Volunteers Wanted

Aides for Turner School Saturdays

The PennVIPS program seeks faculty and staff willing to volunteer three hours a month on Saturdays to work with youth and adults at Turner Middle School, 59th & Baltimore.

Among the projects at hand are a learning center for pre-schoolers and a beautification project for the School's interior and exterior.

The Turner Middle School project is under the aegis of WEPIC (West Philadelphia Improvement Corps). For more information: Bonnie Ragsdale, phone 898-2020; fax 573-2799; or e-mail ragsdale@pobox. upenn.edu.

Guides for 'Museum on the Go'

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology seeks volunteers for its in-school program "Museum on the Go." Volunteers, known as Mobile Guides, travel to Philadelphia elementary schools introducing children to actual museum artifacts, as well as reproduction costumes, maps, models and pictures of ancient Egypt, the Classical World and North American Indians. To find out more: the Mobile Guide office at the Museum , 898-4277.

Almanac

Volume 43 Number 5
September 24, 1996

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