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ELI J. SEGAL
Summer of Service Forum at the Univ.
of Maryland
August 31, 1993
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
August 27, 1993
SUMMER OF SERVICE FORUM AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
DATE:
August 31, 1993
LOCATION: University of Maryland
College Park
Stamp Student Union
Colony Ballroom
TIME:
10:45 a.m. - Noon
FROM:
Rick Allen
I.
PURPOSE
You are going to the University of Maryland at College Park for three events related
to national service. The first and principal rationale for the visit is a dialogue with
approximately 80 participants selected from the various national service summer
programs. (Separate events memoranda outline the other two events, a reception and
a photo-opportunity walk to view storyboards reflecting the summer's service work.)
In your Rutgers address on March 1, you had indicated you would meet with service
participants at the summer's end. At College Park, in an intimate atmosphere, you
will hear four presentations (with slides) of approximately six minutes each, outlining
the work of the various programs within healthcare, environment, education and
public safety, respectively. After each of the presentations, you will have question-
and-answer exchanges (also roughly six minutes each) with the respective young
presenter and other summer participants in the audience. Final presentations will be
made about service projects' disaster relief efforts and about an innovative
environmental project undertaken by the Red Lake (Chippewa Indian) Band. The
event provides you with an opportunity to close this first summer of service; to learn
and reflect upon its lessons for your broader program; and to focus the participants
and the press on that full-year effort, which is scheduled to receive its final
Congressional approval the following week.
II.
BACKGROUND
A. The Summer of Service: August 31 represents the official close of the Summer
of Service ("SOS") program. The end-of-program Forum begins on Sunday, August
29, with the arrival of two participants from each SOS program (32 total), 23 VISTA
Summer Associates, 16 youth and conservation corps members, and eight participants
from the year-round demonstration models (including City Year and the Delta Service
Corps) funded by the Commission on National and Community Service, together with
program directors and community leaders. Monday will be a closed conference
discussion between the program participants and staff from our office and the
Commission. Details about the summer programs are attached to this memorandum.
B.
The University of Maryland: College Park is the flagship campus of
Maryland's 11 campus state university system. Founded as Maryland Agricultural
College by a wealthy planter in 1859, after the Civil War the school became a land-
grant college. Today, many of the university's nearly 24,000 undergraduates are
active in a variety of service programs. As an example, "Team Maryland" (part of
the Summer of Service) takes student athletes from the University into the community
to serve as role models for at-risk youth.
College Park's President is William Kirwan, a long-time supporter of service, who
spearheaded the University's in-kind donation of $60,000 for the MPOWER Summer
of Service program (see below).
According to the Post (7/26/93), you stayed on campus on your 1963 Boys Nation
trip. You returned on March 1, 1992, for a Presidential candidates forum.
Professor Bill Galston, one of your Deputy Domestic Policy Advisors and chair of
your transition team on national service, is on leave from the University's School of
Public Affairs.
Your administration will be the subject of a case study being authored by Georgia
Sorenson, director of the University's Center for Political Leadership and
Participation and James MacGregor Burns (arriving on campus as a visiting professor
in September).
C.
Maryland and service: Baltimore's MPOWER program (created by Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend and others) was a very effective Summer of Service program, and
Townsend' Civic Works was a stand-out corps program (a separate aspect of the
summer's effort). They reflect Maryland's tradition as one of the nation's leaders in
service. It is the only state requiring service-learning for high school graduation (a
still-controversial initiative Townsend spearheaded, now approved by both the state's
Board of Education and its legislature). Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who will introduce
you Tuesday, championed the 1990 national service bill and was one of the key
advocates for your legislation this year. (She additionally chairs the Appropriations
sub-committee likely to have jurisdiction over it.) Sen. Sarbanes also was a strong
supporter of the legislation and 6 out of 8 members of the state's House delegation
voted for it.
D. Legislation: Although this event marks the end of the Summer of Service, it also
kicks off a period of intense service activity. We anticipate the Senate's approval of
the Conference Report (the last Congressional action on your national service
legislation) early in the week after Labor Day (beginning with September 7). The
new Corporation for National Service, created by the legislation, will begin operations
on October 1.
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III.
PARTICIPANTS
Senator Barbara Mikulski
Greg Ricks, consultant to SOS and City Year's Vice President for Education and
Training and an experienced academic administrator with expertise in
facilitating multi-cultural programs, will act as facilitator of your dialogue with
the young people by providing a program overview and prompting relevant
anecdotes from the service participants in the audience
Seven presenters:
SUSANNA MACIAS (healthcare), a Latina from VISTA's Texas
immunization project
MATT RASMUSSEN (environment), a Caucasian from the Colorado Corps'
wetlands project
MARCUS PINKNEY (education), an African American from SOS' Hands On
Atlanta program's project at an Atlanta elementary school. (Note: Hands on
Atlanta was established by former President Carter.)
REGINA HALL (public safety), a Caucasian from the Delta Service Corps'
911 project
TERRENCE SENOGLES, a Native American from the Red Lake Band's
Panima interpretive trail and Pike Creek clean-up projects
DANIELLE JIMERSON, an African American from the Iowa Conservation
Corps' flood relief effort
LISA YAMAOKA, an Asian American from VISTA's Hurricane Andrew
clean-up effort (sponsored by United Way of Dade County)
72 other service volunteers who may participate in the question and answer sections
(list attached)
Approximately 90 others (program directors, and community/business/service leaders)
who will be viewers of the event, only
IV.
PRESS PLAN
Open press.
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
*
Upon arrival you will be greeted by University President William Kirwan.
(Eli will be travelling with you.)
*
You will then proceed to a holding room near the Colony Ballroom, site of the
full Forum. Sen. Mikulski, Congressman Steny Hoyer (who represents this
District), Congressman Chris Shays (one of our key Republican supporters in
the House), and Greg Ricks (facilitator) will also be in the holding room.
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*
Sen. Mikulski and Eli will escort you to the stage, Eli will exit to sit in the
audience, and Sen. Mikulski will introduce you. (She will then also exit to be
seated).
*
You will be on a slightly raised stage (in an arrangement like the Chillicothe,
Ohio Town Hall) together with the seven service participants who will make
the presentations, and Greg Ricks. A stool will be provided for you, flanked
by a small table for water, a notepad and your remarks/anecdote cards. The
72 other young service participants will be seated in rows in a semi-circle
facing you. Behind them, in separate seating sections, will be the remainder
of the audience, consisting of the program directors and community leaders
and other invited guests, for a total crowd of up to 250 people, not including
press.
*
You will make your introductory remarks (see attached proposed draft)
standing or seated on your stool, with a hand-held mike.
*
Greg Ricks will briefly discuss the Summer of Service and those common
conclusions and experiences of the young participants discussed at their
meetings the previous two days.
A TIMELINE FOR THE PRESENTATIONS AND DIALOGUE WHICH WILL
THEN FOLLOW IS ATTACHED.
*
After the event, Eli will escort you to Room 2111 (same building) for the
reception.
VI.
REMARKS
Your suggested introductory remarks are attached, as are potential questions you may
hear from the audience, and our suggested answers. On Monday, we will provide
you with notecards bulleting interesting anecdotes from participants' summer
experiences (we are gathering these in the Sunday evening session).
VII. ATTACHMENTS
A.
Remarks
B.
Timeline for Forum
C.
Sample Q & A
D.
Summary of summer programs
E.
List of Forum participants
F.
Representative print coverage of Summer of Service
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PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
NATIONAL SERVICE SUMMER FORUM - UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
AUGUST 31, 1993
[Acknowledgements] KIRWAN Mikulski Hoyer Shays
-
Each of us comes to this Student Union today perhaps a little regrettably at the end of
our summer vacations. I have a little sunburn, some good golf stories, and the renewed
energy that at least at my age you can sometimes get only by relaxing. And as happy as
I am about how I spent my last two weeks, I am even more delighted -- and far more
impressed by how you have spent your last two months.
We also come here today with strong views of service and the value of serving. I was
deeply affected by the community service I performed during college. Going back as far as I
can remember, I've believed in the importance of serving others. In fact, it was very much
on my mind the first time I was on this campus. I stayed here when I was in Boys Nation,
the trip when I met my first President, John Kennedy. His famous challenge that we ask not
what our country can do for us, but what we can do for our country, is answered through the
works of our own hands and hearts, as we help our own communities. It is what you did
this summer. It is the spirit that led me to public service.
And it is why national service has been, and will remain, one of the key priorities of our
administration. In my Inaugural speech I called for seasons of service, and at Rutgers
University on the first of March, I suggested that whatever the calendar said, the first season
of service should be the summer - this summer.
So my friend Eli Segal went to work, and the Commission on National and Community
Service went to work, and VISTA went to work, and the Summer of Service was born.
There were those who said it couldn't be done that anything in Washington takes years, if
not decades. But they were wrong. Terrific programs from around the country responded;
more than 450 applied, each of them partnerships of two, 10, even 40 service organizations.
If young people are the muscle, the brains, the heart of the movement to advance our country
through service, service programs like those represented here today are the foundation and
the framework. For years, they have done wonders with very little, often just the
determination and vision of their directors and staff. We think we got a lot of good ones for
this summer, but we know there are thousands of other success stories out there. We intend
to find them, and to nurture them, in the years ahead.
Particularly under the time pressures you all faced this summer, we didn't expect perfection.
We did hope for lessons: to learn whether a limited number of young people, in only a brief
period of time, could change and improve their communities and themselves. I've heard
good things. Now I want to hear it from you.
The Summer of Service ends today. Next week, when the Senate gives its final approval to
our national service legislation, the full four seasons of service will begin. The re-birth of
hope and community and unity that so many Americans have yearned for, and that is reflected
in your work, will continue. I believe our entire nation will be informed by your lessons,
inspired by your results and invigorated by your commitment. And I am anxious to begin.
ATTACHMENT B
SUMMER OF SERVICE FORUM EVENT
TIMELINE
10:55
Following your remarks and his own context-setting comments, Greg Ricks
will then will introduce the first presenter, Susanna Macias, who will give a
six-minute report to you about healthcare. Accompanied by slides, her
presentation will highlight various SOS service programs around the country
that focused on healthcare this summer -- including her own: a Texas Vista
immunization program.
11:02
Following her presentation, you will engage in a six minutes Q&A discussion
about healthcare with Susanna and the 72 young participants in the audience
surrounding the stage. Greg Ricks will help facilitate this process. During
this give-and-take discussion, Greg Ricks will request one-or-two young people
in the audience to briefly relate to you their particularly significant/poignant
summer experiences (pre-selected).
11:08 -
11:50
The same sequence will occur for the issue areas of the environment,
education and public safety. You will receive a report and then engage in a
six-minute discussion. The environment segment will include a brief special
presentation by a member of the Red Lake Bank of Chippewa Indians on his
tribe's special SOS project.
