Peace Corps Successes Mean Work
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In a small town in Venezuela,
twelve dark, somewhat ragged
kids who had never seen a foot
hall before were running pass
patterns with an Americun foot
ball
In Caracas, Venezuela, not very
far away, fishermen families lived
on tish and bananas in a slum
near the edge of the city
What connected these two dif
ferent situations together was
the involvement of the Peace
Corps; to be exact, two Peace
Corps members now visiting the
( diversity in a recruiting drive
for Peace Corps Week, Jan, 10
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Discipline Goal
In the small town the 12 ragged
kids were playing football for one
main reason: to establish disci
pline.
Discipline, says Steve Knaebel.
former Peace Corps volunteer
in Venezuela, is almost non exis
tent. especially among the young
Standing in line is almost tin
heard of So it was up to Knae
bel to not only establish a YMCA
in the town, but also to combat
the poverty and suspiciousness of
its inhabitants, particularly t h e
young.
Knaebel arrived in Venezuela
after training for service in the
summer of 1963 He had just
graduated from Stanford Univer
sity as an English major. In train
ing. he had been sent to a col
lege in Massachusetts to be train
ed as a physical education teach
er.
"But 1 quickly convinced them
(the Peace Corps) I was a spas
tic; so they put me in a YMCA
project," said Nnaebel.
In Caracas Only
When Knaebel arrived in Vene
ztiela the YMCA had been estab
lished in Caracas for a little over
17 years But that was all Four
teen volunteers, the first to ar
rive in that country, had started
five more centers in five other
cities in June. 19*»2
For a while he worked with
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On Arts, Society
‘‘The Art in Society" will be
Mrs. June McKee’s topic during
a public lecture at 4 p in. Friday in
106 Lawrence Mrs. McFee is di
recting a program in art edu
cation at the University's School
of Architecture and Allied Arts.
Mrs. McFee joined the Univer
sity faculty this fall She has
taught at Arizona State College,
Yakima Junior College, Stanford
University, the University of Illi
nois, and the University of Arizo
na.
She holds degrees from the
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and Stanford University.
iwo 01 tnc original 14 volunteers,
but later wan sent to a neighbor
ing town, Moron, about 15 miles
away, to begin a new YMCA.
After several months of making
contacts with local businessmen
and organizations, Knaebel ac
cumulated the grand total of two
donated warehouses.
Unfortunately, anything that
was or was not nailed down in the
buildings was stolen within a
week after he had secured the
property. All the windows were
broken. Enetire bathrooms were
literally uprooted.
European Study
To Be Explained
The European exchange pro
gram of the School of Business
Administration will be explain
ed to interested male students
at a meeting at 4 p m. Friday in
138 Commonwealth
Opportunities offered to Oregon
students and the exchange pro
gram itself will be discussed. Col
or slides will also be shown.
The program is open to all
male students who will be in
their junior year or beginning
their senior year during the aca
demic year 190087 Full credit
transfer to the University for a
junior year abroad is available
for participating students.
An illustrated brochure may be
obtained from advisors. W.
Dwaine Richens, Don P. Reming
ton or Mark R. Green, faculty
members, may be contacted for
further information.
Lund to Show Slides
Ernest H. Lund, associate pro
fessor of geology, will show col
ored slides of Australia and New
Zealand at 8 p m. Friday in 150
Science.
I.und spent the academic year
of 1964-65 on sabbatical leave, and
was a Fulbright professor at the
University of Peshawar, Pakistan.
During the summer months he
visited Australia and New Zea
land.
PL-3 Program
Thursdav, Jan. 13
6:30—HUNTLEY - BRINKLEY
REPORT
7:00—ARTS, USA: THE AMERI
CAN THEATER: Part 2
7:30—HISTORY OF THE NE
GRO PEOPLE: ‘ Our
Country, Too."
8:00—PRESIDENT'S MEN: An
in-depth look at a member
of the Johnson Cabinet.
8:30—KALEIDOSCOPE: The
Arts in Oregon.
9:00—POET'S EYE: Kester
Svendscn reads Gwendow
lyn Brooks.
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When Knacbcl finally entered
Moron he had a volleyball in his
hand and a lot of ideas that come
i from barenness, uncertainty, and
j necessity.
At first the youngsters were
dumbfounded. “They laughed at
me,” he said, “because they had
i been let down so many times
before. They had never had at
tention from an adult before.”
Knaebel faced two major bat
tles: he had to win the confi
dence and cooperation of the
youngsters, and also he had to
build an entire YMCA program
starting with nothing.
It would take months for both.
1 Slowly, however, Knaebel made
| progress. Me organized baseball,
basbetball, volleyball, and soccer
tournaments He established a
soapbox derby with the cars be
ing built by the kids themselves
in the YMCA carpentry program
he started.
I>ug-up Tubing
He started weight lifting pro
grams with some steel tubing
that took months to dig up.
baseball and soccer fields were
built. A basketball court was
built. Membership grew to 250.
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interested in helping with the iuau in the
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He built a library with books he
bought himself—mostly classics.
The other battle, winning the
confidence and cooperation of the
youngsters involved, also pro
gressed, slowly, but it was still
steady progression.
“When I arrived, these kids had
no discipline at all,” Knaebel said,
“but later, when I would leave
the building, I could leave all
the equipment in the open with
one kid in charge and when I
returned it would all be there—
not even a ping pong ball miss
ing.”
Accepting Blame
Furthermore, “The kids would
accept the blame if something
happened; before, they wouldn’t
do that.”
To help insure that he got co
operation from the youngsters,
Knaebel immediately established
six basic rules, such as no throw
ing of equipment and no swear
ing, before any youngsters were
allowed to use the facilities.
If a youngster didn’t follow
Knaebel’s rules he was suspend
ed from use of the facilities for
two weeks.
"Essentially it was a center of
justice;” Knaebel commented, “it
was a place where there was fair
ness. This was probably the first
time where these kids could par
ticipate in the democratic pro
cess.”
Goal Found
When Knaebel left Moron and
the YMCA, a sign was hanging on
the wall in the basketball court;
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of Deluxe Burger
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“Our goal — courtesy, respect,
sportsmanship.”
For the fishermen in Caracas,
the situation was different. They
didn’t need a YMCA, they needed
a guaranteed year around supply
of food for their families when
fishing was poor.
So former volunteer Chuck But
ler, also at the University this
week, convinced the fishermen in
the slum to pool their fish and
sell them to buy a refrigerator.
The fishermen did. Butler, in
his efforts not only to show the
slum dwellers how to keep an
adequate food supply, also con
vinced them “to come as a group
to solve a common problem. I was
active more or less as a catalyst
to bring them together.”
Butler is now assistant deputy
of recruiting in the West and
also is instrumental in develop
ing a Peace Corps athletic pro
gram with national collegiate
coaches.
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