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...grand dame of public service at Harvard is the Phillips Brooks House Association. And it, too, is feeling the revival's fever. "I think each year that I've been here more people have come through PBH wanting to volunteer," says Valerie A. Barton '86, the association's president. The almost century-old association now has more than 800 people working through 23 committees on such diverse issues as tutoring schoolchildren, giving advice on small claims court, improving the treatment of the mentally ill and helping refugees adjust to life in America...
...speak for all volunteers in that my work at PBH has been an integral part of my education here at Harvard-Radcliffe and that I feel that it would be incomplete without it. I can't imagine public service not being a part of my education," says Barton...
...Gump and Barton agree that the sense of balance in time commitment is an important factor. "Students do realize that they do have free time and it's a good thing to do," Gump notes. Barton concurs, noting that PBH encourages people who want to spend two hours a week and 20 hours a week. Wayne W. Meisel '82, who helped start up the Public Service Program, agrees, "That's real crucial to understand. People don't have five to 10 hours a week, but they do have one or two or three...
...become the promotion battle of the century. Pepsi-Cola last week responded with a quick advertising onslaught to Coca-Cola's announcement that it had reconcocted its 99-year-old secret formula. Pepsi began the estimated $2.5 million campaign, produced by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, with a 30-second prime-time spot that will be broadcast for a month on the three major networks. In the ad a wistful-looking teenage girl stares straight at the camera and says, "Would somebody out there tell me why Coke did it? Why they changed? They told us they were 'the real thing...
...afernoon's panel, four students-Valence A. Barton '86 of Quincy House, Joan Cunningham '85 of I everett House, and Steven D. Hoey '85 and Robert A. Madsen "85 of Quincy-discussed their lives at Harvard and fielded questions from alumni...