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Show VISTA Trainees Prepare At U. MR. TOR GRIEGER joined VISTA because "America ...needs service badly." He and his wife of one month, Becky, think there is something better to do than drop bombs on people. They hope to spend the year working on a reservation reser-vation in the Southwest. A recent graduate from Wesley-an Wesley-an University in Connecticut, 23-year-old Tor will go to Divinity and Theological school, possibly at Harvard, when the year of service is finished. His wife, 19, will complete com-plete her undergraduate work. Because of his interest in behavioral be-havioral psychology, Bob Weinberg, Wein-berg, 19, of Denver, joined VISTA to get some practical experience with people of a different culture. He hopes to help the Indians with mechanical skills and carpentry. AFTER completing his freshman year at the University of California, Eric Menken of Santa Barbara volunteered vol-unteered for VISTA after being turned down for military service. He thinks the War on Poverty is the most important war anyway, and hopes to help the Indian communities com-munities learn to use existing organizations or-ganizations such as the Boy Scouts and Boys' Clubs. Stu and Rissa Schiff have been married a year and at 23 and 21 years, respectively, thought they were too young to settle down to the day-to-day grind of working life. Stu just graduated from City College of New York (CCNY), in business marketing and management. manage-ment. He worked his way through. The Schiffs would like to go to Alaska. Rissa doesn't expect to find it hard work because they will enjoy working with the; Indians. "There won't be any hardships, only inconveniences." THE DESIRE to "do something real" after four years in economics at Stanford University motivated David S. Johnson, 21, to volunteer. He's from South Dakota and thinks the year of service will give him time to stop and think about things for a while before going on to graduate school. By CAMILLA MINER Love of adventure, a desire to serve America and a year to think and get away from the daily grind these were among motivating factors for those who joined the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), and are now being trained at the University of Utah. The 53 participants, including three married couples, arrived from various parts of the United States Tuesday and registered at Central Hall where they began six weeks of training. THE UNIVERSITY training will prepare the VISTA's, as they call themselves, for work on Indian reservations. Other training programs pro-grams throughout the U.S. are directed di-rected to such poverty areas as urban ghettos, Appalachia and migrant mi-grant worker's camps. The U's seventh cycle of trainees will be taught by director Robert Gwilliam and his staff who will teach the volunteers how to help the Indians help themselves. The training period will include four days of supervised introduction introduc-tion at the Uintah and Ouray Reservations Res-ervations near Roosevelt, Utah, after which the volunteers will return to the campus. They will spend 12 days from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in seminars, lectures and in working with the Community Action Ac-tion Programs now in progress in 1 Y I 'f "V " -.m I . . .. j7 J ? v Z) the Salt Lake area. Each evening there will be group dynamics training to teach the workers how to work with groups, with the emphasis on understanding the individual. in-dividual. The next three weeks will be spent in supervised work on a reservation. THE FINAL WEEK will include evaluation, special courses such as First Aid and teaching English as the second language, and the wind-up wind-up of the training. Final placement will send the VISTAs on their way to different reservations throughout through-out America. Qualifications for membership in the program are wide open. No foreign language is needed. Ages of members range from 18-year-old high school graduates to retired re-tired 70 and 80-year-olds. One recent re-cent VISTA trainee was in a wheelchair wheel-chair and how works in an- Indian reservation hospital, so there are few physical requirements. The most important prerequisite is the desire to spend a year helping America's poor. I A veritable chorus line of VISTA volunteers turns attention to Indian problems as they train for their year of service. The knobby, hairy knee in the foreground has to belong to the choregrapher. |