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paring lunch or washing up after a meal, cleaning the hall floor, taking inventory of the big kitchen pantry, working on the club’s'newspaper, taking typing lessons and practicing office telephone manners.
Advocates supervise the three units - communications, kitchen and maintenance. The program is designed so that it will not function without the cooperation of the members; every function is shared by the members working side by side with the staff. So if the club members don’t help, there is no lunch. The plates aren't served and the dishes stay dirty. The newspaper doesn’t get typed. The walls stay unpainted and the floors unwaxed.
The work makes each member feel wanted as a contribute rand needed in the program, and simultaneously, the members learn skills that may help them find a janitorial, food services or clerical job.
Mrs. Wright doesn’t pretend that this modest training program will prepare all of Laurel House’s members for outside employment. “Some will be here for the rest of their lives,” she conceded. But just working at the club house will ease their mental disability. “Work is an important regenerative factor. It helps people feel fetter about themselves.”
(See LAUREL, p. 18)
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