State Agencies

MARYLAND SERVICE CORPS

Advisory Council
Chairperson: Charles M. Ross

Woodrow M. Allen, Geraldine Aronin, Willia
Bland, James dark, Jr., Lousonia Jefferson,
Valeric Kitch, Ronald P. Milligan, Marion
Pines, Catherine I. Riley, Mary E. Robinson,
Joan M. Sewell, Dr. Velma R. Speight, Duane
Yoder.

James C. Thomson, Jr., Acting Director

1123 North Eutaw Street
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 383-3079

The Maryland Service Corps was created in
1972 to promote and support a statewide pro-
gram of voluntarism and citizen participation to
strengthen the capability of public and private
non-profit agencies to provide certain services.
The Maryland Service Corps Advisory Council
was created by way of the same legislation
(Chapter 354, Acts of 1972).

Members of the Advisory Council serve for an
indefinite term. Nine members are appointed by
the Governor, including one representing the gen-
eral public, three representing local government,
three representing private organizations, one a
member of the House of Delegates, and one a
member of the Senate. In addition, one represen-
tative each from the departments of Human Re-
sources, Health and Mental Hygiene, Economic
and Community Development, Natural Re-
sources, and Education is appointed by the re-
spective departmental secretary and by the
superintendent of the State Department of Educa-
tion.

The Corps facilitates volunteer recruitment and
training and places volunteers directly through
agreements with host agencies, including county
departments of social services, health depart-
ments, commissions on aging, community action
programs, and a variety of other programs. The
Maryland Service Corps also provides technical

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assistance to agencies in order to enhance the
quality and effectiveness of voluntarism and citi-
zen participation in Maryland. This assistance in-
cludes the development and presentation of work-
shops and conferences, as well as the development
and distribution of resource material relating to
special issues and interests in the field of volunta-
rism (Code 1957, Art. 41, secs. 364A-364E).

GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON
MIGRATORY LABOR

Chairperson: Leon Johnson

Cooperative Extension Service
P. 0. Box 177
University of Maryland
Princess Anne 21853 Telephone: 651-1350

At the request of the General Assembly, the
Governor created this permanent Committee in
1959 to develop and recommend standards to en-
sure that out-of-state farm laborers are imported,
maintained, and employed in Maryland under sat-
isfactory conditions of housing, sanitation, health,
and welfare (Res. No. 9, Acts of 1959).

The Commission consists of the following mem-
bers or their designees: the Secretary of Human
Resources, the Director of the Social Services Ad-
ministration, the Executive Director of the Em-
ployment Security Administration, the Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Secretary of
Agriculture, the State Superintendent of Schools,
the Commissioner of Labor and Industry, the Su-
perintendent of the Maryland State Police, the Di-
rector of the Cooperative Extension Service of the
University of Maryland, the Executive Secretary
of the Catholic Rural Life Conference, the Execu-
tive Secretary of the Mid-Atlantic Food Proces-
sors Association, the Executive Secretary of the
Maryland Farm Bureau, Inc., the Secretary-Trea-
surer of the Maryland-District of Columbia AFL-
CIO, the Executive Director of the Maryland
Food Committee, Inc., the President of the Mary-
land Vegetable Growers' Association, the Presi-
dent of the Tri-County Migrant Committee, Inc.,
and a representative of the migrant community.