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Thus was born Elder Wisdom Circle (EWC), a group of volunteers 60 and older who offer advice on a variety of subjects to anyone who writes in seeking it. Its website, launched in 2001 with one advice giver, currently has about 600, most of whom find out about EWC through their senior centers or by word of mouth. They field about 3,500 letters a month, 35% of which come from young people in their teens to early...
...they must fill out a questionnaire that seeks to determine how empathetic they are and if they can offer advice without being judgmental. Meckelson says the 50% who make it through that selection process are then encouraged to use common sense in responding to letters that come into the EWC website. The counselors read letters posted on the site and choose the ones they feel best equipped to handle. Once a letter has been selected, it's no longer available to other mentors to answer unless the advice seeker specifically asks for a second opinion. All letters of advice...
Many skaters scheduled to perform in this weekend’s benefit show, An Evening With Champions (EWC), will eschew the Charles Hotel for “Hotel Harvard” and spend their weekends as guests in the upperclass Houses. “Some skaters stay in hotels and some on campus,” said Sasha D. Kukunova ’08, one of the liaisons between EWC and the skaters performing in the show, who is in charge of organizing this weekend’s housing. This year, EWC was able to obtain eight hotel rooms...
...offerer), arrange for Harvard Student Agencies to provide sparkling clean linens, and even organize the baking of homemade cookies (oatmeal chocolate chip this year) so that the skaters can go to sleep with stomachs well-fed as well as pillows well-fluffed. By the end of the procedure, says EWC executive Matthew L. Butler ’04, “It’s like a five-star hotel, except it’s Eliot House...
...EWC co-chair Heather M. Langdon ’03 was one of at least a dozen students who gave up dorm space so the champions could get some beauty rest Harvard-style. Langdon says living with her resident skating star was just like living as usual, “except her toothpaste was in my medicine cabinet...