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Show salt lake free not for sale volume two September 21, 1972 from Redwood . . Students Clean Redwood Area number five Skills Center Relocates by Roger Taylor Robert Archuleta, Irving Education Center coordinator, describes the change in location of the Skills Center to the former Irving Junior High facility as a very practical move. Irving is also being used to house the Community School Offices, a program for junior high and other programs. The Skills Center, funded in part by Model Cities, was previously located in an elementry school but Irving offers much better facilities, such as workshops, gymnasiums and home economics areas. The enrollment age varies from 16 to 45 years of age. Archuleta said, "The goals of drop-out- s the center are two-fol- d but neither goal separate of the other. First of all, we feel it a basic necessity to improve the students This is basic for a proper education to be is self-imag- e. effective. Secondly, we must provide the necessary skills and vocation for a young man or by Kirk Terry The University of Utah Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic invited members of 10 sororities and 13 fraternities to join them in a clean-uproject for the Senior Citizens of the p Redwood area on Saturday, September 16. This project was in coordination with the Redwood Service Center, which is a Model Cities project contracted with the Department. It resulted in over 500 University Social Services students gathering at the University Union at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday and traveling to the Redwood area. The students were organized under the direction of Marya Kammerelle, Panhellenic and Rob Odle, Interfraternity Council President. They spent the day preparing the homes for fall. This project was selected by the fraternity and sorority members of the varied programs and interests Greek system. contemporary This is also of the a beginning of interfraternity cooperation according to Rob Odle. In the past, the fraternities and sororities have found themselves in a spirit of intense and often destructive competition. This project, however, demonstrates the true fraternity spirit of the organization. The days' activity concluded with some very pleased Senior adults and a stomp on the University Campus. Drinks were donated by Shasta. Afton Kinney, Redwood Council will complete the remaining homes. woman to secure a job. These two things go hand in hand and cannot be separated." He continued, "We have had a fairly high rate of drop outs in the Skills Center program and think this indicates a lack of on the part of the student. Many students come to us with a long list of failures and really feel down. Soon these people start taking themselves more serious and this is when they succeed." The Irving Center also offers a course for the completion of High School credit, Adult Basic Education and G. E. D. The Center is presently working out a program for a student who needs only 2 - 3 credits for his High School diploma. He can go the Irving Center for the 1 - 2 hours necessary to compete the credits then instead of having nothing else to do during the day he can go to the vocational school for skills training. This is very good because a student can work on his High School credit at the same time as his vocational training. Archuleta said that teachers I at the school specialize in presenting a highly individualized type of learning. They are more of an individual tutor rather than some highly educated teacher, barking instructions to a classroom of youngsters. The program is funded by the Salt Lake Board of Education and such agencies as Model Cities, the Neighborhood Youth Corps and the W. I. N. program. Additional information may be obtained by calling , extension 304. 322-147- 1 and co-chairm- Director of Interim Services at the Redwood Center, said her staff contacted Senior Citizens throughout the area to find those elderly needing their homes and property cleaned up. The staff, she continued, made the selections based on the economic andor physical disabilities of those elderly who could not do the work themselves. Mrs. Kinney said she is reminding all those Senior Would you like better bus service? a reduction in bus rates? support the Transportation and Highways Task Force their fight for mass transit in Citizens contacted but whom didn't have the work done for them by this group of students, City Commission Chambers, that another Thursday, October 5, 1972 10:00 a.m. clean-u- day, October 14 conducted by the University of Utah's "Outreach" p City and County Bldg. |