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seeks Rice volunteers for tutoring program By SANDY COYNER having trouble in school. There Thrasher Editorial staff a re many like me at all grade "Can you help me?" the posl e v e i s i n Houston. Please give ter asks. "My name is Greg, us a hand . . . " I am eight years old. I am VISTA has come to Houston, and is searching the local campuses for volunteers to help in their new tutorial programs concentrated in the First and Fifth Wards of the city. The initials mean "Volunteers In Service to America." Often billed as the domestic Peace Corps, VISTA places volunteers in trouble spots in the US for their one-year volunteer periods. Sixteen Here Sixteen such workers are curv "> rently in the Houston area, working in co-operation with the Houston Council on Human Relations and other groups, but mostly on their own. The tutoring project is one of those in which other local people can help. VISTA TUTORING Interested R i c e students A personal friendship. . . . should attend a meeting of the Houston Council on Human Relations, 5403 Austin, at 4 pm Tuesday, Oct. 4, or call at JA 6-1829. The program has been organized by two young volunteers, Sandy McElroy and Kathy Boom. Children to be tutored are in the 4th through 6th grades, and are recommended for the project by their principals. Space for the tutoring is provided by churches and neighborhood centers in the immediate vicinity of the schools themselves. The program is well-organized: each center will be supervised by a "captain," and volunteers are asked to sign for a regular schedule of 1 to lVa hours per week, in one or two sessions.