Word: putnams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve women--who certainly weren't trying to be controversial--were members of the Civic Center and Clearing House, a tiny organization occupying three upstairs rooms near the State House. It has no paid help, and its director, John W. Putnam '33, pays a fair share of its shoestring budget out of his own pocket...
...Putnam sees it, that would be unfair to the Center's aims. His group, he says, is not trying to provide ordinary opportunities for voluntary service, and many of the would-be volunteers who inquire at the office are referred to more conventional organizations--the Red Cross, the hospitals, the slum schools...
...Putnam speaks in general terms of the problems of the "leisured citizen" and the challenge of putting free time to work. But he is not particularly concerned with the well-educated "leisured citizen," who usually finds his own avocations. On the other hand, opportunities for those who never finished school or once held menial jobs are much more limited, and the Center's aim is to develop those limited opportunities as much as possible...
...group of people that most needs the service we offer is the hardest group to reach," Putnam says. "They don't join organizations. They don't quite know how to find activity for themselves...
...their jobs, they fade out of what he calls the "public sector" of life. Many of their friends are dead. Most of the time they are alone. Convinced that community service is a pastime for the educated or the rich dilettante, these people take little interest in volunteer projects, Putnam says...