Clubs, Individuals, Press, and Radio

Often the impetus for a community program comes from
an unofficial source. In Spokane, Washington, the Active
Club sponsored a center, called the Hi Nite Club, where
youngsters now spend their leisure time.

The Rotary Youth Committee of Oneida, New York,
surveyed teen-age recreation and recommended a center;
they made it a community project by setting up a teen-age
committee and inviting 20 other organizations to share in
its building and operation.

A citizen of Buchanan, Michigan, stood for and won
appointment to the school board in order to work for winter
recreation activities, and went on the park commission to
promote summer programs.

A Dayton, Ohio, couple, learning that 9,000 boys and girls
between 15 and 17 had no organized recreation, helped the
county establish a youth center.

A small group of citizens organized the Panther Club in
Lufkin, Texas, and helped the town finance it for a year.
Then they turned it over tothe youngsters to operate, with
adult supervision.

Newspaper and radio campaigns are also building the fires
which start action. Many newspapers are campaigning for
canteens instead of curfews, for positive instead of negative
approaches to recreation for youth. And the young people
of Raleigh, North Carolina, got their first recognition
from the manager of a radio station. His interest was
_ aroused by the letters he received from the local boys and
girls, and he began a campaign which resulted ina program.