European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page is the stars and stripes thursday August 10, 1978 Supply shrinking where Are the volunteers by Steven v. Roberts Washington not the notional Council of jewish women in Atlanta must noway people to stuff envelopes and drive car pools routine jobs that were once performed by volunteers. But a program in family coun seling where women can Deal directly with people and learn new skills has a Long wait ing list of  changing role of the american woman is making an enormous Impact on the world o Volunteer service. As More women go Back Losch ool and work the Supply of volunteers is shrinking. Competition is keen recruitment has become sophisticated and some tradition Al organizations have had to Cut Back on their service but As the Council of jewish women found in Atlanta groups that offer women More challenging positions attract plenty of eager helpers. So do newer groups that offer a Volunteer less bureaucracy and More direct involvement with an interesting cause from improving the neighbourhood to aiding victims of sexual abuse. Learning skills moreover while Many women leave volunteering for paying jobs others Are offering their services As a Way of learning skills that could eventually Lead to employment. And the working woman is being replaced by other sources of Volunteer help men who retire Early students investigating different Ca Reers employees encouraged by their corporations to donate time to the Community. Ever Day. Of course thousands of americans give their time in traditional ways from soliciting Money for the United Way to baking cookies for the Parent teacher association Many do these things for the most traditional of reasons. As Freda Thorlakson. A state officer of Theta in California put it i m interested in Young people and trying to make a better world for them. 1 personally get a certain satisfaction from this Type of Community  rapidly but change is coming rapidly and the big Gest reason is women like Willodean i Winkyi Oswald of Portland Ore. For years Oswald who is 38 years old. Was a mainstay of the league of women voters observing sessions of the state legislature and analysing their performance. In september she dropped outto take a Job As financial Aid officer for the Portland Art museum. With four children approaching College age the family needed another paycheck. But Oswald also wanted the recognition of an Effort that the pay indicates. She misses her work at the league but As she said. I really did want to get a Little bit of Money for what i did self fulfilment a second Factor troubling the Volunteer world is. The argument of some feminist groups that women who work for free Are being exploited and perpetuate the economic dependency of their sex. This theme is some times linked to the message of some proponents of  that looking out for no i Means forgetting about everyone  result said Kenn Allen director of the Center for voluntary action Here is a Gener Al shortage of volunteers across the country but some of the old line service groups Are feeling the Pinch More than most. The league of women voters in Portland has stopped monitoring state and congressional issues. Fish a Christian oriented group in Detroit cannot meet the demands of people who need rides to the store or the doctor. The women s clubs of Connecticut have lost member steadily in recent years and reduced their services  High  Competition for volunteers is extremely  noted Georgia Meyers director of volunteers for the red Cross in los Angeles As a result. Recruiting is becoming a  said Wally Merles program coordinator for the International visitors information service Here. Like Man organizations the information service has used advertising to entice new members. Many groups find that about half their volunteers hold full time jobs and schedule shave to adapt to those needs. The Junior league in Atlanta now holds some of  mrs at night and organizes Volunteer projects that can be done during lunch hours an weekends. By far the most important key to recruit ment is providing volunteers with More responsible jobs. Joan Hanlon director of Houston s Volunteer action Center summed up the trend this Way we re seeing a lot of people volunteering but not too Many Are turned on by the traditional Volunteer duties like clerical work office filing or working in a Hospital gift shop the kind of thine i seethed on. They want More meaningful direct client  this shift reflects the changing View that Many women have of themselves. Women Are More confident in what they re going task for there s no fear or embarrassment about asking for More responsibility said Dorothy Denny executive director of the National information Center on volunteers in Boulder.  of the Center for voluntary action thinks that volunteers today reflect a broader trend away from suffocating bureaucracy and toward More social change and advocacy kinds of  women who will not put on a uniform and empty Bedpan in a big hos Pital will happily Lead a petition drive in favor of a neighbourhood  the plus Side a growing number of women see Volunteer work As a Way of solving the catch 22 of finding employment you can t get a Job without experience and you can t get experience without a Job. Ruth  runs the Volunteer Clearinghouse Here thinks this is particularly valuable for older women going Back into the work Force after a Long Layoff they can upgrade their skills get Back into a  she  Usefull skills volunteers have always Learned useful skills managing a budget perhaps or directing a Public relations Campaign but the civil service and a growing number of employers Are now accepting this experience As part of a work history. Another growing source of volunteers Are the working men and women who Are retiring at an earlier age and in better health than Ever before. Hartford Hospital for instance is getting Back some of its  people in their 50s and is who come Back to Volun Teer after retirement. The Center for voluntary action now Esti mates that More than 300 corporations have set up programs to encourage and organize Volunteer efforts by their employees and some even give them time off from work to participate. Citibank of new York for in stance sends volunteers to help in an adult literacy program run by St. Peter s Church. New cholera vaccine developed Stockholm a swedish scientists have developed a new cholera vaccine that reportedly is completely non toxic and gives a better Protection against the dreaded disease the new vaccine prepared at the swedish bacteriological Laboratory is based on the discovery that the cholera molecule consists of atomic and a non toxic part. 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