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...change in roles takes getting used to. Vernon Goodin, an early bird by nature, found himself racing through traffic to get to court on time, then relaxed when he realized "I'm the judge. They can't start without me." Gunther Detert remembers thinking that he would have trouble with objections to evidence. "But it came easy," he said after presiding over a fire-damage case. "I could see it a mile off. The real area of work was preparing instructions for the jury. The court people, the clerk and reporter and bailiff, keep you right on track...
Administrators of the PBH programs are moving from charity to more socially and politically active positions. Two weeks ago, the PBH program working at the Cambridge Community Center delivered an ultimatum to the Center's Administrative Board. Robert A. Goodin '68, co-chairman of the cultural enrichment program, threatened to pull out of the Center unless its administration was taken over by the residents of the neighborhood in which it operates. He said there was no justification for a non-indigenous group to be there unless it was directly responsive to the needs and wants of the neighborhood. Residents...
Mark R. Dyen '70, a co-chairman of SDS, supported Goodin's action, but doubted if most PBH projects had equal power to force change. He said, "PBH does not have a power base outside of the established institutions and no organization can accomplish serious change working within the system." Jeffrey P. Howard '69, president of Afro, took the same position as Dyen...
...Goodin said he would gauge the final success of his program at the Cambridge Community Center by the community's final rejection of outside help. He said that the program's action should not extend beyond teaching residents the practical details of running a volunteer program. The program's eventual goal is one of self-annihilation. The Roxbury Education Program and the Roosevelt Towers Project have the same goal...
...program involves seventy children between the ages of 6-11. One PBH volunteer and one volunteer from the area work with groups of about six children to widen their range of experience through academic and recreational means. Goodin said he would eventually like to see the entire program taken over by residents of the neighborhood...