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SOS Sends FiveTeams This SummerThis month five more Student Opportunity Serviceteams [eave for summer field service projects. The studentgroup is in its fourth year of operation and continuesto grow. Readers of THE MAGAZINE may recallthe excitement which launched 50S and the first librarythe organization established-in the Philippines.Teams leave this month for Appalachia and four townsin Puerto Rico. Books and libraries are still a major preoccupationof the groups, but now they also are involvedwith community development. Community developmentincludes everything from recreation programs, teachingEnglish, and developing sanitation systems to buildingbasketball courts.Twenty-one students are in the 1966 field teams. Theyinclude: Appalachia - Carolyn Henson, Daniel Bohi,Linda Sullivan, Janet Hazelton, Willard Davis, WalterMichael; Ensenada, Puerto Rico-Diana Long, Ralph Wilson,Jerry Wolf, Diane Bennekamper; Castaner, PuertoRico-William McClary, Ronald Boone, Cornelia Sloan,Patricia Peregoy; Coco, Puerto Rico-David Carrasco,Frank Rinehart, Virginia Brace, Christine Connelly;Ponce, Puerto Hico+Margaret Elgin, Deborah Sturdevant,Jeffrey Ludlow. The Puerto Rico teams leave onJuly 23 and the Appalachia group leaves July 31. Eachwill be gone for six weeks.SOS makes its third visit to Puerto Rico this summer.In Ensenada the four students will continue a provincewidesanitation program. They will also be working ina physical education program for the public schools andpage twelveSOS members work on books stored in their b~ementElderdice Hall. Left to right: Rick Boswell; DaV1d CarrascOgic Elgin, co-chairmen; and Linda Sullivan.wo~:::tMa~~the YMCA. The Ensenada team plans to launch a tt~gram designed to assist English teachers in the puschools. . co m -In the mountain village of Castaner a recreation 'plusmittee and a playground were .created la.st sum::~atiolnyear the four students plan a library proJect, a E glishprogram, a physical education program and nclasses.he firstSOS will visit the tin~ village of Co~o f;:ca; schoOltime. The four workers Will pool efforts WIth. there.board officials in an attempt to establish ~I~:~~ponce,The most delicate project t~is su~mer wIll shldentsa large southern Puerto RICan city. The t hree gramwill participate in a communit~ developmve;~~r~ppor_to create clubs for boys and girls who hatunity for organized group efforts. k withAppalachia team member~ ,,:,il.l H.ve and e:~~n withresidents of Panther, West Virginia, I~ COOPbOlitseventythe Council of the Southern Mountams '. A 9500 boOksmembers of SOS spent the year cataloguing "'~stablishedfor this project. The team hopes to leave anlibrary in Panther. . £1 in andCo-chairmen of SOS this year are Maggw ~ boOksDave Carrasco. Under their direction about ~~d facilitywere processed, training programs were held d As onein Spanish for the Puerto Rico teams develope .d "withof them has said, this summer will be approache'I eel'the creative energy characteristic of the true pionspirit of SOS."