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From: John P. Shanley
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 8,

AUTHORITIES TO MEET AT YORK COLLEGE ON SEPT. 18 TO INITIATE
URBAN STUDIES TRAINING PROGRAM IN COOPERATION WITH JAMAICA
STEERING COMMITTEE

A panel of authorities on housing, education and government, headed by Dr. Eugene S.
Callender, president of the New York Urban Coalition, will participate in an orientation
session for a new urban studies training program on Sept. 18 from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M. in the
lounge of York College's main building, 150-14 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Queens.

This meeting will be followed two days later by the beginning of a series of courses in
the training program, which is sponsored by York College of the City University of New York
and the Jamaica Steering Committee. The courses will be given at the York College Center
for Urban and Community Affairs, 159-07 Archer Avenue, Jamaica.

The courses are designed to train residents of the Jamaica community to become more
knowledgeable about urban problems and more effective in dealing with agencies and
institutions. Between 200 and 250 registrants are expected to take the courses, which will
be given in three 12-week cycles with the same courses being given in each cycle. Besides
the community residents, personnel from appropriate New York City agencies will receive
the training.

Dr. Callender and other authorities on urban and community needs will conduct the
courses, to be presented three hours a week in the evening, two days a week for 90 minutes

a day or in three-hour segments on Saturday mornings.

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The orientation session will have Dr. Callender and Dr. Canute Bernard, chairman of
the Jamaica Steering Committee, as moderators. Scheduled speakers include Albert Walsh,
Administrator of the City's Housing and Development Administration; Edwin Greenidge,
Deputy Administrator, and Mrs. Mary Schulman, Training Director; the Rev. Dr. Robert
Ross Johnson of the Board of Higher Education; President Milton G. Bassin of York College;
Robert Groh, Deputy Borough President of Queens and Randolph Rankin, Director of the
York College Center and Project Administrator .

The training program is funded by a $42,500 grant from the Federal Department of
Housing and Urban Development through the City's Housing and Development Administration.
York's contributions, including services, supplies and facilities, are estimated at $25,375.

The Jamaica Steering Commits is composed of more than I30organizations pledged to
the physical, social and economic development of the Jamaica community.

Topics to be covered during the program are physical planning, including land use in
Jamaica; social planning, community organization; collection of information (with guest
appearances by research directors from city agencies); government and politics of the City
and housing policy, program and development.

Others who will conduct courses include James Hayliger II, director of the Queensborough
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Charles F. Rodriguez, Executive Assistant to
Mayor Lindsay; Edward Schwartzman, chief of the Regional Development Analysis Office of
the New York State Office of Planning Coordination; Mrs. Beverly Moss Spatt, former member
of the City Planning Commission and Wilbert Tatum, former adjunct professor of Community

Relations at City College.
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