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THE CAMPUS ECHO
Monday, October 26, 1964
Highlights On Poverty Proiect Presented
By Evelyn Marie Faucette
The North Carolina Volun
teers are an exj>eriment in the
mobilization of college students
for service in community agen
cies in those areas where the
North Carolina Fund is con
ducting comprehensive p r o-
grams in colmmunity develop
ment. Originated as part o£ the
North Carolina Fund, the volun
teer program was initiated to
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dent among us has found the
solution that will erase this
problem completely.
Sincerely,
Daphne Diane Page
By Phyllis A. Harris
Editor, the Echo:
Neither rain, sleet, nor snow
will deter the United States’
mailmen from the completion of
their appointed rounds, but al
most anything will keep a letter
from promptly reaching a stu
dent through North Carolina
College’s post office. The ser
vice is slow, inefficient and dis
courteous.
Students who have mailboxes
in the post office sometimes re
ceive mail postmarked two to
three weeks prior to the date re
ceived. Sometimes letters with
return addresses never arrive at
their destination and are never
returned to their senders either.
When a letter is placed in a
box, it is usually for almost any
one except the owner of the
box. Students who have mail
boxes with combinations are be
ing imposed upon by the former
occupants of the boxes who still
remember the combinations to
the locks and are retaining the
use of them. As if this isn’t bad
enough, quite frequently a stu
dent must ask at the window for
a letter which bears his name
and box ntunber but was called
at mail call instead of being
placed in hi* box.
Little or no courtesy or con
sideration is given to a student
when he approaches the win
dow. When there are two people
on duty in the post office, both
of them are usually at the same
window, regardless of the num
ber of students who await ser
vice at the other window.
We admit that with the large
amount of mail handled by our
post office and its small staff,
perfection cannot be expected.
But, can’t we come closer to it
than we are?
Phyllis Harris
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work actively rather than pas
sively in North Carolina’s im
poverished areas. Directors of
the North Carolina Volunteers
purposely chose college students
rather than professionals be
cause of their useful idealism.
Early last spring a recruiting
program was begun throughout
the state to choose the 100 col
lege students who would work
for the summer. I was very
honored and delighted to be
chosen as one of the final 100
out of 750 applicants.
My summer’s work began on
June 14, when all volunteers re
ported to Duke University for
a brief, but informative, train
ing session. Lectures were given
by professionals representing
various agencies such as wel
fare, health, recreation, and edu
cation. During the training ses
sion all 100 volunteers were
divided into ten teams which
would work in ten counties in
various sections of North Caro
lina which had been designated
as impoverished.
I worked in Craven County
which is in the Eastern part
of the state. My team, of which
I was the only Negro member,
included seven girls, two boys,
and two supervisors. I lived in
a beautiful summer home on the
Neuse River ten miles outside
of New Bern, North Carolina.
The members of the team
worked in public health, re
creation, welfare, and pre.-school
areas. I worked in a pre-school
readiness program. This pre
school program was operated by
the State Board of Public In
struction for six weeks on an
experimental basis. Twenty-four
children from culturally and
economically deprived homes
were chosen to participate in
this program. They were taught
safety, manners, the ability to
discriminate, the manipulation
of objects, how to follow direc
tions, and simple songs and
rythms. I also took the children
on trips to places such as the
postoffice, grocery store, fire
station, and to other places
which they had never seen. All
of these activities were carried
out in an attempt to bring each
child culturally up to a common
level for the first grade in
September.
At midsummer, all volunteers
returned to Duke University for
a midsummer evaluation session.
During this period volunteers in
the areas of recreation, welfare,
health, etc. got together to ex
change ideas and experierices.
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