Word: hut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formerly, HUT attempted to screen volunteers on the dubious assumption that Group I and II students were ipso facto poor risks. One of the first accomplishments of last year's chairman, Charles Hanson '63-3, was to eliminate this wishful fallacy of academic snobbishness. With the end of academic exclusiveness, HUT has gained many "magnificent teachers," according to one school superintendent. John Limbert '64, last year's HUT vice-chairman, described the interviewing of prospective volunteers: "If a volunteer is articulate, we see if there is a place for his skill. If he has some good ideas as to what...
Because of its past exclusiveness HUT has not been structured to accomodate the large number of volunteers now seeking to work with it. Of all the PBH committees, HUT alone does not have a system of coordinators to supervise volunteers in the field. In the past, it has not needed any, but feeling is now running strong that if PBH ever expects to accomodate as large a number of volunteers in HUT as in its other programs, then it will have to restructure HUT...
...current HUT experience has proved valuable to those in it; PBH intends to make it more so for more students...
...HUT's immediate future seems bright; schools systems who use it have begun to praise it to other systems. Requests for information have come from as far away as Kansas. And the Harvard School of Education has thrown its support fully behind the program...
Indications are that volunteering is very much alive at the University, a fact which President Pusey called proud attention to in last year's Baccalaureate address. Indications are that HUT, with small structural improvements, will become one of PBH's most valuable activities...