[97] in APO News
city days
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (darford@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sun Sep 13 00:50:08 1992
From: darford@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 00:48:46 -0400
To: ltsuruda@pearl.tufts.edu
Cc: apo-news@Athena.MIT.EDU
Lori,
Most of the CityDays projects were fairly accurately
categorized by one of the three categories used. As for categorizing
by kind of agency, PSC tried to do that on Public Service Day. They
ended up with a lot of categories "hunger" for example that had to be
filled with very small projects (5 people) that weren't practical for
the scale of the event. I'm not saying your idea is bad; just that it
is dangerous in the wrong hands. My point was that it made a lot more
sense to assign people to projects when they showed up because on
Public Service Day they had some small projects for which NONE of the
workers showed up.
>I think Labor Day is a terrible day for service projects because few agencies
>can pay employees to be there, and I really think employees and clients should
>participate or at least be there to talk about the agency and thank the
>volunteers.
Good point.
>It would be nice if there were standards regarding what actually
>happens at theprojects. Name tags, introductions, quick tour of site,
>dividing up work, etc.laid out explicitly for participants, PCs, and
>the agencies.
Generally a good idea, but PSC is likely to fuss about this
when they should be dealing with more vital things like
transportation, then get upset if they find out that one group didn't
get a site tour. Maybe we should keep separate files of things to do
if we run an event, and things we dare tell PSC.
>I'm not sure if APO agreeign to provide all the PCs should become de facto.
>It's a lot of work for the SVP, on top of the usual R/O time projects. Ping
>has suggested scaling back chapter projects to free up more resources for CIty
>Days.
I would keep the living group school projects. Anyone know
how they went?
Which projects are you recommending scaling back? Reg Day is
vital to the chapter, and book exchange is a very good idea. I think
that we need to get someone other than the SVP to chair our efforts.
I'm really sorry I haven't felt up to doing more of this summer's
work; please understand that I'm really trying, but I just don't seem
to be able to do as much as I used to without collapsing later.
>City Days has great potential. In fact, it could substitute as a real-life
>Project Moya in that frosh work together to get good things done. As you and
>APO know from experience, doing a full day project really brings people
>together. (I've seen it happen on my MiniServes - total strangers have become
>friends after one day service projects.) I hope to speak with Priscilla Gary
>and Ginny Sorenson about this idea.
Please forewarn the chapter before volunteering it for
anything. The alumni seem to chronically overestimate the amount of
manpower the chapter has available. If we keep volunteering for
things that end up getting done by Execcom, we're going to burn what
little we have left out. This would be bad.
Thank you notes to the freshman are an excellent idea. I
think I lost my attendence sheet, but will keep it in mind.
Yes, the Tech did have an article about CityDays, which
included quotes from a few freshman, and several pictures from one of
the school projects. No, none of the people running it were mentioned
by name. In general, I liked the article.
I intend to write a project report, and hope other PC's will
do the same.
YiLFS,
DJF
