(Testimony of John Carro)
Mr. Liebeler.
And you have lived in New York City ever since, or its environs?
Mr. Carro.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Would you outline briefly for us your educational background?
Mr. Carro.
Well, I went to junior high school and high school, college and law school here. I attended Benjamin Franklin High School, Fordham University and Brooklyn Law School. I graduated from law school in 1952. In addition, I attended schools in the Navy, the hospital corps school, and I attended one year at NYU, the School of Public Administration, under the city executive program.
I am an attorney and have a B.S. degree from the University of Fordham.
Mr. Liebeler.
Have you at any time engaged in the practice of law here in New York?
Mr. Carro.
Yes; I have. I have from the time I was admitted to practice in February of 1956 been in the practice of law. Even at the present time, although I am not, myself, actively engaged, I maintain a law partnership where I practice.
Mr. Liebeler.
I understand that you were a probation officer, assigned as a probation officer to the Domestic Relations Court.
Mr. Carro.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Here in New York?
Mr. Carro.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
At what time did you first become so assigned?
Mr. Carro.
Well, I worked with the Probation Department of the Domestic Relations Court, Children's Division, from early 1952 'til 1954. I am trying to recollect--from 1952 to 1954. I believe it was up to October of 1954. It may have been around September of 1954. I'm not sure.
Mr. Liebeler.
Can you tell us, after 1954 did you hold any other public office or any other----
Mr. Carro.
Oh, yes; I worked from 1949 to 1952 as a social investigator for the city of New York. From 1952 to 1954 I was probation officer of the Children's Court. Then, in 1954 for about a month or so I was with the New York City Police Department as a probationary patrolman and left to join the New York City Youth Board where I worked as a social--I mean, a street club worker, senior worker and supervisor. I worked with the New York Youth Board for 4 years with their council of Social and Athletic Clubs, which is the common name given to the "street gang project."
From 1958 to 1960 I was appointed to the State Commission Against Discrimination. I worked with them as a field representative.
In 1960 to 1961 I worked for Mobilization for Youth, which is a privately financed organization with Federal, State, and city funds and private funds, developing a program for the youth, as an associate director, and from 1961 to the present I have been an assistant to the mayor of the city of New York.
Mr. Liebeler.
Does your job with the mayor at the present time relate to youth, or more generally----
Mr. Carro.
Yes, in the sense that I have liaison responsibility with the various social service agencies, which included the Youth Board, the Department of Correction and City Commission on Human Rights. I do a great deal of work with education and youth, and I am in charge of the mayor's information Center and the mobile unit, and although that does not give me a direct relationship, the leaning of my own background experience have been so that I have represented the mayor on the President's Committee on Narcotics. I also have worked with the Mobilization for Youth. I have sat in for the mayor on some of the situations. I naturally tend to this kind of work.
Mr. Liebeler.
How did you first become interested in this? Was this because of your work as a probation officer or the work you did prior to that?
Mr. Carro.
Well, I think it was a combination of both. I grew up in east Harlem, and I belonged to a number of organizations, and actually I desired to get social work experience, and when I went into the welfare department I found out that I would enjoy it much better working with youth, and it was just through reading about it, I happened to read--I heard that probation work with youth--than welfare investigator, and while in probation I read about the youth board work, and I liked the idea of a detached worker approach,
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