The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-11-19
PAID WORKER TO
Be LOCATED HERE
Directors of Brattleboro
Community Service
So Decide
MIR. BROWN TO STAY
TWO MONTHS LONGER
Membership and Financial Campaign to
BE Conducted to Make Work Perma-
nent i'm BrattlebOrO-Winter Sports
Being Planned.

Community Service, with a paid
worker, is to become a permanent feature
of the community life of Brattleboro
through a vote of the directors in meet
ing in the Chamber of Commerce rooms
last evening, and Frederic X. Brown,
who has been working here several weeks
under Community Service, Ines of New
York, has been engaged to remain here
two. months. to assist in further organic
ing the local service and help in planning
winter sports. The executive committee
already has secured funds with which to
compensate Mr.. Brown for further work
here.
Up to the present time whatever re-
muneratiOn Mr.. Brown and the special
workers, Miss Roberta Winans and Dan
Nolan, have received for their services in
Brattleb0rO has been provided by Com
munity Service, Inc, of New York, the
activities of which are financed by means
OF an endowment fund The purpose of
the New York corporation is to maintain
a corps of organizers and workers who go
4 into the various communities on invita-
tiCn of the citizens and demonstrate what
/ can be accomplished through organized
! recreation, the question of whether a paid
worker shall be employed to follow up the
WOEk OF the organizers Del0S IeII enLlreIy
/ to each local organization.
| Following the decision of the directors
/ last evening to secure paid worker for
BrattlebOro it was decided to conduct a
/ financial and membership campaign to
raise sufficient funds to cover the cost of
| a worker, office expenses and incidentalS.
1t is anticipated that Community Service
Tor Brattleboro will be a large stock COM
pany, the stockholders being any of the
citizens who may wish to become mem
bers. The services of the worker will be
available to any organization, society,
lodge, group, or neighb0rhOOd, who may
desire help in planning recreation features
and the larger the number of members
the better the service which can be rem
dered to everyone.
The directors also voted last evening
to adopt a year-round program of activi-
/ ties, which had been drawn up by the
: executive committee. The program antici-
: pates n variety of winter sports, which
will include a big central skating rink to
be put in condition after the storms and
2 illuminated, skiing and snowshoeing de-
, velOpmentS, and a three-day mid-winter
carnival. The program also includes a
- Christmas celebration, a May day fete. a
I supervised swimming pool and a summer
playground.
- Fred II. Harris, who will be in charge
} OF the winter sports, was voted into the
{ directorate of Community Service last
4 evening. The other directors are: George
=, l.. Dunham. Charles g. STABLES. Charles
= F. Mann. Miss Florence N. Wellman.
Ephraim II. Crane, Mrs. Fremont Ham
lilton. Jacob =. Estey, Col. L. W. Gibson.
Mrs. Henry K. Brown, L. Guy Tasker
Verne II. Winchester, Hermon V. Brooks
: Mrs. George b. Hunter of West Brattle-
boro.. John l.. johnson, Mrs. Emma C.
Harrington, Harold ". Mason. Mrs. Dan.
~ iel j. Stolte John Mckay, George J
a Perkins. Mrs. Howard c. Rice, Robert L.
: Fits, Miss Sylvia Crosby
e The executive committee already is
a working on the detail of plans for the
various projects
a Progress also is being made in helping
u the surrounding towns in their local Com
munity Service activities.