Word: mhc
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Partial Federal funding is available for projects on the site, according to Mary Herbert of the Massachusetts Historical Commission(MHC). But the University has no immediate plans to apply for a grant, Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice president for Community Affairs, said yesterday...
...nominating the Old Yard to the National Park Service in May 1972, the MHC described the site as "a large three-shaded, roughly rectangular open space and smaller peripheral spaces to the west and south...
...that they needed more that just good intentions to do an effective jobs. They needed training and supervision. They had to become familiar with the critical problems in their fields and to develop tactics to deal with these concerns. In 1965, PBH committees such as the Mental Health Committee (MHC) began to use professional consultants to help them meet their needs. Several committees including the Cambridge Education Program and the Easy Reader Program, have since set up non-credit seminars and workshops to prepare students for volunteer work...
Several factors explain the ongoing success of the present MHC--its working along with the movement to reduce the population in mental hospitals, its relatively low level of contact with those professionals sometimes hostile to MHC in the fifties, the clear definition of its projects, the extensive commitment it requires (which discourages transient membership), its back-up program of seminars and films, and its willingness to deal with frustrating local bureaucracies...
...Prisons Committee, whose direction is equally clear, seems more troubled in its evolution than MHC. Prison Committee chairman Liz Cherish '73 has led the committee away from teaching in prison classrooms toward projects in court-watching legislative research, prisoner group assistance, and parolee assistance. The committee's efforts have expanded enormously. The budget has grown from $267 to $5000 in seven years. The originally small committee first admitted women in the late sixties, growing quickly to the present membership of well over...