PBH to Enlarge Hospital, Prison, Tutorial Services

PBH announced expanded hospital, prison, and tutoring services last night. New activities will emphasize closer co-operation with civic and University leaders, said Peter K. Gunness '57, the association's president.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for example, is holding special seminars for PBH tutors who have begun a remadial reading course this term. The GSAS has also provided the tutors with a panel of advisers.

The Prison Tutors Committee is co-operating with the School of education, Solicitation for the annual Red Crose- PBH blood drive will take place Monday through Friday of next week. The actual donations will be made at Memorial Hall the Week of December 3rd. so that graduate students can gain prison teaching experience. On the undergraduate level, students can work in prisons in place of writing a paper for Social Relations 169. Earlier in the term, the Social Relations Department, with the help of PBH, instituted & course based upon student work with mental patients in the Waltham Hospital.

On the civic level, the Cambridge Chapter of the Red Cross in giving a first aid and nursing course for hospital volunteers. Since the Massachusetts Prison Board has encouraged the prison tutors to expand their work, Walpole Prison had added intramural athletics to its program.

In an attempt to better public relations, the publicity committee is planning a PBH column in the Cambridge Chronicle.

The expanded program has been made possible by the record number of active members of PBH, now totalling over 800.