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What changed things was the Corpsmen's response to a fire that burned out a tenement three blocks north of ACT headquarters. The volunteers were on the scene shortly after the blaze began, bringing coffee and food for the firemen, first aid and clothing for those left homeless by the blaze. Later, the Corpsmen took up a collection of old clothing for the homeless; the contributions swamped the Corp's headquarters. The overflow had to be stored in a nearby armory where new contributions came in for days. Old women gave their favorite dresses; men on unemployment relief gave half...
...fire set the entire ACT program working again. It not only opened the community to the volunteers, but it quelled the vestiges of discontent among the Corpsmen, then nearing the end of a lengthy training period. "We hadn't been able to tell them exactly what their jobs would be for the first few weeks, because we were testing them psychologically as the training program progressed," Johnson explained. "Naturally some of them began to wonder, 'just what am I doing here anyway.' I think that's pretty much all over with...
...York's P.S. 100 is an ancient elementary school where Mayor Robert Wagner was greeted by a rat on an inspection tour last year. There the peace Corpsmen will undertake projects involving work with slow students, conferences with parents, and help for P.S. 100's disastrously limited staff...
...nearby P.S. 120, a junior high school, four other Corpsmen are undertaking similar projects. They are also counseling slow learners and troublesome students, trying to keep them from dropping out of the school and onto Harlem's already overcrowded streets...
...overcrowded Harlem Hospital, four Corpsmen are currently at work in the Mental Hygiene division, counseling patients and learning the routine of the hospital. Ultimately they hope to set up a volunteer visitors group at the hospital...