Loneliness and Isolation in Child Neglect."
"Dispositional Empathy in Neglectful Mothers and Mothers at High Risk for Child Physical Abuse."
"The Training of Neglectful and Unsatisfactory Mothers."
"The Socialization of Emotional Understanding: A Comparison of Neglectful and Nonneglectful Mothers and Their Children."
"In ...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
"I have a thesis. My thesis is: In any woman's life, having children would have to be the most significant event. So, in my mother's story -- "
"Her family wasn't really any different from any of the other families."
"Yes."
"In what way?"
"She and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Both her children went to school."
"What else?"
"They were both boys?"
"Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"So you said, that one way in which your mother's family wasn't really any different from any of the other families, was that she and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Oh, sure. There was always something going on. Cub Scouts, she was like Den Mother of her older son's Cub Scout Pack. Pack 54. Plus the Comedy Club. Plus I'm pretty sure, she was involved in the kindergarten. She and her husband both. And politics. It was the Sixties."
"Just normal 60's Mom stuff."
"In any case, it's time to forget the past."
