Junior to Advise New State Corps

Alan R. Liebgett '66 was sworn in by Governor Peabody '42 Tuesday as one of the first fifteen volunteers in the Commonwealth Service Corps.

The Service Corps, modeled on a statewide basis after President Kennedy's Domestic Peace Corps, has just begun to recruit volunteers for social service work throughout Massachusetts.

One of the Corps' pilot projects involves the establishment of college volunteer service centers such as Phillips Brooks House. Liebgott, as chairman of the PBH Mental Hospitals Committee, will serve as an advisor, helping other colleges to organize similar mental hospital volunteer groups.

Belden Daniels, one of the directors of the Commonwealth Service Corps, spoke to the chairman of the PBH committees and asked their help in establishing "a network of PBH's all over the Commonwealth."

Liebgott describes his role in the Corps as "paving the way for the future volunteers who will be doing the real work. Once the groundwork is laid for the various pilot programs, which also include work with juvenlie delinquents and the aged, the Service Corps will begin active recruiting.

The Massachusetts State Legislature, which voted the Corps into existence last year, stipulates that volunteers must serve for one year for at least six hours a week. By this time next year the Corps hopes to have one thousand volunteers.