11:50
The event will close with a final few-minute presentation on the work of two
young presenters from Youth Corps and VISTA in providing disaster relief
during Hurricane Andrew and the recent Midwest floods.
11:54
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ATTACHMENT C
SUMMER OF SERVICE FORUM EVENT
SAMPLE Q & A
Q:
Most of the young people here, and the vast bulk of the people in our programs, are of
color. Will your full program be the same?
A:
This summer, most of the programs took place in our cities. Our year-round programs
also will operate in rural areas -- in all parts of the country. Since each program will
continue to recruit mainly from its community, that will automatically effect the mix of
participants. Here is the important thing: service is for all Americans. We want to
bring people of all backgrounds together, not separate them. There's too much of
that in this country already.
WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!
Q:
But most of the people running this program are white. Why should volunteers who are
mainly of color have to follow leaders who are mostly white?
A:
In the first place, we have quite alot of people of color in leadership positions throughout
national service. And we want to encourage that diversity. The best way you can help
is by making sure that your involvement with service doesn't end today -- if you think
we need more leaders like you, then maybe we need you to be a leader.
Q:
John Kennedy may have been your hero, and his call for national commitment may have
worked when you were our age, but it doesn't for us. We are out to help our
communities, and you'd make it easiest for us if you'd just give our local programs
money and stop any federal control. How about it?
A:
First of all, both the summer and the full program have been designed to maximize local
control. They both operate through local non-profits. But we are talking about investing
the tax dollars that all Americans work hard to be able to pay. They deserve, and we
will insist, on oversight to ensure there isn't fraud and waste -- and that we are
using these two precious resources -- taxpayers' money and young people's talent --
to their greatest effect. I am happy that our program will set national priorities and
standards, but let local programs compete to design the best solutions to those
problems.
Q:
I loved this summer, but I had to take two other part-time jobs just to make ends meet.
Don't you think it's too hard to expect your service participants to make it on just the
minimum wage?
A:
I fully understand the sacrifice for service that we are asking. We hope that the mixture
of that wage and the educational benefit and other benefits in the full program will be
enough to attract plenty of first-rate participants. It has been enough for the Peace
Corps. We will just have to see. But when we are struggling so hard to make sure
we don't stick your generation with a deficit that will crush you, we have to make
tough choices and limit our generosity -- particularly when too many of our
country's bread winners are still struggling to earn even that minimum wage.
Q:
You have said this program will make it possible to go to college, but Congress has cut
the scholarship from the program to $4725 -- far less than what school will cost us. Is
the program going to accomplish what you wanted?
A:
Well, that amount -- for one year of service -- pays for about a year-and-a-half of
tuition on this campus. [1993 tuition for state-residents is $3,179.] While it won't pay
for all of the costs at every school, it will make a meaningful dent in them.
Q:
Since this program won't be open to everyone anyhow, why not just make it available to
those who really need the money?
A:
This program aims at bringing Americans together on equal ground. Benefits are
earned on the basis of hard work -- and you know from this summer that it is hard work
-- not on the basis of status. For this program, means-testing would be unfair and
divisive. It would also undermine diversity and middle-class participation, which I think
is important.
Q:
We started out our program just wanting to help kids. We found out that one of the
biggest road blocks was the Mayor and City Hall. If you want real change, why won't
you let participants become advocates and really force the local political machines to
work for the community?
A:
Your time in service may motivate you to enter politics -- it sure did for me. But service
and politics (or advocacy) are two different things. Politics is a system of winners and
losers. Service proceeds from the notion that common problems can be solved in a
process of common effort, where everyone is a winner. We just have to preserve that
distinction for national service -- there are plenty of other venues for politics.
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Q:
Will you be doing a Summer of Service again? National training like we did at Treasure
Island again?
A:
I don't know. We're thinking about it. Keep in mind that the full national service
program aims at local work year-round. But, without doubt, there will be good service
programs out there next summer. National training probably won't be possible again,
since we are aiming at increasing the number of people in the program even next year.
Bringing them all together will just be too hard -- I heard how tough it was to get warm
showers for even 1500 of you!
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ATTACHMENT D
SUMMER OF SERVICE FORUM EVENT
SUMMARY OF SUMMER SERVICE PROGRAMS
The Summer of Service (SOS) was the operational response to your March 1 call (at Rutgers)
for a summer program that would help put a face on national service while your legislative
initiative was pending before Congress. It has been run by the Commission on National and
Community Service (the "Commission"). After failure of the stimulus package,
approximately $10 million in funding was obtained when the Commission re-directed defense
conversion monies provided to it under 1992 legislation. 16 programs in 12 cities/rural areas
were selected, out of more than 450 applications. The 1475 SOS participants (17 to 25 years
old) received a week of national training at the Treasure Island Naval Base (in San Francisco
Bay) before beginning eight weeks of service work in their communities. Approximately
73% of all SOS participants were people of color, reflecting the principal community to be
served: urban youth at-risk. Each program focused on the problems of youth at risk, within
the four substantive areas of education, health, environment and public safety. The programs
committed to producing measurable results in their communities from the summer's service
work.
The Commission also funded other varieties of service work during the summer: VISTA's
Summer Associates program involved 700 young participants in more than 33 cities (also
doing work related to children at risk) and 15 youth and conservation corps placed 1,000
young people in service work in 13 states. The seven national service "demonstration
projects" funded by the Commission also continued their year-round work during the summer
(City Year and the Delta Service Corps are two of these seven).
Press coverage (including by all networks and most major newspapers) of SOS has been
extensive, and nearly unanimously favorable. VISTA Summer Associates also received
favorable local print coverage.
ATTACHMENT E
SUMMER OF SERVICE FORUM EVENT
PARTICIPANTS
Summer of Service
Maria Theresa Abuan
Virgilio Bravo
Dorothy Chavannes
Jill Cobenais
Mary Colleran
Walker Dearth
Valda Foster
Julie Friedberg
Andrew Gauldin
Marla Goldwasser
Maryann Green
Cleon Hargrove
Geoffrey Holmes
Sarumathi Jayarman
Deidre Johnson
Lynette Johnson
Vassilisa Johri
Josh Klaris
Chris Longmore
Olinda Marshall
Iyeoka Okoawo
Jorge Palmarin
Camille Pierre
Marcus Pinkney
Aquila Powell
Eric Reid
Reshard Riggins
Me Kyung Rim
Terrence Senogles
Rocio Soto
Kitwana Tyer
Ronald Vining
VISTA Summer Associates
James Anderson
Angela Brown
Leslie Brown
Richard Bunce
Jennifer DeVoe
Melissa Florio
Melinda Higgs
Ernest Irby
Jason Kamaras
Elizabeth Kuhl
Carolyn Lewis
Susana Macias
Paula McCullough
William McNeil
Xiomara Ramos
Rebecca Rees
Kathleen Tully
Susan Webster
Wayne Gregory Williamson
Annette Wilson
Darrell Winston
Deidre Woodhouse
Lisa Yamaoka
Summer Youth Corps
Peter Andrew
Timothy Dobbins
Christina Garcia
Qiana Hankins
Danielle Jimerson
Elizabeth Kilian
Kerwin Lawrence
Steven Lucero
Chris Meier
Jocelyn Miles
Matthew Rassmussen
Lindsey Reed
Regina Rodriguez
Suzanne Ruiz
Keith Thorpe
Claudette Thyme
National Service Demonstration Projects
Diane Beaver
Saskia Grinberg
Regina Hall
Mary John
Tiffany Lorry
Nancy Ray
Chris Smith
Lawrence Williams
ATTACHMENT F
SUMMER OF SERVICE FORUM EVENT
REPRESENTATIVE PRINT COVERAGE OF SUMMER OF SERVICE
Newsday
MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1993
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Enthusiastic Rally as 1,500 Begin Trial Run
Of Clinton's National Service Program / Page 5
NEWSDAY
June 21, 1993
Ready to Serve
1,500 cheering youths kick off U.S. volunteer progran
By Jane Meredith Adams
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
WISTERN
San Francisco - A wildly en-
thusiastic crowd of nearly 1.500
young people from around the
country - hailing from places as
diverse as Los Angeles. a Minne-
sota American Indian reserva-
tion and Harlem - launched
President Bill Clinton's Summer
of Service program in an outdoor
rally vesterday, vowing to re-
build their communities and the
nation.
Their enthusiasm for improv-
ing the country and themselves
as part of Clinton's ambitious
national service program was so
strong that during the opening
day ceremony on Treasure Is-
land naval base. many danced,
heered and waved their fists.
articipants from the Harlem
eedom Schools Project broke
thto a chant: "We're fired up!
We can't take it anymore!"
"You better be fired up," an-
swered Warren Furutani. a Los
Angeles community activist who
was addressing the group. "It
won be easy.
After a week of training on
Treasure Island, participants
will return to work in their com-
munities for eight weeks in ex-
change for minimum wage and a
$1,000 education voucher.
Summer of Service, which has
been likened to a domestic Peace
Corps. is a $9-million trial run of
the president's national service
San
Francisco
Chronacie
War
initiative. which cleared two key
Service volunteers from New York City cheer as they are introduced on the opening day of their training program
committees in the House and
Senate last week. Like Summer of Service, the na-
House Education and Labor Committee who opposes
discovering that summer in San Francisco means
tional service program IS designed to channel work-
the bill, said: "We have no right to be establishing a
blanket of fog.
ers into existing projects in their own communities.
program, whatever its merits, that is going to have
"It's cold," said Pablo Quinones, 19, of Harlem.
"I'm from a low-income community," said Camille
multiple billions of dollars in costa."
Although the spirit of the Peace Corps and 1960:
McKinnon. 23. who was raised in the South Bronx
All who participate in the national service initiative
idealism was invoked, this gathering had many 1990
and now attends the College of New Rochelle. "I
also would receive minimum wage, health benefits
touches. The crowd was ethnically diverse, and some
know what it's like to feel you re not worth anything.
and child care service.
people gave their pep rally cheers in Spanish and Eng
I know [ can make it. I want to give them hope.
Among the participants in the Summer of Service
lish. All the participants wore white Gap sweatshirt:
But critics of the national service initiative have
pilot are 150 people from New York City and 200 from
with the Summer of Service sunrise logo - an emblem
balked at its $379-million price tag for the first year
the Newark area who will work for minimum wage
of the private-public partnerships the program seeks
- in which 15,000 people of all ages could participate
performing tasks such as tutoring schoolchildren in
to form. And when Rear Adm. Merrill Ruck was intro-
and receive as much as $5,000 in education vouchers
reading and writing, inspecting apartments for lead
duced as the man hosting the group on Treasure Is
for their service work. By the fourth year. as many as
paint and giving swimming lessons.
land. he received boisterous applause.
150.000 people would be enrolled in the program at a
As this first group of service corps members, aged
"We've been called apathetic," said Pia Infante. =
cost critics estimate at $3.4 billion.
