Stone Tells of New Ventures For Combine

Three new ventures have come under the supervision of the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., Gregory B. Stone '58, president, has announced. Tentative plans have been for a school-boy-student counsellor program, a western bus trip for teenage boys run by college students, and a student market research program.

The counsellor service, established as a tuition charging "big brother" program for youngsters, will operate on Saturday afternoons, starting on a trial basis Dec. 7.

Trips to the Science Museum, a Harvard House, or informal athletics are some of the activities planned for the groups, each of which would be supervised by one counsellor.

Participants include boys from private schools near Boston whose homes are too far apart for ordinary companionship. according to Stone. Counsellors in the program which Stone says is "not a baby-sitting or a case study program" will be chosen on the basis of their interest, financial need, and experience.

Plan Bus Tour

The HSA is tentatively planning summer bus tours with college drivers in order to give New England boys a chance to see their country. Thirty to forty days would be the maximum time for a trip, whose route would probably include extensive travelling in the West and the Midwest.

The program, "a perfect example of the way HSA can help the enterprising student," according to Stone, would include a self-perpetuating hierarchy of drivers, assistant managers and managers.

The most tentative of the three new ventures, the market research project would provide jobs for students interested in door-to-door work which would lead to openings after graduation. The research will be done for a fire-extinguisher company interested in Cambridge's reactions to the companys' new design. Stone hopes that this first project will lead to others like it.

Commenting on these ventures of the newly-established agency, Dustin M. Burke '52, Director of the Agency, said that "they show the scope and potential of the HSA."

The HSA at the present time is over-seeing activities of "18 to 20" agencies, which all together include about 75 people. Financially, the agency is "within its budget," according to Burke. Its purpose, he added, is "not to make rich people richer," but rather to help students with financial need and ideas.