Two additional sources of money this year will be Harvard's COmbined Charities Drive and the Massachusetts Bay United Fund. The COmbined Charities Drive was not held last year, but it will take place this year. It will solicit money from Harvard students and faculty to help finance local social service and social action programs, including PBH. In addition to setting up the Combined Charities Drive, Harvard will soon issue its annual appeal to faculty members for the United Fund. This year, for the first time, faculry members will be able to specify that individual organizations, such as PBH, receive their donations, rather than the general United Fund. Alumni gifts, the Combined Charities Drive, and the United Fund shoudl help ease PBH's financial crisis, although it is too early to predict how much money they will provide.
In the past each PBH committee was wholly responsible for raising its own basic operating money. The financial autonomy of PBH committees often resulted in embarrassing chaos. Sometimes several programs would unknowingly compete for grants from the same foundation. In order to eliminate this self-defeating confusion, PBH vice presidents Frank Tilgham '73 and James Rowe '73 will establish a centralized clearing procedure to coordinate requests for foundation grants by PBH committees. PBH will also benefit from professional advice from Harvard Development Office on raising money. Dr. Chase M. Peterson '52, vice president of Alumni Affair and Development directed Charles Thomson to provide assistance in funding to undergraduate organization including PBH.
PBH must meet a projects deficit of $9000 in its meant budget. Although money remains tight, PBH's new aggressiveness and coordination in fundraising offer some hope that the deficit can be covered.
A THEME that emerges from the discussion of PBH's concern with finances and the integration of social action with educations is the potential for cooperation between PBH and the University. The Teacher Aide Program, now being set up, provides a good model for creating mutually beneficial ties between to time between PBH and Harvard. This program will place 12 Harvard undergraduates in the Cambridge High and Latin school to help teach subjects in which they have special skill. The volunteers will work with students who have trouble with with their school work. A weekly seminar for credit on classroom problems and touching practices will help the volunteers prepare for their work.
PBH Harvard's Office of Government and Community Affairs, and the Cambridge School Department are setting up the program as a cooperative effort. Mort Hausen '72, president of PBH Bienda Wilson, associate dean of Administration of the GSH: Donald Moulton, coordinator for Community Affairs of the Office for Government and Community Affairs: Robert Sweeney '22, principal of Rindge Tech: and Raymond D'Arey '26, principal of Cambridge High and Latin, have been ironing out the details of the program during the last few weeks. According to Moulton, the project should start within a month. The remaining step is to hire a coordinator to place the teacher aides to supervise them and to set up the seminar on teaching. Coth Harvard and the Cambridge School Department will pay for the program.
The Teacher Aide Program is modeled on a successful project in which MIT students serve as teacher aides in Rindge Tech. Moulton said about the Harvard program. "This course will be a small but significant step in the right direction to create a bridge between the University and the school systems. This This office is very interested in dining with the Cambridge public schools what they want to do and what Harvard, as a large educational institution in an urban setting is capable of doing. Success in the Teacher Aide Program would demonstrative the potential of combining social action with academic work and of cooperation between PBH. Harvard and local communities in establishing and funding activities of mutual benefit.