Box 9, Folder 3, Document 105

Box 9, Folder 3, Document 105

UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE



Kennesaw Mountain
National Battlefield Park
P. O. Box 1167
Marietta, Georgia 30060

IN REPLY REFER TO:

A98

August 14, 1969

Mr, Sam A, Williams, Director

Atlanta Urban Corps 4
30 Courtland Street, N. E.

Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Dear Mr. Williams:

I am quite happy to respond to your letter of July 30, requesting
an outline of our opinion of the Urban Corps and the interns
placed with us this summer,

Through the aid of the Atlanta Parks and Recreation Department and

the Southern Regional Education Board, seven interns were assigned

to Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park to aid with the
Environmental Education Program and to act as leaders and teachers
for youngsters visiting the Park Environmental Study Area from the
Atlanta area recreation departments and for the Atlanta School System,

We did not have as many youngsters participate in the program as
expected, since the Atlanta School System encountered some problems
with their initiation of the twelve-months school program and was not
able to participate in our program, By August 22, the Urban Corps
interns will have indoctrinated between 2,500 and 3,000 youngsters
into our concept of environmental education.

After indoctrination, two of the interns have been placed on a special
assignment and have selected and laid out Environmental Education Trails
for the Atlanta Parks and Recreation Department at Lake Allatoona,

near Marietta, Georgia, and on five Parks within the city limits of
Atlanta, They have also prepared,in draft form, teachers' manuals for
the future use of leaders in carrying out an Environmental Education
Program on Parks and Recreation Department-owned land.
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The five interns who have participated principally in leading
youngsters through the Environmental Education Trails at Kennesaw
Mountain National Battlefidd Park have also worked during the
summer on revising the teachers' manual which we had prepared for
this area,

All the interns assigned to Kennesaw Mountain were intelligent,
enthusiastic workers. They are a credit to the Urban Corps and to
the schools from which they were selected.

We were quite satisfied with the interns selected for our use, and
we hope to be able to participate in the Atlanta Urban Corps program
in the future,

Sincerely yours,



Vincent Ellis
Superintendent

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