Theory and practice will be put to a test today when junior and senior students of fourteen women’s colleges in the East will begin a three-day tour of welfare agencies in this city. The pilgrimage will be made under the guidance of Carol Rouse and Ruth Steinberg, members of the board of the Association of Volunteers of the Welfare Council.
This annual event is planned to give the girls, who are approaching graduation, an insight into the vital social problems of the day and the methods that are being used by representative agencies in dealing constructively with them.
The expedition will include first a visit to the Russell Sage Foundation Buliding, 130 East Twenty-second street. There Jane Hoey, acting director of the Welfare Council, will give the students a bird’s eye view of the various types of social service provided in New York City. With the aid of graphic charts, Miss Hoey will demonstrate how the work of the city’s eight hundred health and welfare organizations are coordinated through the Welfare Council to prevent duplication of effort and waste of time and money.
Other visits will include the Altro Workshop in the Bronx, which is supervised by the Committee on the Care of Jewish Tuberculars. Here the group may observe patients in the early stages of tuberculosis being taught to make high-grade garments which are sold to wholesale houses and hospitals.
On Thursdays Abraham Goldfeld, director of the Lavanburg Homes on 124 Goerck street, will conduct the group through the apartments and discuss with them the advantages of the low renting housing project, designed primarily for families with young children.
Colleges to be represented in this practical expedition into the field of sociology are Adelphi, Elmira, Goucher, Mount Holyoke, New Jersey College for Women, Randolph Macon, Sarah Lawrence, Skidmore, Tufts, Vassar, Wells, Wellesley, Wheaton and Wilson.
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