17 to 25, rallied. many were coping with the double
sophomore at the University of California at Berke-
Pep. Marge Roukema (R-N.J.), a member of the
shock of being away from home for the first time and
ley, who spoke to the group. "Give me a break."
MONDAY, JUNE 21. 1993 USA TODAY
Boot camp trains youths to step up as role models
By Maria Goodavage
projects focused on helping dis-
gotten, neglected."
USA TODAY
advantaged children.
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Sunday, the program got off
CONSERV
Most of the participants say
to a jamming, hip-hopping, rap-
CCRF!
they could be earning more at
TREASURE ISLAND, Calif.
other summer jobs, "but It's
- The cabin pressure both-
ping and clapping start as the
TARK
ered his ears, and landing over
like this: The kids in our neigh-
youths, ages 17 to 25, gathered.
borhoods need role models
the San Francisco Bay made
During one zealous moment,
real bad," says Carol Leslin
him jittery. But Isaac Vaughn,
the 75 participants from Atlan-
Munroe, 22, of Newark, N.J.
17, says getting here was worth
ta plunged to the ground when
every jangled nerve he got on
The children aren't the only
the bleachers they were on col-
his first plane ride.
ones depending on this sum-
lapsed. Spirits and bodies un-
"This is a chance in a life-
mer's pilot program: The fu-
scathed, they untangled them-
time for me to help others who
ture of the project itself may
selves and continued to cheer.
rest on the pilot's success.
need help more than myself,"
"We can't be hurt," says Tif-
says Vaughn, of Baltimore.
Congress is expected to vote
fany Thrasher, 18, of Atlanta.
About 1,500 youths from the
on the program based on the
"The future rests with us, and
success or failure of the first
USA's most troubled cities met
we've got to help the kids that
By Mark Hundley, AP
Summer of Service.
at this naval base Sunday for a
need help so bad and give
SPIRITED: Clarissa Starks, left, and April Butts, from Atlanta's
Clinton wants $400 million
week-long boot camp-style
them real hope."
Clark University, at a 'Summer of Service' rally in San Francisco.
training that will teach them
next year for 25,000 jobs. By
Organizers hope this week's
leadership skills they can take
1997, he hopes for 150,000 such
intensive physical, mental and
low-income New York homes,
and tutor school children,
back to their neighborhoods.
service-oriented youth jobs.
spiritual training will keep the
helping 15,000 at-risk children
clean up graffiti, paint public
The program, "Summer of
It's important, says Cather-
youths strong during the sum-
in Oakland, Calif, with health,
housing projects and help build
Service," is the pilot to the na-
ine Milton, head of the Com-
mer. They'll work in back-
education and self-esteem
centers for low-income kids.
mission on National and Com-
tional community service pro-
breaking, often heartbreaking,
problems, and rebuilding
"Oh God, how we need their
gram President Clinton prom-
munity Service, which is
jobs for minimum wage plus a
school grounds across the USA.
help," says Drucilla Wright, a
ised In his campaign. After the
$1,000 school stipend.
developing the program.
As part of this week's hands-
community assistant at Emer-
training, participants will re-
These youths may well be the
Jobs include testing for lead
on training, participants will
son Elementary School in Oak-
turn home to serve in summer
paint poisoning in thousands of
ones who will turn our country
spread out across the Bay Area
land. "Sometimes you feel for-
around."
LA Times
Tuesday, June 22
I think what we're doing
here is a reaction to the '80s,
which were all about
self-interest and making
money and getting ahead. ,
Karen Chang
Photos by Associated Press
Youths in "Summer of Service" program embrace each other, left, after training exercises that included stretching, right.
Gore Provides the Spark
By JENIFER WARREN
Amid Cheers and High
The program-a cornerstone of Clin-
TIMES STAFF WRITER
ton's presidential campaign-is awaiting
congressional approval. Clinton, who
S
AN FRANCISCO-Vice President
Hopes, Vice President
compares its potential to the accomplish-
Al Gore launched the Clinton Ad-
ments of Kennedy's Peace Corps. has
ministration's domestic Peace Corps
Helps Launch "Summer
said he hopes to put 25,000 young people
on Monday. telling 1.500 youths and
to work next year. and expand that to
young adults in training for a summer of
public service that their work will help
of Service' Program
include 150.000 annually by 1997.
After their training this week. the
"build the future of America."
participants will begin jobs ranging from
In a spirited speech that drew wild
deploy young adults in 16 programs
tutoring homeless children to testing for
cheers from the trainees. Gore called
serving needy children.
lead poisoning and rebuilding dilapidated
community service an idea that began
Participants range in age from 17 to 25
playgrounds. For their efforts the sum-
with "barn raisings on the American
and represent cities from Oakland to
mer workers will receive the minimum
frontier" and evolved through initiatives
New Orleans-with about 200 from Los
wage and a $1,000 stipend toward college
by Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Angeles. Some are students at presti-
costs. Money. however. was rarely men-
John F. Kennedy.
glous Ivy League universities: others are
tioned Monday as the trainees swapped
"You believe in this country,' the vice
as disadvantaged as the children they
stories and discussed their motivations.
president told the participants. who
will serve in the coming months.
Most spoke in optimistic. idealistic
roared their agreement. "This country
The summer session is the modest
terms. describing a desire reminiscent of
believes in you.'
prototype of Clinton's $7.4-billion na-
their parents' coming of age in the
Gore's remarks highlighted the open-
tional service program. an effort that
1960s-a desire to make'a difference.
ing of a week of "boot camp" style
aims to broaden access to higher educa-
"I think what we're doing here is a
training for volunteers in President
tion and harness the energy of new
reaction to the '80s. which were all about
Clinton's Summer of Service. which will
graduates for socially useful work.
Please see GORE, B4
GORE
Continued from B1
self-interest and making money
and getting ahead." said Karen
Chang. 20. who will spend the
summer at a Berkeley center for
abused and neglected children.
"Young people want to do some-
thing positive. and this gives them
an obvious way to do that.
DaMarion McKneely. 18. of Oak
land agreed and said his generation
feels a special yearning to prove
that "we aren't apathetic.'
"People are so down on us.
saying we don't care and that kind
of thing." said McKneely. who will
rehabilitate schools in Oakland for
the East Bay Conservation Corps.
The training camp IS based at
Treasure Island Naval Base. a
facility that IS slated for closure by
the Pentagon and SILS on a spectac-
ular piece of real estate in the
middle of San Francisco Bay.
The students are housed in mili-
tary barracks. begin their day with
reveille at 6 a.m. and take part in
calisthenics at 7. Their days in-
clude classroom sessions on leader-
Leader takes enrollees through first day of "boot camp" at Treasure Island Naval Base in San
ship skills and the needs of poor
children and-beginning today-
fieldwork on projects in San Fran
cisco and Oakland.
"We're giving them a rigorous
hallenge to prepare them for the
Immer. said Jennifer Eplett
Reilly. director of the Summer of
Service. "The focus IS on basic
skills for working with children. as
well as leadership skills that we
hope will serve them their entire
life.
Officials said the boot camp
model is designed to send a clear
message that the program IS not
some sort of all expense paid sum
mer vacation.
So far. the participants major
complaint has been lack of hot
water in the showers and some
minor disorganization. The course
work has been stimulating. and the
speech by Gore. one student said.
got us all fired up. kinda like a pep
rally
"All in all it's been great. said
Susan Goldberg. 19. a Los Angeles
native. "There is a lot of energy
here. What I'm feeling SO good
about is the tremendous potential
that we as young people have to.
change this country
Re Lake youths win praise in service program
By Robert Franklin
Staff Writer
Redlake, Minn.
Inner city youngsters from around
the country wanted to know about
the young American Indians from
northern Minnesota Did they live
HII teepees and use bows and ar-
10ws" Were marriages arranged by
then parents?
The 48 youths from the Red Lake
Reservation were unusual even
among the unusual group of 1.500
young people training for President
( linton's Summer of Service pro-
ject in San Francisco last month.
Thens is one of 16 projects that
form the prototype for the Clinton
national vice program. The plan
IS to employ 25,000 people ages 17
to 25 next year. and 150,000 annu-
ally by 1997. helping them through
college while they do community
work The workers get the $4.25
minimum hourly wage plus a
$1.000 payment that can be used
only for higher education.
Among the other projects, which
involve mostly urban jobs such as
tutoring homeless children and re-
building playgrounds Red Lake's
project stood out 11 was the most
rural. the only one ID the Upper
Midwest and the only one on an
Indian reser cation
But other factors also helped Red
Lake's project become one of only
16 out of 130 applications to win
A team from the Red Lake
$200,000 grants.
Reservation, above, is restoring
Pike Creek, which flows from the
11 helped that It IS both cultural and
south part of the reservation.
environmental reating a park
They are cleaning garbage from
and a nature trail that emphasize
the water and clearing the shore.
tribal culture and history. And the
At right, Jill Cobenas cleared
show of community support and
fallen branches from the
involvement impressed the selec-
shoreline. Elliot Cloud, far right,
tion judges. More than a dozen Red
carried a section of log.
I ake community organizations are
partners 111 the 96-week project.
giving money of equipment.
The reservation's application was a
"very strong. ven thoughtful pro-
posal" designed to give power both
to the communits and Its young
people. said Marjorie Wilkes, a New
York grant reviewer who at one
point told her colleagues, "Don't
VOID all date touch that Red Lake
application.
The Red I ake youths also made an
Staff Photos
Red
ake
SR
by Tom Sweeney
Red Lake
Continued from page 1B
impression at the week-long training
sovereign entity with all of the land
camp at the Treasure Island Naval
held in common.
Base in San Francisco, where they
did team-building exercises with
In Ponemah, an outdoor classroom
young people from Baltimore, Phila-
and nature trail will include signs
delphia and Atlanta, many of them
identifying medicinal plants, birds
from other minority groups.
and animals in both English and
Ojibwa. The trail is the product of
In addition to dispelling some ideas
research by Ponemah elementary
about how Indians live, they bor-
school students, and it will be open
rowed a bass drum from the Navy
to students from outside the reserva-
Band and performed drum ceremo-
tion.
nies four times, including one to hon-
or military people who they felt were
Residents on the reservation "feel
not getting enough respect from other
really happy that we're doing this. It
youths. They wore their blue shirts
makes me feel proud," said Robert
emblazoned with "Enaasimiiyang"
Maxwell, 20, one of the workers. Eric
- the future - and left Red Lake
Dow, 17, said the work is "for the
and Minnesota symbols in a mural
community" and the attitude is, "If I
they repainted at a Berkeley, Calif.,
don't do it, nobody else will."
school. They explained why Indians
are offended when sports teams use
That's despite the workers' com-
war chants and fake feathers.
plaints about droves of mosquitoes
in the air, poison ivy on the ground
"I didn't realize how deep my pride
and leeches in the water. The workers
was," one boy said.
also know that many of them could
be earning more from jobs at the
Renee Senogles, the project director,
nearby reservation casino.
said, "Because Red Lake is a homog-
enous community, they don't need to
Most of the workers are in high
think about who they are. They were
school or higher education, mostly at
very aware of their cultural identity."
