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...three-phase dialectic progression: anthroplogy took up her first two college years, social work in Phillips Brooks House dominated the next year and a half, and the two activities fused in her senior thesis--a study of the lives of five lower-class women she met during PBH work in a housing project...
...PBH work began when, as a sophomore. Rosegrant adopted an eight-year-old girl named Christina through the PBH Big Brother Big Sister program. She admits to having been skeptical about working for the 92-year-old community organization. "I thought PBH people were going to be a bunch of annoyingly wishy-washy, do-good type of people. But it was just the opposite." From there, her social work snowballed into heading committees, raising $30,000 for a summer youth program and spending late nights at shelters for the homeless. Later she was elected president of Phillips Brooks House...
...virtually lived at PBH. I don't know how she did her academic work," says Greg A. Johnson '72, the graduate advisor of PBH...
During camping excursions. "All the kids that were cool in the project, tougher than everybody else, were just as scared out in the woods as anybody else," she says. "It's really nice to just see them treating each other like people." The program, which was financed by PBH, culminated with an outing to Vermont and a tour of Montreal...
More than 800 undergraduates do volunteer work through the 92-year-old PBH, whose 22 committees do social work with the handicapped, homeless, prisoners, and other disadvantaged people...