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The WMC StudentThe December issue prepared byundergraduates last year explored thecommitment to service of WMC studentsand alumni. That commitmenttakes various turns on the Hill, not allprofound, but aU sincere. Recentlythere hae been a growing interest inservice to creativity as well as tohumanity. The articles which followare a selection from numerous projectsunder way.SCA INNER CITY PROJECTMembers of the Student Christian Assoelationrecently took time to explore thelocation of a problem before planning aproject. With the help of a Methodist minister,eight students toured part of the innercity area of Baltimore and made plans toreturn to help with voter registration, recreation,and some community planning.Planning what is now called an Advancerather than a Retreat, the students originallywent to Baltimore to help with voter registration.Inadvertently they got sidetrackedby a CORE rally and march protesting ahousing problem in Baltimore. JamesFarmer was speaking at a Eutaw Placesynagogue when the students arrived to helpwith voter registration, and immediatelyafter Mr. Farmer's talk the protest marchtook place. Western Maryland students didnot join this march because they reachedthe synagogue too late to hear Mr. Farmer'sspeech and were not completely sure whatthe protest was about. They did not feelthey should march without understandingthe reason. It was a first experience for mostof the students, however, who carefully observedthis civil rights protest. They wereinterested in the fact that the marcherswere an integrated group, most of them obviouslynot slum dwellers. There were noincidents, no violence.After this introduction, the Rev. RobertS. Clark of Fells Point Parish took the studentsto Caroline Street Methodist ChurchAs the march had delayed them past timeto be helpful, Mr. Clark decided to take thegroup on an inspection of the neighborhood.As SCA president Louise Nelson said, fewof them had ever come so close to the problem.She added that it all looks much dtf-~erent ~t dose view than it does when youJust dnve through the areaWoods and Mr. Clark. Weekday programsinclude a Day Nursery; remedial readingand library services for children and youth;Brownie and Cub Scouts, Girl and BoyScouts; craft and recreation groups; studyand prayer groups; choirs for children andadults. Special summer programs are Vacations-In-The-Countryand Vacation ChurchSchools. Counseling is provided for peoplewho desire help with socio-economic needsand direct assistance is given or referrals tothe appropriate agency are made.A storefront building was acquired in1964 on East Baltimore Street. The store.After looking at housing and schools andhearing Mr. Clark explain some of the problemsand tensions in the area, the studentsvisited Broadway Methodist Church, anotherinner city church which is part of FellsPoint Parish. The inner city parish which ROTC cadets, on a tour of Gettysburg National Military Park, hear a~ e~alsoincludes East Baltimore Station is min- planat'ion of tllis howitzer's firepower from Lt. Col. Kingston M. \Vmge,istercd to by Robert]. Fringo, '55, Jerry L. assistant professor of milita1'1jscience.)14gBten