Bemidji State University or at tech-
nical colleges in Bemidji or Thief
Jean Burkhardt, a Minnesota consul-
River Falls. Marshall Stillday said he
tant to the Summer of Service pro-
"wasn't a high candidate for going to
ject, was also impressed. "Those
college," but he got his GED and
young people from Red Lake got
plans to study tribal management or
enormous respect from their peers,"
pre-law at Haskell Indian Junior Col-
said Burkhardt, a Martin County
lege in Lawrence, Kan.
commissioner from Welcome, Minn.
"They provided tremendous leader-
Classrooms are part of the Summer
ship during that week. They were
of Service project, too. The young-
very focused. They knew what they
sters are learning to fill out college
were there to get in the training and
financial aid forms. And they are
they knew what they needed to take
taking environmental courses intend-
back home."
ed, as Senogles put it, to "promote
their understanding of native peo-
Now that they're back, the Red Lake
ples' special relationship to this land
youths are cutting brush, sawing logs,
resulting, I hope, in a heightened
and making a lasting mark around
sense of responsibility and a stronger
the reservation towns of Redlake and
cultural identity."
Ponemah.
There is even speculation about a
In Redlake, down a hill from tribal
visit by Clinton later in a summer
offices, one team is clearing and re-
that already has become a big deal on
storing Pike Creek, cutting weeds,
the reservation. Without the service
building a hiking trail and creating a
program, said Cheyenne King, a high
park and picnic area. It is near the
school senior, "most of us would be
site where chiefs signed an 1889 trea-
messing around for the summer, not
ty that preserved the reservation as a
doing anything."
Minneapolis Star Tribune July 12, 1993
SUMMER OF SERVICE
College students learn as they help children in Newark
By TERRI P. GUESS
dynamics there was a lot of negativity,
kids from urban areas don't think they
along with 17 community agencies and
but we used it to help us focus on the
can go to college is because of their so:-
support from several foundation and
Michael Gowdy, a Rutgers Uni-
reason why we were there."
cio-economic status, and that's not so.
public officials.
Newark student, was tired of
A precursor to the National Serv-
There are a lot of different options for
SOS program volunteers will re-
construction work every summer. He
ice initiative now before Congress, the
them."
ceive a weekly stipend of $170, and a
really wanted to work in the commu-
nity to improve the quality of life for
SOS program was initiated by Presi-
Starting tomorrow, participants
$1,000 scholarship payable to an edu-
children in urban areas.
dent Clinton and is being adminis-
will work in teams of 10 at the various
cation or training institution at the
tered by the Commission on National
agencies. On Fridays, the volunteers
completion of the program.
The Newark Summer of Service
and Community Service. The Presi-
will come together as a group to work
(SOS) program is a golden opportu-
dent has called for 25,000 people ages
on large-scale pojects.
nity for the education major from Ir-
17 to 25 to be involved in community
vington. It is a chance for him, he says,
Herrera will be assisting young-
service year-round by 1994, and as
to "give back to the community."
sters at La Casa de Don Pedro. "I be-
many as 150,000 by 1997.
lieve there is a need for role models, for
"Going to school in Newark, I
SUNDAY STAR-LEDGER
could see the problems in the city,"
The Newark SOS program will
help and support," said Herrera. "A lot
work with the municipal police depart-
of reasons why kids in urban areas get
said Gowdy, one of 200 young adults in
NEWARK, NJ
ment to disseminate anti-crime infor-
in trouble is because they're bored.
the Newark SOS program who re-
SUNDAY
700, 237
mation. Volunteers also will provide
They need someone to help them grow
turned Friday night from a week-long
tutoring for at-risk children, work to
and teach them to be men and
national leadership training session in
restore housing and create parks and
women."
San Francisco.
playgrounds, and assist local health
The Newark SOS trainees were
Maria Abuan, also a Rutgers-
JUN 27 1993
clinics in immunization and health ed-
joined by more than 1,500 participants
Newark student, said it was not until
ucation.
from 15 other cities across the country.
she joined the SOS program that she
Most of the volunteers joined the
realized how selfish she had been.
They were instructed in children's ed-
ucation, health, environment and pub-
program with one goal-helping oth-
"Now I am thinking more of so-
lic safety issues by national and local
ers.
ciety than self," she said. "I realize
leaders, including Vice President Al
"I recognize the problems in the
there are many sides to an issue, and
Gore, other high-level Clinton admin-
community, especially with the child-
there are many different ways to ac-
istration officials, members of Con-
ren, said Janice Gabbidon, a student
complish a task.
gress, and Children's Defense Fund
at Drew University in Madison.
"I am learning that I have a voice,
President Marian Wright Edelman.
"They're lacking support and
and what I do can really impact so-
After the week of "boot camp-
guidance in some areas, and there is a
clety," Abaun continued. She will help
style" training, the young adults said
need for youngsters in my generation
with community organizing at the Un-
they are anxiously waiting to provide
to get involved."
ified Vailsburg Service Organization.
community service by volunteering at
Janice will be involved in health
The Newark program is funded by
social service agencies in the city.
care this summer.
a $1 million grant from the CNCS. A
"It was exciting and challenging,
Gowdy, who will be working for
partnership was created to operate
and at times frustrating and aggravat-
the Consortium for Pre-College Educa-
and support the program among the
ing," said Hoover Herrera, another
tion in Newark, said he will encourage
New Jersey Institute of Technology,
Rutgers-Newark student. "We were
teenagers to attend college. "I want to
Essex County College, Rutgers Univer-
working with 1,500 people with such
open their minds and show them there
sity-Newark and the University of
diverse backgrounds. During group
is a possibility there. The reason why
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey,
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
Wednesday, August 4, 1993
"I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service: to act on your idealism
helping troubled children, keeping company with those in need, reconnecting torn communities.
Lamar Harris
PRESIDENT CLINTON
teaches Col-
JAN. 20, 199
lege Park Ele-
mentary stu-
dents some
Some teens
dance moves
during rehearsal
for a play.
spend summe
Kim Nguyen
serving others
assists refugee
By Kris Worrell
children with
STAFF WRITER
a computer
program that
Lamar Harris bounds across the College Park Ele
helps them be-
mentary School stage, his muscular. 5-foot-10-inc
come profi-
frame gracefully demonstrating the five ballet pr
sitions.
cient in English.
A group of students - all girls save for one brav
taunted boy - slowly stop giggling and watch
wonder.
Mr. Harris is spending his summer convincing kic
that it's better to dance than dodge bullets.
He should know. The 19-year-old ex-football play
was shot in the back in a gang fight outside a Krystal's
College Park. He was in the 10th grade at the time.
He left the gang and went on to graduate from Tr
Cities High School in East Point. Now headed for Geo
gia Southern University this fall. Mr. Harris is mento
ing children as part of Summer of Service. a communi:
service program based on President Clinton's Nation:
Service plan.
A trimmed-down version of the President's Nation:
Service Trust Act passed the Senate on a 58-41 vot
Tuesday that forced the original five-year plan to b
sharply reduced to a three-year plan. at an estimate:
cost of $1.5 billion. Negotiators now must reconcile
with a somewhat broader House version.
"I felt kind of obligated to lead kids on a differer.
path than I had." says Mr. Harris. a serious, burly tee:
who, during rehearsals for a school play, manages t
gently teach dance moves to students without losing a:
ounce of his toughness. "I've had kids come. fifth-grao
ers, [who] say 'I want to get out of a gang, how do I di
that?'
Somebody has to help them."
Mr. Harris is one of 1,475 young Americans - in
cluding 100 young people in Atlanta - who have re
sponded to the call for service. Under the Summer C
Service program, young people ages 17 to 25 work with
underprivileged children through organizations in 1
urban sites around the country, including two in At
lanta:
Hands On Atlanta works with 50 service partici
pants at College Park Elementary. They assist teacher
in the classroom and teach students everything fron
finger painting to soccer in after-school programs. The
school, on a year-round schedule, opened its doors t
students on July 19 after a six-week break.
Greater Atlanta Conservation Corps. along with
Clark Atlanta University, has 10 teams of five youn:
Photographs by JIRO OSE/Stan
Please see SERVICE. 381
B8
Wednesday, August 4, 1993
LIVING
The Atlanta Journal / The Atlanta Constitution
Service: 500 applications for 25 spots
Continued from BI
people each spread throughout
the community, teaching chil-
dren how to say no to gangs, work
out compromises with their par-
ents and walk away from con-
frontations. Other groups edu-
cate refugee children and teach
disadvantaged preschoolers the
skills they'll need to get through
kindergarten successfully.
Participants are paid mini-
mum wage - $4.25 an hour -
and receive $1,000 scholarships
at summer's end for college or
technical schools.
Summer of Service also pro-
vides funding for 750 VISTA
Summer Associates and 1,100
additional members of the exist-
ing Youth Corps - 3,325 partici-
pants in total. The cost per mem-
ber is $3,198.
"Obviously there are plenty
of young people willing to serve,
Toll up their sleeves and do what-
ever it takes," says Karen Wood,
executive director of the Greater
Atlanta Conservation Corps.
Ms. Wood says the corps re-
eived about 500 applications
JIRO OSE/Staff
rom around the country for 25
College Park Elementary student Wykeshia Holloway (right) is surprised by the art she
spots. Participants were chosen
created with the help of Marla Goldwasser (left), a Summer of Service program volunteer.
on the basis of interviews, expe-
fience with children and previ-
gee children learn to spell in
ous volunteer work.
English through a computer
That positive response was
SUMMER OF SERVICE
program.
echoed around the country, espe-
"This is a first step. We can
1,475 young people, ages 17 to 25. are participating.
rially after the president's
get them ready for school," says
Program ends Aug. 20. It began June 19 with a national leadership train-
speech at Rutgers University on
Mr. Shula, a graduate of Clark-
ing week at Treasure Island Naval Base in San Francisco.
March 1 in which he called
ston High School who fled Af-
Budget: $10.6 million.
young people to action. The
Members work nine weeks for minimum wage, then receive $1,000 to
ghanistan in 1984 with his family
White House Office of National
pay off student loans or apply toward college or technical school.
by hiding under rice crops being
Service received more than 6,000
Members work with community service organizations in one of 16 ur-
transported over the border in
ban sites around the country. In Atlanta, they work with Hands On Atlanta
trucks.
letters in the days following the
address, officials said.
and Greater Atlanta Conservation Corps in conjunction with Clark Atlanta
Kim Nguyen, 19, a senior at
A.T. Bostic, 20, a senior at
University.
