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Since the 1950's, the prisons committee of Phillips Brooks House (PBH) has been sending student volunteers to area prisons. The program has since expanded to cover four correctional institutions and one half-way house, which helps former inmates adjust to the outside world...
...Latch is typical of the work PBH is currently doing throughout Greater Boston, says John H. Macleod '84, the outgoing PBH president...
Nine out of 13 Houses sponsored activities for assigned neighboring communities this fall, says Wacker, pointing to still more elaborate second-semester plans, including a new program involving Harvard athletes and troubled Cambridge schoolchildren. For the first time in recent years, PBH had contested elections for all its executive posts, reflecting the surge in interest in volunteerism, says Macleod...
Pascucci, who is not a member of PBH, said he has a "special interest in the homeless." He issued 70 sponsor pledge sheets for the event, and advertised it in the undergraduate houses...
Richard W. Painter '84, Co-Chairman of the PBH Homeless Committee, said the group hopes to raise $200 to maintain a shelter in the University Lutheran Church and possibly open other sites...