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Adolescent Program Needs Students
By Charles Corcoran
The KU-Y Adolescent Guidance program is seeking student volunteers who are interested in helping children with pre-delinquent tendencies.
Tom Greer, Westchester, Pa., junior and program chairman, asked for volunteers last night at the program's first meeting.
"The program offers a KU student as a friend to the Lawrence youngster of elementary or junior-high-school age to help him adapt to his environment." Greer said.
THIRTY-TWO VOLUNTEERS worked as big brothers or sisters to Lawrence youngsters last year, and about 50 have volunteered this semester. Green said.
Participating in a panel discussion of the guidance program at last night's meeting were Mrs. June N, Smith, director of special education for Lawrence public schools; Myrlene Eklund, Genesee junior and program steering committee member; Robert Nash, staff member at the Bert Nash Mental Health Clinic in lawrence; Prof. Dan Hopson of the KU School of Law, and Greer.
MRS. SMITH said that the Lawrence children are picked for the program through their teachers' and principals' knowledge of the student's problems and home environment.
Mrs. Smith said that the program has gained the enthusiasm of local school principals and teachers. All that remains now, she said, is for the demand for student volunteers to be met by KU students.
Greer said that Coach Dick Harp has helped the program by supplying free tickets to KU athletic events.
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WATERTOWN, N.Y., (UPI) — Stanley C. Peer, who runs a northern New York dairy farm, is more cautious today about bringing his cows into the barn.
In the semi-darkness early yesterday, Peer spotted a form near a fence line and thinking it was a cow went up to it. Five feet away he found it was a black bear.
Peer said the bear apparently was as scared as he was because they both ran — in opposite directions.
Ardyss Boston, Salina junior, said that she treated the little girl she was assigned to last year to her first ice cream soda.
"It was quite an experience. It was hard to believe that she had never had one before."
MISS EKLUND said interested students must fill out an application form in the KU-Y office. Applicants will be interviewed by the program's central committee so it can get to know the volunteer's reasons for joining and preferences for the type of child he would like to help. When a child on the list matches the general preferences of a KU student, arrangements are made for the two to meet. Then it is up to the KU student to see that the child is helped.
Greer pointed out that no child is assigned without the parents' consent.
PROF. HOPSON said volunteers and an adult adviser meet to discuss their successes and failures.
"A student can tell all about the child and the problem he's causing, and ask for help," he said. "In this way everyone can hear about what's going on with the others and offer suggestions.
"You may not turn the pre-delinquent youth into a class president or even into an outgoing person, but if he can be kept from going to the bottom of the heap, you'll be doing a great deal," Prof. Hopson said.
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