Towers High School, thinks hav-
Morehouse College who's work-
ing African-American children
Ing as a teaching aide at College
work and play with Somalis,
Park Elementary, thinks the
ing up and renovating the school
males "because you don't see a
Vietnamese, Cambodians and
country can't afford not to have
grounds and the Lottie Miller
lot of males [teaching] in ele-
other refugee children helps
such youth service full time.
Homes, a nearby public housing
mentary schools," says fifth-
build harmony.
"I think that's the major flaw
authority complex where most of
grade teacher Lola Thornton.
"Before I came here, they
of the program - come Aug. 21
the students live.
"[Students] respect them.
were always fighting, not playing
we all leave," says the psycholo-
sos participants will spend
They see them as big brothers."
together," she says. "Vietnamese
the last part of the summer work-
At the World Relief center in
gy major. "It would be better to
didn't want to play with black
be here year-round."
ing one-on-one with students
Clarkston, Jimmy Shula, 19,
children. But when we work with
"Who wouldn't want to do
who often don't get as much at-
works with the Greater Atlanta
them, they join hands together. I
this?" asks Tracy Casteel, 20, a
tention as they need.
Conservation Corps to help refu-
think it's important."
"The benefits are that at least
student at Agnes Scott College.
"It's very costly, but if you think
I can have 5-to-1 [student-teach-
out how [in other ways] the
er ratio] whereas if it was just me
it would be 1 on 21," says Mea-
vernment is misusing funds -
is is benefiting the commu-
trice Maize, a third-grade teach-
nity."
er who has two service partici-
Ms. Casteel and the other 49
pants and a part-time teaching
assistant.
participants working at College
Park Elementary spent several
Each fifth-grade classroom
weeks earlier this summer clean-
has three service members - all
San Jose Mercury News
Monday, August 2, 1993
On 'the front lines of change'
SUMMER SERVICE
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD HERNANDEZ - MERCURY NEWS
Eric Fry looks up to Adam Grant, a college student working in the national service pilot program at a children's center in Oakland.
Summer of enlightenment
for 1,500 college students
BY DENNIS AKIZUKI
Alto.
Mercury News Staff Writer
They come from different
Deborah Kim, Adam Grant and
backgrounds but are bound to-
Ayeola Alexander are among the
gether this summer by President
1,500 college students nation-
Clinton's vision - a daughter of
wide participating in Summer of
Korean immigrants who grew up
Service, the president's pilot pro-
in Palo Alto, a white prep-school
gram for a proposed national ser-
vice in which students perform
graduate who is the son of a
Deborah Kim sings along with Tabario Council and other
computer company founder, a
community work to earn money
children at the Golden Gate Child Development Center.
black woman from East Palo
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Summer
of Service
enlightens
students
SERVICE
from Page 1A
for college. The $1.5 billion,
three-year program is up for a
vote Tuesday in the U.S. Senate.
After plenty of initial hype and
media coverage, the program that
is considered a domestic version
of the Peace Corps has slipped
quietly into the nitty-gritty.
The 250 students involved in
the Bay Area are immersed in
daily work at a dozen health, edu-
cation and environmental pro-
jects in Oakland, Berkeley and
East Palo Alto. Among the pro-
RICHARD MERCURY NEWS
jects are the Oakland Homeless
Families Program, East Bay
Ayeola Alexander tutors Messina Wattley, 11, on multiplication tables at Shule Mandela Academy.
Asian Youth Center, American In-
dian Child Resource Center, Stan-
rides the bus to and from the
my life," said Alexander, who
a vegetarian." If he had a choice,
ford Upward Bound Program and
center.
sees the program as another as-
Grant said, he'd plan a trip to a
East Palo Alto Center for Tech-
Across the bay in East Palo
pect of her personal commitment
community garden or a farmers
nology.
Alto, there is no such breaking-in
to help East Palo Alto. After
market.
The students are laboring to
period for Alexander. She is
working at her Summer of Ser-
Despite the minor philosophical
reconcile their hopes and dreams
working on her home turf and
vice job, she sometimes tutors
dilemma, Grant is enthusiastic
of helping rebuild urban commu-
knows the parents of the students
neighborhood children in algebra.
about being in the first group of
nities with the often-harsh reali-
at the alternative Shule (the Swa-
In exchange for their communi-
Summer of Service volunteers.
ties of life in inner cities. For
hili word for school) Mandela
ty work, students earn minimum
Clinton is proposing a four-year,
many students and even the chil-
Academy.
wage of $4.50 an hour plus
$7.4-billion service program that
dren they are helping, the experi-
The outspoken 19-year-old said
$1,000 college scholarships. They
would involve 100,000 students.
ment in inner-city revitalization
if it is to be successful, the pro-
aren't doing the job for the mon-
already has been eye-opening.
ey. Some of them turned down
'Almost like a partnership'
gram must aim for lasting change,
When Kim started her summer
not cosmetic fixes.
well-paying corporate jobs in fa-
"I feel it's cutting edge," Grant
job at a north Oakland child-de-
"We don't want to paint and
vor of community service.
said. "It's almost like being in the
velopment center, a preschooler
pick up glass and two weeks lat-
Kim could have lived at home
front lines of change in education
walked up and posed a question
er, it's (back to) the same as be-
this summer and worked at her
and rebuilding communities."
reflecting her innocence and na-
fore," said Alexander, who will
parents' Palo Alto restaurant for
The north Oakland center
ivete: "Are you black?"
enter her sophomore year at
higher pay. But the Summer of
serves about 110 children ages 3
No, the UC-Berkeley psycholo-
Hampton University in Virginia.
Service job will give her valuable
to 8, almost all of whom are
gy major answered - she's Kore-
"We need to educate, teach and
experience for her planned career
black. Grant's goal is to "instill an
an-American.
then leave."
in teaching, she said.
environmental ethic in the kids"
That introduction to life where
Alexander sought to do precise-
by teaching them about recycling
some children don't have much
Breaking down barriers
ly that one day when she drilled
and composting and helping them
contact with other ethnic groups
11-year-old Messina Wattley in
A recent field trip involving
plant a garden.
gave Kim an idea - she hopes to
the multiplication tables at the
children from the Golden Gate
Usually the summertime work-
create a multicultural lesson that
academy, which operates out of a
Child Development Center in
ers at Shule Mandela and Golden
will broaden the children's
dilapidated house on a bumpy
north Oakland highlighted how
Gate require training and super-
knowledge of other minority
road.
the program is bringing people of
vision. That's not the case with
groups.
varying backgrounds together.
the Summer of Service students.
Kim had expected the Golden
'Never say you can't'
Grant, a 6-foot-2, 23-year-old
"The difference is they're
Gate Child Development Center
When Messina was stumped
graduate of the University of Cal-
self-starters; they take a lot of
- run by Oakland schools - to
and said she couldn't remember
ifornia, Berkeley who is assigned
initiative," said Diane Yee, site
be rundown and the children dis-
the answer, Alexander looked her
to the center with Kim, held the
administrator at Golden Gate.
advantaged. She discovered the
in the eye. "Yes, you can," she
hand of a preschooler half his
Nobantu Ankoanda. executive
center is clean, organized and
said. "Never say you can't.
I
height as a procession of 14 black
director at Shule Mandela,
well-run.
want you to (answer) boom,
children, two black staff mem-
agreed: "It's the kind of help you
boom, boom, boom. That's my ob-
bers and one parent walked to
need and you can use."
Rides bus to center
jective."
visit a nearby McDonald's.
Students assigned to Shule
And the children, she said, are
Later, Alexander easily slid
As they approached the restau-
Mandela and Golden Gate sing the
"very motivated. They're very
into another task - heating a
rant, some children began to
praises of the administrators.
energetic and very smart."
cup of instant noodles for a
chant "McDonald's, McDonald's."
"They're very open to our ide-
Her parents were concerned
child's lunch.
Grant quietly said he had mixed
as," Grant said. "It's not just col-
about their daughter's safety, but
"The fact it's here in my com-
feelings about the field trip.
lating papers.
They want to
publicity about the program has
munity makes it more meaningful
The children clearly relished
hear our ideas and work with us,
eased their fears. In fact. Kim
for me. I've seen these people all
the tour, but Grant confided. "I'm
almost like a partnership.'
THURSDAY, AUGUST
The Washington
PRINCE GEORGE
WEEKLY
Serving
Their Way
To College
Students Test Clinton's
National Service Plan
By Meera Somasundaram
Washington Post Staff Writer
In last month's sweltering heat,
Jennifer Wittman worked with a
crew that painted the game room,
gymnasium, dance studio. lounge,
academic center. aerobics room and
two restrooms of a Baltimore rec-
reation center.
Applying the latex was a task that
tested Wittman's commitment to
her summer job, which she is count-
ing on for college tuition.
"It was horrible," said Wittman,
21, who will be a senior at the Uni-
versity of Maryland at Baltimore
County this fall. "Three of us
painted the girls' bathroom with no
windows and the fan would only
reach the boys' bathroom, not ours.
I've never sweated so much in my
life. I didn't know if I was going to
make it."
About the only thing that kept
her going, Wittman said, was the
paycheck that will go toward her
college education.
"Plus the center hadn't been
painted for 15 years. and I knew
we were helping children." she
said.
The work by Wittman and other
college and college-bound students
at the recreation center is part of
President Clinton's national service
initiative. The national Summer of
Service pilot program allows stu-
dents to earn money for college by
performing community service pro-
jects.
Wittman is among 75 local stu-
dents, ages 17 to 25. who are earn-
ing the minimum wage of $4.25 an
hour this summer by working for
one of two Baltimore organizations:
Civic Works and Summer Corps.
The jobs are coordinated through a
parent organization. MPower, de-
veloped by the University of Mary-
land at College Park. MPower is
one of 16 pilot programs being test-
ed nationwide. The eight-week
Maryland program began June 28
and will end Aug. 20.
At the end of the summer, each
student who completes the program
will receive an additional $1,000 to
use toward college tuition.
Students in the Civic Works
program are teaching basic ma-
thematic and reading skills to mid-
die-school students, counseling
BY
TYLER
MALLURY
FOR
THE
POST
See SERVICE Page 2. Col 1
Jason White provides finishing touches to a Baltimore classroom painted by students in a national service pilot program.
'ilot
Mograms lest
President's Plan
For National Service
dents' salaries and stipends and
SERVICE From Page I
the rest toward administrative
teenagers about substance abuse
salaries and supplies.
and eption. building hiking
At a tutoring session al Balti-
toads and renovating reation
more's Southeast Middle School
centers Summer Corps employ
last month. the college students
ers are working with muddle and
were enthusiastic about wanting to
logh hool students on reading.
make a difference Most partici-
the environment and then cating
pants sand Il was gratifying to do
habits as well as teaching about
community service.
sports, fitness and the dangers of
"You have to earn money in the
drug use
summer." said Stephanie Suerth,
The House and Senate passed
19. a junior at College Park. "I feel
SI sted down versions of President
like I'm making a difference. I can
Inton's original national service
take this experience with me for
plan and are working ont their
the rest of my life, and it beats
difference in conference commit
working at McDonald's or selling
clothes."
