St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-03-02
St. Paul Urban
League Intensifies
Guidance Proqrom


According to Ernest Cooper, ex-
ecutive secretary of the st. Paul
Urban League, through it's Voca-
tional Services Department, is be-
ginning to intensity it's guidance
program Thus far, the focal point
for guidance activities has been
the Tomorrow's Scientists and
Technicians program. But the Vo-
cational Services Secretary, Calvin
L. Walton, is now broadening the
guidance program to include more
individual counseling of high
school students.
Tomorrow's Scientists and Tech
nicians, commonly known as TST,
was launched in 1858 by the Ma
tional Urban League as a means
of encouraging more Negro youth
to seek careers in the scientific
and technical fields.
Since it's inception many local
Urban League affiliates have
stressed all fields of learning, and
not just the scientific and techni-
cal. This continues to be the ap-
proach of the st. Paul Urban
League.
It is the view of the agency's
Vocational Services Secretary that
Urban Leagues must seek out the
best young Negro talent in the
community without regard to spec
ific fields of endeavor". "As long
as a youngster is interested in 60
ing into an occupation requiring
some degree of training, we have
an obligation to assist him, if he
seeks our assistance"
At the start of the Leagues
fall program period there were 81
members listed on the TST men,
bership roster. Since that time, %
new members have been added for
a total of so members. Forty-nine
of the members attend either Cent
raj or Mechanic Arts High Schools.
The remaining member is a stu
dent at Washington High School.
In recent weeks, several other
students have expressed an inter-
est in joining; and from all in
dications this increase in member
ship appears to be stimulating the
desires of others to join the group.
On Monday, February IL, ap-
proximately 80 of the members
went by bus to Rochester, Mime
sofa. They visited Rochester Junior
College and the Mayo Clinic. Plans
are now underway for the group
to visit the following institutions:
River Falls (Wis.) State, Gus
tavus Adolphus College, Augsburg
College, st. Cloud State, Mankato
State, Moorehead State, Carleton
College, Bemidji State, st. Olaf
College, Winona State, Hamline
University, and st. Thomas Col
lege. The decision to continue the
TST program during the summer
months will probably bring about
an increase in the number of
schools to be visited, as visitations
will be made during summer school
sessions at some colleges.
Mr.. Cooper stated the purpose
of the college tours is to help ac-
quaint future college students with
various facets of college life and
to inform them of admission pro-
cedures, admission requirements
and subject matter available to
students. AS a partial result of
last years program Of college Wis
itations, approximately seventeen
TST graduates of 1861 are now in
institutions of higher learning.
In recent weeks the League
Vocational Services Secretary has
sent a letter to each Negro senior
student at Central and Mechanic
Arts High Schools. The attempt
here is to make the Leagues job
counseling and college counseling
services known to every Negro
youth who will graduate in 1862.
To date, several Of these seniors
have made appointments to discuss
their futures with Mr.. Walton and
to seek his assistance either in
securing a job after graduation or
in getting college financial aid.
THE st. Paul Urban League" Mr..
Cooper stated, believes that 1862
graduates cannot wait until grad
uation to begin making plans for
the future. The rush to get into
accredited colleges is rapidly in
creasing; and interested students