Evening star., 1953-06-18
UCS Board Reflects
Glover as President
Acts on Reports

Charles c. Glover III, Wash
ington attorney, has been re-
elected president of United Com
munity Services for a second
one-year term.
He was named, along with a
slate of other officers for the
1953-54 year, by vote of the
UCS board of trustees at meet
ing in the YWCA yesterday. The
other officers:
John S. Hayes. first vice presi-
dent; John B. Duncan. second
vice president; John L. c. Sulli-
van, third vice president; Mrs.
deForest Van Slyck. secretary.
and Kenneth Birgfeld. treasurer.
In addition, 13 of the trustees
were elected to the groups ex-
scutive committee. They are
Mrs. Henry A. Bartlett, George
G. Fleming, Mrs. Robert E.
Freer, West Hamilton, Carl E.
Herrick, Francis j. Kane, Ernest
c. Mellor, Lawrence M. Nathan,
Robert Lee O'Brien, jr.: Mandel
Ourisman, Mrs. Josephine Pic
colo, Roger Robb and Herman A.
Schulteis.
Board Approves Reports
In it's business session, the
board took these actions:
/. Voted to approve three re-
ports from its Family and Child
Welfare Section. The reports all
had been made public previously
and approved by the executive
group.
2. Decided to receive and pass
on to the city's eight settlement
houses for their advisement a set
of recommendations as to how
the neighborhood houses might
improve service. The group made
plain, however. that it was not
committing itself to agreement
with all the wording of the rec
concentrations, by a committee
of the Recreation and Group
Work Section.
The possibility of a contro-
verSy over the settlement house
report was anticipated, but it
failed to materialize in view of
the adopted resolution. The re-
port, also made public previous
ly, raised questions of segregation
practices. proposed that some fa-
cilities might be merged and
said the houses should offer serv-
ices to all people residing in the
areas they serve.
DictatiOn Denied.
The report had been preceded
over a three-year period by "self-
studies by the houses and an
earlier report by a special UCS
committee.
Mr.. Glover said the final report
indorsed by the Recreation and
Group Work Section had been
"misinterpreted" by some per-
sons "to mean that UCS was
trying to dictate what the settle
ment houses should do" He said
this view was in error. but that
the special resolution was drawn
up to dispel any implication that
UCS wanted to interfere with
autonomy Of the settlement
houses.
The resolution, as approved by
the trustees, said the section re-
port and earlier studies were be-
ing sent to the houses 80 that
individually, or collectively, they
may consider making whatever
changes and improvements are
possible as autonomous agen-
cieS."
Outlines Sound Operation.
While the resolution stressed
the trustees were not making a
commitment ION any specific rec
ommendation." it said the report
does "state principles for sound
operation" to help the houses be
"a stronger and more vital force
in solving problems Of people in
the areas they serve. 49,"
In another action, Mr.. Glover
presented special new UCS serv-
Ice pins to 13 retiring members
of the executive committee. They
included Mrs. Henry Gichner,
retiring first vice president; Dan
H. Wheeler. retiring second vice
president; G. Rowland Shaw, re-
firing secretary; Alfred II. Law
son, retiring treasurer. and retir-
ing members r. Elwood Davis,
Patrick NJ. Deming, Hugh K.
Dufiield, w. Herbert Gill, Duane
M. Paul.. Mrs. Charles Runyon
III, Mrs. Maxwell Stokes, Walter
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