Boys Clubs Of America

Los Angeles school officials on Monday urged parents whose children attend chronically underperforming schools to apply for free tutoring in math and English, which begins in November. The Los Angeles Unified School District mailed applications earlier this month to 186,000 students, from 104 schools, who are eligible for the extra assistance.

Jerome H. Snyder, founding partner of the real estate firm of J.H. Snyder Co., has been chosen by The Boys and Girls of Venice, a United Way agency affiliated with Boys Clubs of America. The presentation will be made Sept. 18 at the Sheraton Palza La Reina Hotel.

Erik Larson has been named executive director of Union Station Foundation, Pasadena's largest homeless shelter and hospitality center. Larson's background includes 30 years with the Boys Clubs of America, where he worked with disadvantaged and poor children and their families. He replaces Bill Lane Doulos, who will continue to provide assistance to the organization.

Wolfe Kirson, 18, a member of the Boys' Club of Santa Monica, was one of five finalists in the National Youth of the Year Competition held in Washington, D.C., this week. A recent graduate of Santa Monica High School and an entering freshman at UCLA, Kirson represented the Pacific region. Judges selected Shawn Southard, 17, of Pittsfield, Mass., as the winner, based on scholastic achievements, community service, leadership abilities and overcoming of physical, social or emotional hardships.

Adele Langston Rogers, 89, the first female recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal, died May 27 at her home in Bethesda, Md. The widow of William P. Rogers, who was secretary of state under President Nixon, she accompanied her husband on official visits to 75 nations. Nixon awarded her the medal in 1973. She was a native of Haddon Heights, N.J., and was educated at Cornell and Stanford universities, earning a law degree and later serving as a Cornell trustee.

The Eastside Boys' Club, which shut down abruptly Thursday, will reopen Tuesday in a different place with different management, Boys' Clubs of America and United Way officials said Friday. Michael Cohen, a field service representative here for Boys' Clubs of America, a national association of youth clubs, said a special Olympic sports program will be offered at the nearby Brooklyn Avenue Elementary School in East Los Angeles for children ages 7 to 15.

Adults have always had their fair share of apprehension about the youth of the day. And always, along with that apprehension, there have been young people, like Carlos Romo, to remind their elders that the future is, indeed, in good hands. Romo, raised in the El Campo section of La Habra, was named National Youth of the Year by the Boys Clubs of America, recognition he earned through service and in competition with 1.2 million members of Boys Clubs nationwide.

Carlos Romo of La Habra, named National Youth of the Year by the Boys Clubs of America, will be installed in his new position by President Reagan in ceremonies today at the White House. Romo, 18, has been a member of the Boys and Girls Club of La Habra since age 9. Tom Sauer, the club's executive director, described him as a "fine and deserving young man with a neat sense of humor." Romo is "plain and natural, very down-to-earth," Sauer said.