Johns Hopkins University: Neighborhood Matters

The people and programs linking Johns Hopkins and its Homewood communities

F A L L 1 9 9 7 Beyond the green lawns and scholarly buildings of The Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus is a vital, resiliant and beautiful neighborhood. Both campus and community have a profound impact on each other. That is why the university and its neighbors have learned that with a commitment to working together, both can grow stronger.

The Peacemaker
It is Monday evening at the Safe and Smart Resource Center on Greenmount Avenue, and a group of 18 volunteers has gathered to practice the basic skills of mediation. Hopkins graduate student Lorig Charkoudian, founder and director of the Community Mediation Program based at the center, takes on the role of a client in mediation as part of a game called "Let's Make a Win-Win." Full story...

Rediscovering Greenmount Avenue
During the fall of 1995 when Sylvia Eastman, moved into her new office in the Safe and Smart Center on Greenmount Avenue, her neighbors were frightened and discouraged. Full story...

A new Model for the NAACP
In the great tradition of its parent organization, the Johns Hopkins student chapter of the NAACP is committed to community action. And for the chapter, that means looking beyond the campus for opportunities to serve. The Hopkins chapter's meetings reflect this: each gathering opens with a "Political Minute" during which the students discuss a newspaper story or current issue in national or city politics. Even as exams and lab reports loom, these discussions keep them focused on questions of equality and social justice. Full story...

Barclay School Grabs the Heart of Hopkins
There are many faces to the thriving partnership between Johns Hopkins and the Barclay School. There are "the cart ladies" as the Barclay students call them, members of the Hopkins Women's Club's service project led by Lynn Jones, who fill in as librarians, bringing books directly to classrooms on their famous carts. Then there are the Hopkins undergraduates, who arrive every Friday to tutor students needing extra help with Barclay's rigorous Calvert School curriculum. Full story...

The Lady Next Door
It is a Saturday in August, and Barbara Fisher, administrative assistant in the Hopkins Residential Life Office, is not behind a desk. She's out directing a Bobcat tractor in the alley behind the 2800 block of Fox Street. Full story...

I N B R I E F

Live Near Your Work

Apples for the Students

Help Prevent Child Abuse

$15 Gives a Holiday Turkey or Food to Needy Families

Adopt a Family This Holidy Season

Make a Difference

1997 Martin Luther King Jr. Award to Honor Community Service

Celebration of Lights

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NEIGHBORHOOD MATTERS | FALL 1997 | VOL. 1 NO. 1

Editor: Leslie Rice, JHU Office of News and Information
Writer: Amy Hungerford
Photographer: Steven Rubin
Design: Royce Faddis, JHU Office of Design and Publications
Online Edition: Debra J. Gips, JHU Communications and Public Affairs

NEIGHBORHOOD MATTERS ADVISORY BOARD

Morgan Allyn, JHU Office for City and Community Relations
Ross Jones, Office of the Vice President and Secretary
Janet SanFilippo, Office of the Provost
Sylvia Eastman, JHU Office for City and Community Relations
Ralph Johnson, Office of Multicultural Student Affairs
Dorado Kinney, Office of Student Affairs
Steve Libowitz, Office of News and Information
Judy Peregoff, Office of Human Resources
William Smedick, JHU Office of Student Activities
William Tiefenwerth, JHU Office of Volunteer Services and Commuity Relations