CHAPTER II
Organizing the Community Center
(As Recommended by the United States Bureau of Education.)[1]
In the organization of a Community Center the essential factors to be considered are: its membership; its size; its executive officer; its board of directors; its finances; and its constitution. The suggestions here offered concerning them, together with the reasons for the suggestions, are the product of experience, and have been tested in operation.
The organization of a community around the schoolhouse as its capital is the creation of a new political unit, a little democracy. It is new in the sense that it is the revival and en-
- ↑ Adapted from "How to Organize a Community Center," by Dr. Henry E. Jackson. Available from Supt. of Public Documents, Washington, D. C.
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