Ter
Most students said they would
Under both plans, students would
have been unable to perform com-
have to serve a @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ of two
minity service this summer with-
years and would be eligible to carn
Some good natured clowning around with the paint results in this happy addition to a student's shirt.
Suzle Erb tapes up a slot in a wall.
out a paying job. Several students
$1.725 a year The money could be
said they are working two or three
apphed toward college education or
jobs in addition to the service be.
children feel better. I can see it on
didn't think I could do a good job
report at the end of the summer. A
10 pay bac student loans
cause they need more money for
their faces. I see smiles," Daven-
because I didn't came from the
few program representatives are
Ml'ower employees are re
college
port said. "When we first started, I
inner city," said Erin Moran, 17,
scheduled to meet with President
quired to take a three-credit
could not reach them. Now I'm able
Brenda Davenport, a summer
of Parkville, Md. "But we talked it
Clinton at the end of the summer to
course on community service and
school teacher at Southeast, said
to get a little closer."
out, and now we have a great re-
discuss the programs' strengths
leadership at the University of
the tutors have enhanced her class-
Students and organizers said the
lationship."
and weaknesses.
Maryland. The $H million Summer
room be ause they are able to offer
biggest frustration so far has been
Seth
program
Reilly said some successes would
of Service pilot program awarded
one-on-one instruction to her stu-
working with the Baltimore City
director Works, said the
be measurable. others would not.
Ml'ower a $500,000 grant of
dents.
government.
program organizers and students
"We'll see if tutoring led to an
which $189,750 goes toward stu-
"When the tutors come in, the
"The hard part is getting past the
addressed the issue by discussing it
increase in math and reading
red tape and getting supplies," said
at the beginning of the program.
skills, if cleaning led to safer and
Kathy Riga, a team leader in the
Organizers and members of the
healthier environments," Reilly
Civic Works program. There have
Commission on National and Com-
said. "And we'll also see if partic-
been days when we didn't get paint
munity Service said they will soon
ipants developed leadership skills
rollers and basketball poles. We had
begin assessing the success of the
and walked away feeling com-
the manpower, but no supplies. It's
programs and will put together a
mitted to service."
frustrating when we're trying to do
a service for them."
Alma Bell, a spokeswoman for
the Baltimore City Parks and Rec-
reation department. said an unex-
pected number of students arrived
to help this summer.
"We were expecting 12 people,
but we ended up with 20 to 22
people," Bell said. "We were
spending time trying to figure out
how we wanted to use them. We
wanted to make sure it was organ-
ized. Our experience has been
very good and we would like them
to come back."
Some students said there was
friction among themselves because
they were from different economic
and academic backgrounds working
with inner-city children.
"I come from a middle-class,
predominantly white community
where there's very little crime, so
in the beginning I felt like people
August 27, 1993
SERVICE RECEPTION AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
DATE:
August 31, 1993
LOCATION: University of Maryland
College Park
Stamp Student Union
Room 2111
TIME:
Noon - 12:20 p.m.
FROM:
Rick Allen
I.
PURPOSE
The Forum (which precedes this event) focuses on your interchange with the young
summer service participants. This reception gives elected officials, University of
Maryland representatives, and other guests the opportunity to meet you.
II.
BACKGROUND
[See event memo for the Forum.]
III.
PARTICIPANTS
[See attached list]
IV.
PRESS PLAN
Closed.
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
*
Eli will escort you from the Colony Ballroom (scene of the Forum) to the
adjacent holding room, and then down the hallway to the reception.
*
Eli and President Kirwan will act as your guides as you circulate through the
room. You are scheduled to remain at the reception for approximately 20
minutes.
*
Eli will then escort you to the adjoining hallway, for the "Service Walk of
Fame".
VI.
REMARKS
None required.
RECEPTION GUEST LIST
Members of Congress
Barbara Mikulski - United States Senate
Steny Hoyer - United States House of Representatives
Bill Ford - United States House of Representatives (invited)
Chris Shays - United States House of Representatives (invited)
Ben Cardin - United States House of Representatives (invited)
Connie Morella - United States House of Representatives (invited)
Wayne Gilchrist - United States House of Representatives(invited)
Albert Wynn - United States House of Representatives (invited)
Helen Delich Bentley - United States House of Representatives (invited)
Local Elected Officials
William Donald Schaefer - Governor, State of Maryland
Louis Goldstein - Comptroller of the Treasury, State of Maryland
R. Clayton Mitchell - Speaker of the House, Maryland
Howard P. Rawlings - Member, Maryland House of Delegates
Barbara Hoffman - Member, Maryland State Senate
Laurence Levitan - Member, Maryland State Senate
Timothy Maloney - Member, Maryland House of Delegates
Thomas "Mike" Miller Jr. - President, Maryland State Senate
Lucille Mauer - State Treasurer, Maryland
Ann Owens - Mayor, College Park (invited)
Kurt Schmoke - Mayor of Baltimore (invited)
Paris Glendenning, Prince George's City Exec. (invited)
University of Maryland
William E. Kirwan - President, UMCP
Michael Nacht - Dean, School of Public Affairs
Irv Goldstein - Dean, College of Behavior and Social Sciences
George McGowan - University of Maryland System Board of Regents
Diana Jackson - Assistant Dean
Georgia Sorenson - Director, CPLP
Donald Langeberg - Chancellor, University of Maryland System
Daniel Fallon - V.P. Academic Affairs, Provost, UMCP
Brian Darmody - Asst. to the President, UMCP
Dr. Sheila Aery - Sec., Maryland Higher Education Commisson
Kathryn Costello - V.P., Institute for Advancement, UMCP
Ferdinand Geiger - Director, Intercollegiate Athletics
Barbara Jacoby - Director, Office of Community Servcie
Gerrard Evans - Partner-Ritkin, Evans, Silver and Rosner
Sylvia Stewart - Assoc. V.P. for Admin. Affairs
Charles Sturtz - V.P. for Administrative Affairs
William Thomas - V.P. for Student Affairs
Suzanna Stratburg - UMCP Student
Matthew Haas - Director, Team Maryland
Melvin Bernstein - Administrative Dean, Summer & Special Programs
Howard Dobin - Chair, Campus Senate
Business Leaders
Noel Gould - President, Astrum Intl. Corp.
Steven J. Green - Chairman & Ceo, Astrum Intl. Corp.
Russy Sumariwalla - President, United Way Intl.
George Romney - Board member, Points of Light Foundation
Tom Erlich - Chairman, Commission on Ntl & Community Service
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend - Director, MD Student Service Alliance
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August 27, 1993
SERVICE WALK-OF-FAME AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
DATE:
August 31, 1993
LOCATION: University of Maryland
College Park
Stamp Student Union
Hallway
TIME:
12:20 - 12:45 p.m.
FROM:
Rick Allen
I.
PURPOSE
This photo opportunity-style event concludes the visit, and provides an opportunity for
you to meet all of the representatives of the various summer service programs and
learn about their work, while viewing large story boards featuring representative
photographs, artwork and other materials. This will also be an opportunity for the
local press from each site to observe their hometown service heroes and heroines
shaking hands with you.
II.
BACKGROUND
[See event memo for the Forum.]
After the reception, you will next move down a hallway containing 22 four foot-by-
eight foot story boards: an introductory board; boards from each of the 16 SOS
programs; four boards from the VISTA Summer Associates' programs; and a Youth
Corps board. At each stop, the program director will act as your guide.
III.
PARTICIPANTS
Present at their respective boards will be all 79 young people, together with their
program directors, listed on the attachment to the Forum event memorandum.
IV.
PRESS PLAN
Pool.
V.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
*
Eli will escort you from the reception to the adjoining hallway, where the
boards will be set up.
*
Jennifer Eplett Reilly, one of the co-founders of City Year and the
Commission's project director for the Summer of Service, will act as your
guide as you circulate among the boards.
*
Eli will then escort you to the building exit for your return trip to Washington.
VI. REMARKS
None required.
VI. ATTACHMENTS
A.
Summary of boards
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SUMMER OF SERVICE STORYBOARD SUMMARIES
Building Up Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
One of two Los Angeles area SOS programs, Building Up L.A. was a city-wide partnership
created for the Summer of Service including more than 25 community based organizations, five
universities and colleges, and 29 secondary and elementary schools. Building Up L.A. created a
peer managed model with the core component being five-person teams working together on
individual service projects. The 150 Building Up L.A. participants concentrated their service in
the communities of East and South Central Los Angeles and Koreatown. Service activities
included tutoring, rebuilding school yards and neighborhood lots, facilitating crime prevention
and drug awareness programs and conducting health education workshops.
City Year/Northeastern University
Boston, MA
One of two Boston area SOS programs, City Year established a full-time residential summer
program in partnership with Northeastern University. The 75 corps members lived on campus
and began each day with physical training. City Year formed six teams that led summer
education programs for hundreds of inner city elementary students and revitalized an urban
garden at the Wheatley Middle School in Roxbury. In collaboration with the Boston
Immunization Action Plan, City Year also participated in a health promotion campaign that
increased the availability and access to vaccines for thousands of families in inner city
neighborhoods and helped children and their families develop a pattern of regular health
checkups. Throughout the summer, corps members participated in an evening enrichment
program that provided training in service learning, diversity awareness and youth leadership.
Clark Atlanta University/Greater Atlanta Conservation Corps
Atlanta, GA
One of two Atlanta area SOS programs, the program is a unique collaboration of Clark Atlanta
University, the Greater Atlanta Conservation Corps, and many community organizations. The
partners included 50 participants including 25 Clark Atlanta University students and 25 other
young people from the Atlanta community. Participants served as counselors with summer
camps in the Washington cluster of the Atlanta Project, tutored and mentored refugee children,
led a kindergarten preparation program for pre-schoolers, and led conflict resolution workshops
for community children.
East Bay Conservation Corps
Oakland, CA
East Bay Conservation Corps was the largest Summer of Service program with 250 participants.
It provided a large scale demonstration of a broad-based community partnership focused on
meeting the educational and health needs of children in Oakland, Berkeley and East Palo
Alto. In addition to the dozens of community organizations, school districts, universities and
public agencies, the primary partners for the program included the Haas Center for Public
Service at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Participants
served as teachers, mentors and tutors for children in local schools and child development
centers and provided immunization, patient support, health promotion and disease prevention
services for children and their families.
