NEW YORK -- Roberto Clemente, the baseball great who dedicated his life to helping the needy, was honored Thursday with the renaming of a family counseling center in his memory.
The Roberto Clemente Family Guidance Center in Manhattan's Lower East Side provides low-cost public mental health services to children and adults.
It is part of the psychiatry department of Gouverneur Hospital, a member of the city Health and Hospital Corp.
Mayor Edward Koch proclaimed April 18 as Roberto Clemente Day in New York during ribbon-cutting ceremonies at the facility's new location.
Clemente, a native of Puerto Rico, died in a plane crash in 1972 while on a goodwill mission to help victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua.
During his life, Clemente took a special interest in children, taking part in programs to combat juvenile deliquency among low-income youth and in raising money for children's hospitals.
