Box 9, Folder 9, Document 4

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Page Two
April 8, 1969

hundred of their summer interns will attend Urban Corps orientation
meetings and our development teams will visit federal agencies to help
them in choosing certain intern slots. Federal interns will be chosen and
placed by federal agencies by merit of their civil service examination
scores. Cooperation this year is hopefully aimed at some placement |
system of Urban Corps interns in future years.

Federal agencies have agreed to participate as much as possible. One |

Joe Kimmins has been loaned part-time from the Peace Corps Regional
Office and will be assisting on intern development. Diane Wilson, a
Spelman graduate, has been hired fulltime to assist in internship develop-
ment. Russ Caldwell will work part-time in program development and

is on loan from the Georgia Municipal League. Fulltime secretaries are
badly needed,

Urban Corps offices will open the week of April ll. The address will be
30 Courtland Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. The telephone number is
525-2662. We hope to have someone manning the phones by Monday,
April 14, Calls are presently being handled through the Youth Council
at 522+4463, Ext. 437,

Student recruitment will begin through financial aid offices in each college
the week of April 18, Mayor Allen will make a formal announcement of
the city's participation April 9 in a press release. Brochures describing
the Urban Corps and student application forms will be printed the week of
April ll,

The Board of Trustees will meetiApril 18 to elect 8 people to the Executive
Board and to pass resolutions and approve minutes so the IRS will grant us
a tax exempt status for donations.

Exact estimates on number of interns is impossible at this time. No
work beginning date has been set. The most important fact is that the
Urban Corps is alive and struggling to get on its feet.

Large thanks to; Bill Ramsay, SREB
Dan Sweat, City Hall
Rich Speer, Georgia Tech
The Atlanta Constitution
and an endless list

This memo is not for publication,

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