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Thirty years ago, tall and charitable Phillips Brooks House volunteers carried Thanksgiving bastkets to the poor under a combined philosophy of doing good and noblesse oblige. Today, many PBH volunteers still labor under a deluding self-righteousness. They often forget they are not effectively changing social conditions. But the PBH man is beginning to think...
...trend in PBH is one of self-evaluation which could lead to radical changes in its philosophy and in its relationship to the more radical campus organizations. Should PBH volunteers continue reading with a Roxbury student if the entire ghetto school system demands basic structural change? And if institutional change is the goal, can PBH offer any more than a subtle introduction to the frustrations of the system before these volunteers leave or turn to organizations such as Afro...
Goodin said if the program does leave, several residents of the neighborhood have already offered PBH the use of their homes for a continuation of the program outside of the center. Goodin said the program would remain intact no matter what the center does...
...PBH program involves seventy children between the ages of 6-11. One PBH volunteer and one volunteer from the area work with groups of about six children to widen their range of experience through academic and recreational means. Goodin said he would eventually like to see the entire program taken over by residents of the neighborhood...
This is the first year PBH students are administering the program alone. In previous years, an outside director was hired...