CARES provides referral service
By CINDY MOL
Of the Emerald
The appearance is anything but clin
ical.
A country song comes on the radio
as a woman with long brown hair takes
one last puff from her cigarette — the
phone rings:
“CARES Referral Service, may I
help you?” Her expression doesn’t
change as she replies, “Yeah, all right.
She’s at Sacred Heart Hospital? How
badly beaten was she this time? The
volunteer hangs up the phone and
quickly lights another cigarette.
It was a typical Monday night at
CARES Referral Services, a general
referral service and crisis intervention
system. The program offers counsel
ing 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
It also supplies information and referral
services to anyone in Lane County.
The office is always busier during
the winter: it’s suicide season.
“This is partially due to the weather,”
says Michael Boggs, a staff member.
But the holiday season normally brings
in a predictable rise in depression, he
adds.
CARES attempts to link citizens to a
variety of social and health services,
according to Program Director Carol
Henderson.
It provides information to about 350
social service agencies and referrals to
approximately 250 mental health pro
viders. The program serves about
2,000 people every month, free of
charge.
2,000 helped each month
Reasons for people contacting
CARES vary greatly. One caller may
want to know how to get food stamps
and the next how to start his car. For
some complex problems, a client may
have to be referred to other agencies.
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CARES staff members are required
to treat all phone calls as legitimate,
unless it is an obvious prank call.
Sometimes a person will call several
times and hang-up until he decides
that he likes the sound of a staff
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member’s voice and finally speaks.
CARES also employs volunteers
who take on many of the respon
sibilities of regular staff members.
Each volunteer must go through a
70-hour training program, which is four
hours a week and lasts from six to eight
weeks. Unlike the training programs of
some social services, the CARES
program is free of charge.
Volunteers must be high school
graduates and have six months of ex
perience in social services before be
coming a regular employee of CARES.
Most CARES employees are over
qualified for their jobs because of the
high unemployment rate in Eugene,
according to Boggs.
Boggs said he was “scared to
death” the first time he had to handle a
potential suicide case.
“I said to another employee, here
you take this call," adds Boggs.
It took a tot of growing up before he
was able to handle suicide in a relaxed
manner.
“You have to view suicide as simply
one of the options open to a person
who needs a solution to a problem. The
worst thing a person could do would be
to panic,” says Boggs.
He also says sympathy is the wrong
route. “Sympathy tells a person that
they have a reason to feel bad.”
Anyone who wishes to contact
CARES may visit the office on 170 E.
11th Ave. in Eugene, or call CARES at
687-4000, or toll-free in Lane County,
1-800-452-7041.
University professor to translate ‘Beowulf
By MELISSA HILTON
Of the Emerald
Remember reading “Beowulf’?
In the future students may read
a new poetic translation of that
Anglo-Saxon epic by Stanley
Greenfield, University English
professor.
He has been elected a visiting
fellow at Emmanuel College of
Cambridge University in England.
Greenfield’s project there tor
Easter Term 1979 will be to create
a translation of the Old English
poem, “Beowulf’.
“What I want to achieve in my
poetic translation is something
that’s modem, and yet an accu
rate reflection of the Old English
poetic experience of “Beowulf,
Greenfield explains.
“And I want it to be a poem that
can be read and appreciated by a
modem audience that knows no
thing of Old English, as well as by
scholars in the field.”
According to Greenfield, “there
are a couple of good prose transla
tions, but there is no good poetic
translation of “Beowulf,’ or of
other Old English poems. His dis
satisfaction with existing poetic
translations leo him to invent a
new metrical scheme for the trans
lation of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Last year he presented his sys
tem and some translations at a
symposium on Old English style
held at the University of
California-Los Angeles.
Prof. Peter Clemoes, a scholar
in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
studies at Emmanuel College,
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also attended the symposium.
Clemoes nominated Greenfield
for the honor of a visiting fellow
ship at Emmanuel College.
Greenfield welcomes this op
portunity to combine creativity and
critical scholarship.
“When I was an undergraduate
at Cornell," he says, “I used to
write poetry which was really terri
ble. I haven't written any poetry
since, until now in the poetic trans
lations. So in a way I’m coming
back to the creative side of me
which has been bottled up since I
was a teenager in college."
Until last year, Greenfield’s
primary accomplishments were in
the teaching and criticism of Old
and Middle English poetry and
prose. One of the country’s
foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars,
he has published four books and
numerous articles.
He has just completed a new
book in collaboration with Prof
Fred C. Robinson of Yale Univer
sity, to be titled “A Bibliography of
Writings on Old English Literature
from the Beginnings through
1972.” It will be published this
summer by the University of To
ronto Press.
Greenfield’s fellowship at Em
manuel College will be his fourth
honor involving study in Europe.
In 1965-1966, he studied in Lon
don on a Guggenheim fellowship
and lectured at Senate House
University College.
In 1970-1971 he was awarded
an NEH Senior Fellowship to work
in England, and produced his
book “The Interpretation of Old
English Poems” (Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1972). In 1974-1975,
he had a teaching Fullbright Scho
larship at the University of Re
gensburg in Germany.
Teaching has also been impor
tant to Greenfield, from introduc
tory literature to graduate courses
in Old English. In 1963, he won the
Erstead Award for Excellence in
Teaching.
“I’m a firm believer in the fact
that good scholarship and good
teaching go hand in hand,” Green
field insists.
‘‘It’s been a pleasant life,”
Greenfield summarizes. "I enjoy
teaching, I enjoy my scholarship.”
Now he is looking forward to a
third field of endeavor: the poetic
translation of Old English poetry.
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