H&S scene;

              Supercoach
Spring again, and another baseball
season in which many an H&S dad
undertakes to manage a Little
League team. This year's coaches
may want to ask Walter Bone of the
Executive Office publications
department for a few tips on
managing a kids' team, because
Walter's coaching record in football
last fall is hard to beat.
In fact, Walter's midget football
league team in Wantagh, Long
Island, New York, went through an
eight-game season undefeated,
untied and unscored on. And it
wasn't because the coach had
cornered ail the big, mean players,
either. The teams in the town
league are carefully balanced
according to age (eight to ten
years], weight (up to eighty-five
pounds) and ability (determined by
grading the previous season's
performance or a complex tryout
system for new boys), After the
teams are formed the coaches draw
their team assignments by lot.
Asked for the secret of his
coaching success, Walter modestly
puts it all down to "getting the
boys that like to hit." However,
he put the team through seven weeks
of pre-season practice, held three
weekly workouts during the season,
taught his boys about thirty plays
and variations, and had his
daughter shoot color movies of
the games so the boys could
see themselves in action.
Of course, Walter had one
advantage over the opposing
coaches, in having his team
quarterback living in his own
home during the season. Before and
after it, too—because the team
quarterback was his own son Tommy,
age 10, whose running and passing
accounted for 44 of the 105
points the team scored. •
Help and hope for $16
When Mrs. James Wilson ("Mac"
to her friends) was watching
television one evening, pictures
of undernourished children flashed
across the screen accompanying a
plea to "adopt' one of them through
Foster Parents Plan. "Sad little
children always hit me" Mac said,
"so I wrote for further
information, and we decided
to sign up"
For the past year and a half.
Mac and her husband Jim, partner
in the Newark office, have been
contributing $16 a month to the
care and education of Adalberto
Lima, an eight-year-old Brazilian
boy. He stays with his family and
all the members benefit from
the Wilsons' help.
"They were all suffering from
dysentery," Mac said. "The first
thing Foster Parents Plan did was
buy them a water purifier.
Now the dysentery is cured, so at
least they have a healthy child
to assist. It's remarkable what
they can do with that $16 a month!'
The boy can go to school now
(schooling isn't free in Brazil].
He is adequately fed. Though the
diet is wretched—mostly black
beans and rice—they can now afford
some fresh vegetables. And he is
suitably dressed {formerly he had
no shoes] and equipped with
school supplies.
"Jim says the organization must
have good control and be well
administered to manage so well"
Mac continued. Officials of
Foster Parents Plan say the
organization spends nearly three
dollars of every four in direct
aid to the children and their
families, Aid is in the form of
direct cash grants, household
supplies and special programs.
About 25 per cent of the total
contributions are used for
operating three offices (one each
in the U.S., Canada and
Australia), and administering and
promoting the program. It has
been in existence since 1937.
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