Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Bruce Yesky leads A Cycle Club sponsored b Sunday near the old Busi Ing. Local Vo Aid Crim A crime prevention program started almost four years ago with eight young people working in a one-to-one relationship with Colum bia children has expanded to help more than 500 children and families. In addition to the one-to-one prog ram, where volunteer students and young adults befriend children seemingly headed for trouble, Brothers and Sisters takes its volun teers into hospitals to visit children and to the State Hospital, where some of the children are sent. . Juvenile court sends the children to the hospital as an alternative to reform school. Clay Normand, Brothers and Sisters director, said South Carolina is not set up to deal with problems of young people. "We're making progress," he said, "but usually the choices are to either put the kid on probation and send him back home or send him to reform school where, in my opinion, they learn to become criminals." Normand said everything "goes downhill" from the time the chil dren enter reform school. They need someone to look up to, he said, and the only images available are older boys who have committed crimes, so Brothers and Sisters tries to get away from sending chil dren to reform school. "What we do if there's any ques tion about his sanity is ask that he be sent to the hospital for observa tion for at least 30 days. On e of the boys at the hospital was caught returning money to an unguarded bank vault after having second thoughts about stealing it. Normand said the boy is not bad, and he (Normand) "can't think of many adults who wouldn't be tempted by unguarded money." Most of the Brothers and Sisters volunteers are students at local col leges and universities. The stu dents are increasingly getting class credit for working with the, prog ram, Normand said. Drama and art classes have been started for the children, and a USC student has held dance lessons for almost a year. The program also sponsors girl and boy scout troups. BLOOD DONORS NEEDED! IMMEDIATE CASH PAYMENT All repeat donations, $10.00 per individual Age imttins 18-60 Hrs. of operatbin 9amn - 5 pm Mon. thru Fri. CAROLINA BLOOD BANK 1317 Taylor 253-629 Thomas A. Price Igie Rutland during USC icycle race held this past ness Administration build lunteers e Control Normand said a problem that comes with summer is that so many volunteers will be leaving school and the program will need summer volunteers. The program recently started a membership drive, but has received no results yet. He men tioned that Columbia social-service clubs (Zeta Phi Beta sorority, the Links and Moles women's club and the West Columbia Junior Women's Club) have "put alot of work into the dirve." Brothers and Sisters thrives on community donations, and until last summer when the United Fund began paying Normand, even the director's salary came from dona tions. "We don't ask much for donations anymore," he said. "We just let people know we need money. Everybody knows about us and the community has kept us going." The local theatres, Workshop and Town Theatres, give the program free tickets for children's plays. Brothers and Sisters has begun working with the Reception and Evaluation Center, where children go for about 40 days after Juvenile Court sentences. Normand calls the center the fence between home and reform school. "We go out and break up into group of ten kids and talk about drugs and sex basically." Normand said the kids speak freely because they don't have to worry about any thing going on record. "We're getting into going to schools (reform). Soon we'll go to a girls' school where the 14 girls there are, with good reason, fairly hostile," Normand said. On the first visit only he could go. Brothers and Sisters was organized in the summer of 1969 and works with children between 7 and 14 years old. Easy To Open~ Gamecock Charge Account (LUmit) BRITTON!s Study Prograr Applications are still being accepted for the University of South Carolina College of Jour nalism's "Study Journalism Abroad Program" this summer. The May 20-July 5 study program, according to its director. journal JIL 0 "CALI TERRI P SA featurir DOWNTOWN JUN n Application! isnm Prof. Kenneth Starck, will include travel in four countries, Fin land, the Soviet Union, Sweden and Denmark, and will cost participat ing students approximately $1,200 for travel expenses, meals and lodg ing. on main INIOR WORL invites you to our FORNIA PUP PA RTY FOR ETITES of SAN FRAN4 DOWNTOWN T. MAY 5th, 3 P.M. TIL 5 P.M. MR. TOM KINZER of Terri Petites will be here to assist you! L 0 2IFORMAL MODELING g MISS SARA McCANTS Ilss Teenage Columbia OR WORLD, SAT. MAY ! Available The course format, according to Starck, will include lectures deli vered by faculty members at the University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, and scheduled interviews with leaders in journalism, politics and the arts. nD ICH" '0SCOI th. 3 til5 p.m.