Enaasimiiyang-Red Lake
Red Lake, MN
Elders of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians recruited 50 Summer of Service participants
from the tribe for this community-wide effort. Their project involved the rehabilitation of a
creek that feeds historic Red Lake which by the end of the summer with community support
was stocked with trout. Also in response from a request from an elementary school, the
participants cleaned a trail deep into the woods and transformed it into an outdoor classroom.
The trail is lined with educational markings in Ojibwe and English linking nature and the
history and culture of the tribe.
Hands on Atlanta Summer of Service
Atlanta, GA
One of two Atlanta area SOS programs, Hands on Atlanta, a city-wide volunteer organization,
developed their SOS program through a partnership with the College Park Elementary
school. Located in the Tri-Cities cluster of the Atlanta project, College Park is Atlanta's first
year-round elementary school. The 50 SOS participants served for the first two weeks of their
summer renovating the school yard and the grounds of the public housing project adjacent to the
school. Participants served the rest of the summer as teachers' assistants, counselors and tutors,
and built a community partnership between the school and neighborhood through an outreach
campaign. The participants also helped to create a highly successful after-school program.
Harlem Freedom Schools
New York, NY
One of three New York area SOS programs, the Harlem Freedom Schools project created five
one-room schoolhouse summer programs in the Harlem and Williamsburg communities. The
program built upon the existing federal meals program as the 50 participants served breakfast
and lunch and led summer educational programs for four to sixteen year-old children.
Participants also worked with the local community in renovating public housing and conducted
workshops on lead paint poisoning and violence prevention. The Rheedlen Center for Children
and Families was a lead partner of the Harlem Freedom Schools project.
ICARE-Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
ICARE (Immunizing Children at Risk Early) launched a new cooperative venture involving the
Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development, the City
Department of Health, the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition, and local
businesses. ICARE focused primarily on health education outreach and the immunization of
young children. ICARE established six clinics in partnership with neighborhood organizations
and conducted outreach with mobile immunization vans loaned by the city. During the last
half of the summer, ICARE organized a neighborhood-by-neighborhood "blitz" of the city to
increase awareness and to immunize children and their families. ICARE not only immunized
children, but created a permanent computerized database for each child. The greatest success of
ICARE, is that the citywide partnership has funded the clinics so that they will continue the
immunization project for at least another year.
MPower/Maryland Summer of Service
Baltimore, MD
MPower, a collaboration among the University of Maryland at College Park, the Maryland
Student Service Alliance, the Civic Works Youth Corps, and dozens of community based
organizations, involved 75 participants serving children in the Baltimore metropolitan
community. Participants tutored and mentored elementary and middle school children, served
with Save Our Streams in a river clean-up, renovated a city recreation center, managed
education-focused day camps and served as health care outreach assistants with the Baltimore
Department of Health.
New Orleans Summerbridge
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Summerbridge was an eight week academic preparation program serving over 360
middle school students from New Orleans public schools. In partnership with Tulane
University, Xavier University, the New Orleans public schools and community organizations,
Summerbridge expanded its program from two middle schools last summer to four during the
Summer of Service. The 100 SOS participants served as teachers and teachers' assistants to
prepare middle school students for rigorous academic programs in the fall. Students attended
classes as diverse as physics, literature, soccer and video making, and had an average of two
hours of homework per night. SOS participants also assisted local health care providers with
eye exams, hearing tests and nutrition workshops. Summerbridge was designed to inspire
participants to enter the professional fields of education and science.
New York ACORN
New York, NY
One of three New York area SOS programs, ACORN, the national non-profit organization that
addresses housing issues for low-income families, and the Brooklyn Children's Medical Center,
trained 50 participants and neighborhood volunteers in a lead paint poison prevention program.
In Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, ACORN participants walked door-to-door in low income
housing projects to conduct inspections and to educate residents about the hazards of lead paint.
Participants also led community awareness workshops and assisted families to organize in
following up on health concerns after the summer.
Newark Summer of Service
Newark, NJ
Newark Summer of Service was a broad-based partnership including four colleges and
universities, community agencies, businesses and local foundations. Two hundred corps members
served side-by-side with hundreds of volunteers in performing thousands of hours of community
service. Participants worked on a wide variety of service projects including an anti-crime
information campaign, a tutoring program for children, housing and park renovation projects
and a program assisting local health clinics with immunization and health education
outreach.
Ohio Wesleyan Summer of Service
Delaware, OH
The Ohio Wesleyan University program was a campus based residential program combining
direct, full-time community service during the day with a rigorous evening academic and
training program. Ohio Wesleyan's 75 participants worked with twenty Central Ohio agencies
to provide direct community service to thousands of children and their families. Their dozens
of service activities included tutoring and mentoring students from elementary through high
school age, constructing a Habitat for Humanity home, providing health care outreach services
and working with juvenile courts to provide educational support for children with disciplinary
problems.
Teach for America-New York
New York, NY
One of three New York area SOS programs, Teach for America is a national program that
recruits, trains and places college graduates to serve as teachers in severely underserved school
districts. With Summer of Service, Teach for America launched its first summer educational
program in the Washington Heights area of upper Manhattan. The program structure included
25 learning teams each with two SOS participant leaders who were experienced teachers and
graduating high school seniors who tutored and mentored elementary and middle school
students. Each team designed, planned and executed an eight week service project that
addressed environmental concerns in the neighborhood. The learning teams worked to improve
the reading levels, writing skills and English language competence of each team member while
completing their community service project.
Tufts University Forum at Lincoln Filene Center
Medford, MA
One of two Boston area SOS programs, the Tufts University program included 50 Tufts students
and young people from Boston, Medford and the Roxbury community. Participants conducted
community assessments and developed service projects including serving as teachers' assistants
with the West Medford Community Center summer educational program, as counselors at
summer camps with the Huntington YMCA, and as tutors and mentors for fifth grade students
entering sixth grade in Boston Public Schools. In addition to their direct service activities,
these young people participated in a Civic Leadership Seminar throughout the summer.
UCLA-It's About Health
Los Angeles, CA
One of two Los Angeles area SOS programs, It's About Health combined direct health service
delivery with academic studies and leadership training. UCLA School of Nursing recruited
and trained 50 participants to deliver primary health care services to children through health
care centers and home visits. Participants conducted assessments in five health care centers,
provided individualized instruction in preventive health care and conducted health care
utilization histories by interviewing parents and families. The program provided leadership
training and career development opportunities for SOS participants to encourage them to pursue
long-term service opportunities as health care providers.
FROM:BSOS, DEANS OFFICE
TO:
508 358 5938
AUG 31, 1993 8:34AM #579 P.02
MEMORANDUM
AUGUST 30, 1993
TO
ELI SEGAL
FROM
DIANA ALDRIDGE
RE
FACTS AND ANECDOTES FOR THE PRESIDENT
ON THE SUMMER OF SERVICE FORUM
Format Review:
The President will be on stage with five young Summer of Service
presenters. The stage will be in the center of a semi-circle
comprised of the 70 young people who are representative of the
Summer of Service programs.
Each young presenter will narrate a slide show for five minutes;
followed by a Q&A discussion with the President for six minutes;
concluding with a special story told to the President by a young
person in the audience (pre-selected), who is called upon by the
facilitator.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Each young presenter on the stage knows to
anticipate a possible follow-up question or comment from the
President when they conclude their remarks. At the end of their
presentation, they will thank the President and linger momentarily
at the podium.
The following identifies and describes the young presenters and the
audience story tellers.
FIRST SEGMENT - HEALTH
Beginning Presenter on Stage:
Susana Macias
VISTA Summer Associate
Texas Department of Health
Latino Female; age 20
Susana worked this summer as a Vivta Summer Associate on 8 WIC and
immunization project for Latino children in six Texas towns. She
found the work challenging but was sometimes frustrated by what she
often perceived as a lack of concern from the families on behalf of
their children.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
FROM: BSOS, DEANS OFFICE
TO:
508 358 5938
AUG 31, 1993 8:35AM #579 P.03
PAGE TWO
Audience Storyteller at End of Segment:
Rocio Soto
It's About Health Summer of Service
Latina Female; age 21
Rocio will be asked to stand up from the audience to tell the
President about her work for "It's About Health" this summer at the
Venice Dental Clinic, where she cared for and educated residents of
the predominantly Latino section of Los Angeles. She is applying
for a grant to open a teen center in Oxnard that addresses the
youth. growing problems of drug abuse and the spread of AIDS among Latino
SECOND SEGMENT -- ENVIRONMENT
Second Presenter on stage:
Matt Rassmussen
Colorado Youth In Natural Resources
Caucasian Male; age 18
Matt worked all summer on a Colorado wetlands project that
completely restored an ecosystem which had been destroyed a few
years ago by the building of an interstate highway. This was a
pilot program and he likes to talk about the possibility of
replicating it.
special Presenter on Stage:
Terry Senogles
Summer of Service Red Lake Band
Native American; age 18
Terry will be giving a special one-minute presentation on his
tribe's SOS project which cleared a stream and created a nature
trail. He wants the President to know about the special bond his
tribe feels between their land and their culture.
Audience Storytellers at End of Segment:
Maria Theresa Abuan
Cleon Hargrove
Newark Summer of Service
Maria will be asked to stand up and tell the President about
several entrepreneurial Newark SOS members. They quit their
assigned job after several days of weeding because they felt their
work was not making a meaningful difference. On their own, they
designed a presentation in environmental education. They then
traveled the lesson plan to all other Newark SOS Projects, reaching
thousands of children.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
FROM: BSOS, DEANS OFFICE
TO:
508 358 5938
AUG 31, 1993 8:35AM #579 P.04
PAGE THREE
Cleon Hargrove will follow Maria for a few brief comments on his
innovative work with the Amelior Foundation. The foundation
participants $100 each to design entrepreneurial service projects gave
on their own.
THIRD SEGMENT -- EDUCATION
Third Presenter on Stage:
Marcus Pinkney
Summer of Service Hands on Atlanta
African-American Age:18
Marcus worked as a teacher's assistant at Atlanta's College Park
Elementary School, where he served as a role model to neighborhood
children. He was one of several SOS participants who created
unique after-school program, attracting almost as many children as a
attended during the day. Marcus is anxious to tell the President
about a sports/academic educational game that they designed.
Audience Storyteller at End of Segment:
Kathleen Tully (accompanied by her seeing dog Molly)
VISTA Summer Associate
Literacy Volunteers of America
Kathleen, blinded just three years ago, will be asked to stand and
tell the President about her frustrations over the lack of teaching
materials for blind tutors. She plans to start a pilot program
state-wide in Connecticut, in collaboration with the National
Federation for the Blind. The program would develop these
the literacy movement.
materials, and encourage other visually impaired people to join in
FOURTH SEGMENT -- PUBLIC SAFETY
Fourth Presenter on Stage:
Regina Hall
Delta Service Corps - 911 Project in Fordyce, Arkansas
Caucasian Female; Age: 23
Regina is representing the Delta Service Corps which is sponsoring
an innovative 911 start-up program in rural, Dallas County. The
Chamber of Commerce, the Delta Service Corps and volunteers have
just completed a census to determine addresses, telephone numbers
and resident's special needs for the county of 7,000. Although
Regina herself has not worked directly on this program -- she is
anxious to tell the President more about it.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
FROM: BSOS, DEANS OFFICE
TO:
508 358 5938
AUG 31, 1993 8:36AM #579 P.05
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Audience storyteller at End of Segment:
Geoff Holmes
Summer of Service Building Up L.A.
