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...have a story to tell. And more and more, we are starting to tell it, speaking into a tape recorder or writing with pen on paper or at a computer. The act of writing about our past, says Kate Hays, a Toronto clinical psychologist, offers valuable "self-reflection, exploration, continuity and discovery." Most important, memoirs are true; they tell what happened. Frank McCourt's 1996 best seller Angela's Ashes kindled interest in the memoirs of ordinary people. Says Adam Sexton, dean of New York City's Gotham Writers' Workshop: "People read McCourt and think, 'I could do that.'" Maybe...
Despite this long-held assumption, I was still inspired and impressed by my experience this week observing the English as a Second Language class taught by Erica J. LeBow '01. Lebow, a joint English and Sociology concentrator, is one of 35 Harvard students involved in Partners for Empowering Neighborhoods (PEN). This Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) program offers free adult education classes in English as a second language (ESL), computers, math and reading/writing to residents of the Fresh Pond Housing Development in Cambridge and the Bromley Heath neighborhood in Jamaica Plain...
...after watching LeBow in action, I am not fully convinced that classroom teaching cannot result in the same degree of wide-scale change. LeBow and the other PEN teachers, according to PEN director Robert F. Luo '00, each teach 12-15 students only one hour each week. Teaching English to immigrants or basic computer literacy to disadvantaged adults can improve the situations of a PEN student's entire family...
...once a month for 60 minutes. >=It s really something. He does it because he enjoys meeting the students,=informal=We keep a list of who came,=It s publicized in the Gazette,<= Moody says. But if you can t get your hands on the Gazette, take out a pen immediately and mark your calendars: the last two office hours of the year are on April...
Uhhh, not really, which gives me the idea that people pass by who don't have a pen. With a competition, you have to do a bit more than just put up posters, Perhaps I should have gotten coverage in the Globe, or Crimson. Maybe I'll do that next year and increase the prize money. For some of these students, $100 is like lunch money. It's really more of an honorarium. I'd like to get a sponsor--one of the banks, or one of the industries. Like anything, like General Mills or something. As the contest grows...