APPENDIX

The standard purpose for our services, used in many
constitutions of Boys' and Girls' Clubs across the country,
is to provide behavior guidance and to promote the health,
social, educational, vocational ana character development
of boys and girls. This is a flowery statement, but it
has a deep significance if you read into the words. But
how do people generally percieve our organization? One of

the most common reactions to our clubs is "recreation."

They see us as a recreation body, If you walk through the

door, your first reaction is "Oh, this is recreation!

There are kids playing games and doing all sorts of physical

and non-physical activities." We must do all we-can to

explain that we are NOT a recreation facility per se. We

use recreation as a i201 towards an ends. We are interested

in what the boy or girl can do to the ball, rather than

what the ball can do to the boy or girl. ;
The main purpose of recreation is to Provide a happy

time for the majority of people. It is not really inter-

ested in the personal problems or the development of the

children involved. If recreation involves a ceramics

class, it is to teach the skill of'ceramics. Those involved

will be evaluated on their success as to whether or not

they have completed the required number of products. On

the other hand, when a Boys' and Girls! Club runs a ceramics

program, it would base its evaluation on the rapport that

was built up with the boys and girls within the class.