Identifier: reportofcommitt03newy (find matches)
Title: Report of Committee on school inquiry, Board of estimate an apportionment, city of New York ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Committee on School Inquiry
Subjects: School organization and management
Publisher: City of New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e of the school. It is a neighborhoodas opposed to a Board of Education activity. The work in P. S. 63 istypical of the Social Center idea. The New York Social Center Committee, the first in New York, wasorganized in February, 1912, with Mr. Joseph M. Price as Chairmanand V. Everit Macy as Treasurer. It secured permission from theBoard of Education to use P. S. 63 in cooperation with the existingrecreation center for girls under the general supervision of Dr. Stitt andthe Board of Education. A budget of $3,000 was collected from pri-vate individuals for carrying on the experiment, and Mr. Clinton S.Childs was engaged as secretary. Mr. Childs became a resident of theneighborhood and spent several months in familiarizing himself with itsneeds. The Wednesday Neighborhood Club, already existing in the rec-reation center, of about fifty adults of both sexes, was used as the foun-dation for the enlarged work of the center. Neighborhood dances were the first activities undertaken. The dances
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run /iCOXOMlC utilization OT school flam yjg were held in the open court outside of the schcjol. and were managed Ijya local committee. A tlve-cent admission was charged under the guiseof club dues. These dances were open to both sexes, old and young,and were crowded to the capacity of the floor throughout the summer.With five hundred persons dancing and as many more w-atching fromthe streets and the tenement windows, from a thousand to fifteen hun-dred people were provided with wholesome recreation. There was nouniformed official present; such control as was needed came from theneighborhood committee, and a profit of thirty dollars an evening ac-crued to the committee which was spent on other nonproductive activitiesorganized by the center. Other activities developed. One of these was an excellent neighbor-hood orchestra, which (juickly grew to one hundred pieces. It practicesregularly, and gave a number of free concerts in the neighborhood andto manv charitable enterprises. During t

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