Community Youth Gang Services
Geoff will be asked to stand up and tell the President about his
work with the Community Youth Gang Services in Los Angeles. Raised
in South Central -- and often in trouble -- he developed a
presentation on crime and violence avoidance based on his own
experiences.
SPECIAL CLOSING SEGMENT -- SERVICE AND DISASTER RELIEF
There will be a final closing segment on disaster relief presented
by three young participants in the front row of the audience. Two
worked in flood relief with corps this summer; the third with
Hurricane Andrew recovery in Dade County. The three will make
brief consecutive statements on service and disaster relief and
there personal experiences. The President should respond briefly -
- siting the four million dollar portion of his flood relief
package.
Lisa Yamaoka
VISTA Summer Associate
United Way of Dade County
Asian Female; Age:21
Lisa did physical repair work on homes still damaged a year after
the hurricane. She worked with children in the migrant workers
camps and served as a teacher's assistant in a therapeutic camp
especially designed to treat the emotional effects of the
hurricane.
Danielle Jimerson
Iowa Conservation Corps
African-American Female; Age: 17
Danielle spent the last five weeks in Des Moines, Iowa doing heavy
physical labor in flood clean-up. Danielle is shy and comes from
an extremely disadvantaged background. However, she was one of the
few corps members hired at the beginning who stuck with it until
the very end -- and she is very proud of that.
Peter Andrew
New Hampshire Conservation Corps
White Male;
Age:19
Peter and his New Hampshire Corps Members canceled their end of the
summer canoe trip; raised money to augment their vacation funds;
and traveled to Iowa to join the relief efforts in one of the
state's hardest hit flood areas.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
FROM: BSOS, DEANS OFFICE
TO:
508 358 5938
AUG 31, 1993 8:37AM #579 P.06
THE SUMMER OF SERVICE FORUM WITH THE PRESIDENT
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
AUGUST 31, 1993
INTRODUCTIONS AND REMARKS
10:45
President in Holding Room with Sen. Mikulski and
others. Meets Greg Ricks and presenters. Short
briefing by Greg Ricks on format and his cues.
10:48
Greg Ricks and presenters leave holding room for
stage. Presenters on stage in pre-assigned seating.
Special presenters take their seats in first row.
Greg welcomes participants and says the
President and B. Mikulski will be coming shortly
10:50
Announcement of the President of the United States;
President and B. Mikulski enter from holding room.
President sits on the stool -- Mikulski proceeds
to podium.
B. Mikulski makes introductory remarks and introduces
the President.
10:53
The President makes brief remarks -- probably from the
stool or moving around the stage -- discussing his
vision and objectives for national service; and
welcomes the opportunity to discuss with them their
individual and shared experiences.
FIRST SEGMENT
10:56
Greg Ricks assumes the podium and thanks the President
on behalf of SOS. He then gives brief remarks setting
the context and format for the Forum.
Greg Ricks then introduces the first discussion issue
-- HEALTH -- and introduces the first presenter -
SUSANA MACIAS -- of El Paso Texas who worked this
summer on a Vista-sponsored Immunization Project in
Texas.
10:58
Susana walks to the podium and begins her presentation.
11:04
Susana ends her presentation and stays at the podium
for a moment for a follow-up question from the
President. Susana briefly responds then sits down.
11:05
Greg Ricks with a hand held mike opens the discussion
by encouraging the audience who worked on health or
have health service topics they wish to discuss to ask
the President questions and/or share their experiences.
Greg stays near the podium.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
FROM: BSOS, DEANS OFFICE
TO:
508 358 5938
AUG 31, 1993 8:37AM #579 P.07
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11:11
The President has interaction with the audience --
calling on his own questioners for approximately six
minutes. Near the end of the discussion session Greg
Ricks approaches the podium and tells the President
that a particular individual in the audience has
something to share with him or her and calls on that
individual (preselected). The President briefly
responds to the story.
SECOND SEGMENT
11:13
Greg Ricks introduces the second issue area --
ENVIRONMENT -- and the second presenter --
MATT RASMUSSEN -- a Colorado Corps member who worked on
a wetlands project.
11:14
Matt walks to the podium and gives his presentation.
11:20
Matt ends his presentation by introducing
TERRY SENOGLES for a special one-to-two minute
presentation on the Red Lake Native American Indian
project. Matt stays near the podium with Terry.
11:21
Terry gives brief two-minute presentation. Matt and
Terry stay at the podium for a minute for a possible
follow-up question (s) from the President. They respond
briefly then Matt and Terry sit down.
11:24
Greg Ricks with a hand-held mike encourages the
audience interaction as before. The President then
calls on his own questioners for approximately six
minutes. Near the end of the session Greg approaches
the podium and sets up the presentation from the
preselected audience member as before. The President
briefly responds to the story. Greg stays at the
podium.
THIRD SEGMENT
11:30
Greg Ricks introduces the third issue -- EDUCATION --
and the third presenter -- MARCUS PINKNEY -- who is
from Atlanta and worked on the sos Atlanta project
"Hands on Atlanta."
11:31
Marcus walks to the podium and begins his presentation.
11:37
Marcus ends his presentation and stays at the podium
for a follow-up question from the President. Marcus
then sits down.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
FROM: BSOS, DEANS OFFICE
TO:
508 358 5938
AUG 31, 1993 8:38AM #579 P.08
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11:38
Greg Ricks -- as before -- opens the discussion up to
the President and the audience for approximately six
minutes. Toward the end of the session Greg walks to
the podium and sets-up the pre-selected audience member
as before. The President briefly responds.
FOURTH AND FINAL SEGMENT
11:44
Greg Ricks introduces the last issue -- PUBLIC SAFETY
-- and the last presenter -- REGINA HALL -- a member of
the Delta Service Corps in Arkansas who sponsored a
rural "911" project.
11:45
Regina walks to the podium and gives her presentation.
11:51
Regina ends her presentation and stays for a moment at
the podium for a followup question from the president.
11:52
the
Greg Ricks -- as before -- opens the discussion up to
President and the audience for approximately six
minutes. Toward the end of the session Greg walks to
the podium and sets-up the pre-selected audience member
as before. The President briefly responds.
SPECIAL DISASTER RELIEF SEGMENT
11:58
Greg Ricks takes his hand-held mike to the front row of
the audience to the (good cut-away side) where three
presenters say a few words on national service and
disaster relief -- LISA YAMAOKA (who worked with Vista
on Hurricane Andrew recovery in Dade County); DANIELLE
JIMERSON, a member of the Iowa Service Corps who worked
on flood relief; and Peter Andrew, with the New
Hampshire Corps who organized an out-of-state caravan
to the flood zones.
Each will speak very briefly (each scripted at 45-
seconds).
12:01
The president will respond briefly regarding the
importance of national service in disaster relief and
his service. $4 million package in the relief legislation for
12:02
EVENT ENDS with thank-you from Greg Ricks and
closing by President.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
MASTER FORUM/RECEPTION LIST AS OF: Sun Aug 29, 1993 10:50am
THE FORUM ONLY
61 other Sun/Monday participants (see attached list)
B
R
140
Fitzhugh Mullan
141
Kelly Morton (subbing for Marilyn Gaston)
142
Holly Carter (subbing for Dr. Jack Curry)
143
Peter Hart
144
Jonathan Weiner
145
Paul Jamieson (subbing for Ramon Cortines)
146
Rana Sampson
FORUM AND THEN RECEPTION
Special VVIP Seating:
B
R
147
1
Eli Segal
148
2
William E. Kirwan (President, University of Maryland)
149
3
Irv Goldstein (Dean, University of Maryland, College of Behavior and
150
4
Gov. William Donald Schaefer
Social Sciences)
151
5
Speaker R. Clayton Mitchell
152
6
St. Sen. Thomas "Mike" Miller
153
7
St. Comptroller Louis Goldstein
154
8
St. Treasurer Lucille Mauer
155
9
Mayor Ann Owens (College Park, MD)
156
10
Mayor Kurt Schmoke (Baltimore, MD)
157
11
County Exec. Paris Glendenning
158
12
Sen. Barbara Mikulski
159
Sen. Mikulski staff
160
Sen. Mikulaki staff
161
13
Rep.
Steny Hoyer
162,163
14,15 Rep. Chris Shays and daughter
Rep. Ben Cardin (invited) (may come for Reception only)
Rep. Connie Morella (invited)
Rep. Bill Ford (invited)
Rep. Wayne Gilchrist (invited)
Rep. Albert Wynn (invited)
Rep. Helen Delich Bentley (invited)
Reserved seating in audience (escorted to Reception after Forum)
B
R
164
16
Noel Gould (President, Astrum International Corp.)
165
17
Steve Green (Chairman & CEO, Astrum International Corp.)
166
18
Russy Sumariwalla (President, United Way International)
167
19
Mark Thompson (Vice-President Charles Schwaab)
168
20
George Romney (Board Member, Points of Light Foundation)
169
21
Tom Ehrlich (Chairman, Commission on Ntl & Comm Service)
170
22
Peter Edelman
171
23
Catherine Milton
172
24
Gary Kowalczyk
173
25
Marilyn Smith (University of Maryland)
"
174
26
Terry Chase
"
175
27
Diana Jackson
2
B
R
176
28
Georgia Sorenson (University of Maryland)
"
177
29
Suzanna Strasburg
178
30
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Director, Maryland Student Service
Alliance)
RECEPTION ONLY (All University of Maryland affiliated)
B
R
31
Stewart Edelstein
32
Katherine Beardsley
33
Deborah Poulin
34
Ermette Williams Purce
35
Effie Lewis
36
Cindi Hale
37
Ferdinand Geiger
38
Barbara Jacoby
39
Gerrard Evans
40
Matthew Haas
41
Melvin Bernstein
42
Howard Dobin
43
Shaila Aery
44
Kathryn Costello
45
Brian Darmody
46
Daniel Fallon
47
Donald Langeberg
48
George McGowan
49
Michael Nacht
50
Sylvia Stewart
51
Charles Sturtz
52
William Thomas
(Prefer to get into Forum if space becomes available
now they
are the only elected officials attending just the Reception)
B
R
53
** St. Rep. Howard P. Rawlings
54
** St. Rep Barbara Hoffman
55
** St. Rep Laurence Levitan
56
** St. Rep Timothy Maloney