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and programs throughout the area. That had meant several vital boosts to PRY. In 1974 CYDS arranged for ycanounu fundings of the PRY Career Center. While the Center has expanded since that time, the same funding has remained constantly. On the CYDS staff is a Job Development, Susan Olderman. Jack Uhrivh, the PRY Career Center Director and other counselors, and Susan Olderman, the CYDS Job Development are constantly on the phone making referrals and designing cooperative ventures in career and employment possibilities. CYDS has also provided a variety of counselor workshops and orientations. CYDS has also provided a variety of technical assistance, including joint binding proposals, leads to corporate funding, liaison for graduate interns placements and supervision of students, and just plain loads of professional and personal care.%u2018No one person knows and is devoted to young people in this community more than Billy Sehroeder,%u201d states Jack Uhrich. Bill is the coordinator for Slope Sports, as well as the Director of The Student Information and Advocacy Center. For three years PRY and Slope Sports have been sponsoring a summer softball ieague and have worked jointly on a mid-year basketball tournament. More than that though, Bill is an available resource for advice, strategy planning, inspiration and a leisure discussion after an exhausting day.PRY works cooperatively with numerous other agencies and programs atdifferent times throughout the year including: The? In addition, PRY parUcip&ics in Scvcia! community inter organizational Task Force, which coordinates several activities such as the spring Basketball League, serving over 300 youths, the Committee for Children Out of School%u2014which has been negotiating with John Jay High School with regards to drop-outs, curriculum reviews, absenteeism, and Park Slope Together%u2014 a coalition of over sixty agencies and organizations.No one group or agency can solve or greatly improve the conditions and opportunities for young people. That is why PRY has actively solicited the cooperation and involvement of others in Park Slope. United, we do stand.PRY Stvdant ParticipationThe story of PRY is very much a story nf hundreds and hundreds of students in high school, college, and graduate school who have given of their energy and talent for as little as two to three hours per week tor a semester to twenty-five hours per week for two years. fOr, in the case of the first Wagner students, weekly volunteer service for three to four years.)In 1968 Wagner College students from Staten Island began the student involvement in PRY. Since that time students have worked for credit, stipend and as volunteers from such schools as: City-asbchool of the Board of Education, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee,Union Theological Seminary, Brooklyn College%u2014undergraduate School of Education and ihe Graduate Guidance Department, New York University, and ETC.%u201c Students have long been part of the core of our program expression,%u201d claims Jack Uhrich, the Director of the Career Center. %u201c Now, in the summer when more than forty high-school through graduate students work with us, we have used an elaborate system of orientation, feedback sessions, evaluation forms, accountability measures. Participation is a job.So while we give support and encouragement, we require performance.%u201dMore than fifty college students trom Wagner and Brooklyn Colleges serve as tutors in the Creative Learning Center of PRY. Bonnies Nuzum, its Director proudly states that both the New York City Board and Brooklyn College feel that our model of working with students should be a demonstration to other social agencies.College students began PRY in 1968. Its present Executive Directive began working with PRY as a seminary student. This summer%u2019s Day Camp Director and Girl%u2019s Recreational Director, Softball Commissioner, and Handball Coordinators...are...yes, students...from graduate schools and colleges. Without them, without the intern programs of the schools and the schools and the corporations that fund the programs, so much would not occur. In fact, it might almost be like recess time, or vacation time...on campus...very little doing at PRY.Your Opportunityto Help PRYThe following are ways that you might be able to join PRY in providing valuable services to youth in our area. If you have your own ideas and suggestions, please contact us. (Telephone 768-0778)%u2022Volunteer as a tutor or teacher in a learning lab in art, drama, puppetry, science, woodwork, poetry or creative writing, ETC.%u2022Donate program supplies for arts and crafts supplies, manual typewriters, library books, tools, board games, etc.(Ask for our laundry list)%u2022Financially support PRY with a generous gift.%u2022Use your corporate, institutional contacts for a funding grant.%u2022Offer office administration and typing skills%u2022Volunteer as a career counselor, coach, r e c r e a tio n a l a id e .%u2022Organize a fund-raising project.TarzianKEEP UP THE GOODWORK P.R.Y.OCM5%u25a00 0r$ 193 seventh aveWishing P.R.Y. increasingsuccess in the Futureyears andCongratulations ontheir 10th Anniversarymining LICENSED* INSURED %u2018 PIANOS?STORM! PACRING _ 7APtoMssMMAi s iiv iC E /S k iraysCALLjKENNYUC%u00bbNY DOT 62277771636 KENNY THE MOVER,INCI33 7*Awenue Brook! yn N Y II3!%u2018Congratulations toF . K . Y .Dunn Funeral Home298 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.Congratulationsand Best Wishesto our Good Friendsat P. R. Y.NOONANREAL ESTATE295 8th St.788-0687Page 14, TH E PHOENIX, August 24,1978i