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The author of this article describes the various aspects of her job as the Modern Language Tutor Coordinator at Santa Monica College. The author writes that, in general, her days consist of wearing a number of different hats each day, including that of budget and payroll administrator, grant writer, tutor screener, tutor trainer, tutor employer, tutor coordinator, tutor, psychological counselor, mediator, computer trouble-shooter, researcher, writer of recommendations, friend, and surrogate parent. The author describes the multitude of duties and tasks that beset her everyday in each of these fifteen job roles. This article presents a description of Santa Monica College, which reflects the international atmosphere in Southern California in its language offerings. It also gives a description of the college's Modern Language Tutoring Center, the services it offers, and the limitations it occasionally faces when the Center gets extremely crowded with tutees and not enough tutors. The author asserts that the job of tutor coordinator necessitates prime people skills. She believes tutor coordinators to be the most social of all social animals, as helping people is their job. (VWC)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert