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Gretchen Klopfer '84, chairman of the PBH Education Committee, says that in her work at a writing/tutoring center at Jefferson Park she does run across occasional prejudice. "But if you have the attitude of 'Here I am, I want to work in the community' instead of marching in and taking over, it isn't much of a problem," she adds...
When the HAND program made its debut this year, says Schmidt, some people thought that it was trying to take power away from the older PBH...
...want to demean what PBH has done," explains Schmidt. "This additional program just allows other people, who might not want to get involved in the organized programs at PBH, a chance to help...
Both graduate programs are open to undergraduates. Bowen says that Upward Bound tutors include College as well as Ed School students, and Julia R. Gordon '85, chairman of PBH's Community Action and Legal Services committee, says undergrads help out at PLAP and other law school programs. And a new PBH committee on the homeless helped Divinity School students run a shelter in the basement of a local church this winter for some of Cambridge's many street dwellers...
Programs similar to PBH have sprung up at Princeton. Yale, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania, among others, but none of the other programs is as old as Harvard's. "We're a fledgling organization," says Judith K. Mauer, director of UPenn's Student Volunteer Center," and we used PBH as a model...