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...grand dame of public service at Harvard is the Phillips Brooks House Association. And it, too, is feeling the revival's fever. "I think each year that I've been here more people have come through PBH wanting to volunteer," says Valerie A. Barton '86, the association's president. The almost century-old association now has more than 800 people working through 23 committees on such diverse issues as tutoring schoolchildren, giving advice on small claims court, improving the treatment of the mentally ill and helping refugees adjust to life in America...
...feel I can speak for all volunteers in that my work at PBH has been an integral part of my education here at Harvard-Radcliffe and that I feel that it would be incomplete without it. I can't imagine public service not being a part of my education," says Barton...
...because of the nature of the campaign, PBH has not aggressively sought donations, Smith said. "We have not pumped it up at all because the Harvard United Way has to remain neutral...
While the campaign doesn't target any particular charities, Phillips Brooks House (PBH) hopes to receive about $1,000 to supplement its $88,000 budget, said PBH Administrative Assistant Lee H. Smith...
...would suggest, for my part, that the availability of the reports made such an expenditure completely unnecessary. There is no doubt that the money would have been better spent elsewhere. I can think of two possibilities off the top of my head. One is the PBH [Phillips Brooks House] Homeless Committee which, with the help of the Undergraduate Council, barely managed to scrape enough money to keep Cambridge shelters open during a part of last winter. The second is the Undergraduate Council itself which has received an unparalleled number of student grant requests this year from student organizations. I suggest...