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Phillips Brooks House, which had a Book Exposure Program last year operating within the Boston School System in Roxbury, faces Daniels' dilemma in reverse. PBH will expand the program again this year and re-name it the Roxbury Education Program. Co-chairmen of REP, Hayden A. Duggan '68 and David B. Palley '68, hope to have about 90 volunteers who will distribute books to school children in the first through sixth grades and work with them one day a week...
...While PBH workers have until now been gleaned from the Harvard un- dergraduates, Duggan and Palley plan to find twenty local volunteers to work on REP with them this year...
...Since PBH changed the name of its project from the Book Exposure Program, to the Roxbury Education Program, volunteer applications from Negroes at Harvard and Radcliffe have soared. One fourth of the PBH volunteers working in Roxbury this year will be Negro; last year there were none...
Operation Exodus' participation in the PBH project must be approved by the Roxbury School Board. Operation Exodus runs an after-school tutorial program similar to PBH's, and buses Negro students to neighboring schools in an effort to alleviate racial imbalance in Roxbury schools...
...expanded program was made possible by an $8000 Ford Foundation grant and the new volunteers. The grant will provide $12 per student for books this year, compared to $10 per student last year. Thirty five new volunteers will enable PBH to teach 22 classes this year, compared to 14 last year and enrollment will grow from 420 students to about 770. Most of these are from low-income families...