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Help would simply involve a couple of hours one day a week, tutoring kids at the Mead School, adjacent to the housing project. Coll is trying to organize a shuttle bus to make getting there a matter of minutes from Johnston Gate...
...school, the personalities are as memorable as Coll's. Dean Yarborough, the principal of the school and a black activist of the Martin Luther King years, teaches trumpet lessons in the afternoon; Father Jim, the cigar smoking priest, spends time fixing cement foundations; and the children all seemingly eager to latch on to a tutor...
...Coll realizes that Harvard students will emerge in positions of leadership and wishes to expose them to the reality of poverty in America. He believes students from "across the river" provide an invaluable model for the kids, who need an incentive to work, a goal to strive for. But justifying activism is such a tired, tawdry subject, as though doing something for someone else were a new concept...
...Coll's message is an old one, yet his style is quite refreshing. He combines a gruff manner, creative obscenities, and a J.F.K. idealism to entertain and inspire his volunteers. He feels this type of leadership is lacking in today's government or university administrations...
Yarborough feels Coll is on a par with any of the '60s activists. Coll inpsires youth into action, "guilt-trips" them into caring. He is the impetus of leadership, and he can make a difference...