Whitlock To Be Chairman Of Special PBH Committee

Dean Dunlop announced Monday that Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the College, will chair a special committee to consider what the purpose of Phillips Brooks House (PBH) should be in the 1970's.

PBH- Harvard's undergraduate social service organization- sponsors activities such as the Prisons Committee, Mental Hospitals Committee, and Challenge, an after-school program for Cambridge children. In the past five years, PBH has felt an increasingly severe financial crunch.

Whitlock, a member of the PBH Faculty Committee for the past 18 years, said that his new committee will be especially interested in studying whether academic credit should be given for PBH projects. "Harvard has been pretty stuffy about field work up till now," he said.

Whitlock, formerly assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations, is a member of the Cambridge-Somerville Mental Health Board. In the mid 1960's, he was vice president of the Cambridge Mental Health Association.

Crucial Issue

PBH leaders, who had asked Dunlop for a more than $20.000 annual subsidy, were displeased with the rather critical report of the Committee on Students and Community Relations (CSCR), which recommended last December that PBH receive "at least $10,000" for 1971-72.

They met with Dunlop in January, and he decided to set up the new committee after consulting with Dean May. He also agreed to compromise on the 1971-72 subsidy and set it at $14,000.

Michael Robinson '71-3, president of PBH, said, "They [the CSCR] somehow did not seem to understand what we were trying to say. This new committee is a higher level committee. We're optimistic that it will take us more seriously."

One crucial issue which Whitlock's committee will not discuss is the maintenance cutbacks which will force PBH to close on weekends and eliminate its evening hours by June, 1973. The graduate secretary of PBH will reportedly appeal this decision when Bok's Administration takes over.

The other members of Whitlock's committee will be R. Freed Bales, professor of Social Relations; Janet Fraser, director of Student Affairs in the Institute of Politics; Peter Goldmark '68, formerly of Mayor Lindsay's staff; Walter J. Leonard, assistant dean of the Law School; Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean for Student Affairs at the Medical School; and Representative Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.).