Big
Brothers,
Big
Sisters:
‘the
main
thing
is to
be a
friend’
Story By CLAY EALS
Of the Emerald
Heli Lanz has a friend he sees
at least once a week.
Heli and 11-year-old Scott
Vaughn go roller-skating,
motorcycling and swimming, but
on this day the two are in
University Park at 23rd Avenue
and University Street playing
football
After an hour or so of screen
passes and end runs, Heli and
Scot i walk over to the EMU to get
a coke and play the pinball
machines in the basement.
"Scott likes the pinball
machines,” Heli says.
Heli and Scott have been
friends for more than a year and
heir friendship will probably
continue for at least another
year "I'm not going to leave him
now.” Heli says.
Photos By PHIL WALDSTEIN
Barry Puett, 18, a Big Sister and a junior at the University, wrestles on the bars with her Little Sister,
Christy Ban. Christy and her sister Marci. both »-year-old fourth graders at Edison Elementary
School have been involved in the program with Puett since January.
Heli. a 21-year-old University
student, is Scott’s “Big Brother”
under the campus YM-YWCA Big
Brother-Big Sister program How
do you be a Big Brother or Big
Sister"’
Scott Vaughn. 11, enjoys a high hop on the teeter-totter with
his Big Brother, Heli Lanz, a 21-year-old University student.
Both have been in the program for a year.
“The main thing is to be a
friend to a kid. not a counselor or
a Santa Claus,” says Penny
Hubbard. “One thing some kids
don’t have is someone who give
them a little love and security.”
Hubbard is hoping to find some
100 "friends” on the University
campus during the next few
weeks, students who can form a
one-to-one relationship with a
child five to 15 years of age.
She is campus coordinator of
the Big Brother-Big Sister
program which has begun its
annual fall drive for volunteers.
Planned for today is an orien
tation session for students who
want to be Big Brothers or Big
Sisters. It will be held at 7 p.m. in
the EMU, and a slide show about
the program will be shown.
The Big Brother-Big Sister
program works simply. A student
volunteers to be a Big Brother or
Big Sister to a child in the Eugene
area, and, after being in
terviewed, is matched up with a
child recommended by the local
4-J school district. The student
meets regularly with the child,
usually once or twice every two
weeks, and the two just go out
and have a good time.
“It’s really open,” Hubbard
says. “As a Big Brother or Big
Sister, what you do with a kid is
strictly up to you.” She says
outings can range from a two’tlay
camping trip to walking to the
corner ice-cream store for a
treat.
University student interest in
the program has been “really
going downhill” in the past few
years, because “the political
activity on campus took people
away from community service
things,” Hubbard says.
“But, I think people are getting
back into it; it’s the trend of the
times,” she says.
Big Brothers are matched up
with male children and Big
Sisters are paired with female
children, Hubbard says. Though
both women and men volunteers
are always welcomed, “there are
never enough Big Brothers,” she
says.
Though Heli says “it sure is
hard to find the time” to see Scott
regularly, he says he completely
enjoys the experience of being his
friend.
Hubbard stresses that friend
ships between the program’s
student volunteers and the
children don’t materialize in
stantly.
“Kids, you know, they’re just
people, they go through the same
changes as we do. What may not
in November seem like a very
strong relationship can turn out
to be really far out in May.”
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