Box 3, Folder 17, Document 36

Box 3, Folder 17, Document 36

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+ THE NEIGHBOR THURSDAY, JUNE 19,1969 i

co Center Finds Jobs For 75 Youths

The West End Neighbor- variety of positions. Some

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will do clerical, maintenance,

Monday recruited andplaced and-recreation work. Others

75 young people, between the
ages of 14 and 21, in jobs for
the = summer through the
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Summer Program. The voung
people, who must be in school
from high school,. will fill a

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will serve as teacher aides
and as aides in the Roy Mc-
Gee Health Center. Still oth-
ers will be placed at the Girls’
Club and at the West End
Boys’ Club.

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riving at the Neighborhood
Center at 8 a.m. Monday,
have been placed in the 75
jobs and are already at work.
The jobs will last through the
week of August 20, Mrs. Sa-
rah Zimmermann, director of
the West End Service Center
said.

By 4 p.m. Monday nearly* »

WESTEND STUDENTS WAIT AT CENTER
To Be Interviewed for NYC Summer Employment



100 students had applied for
the jobs. **All we have to do is
whisper a'job might be avail-
able, Mrs. Zimmermann said.
“and the kids turn out en-
masse. It makes you wonder
why some people say ‘‘these
people don’t want to work.”

Ossie Helton, Manpower
Youth Advisor at the West
End Center and Derral Fral-
ish, coordinator forthe sum- 3
mer NYC program at the cen-
ter, handled the placement of
the students from lowpin-
come families