Word: volunteerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ryerson is very wary of what he calls the "preciousness and snobbishness" of private school education. He seems to see such volunteer projects as a partial antidote to the inbred community characteristic of experimental private schools.
Every student spends one afternoon a week on Community Activities, doing volunteer service in Watertown or Cambridge. Tutoring, teaching modern dance, and special work projects on the school grounds show a desire to "be careful not to isolate a person from the vaster community outside of the school," as one...
Fortunately for these ex-priests, a number of volunteer agencies have sprung up to help them make the adjustment to civilian life. Best known of these is Bearings for Re-Establishment, with headquarters in New York City and branches in five other cities. Founded last year by William Restivo, 36...
Another program, attacking the economic needs of the South Enders, is the House's cooperative grocery. A group of mothers, dissatisfied with the abnormally high food prices in the South End, got together and began buying truckloads of groceries wholesale. Soon several other neighborhood centers and block associations were putting...
"The problem of induction notices to overseas volunteers is becoming a major concern for us," Vaughn explained. "Pulling a volunteer off a productive job at mid-term is unfair to the nation, the host country, the Peace Corps, and the individual." In the past year twenty Volunteers have been called...