Three Groups to Hold Clothing Drive

Three student organizations today will ask students to donate clothing for Rosie's Place, a shelter for needy women in South Boston.

Rosie's is a private shelter with no political or religious affiliations. It provides food, shelter, clothing and companionship to its guests.

The student groups will work together from today until December 10 to collect clothing, especially warm winter clothing like coats and sweaters, for Rosie's.

"The special thing about the place is that it really tries to treat the women as individuals, rather than just bringing them in and shoving them down and giving them something to eat. The people there sit and talk to them," Karen L. Albrecht '81, drive chairman, said yesterday.

Volunteers entirely staff Rosie's Place, and Harvard students working through a program at Phillips Brooks House have worked there in the past.

Drive organizers said they can use men's and children's clothing as well as women's. Boxes in each House, Phillips Brooks House, the Freshman Union, and the Women's Clearinghouse in the basement of Lehman Hall will be available to collect donations.

Sponsors of the drive are the Phillips Brooks House committee to improve the status of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center.

The Christian Fellowship and the H-R Catholic Student Center will also sponsor a food drive this week, collecting packaged and canned foods to give to the Salvation Army.

"We know that most students don't have groceries in their rooms," Christopher R. Smith '80, food drive chairman and president of HRCF, said yesterday. "We're just hoping that people will think of us when they go out for food," he added.