ABC Expansion

A double expansion for Project ABC (A Better Chance) is forecast for that four-year-old program this summer. Some 120 disadvantaged boys, about twice the number of participants last year, will be studying on campus, and secondly, three more public high schools have been added to the two which now receive boys from the Dartmouth program.

Lack of space in private schools, which will take about half of the summer's ABC students, is responsible for the increase in public school participation. Hanover High School joined the program last year and Andover, Mass., has been participating this year. Next year these two will be joined by schools in Lebanon, N.H., and Longmeadow and North Andover, Mass.

William McCurine Jr. '69, Associate Director of ABC, explains that each community will take ten students for two academic years at a total cost of $60,000, of which $20,000 will be raised by the community and $40,000 supplied by ABC from funds it seeks from foundations and other private sources. Private sources also support the summer phase at Dartmouth.

Among other developments reported by the ABC Program: Ten ABC "alumni" will return this summer as assistant tutors, thereby demonstrating to new students that the project really works; a "Bridge Program" is scheduled to acclimate disadvantaged Dartmouth freshmen and give them college-level tutoring prior to September classes; a tutoring school by undergraduates will be organized on campus to give academic help to students from surrounding high schools; the Class of '7l, which has assumed responsibility for the Lebanon phase, has committed twenty members to part-time tutoring each week and two men to serve as resident tutors in Lebanon while maintaining a full College academic load; and Green Key is contemplating a College community campaign for $18,000 this summer to finance experiments not supported by present grants.