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Title: Public provision for recreation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Haynes, Rowland
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Publisher: Cleveland, Cleveland Foundation Committee
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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xtension for the con-duct of organized Community Center activities, ap-propriated S15,000 plus an amount sufficient to covercost of heat and light for the maintenance of theCenters during the first year, and appointed a Super-visor of Community Centers to take office on Janu-ary 1, 1916. As a first step, thirteen school buildings wereopened as Community Centers about February 1,1916. This did not deny the use of other buildingsto groups who were willing to assume responsibilityfor damage to school property, for the proper conductof their meeting, and for the pajanent of the cus-todian fee, but it did aim as far as possible to con-centrate community activities in the schools desig-nated as Centers. These thirteen schools were se-lected partly because of their equipment for thework, auditorium, gymnasium, etc., partly with aview to their geographical distribution over the city,but the final determining factor was the insistence ofthe communities themselves in demanding SchoolCenters. 86
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Quantitative—Scope of the Work1916.—The first year the work did not get underway until late in the winter and the seasons reportshowed a total of only 712 evening sessions at thethirteen Centers with an aggregate attendance of61,101, and an average attendance per night perbuilding of 36. 1916-17.—The continuance of the same plan ofoperation through the following year, October, 1916,to June, 1917, witnessed better results. There wereseveral changes in school buildings used and fourteenCenters instead of thirteen. The fourteen buildingswere open altogether 1,195 evenings with a total at-tendance of 135,554 and an average attendance pernight per building of 113. Thus the average attend-ance per night per building increased 31% over thepreceding year while the total aggregate attendancemore than doubled. 1917-18.—At the beginning of the school year,1917-18, the supervision of Community Centers wastaken over by the Division of Educational Extension,newly created by the Board of Edu

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