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Friday, March 3, 1967

THE COLLEGE

 

Alumnae Council meetings this week culmi-
nated with a party at the University Museum in
Philadelphia celebrating Miss McBride's twenty
five years as President of the College. About
600 people attended. The poem was written
especially for the occasion by Marianne Moore,
09. Alan Pyfer, acting head of the Carnegie
Corporation was the featured speaker.

_. Dear Katharine McBride

words have no way

of conveying to you what achievement should say, : Zé
since we have not replicas of your insight enriching our school---
of your kindled vision discerning individual promise.

What is a college?
a Place where freedom is rooted in vitality,
where faith is the substance of things hoped for,
where things seen were not made with hands---
where. the school’s initiator being dead, yet speaketh,
where virtue trod a rough and thorny path,
finding itself and losing itself--- :
the student her own taskmaster.
tenacious of one hour’s meaning sought
that could not be found elsewhere.

Students --foster-plants of scholarship---
at the beginning of the year,
bewildered by anxiety and opportunity
in the vibrant dried-leaf-tinctured autumn air,
pause and: capitulate, compelled to.ponder
intimations of divinity --~-

recurrent words of an unaccompanied hymn:

Ancient of Days, who sittest throned in glory.
O fosterer of promise, aware that danger is always imminent---
The free believe in Destiny, not Fate.
. O fortunate Bryn Mawr with her creatively unarrogant President
unique in her exceptional unpresidential constant:

a liking for people as they are,
MARIANNE MOORE, ’09

Inconsiderable as derived from its sources, the foregoing lines attempt
to thank Miss McBride for an article in the Christian Science
Monitor, naming a number of constants which make for continuity;
“Mr. John W. Gardner for concepts set forth in his monographs,
EXCELLENCE and SELF -RENEWAL (Harper Colophon Books); and
Cornelia Meigs, ’07 for WHAT MAKES A COLLEGE? (Macmillan),

  

 

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Miss McBride in the receiving line.

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Self-Gov candidates fold programs.

 

 

BASKETBALL!!

Haverford Flips Out
With
Bryn Mawr
Benefit for
Serendipity Day Camp
50¢
Haverford Field House

Saturday, March 4
3:30

Referees:
Mr. Lane, Dean Lyons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wotthehell, wotthehell, as my dear
fellow-animal archy useter say
«+.» Sickness encroaches like
roaches nothing _ personal,
archy-friend ... remove letters,
it?s arch-fiend ... heh heh ...
ignore me, ignore me... it’s just
that everything seems to be piling
up, you understand, i seem to have
been born behind in my work,
what is there to console me...
and yet, all this pretension at
preparation, this electioneering,
unattended -mock-ritual for the
coming of spring, i know wisely it

__Awill never come, locked down deep

in fragrant roots spring sings to
herself and refuses to come out
»»- why- should she, we’ve little
enough to offer her, damp trees
‘and a few gray clouds in a gray
sky, not much freedom to speak
of, everyone scurrying to burrows
when class is done, fraternizing
gone with the wind ... what i need
is a hat by lily dacte out of papier
mache on a Silver hotray .., no
i?m not fooling, heard it from a

reliable source today,. spring’s ©

never coming ... that damned
groundhog gave me indigestion any-
way \“ i’m sorry i ever partici-
pated in his silly tradition, see
where it gets you ... parents’ day

will come and go, may day and.

yea, verily, graduation, and the
eclairs will be frosty with snow,
popsicles for garden party plucked
from the laden trees, hoops all
in a skid on merion green ice...
you. know it, you know it, i’m
pulling your wing, winter comes
but once a year, so isn’t this
just the time to fan our feeble

fires?
joshingly & sloshingly,
slap-happlebee

 

Peace Corps Volunteers
aRPIE ber | To Visit, Discuss Jobs —

Former Peace Corps Volunteers
will visit Bryn Mawr, Monday,
March 6, and will speak to in-
terested students in the Common
Room at 4 about their service
experiences,

The Peace Corps, initiated by
President Kennedy, has been in
existence seven years, With the
addition of eight new countries in
1966 there are now 12,000 Vol-
unteers serving in fifty-two na-
tions and territories,

There is an increasing need
for liberal arts graduates, but
there is also a need for more
people with specialized _ skills,
such as math, science, and
agriculture,

In repeated discussions held with
Volunteers, .most were safisfied
with their Peace Corps experience
(over 90%) and almost all said they
would volunteer again. Lack of
support from host country offi-
cials was rated among the great-
est problems, and was highest in
Asia. Another big problem

State Dept...

(Continued from page 1)

Expressing deep concern over
civilian casualties, Bundy stated
that the State Department would
introduce the Committee’s doc-
tors to officials in Vietnam, ex-
pedite visas permitting the chil-
dren to enter the US, provide
air transportation for the Com-
mittee’s representatives during
their stay in Vietnam, and nego-
tiate further about the possibility
for government transportation of
children. to the US, Dr, Needle-
man stated that he was pleased

with the result of the interview and

set April 10 as a target date for
the departure of the mission of
doctors to Vietnam to choose the
first group of children,

 

was apathy among.the host country
nationals in the desire to help
themselves, Disinterest in the
Peace Corps and unfriendliness

was ranked highest in the Near
East and in South Asia, Accord-

ing to the report, however, ‘‘The
most striking feature of the re-
sponses was the tendency: of the
Volunteers not to consider most
of the problems as serious,”’

Sports and recreational activi-
ties play a large role in most
nations, They are effective means
of improving health, personal
character, and international un-
derstanding, They help to develop
national pride and friendliness
among groups within a nation,
These activities also’ serve as an
‘tin?? for Volunteers to gain the
support and trust of the young
people in the countries, and help
to break down barriers between
them,

The twelve-week training pe-
riod for the Peace Corps is rig-
orous, It is based on practice
rather than books, and Volunteers
are trained mainly by ‘‘veterans’’
with first-hand experience, Al-
though physical conditioning does
not play as important a role as
it once did (before, Volunteers
were left alone in jungles with
compasses and maps and told to
find their way back to camp), Vol-
unteers are trained to live in
rugged conditions, such as. Asian
villages, Nepali houses, etc, -
They eat native foods, use na-
tive utensils, and follow local tra-
ditions, Trainees are taught the
language, politics, history, and
culture of their assigned nations,
as wellas farming techniques, first
aid, teaching skills, and the skills
of construction work,

Problems of personal adjust-
ment, once thought to be the major

‘problem in overseas service, are

no longer considered serious by
Volunteers, and many felt that
the experience had brought great

. emotional development,

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by Margaret Levi '68

The author asked that this
article be printed as a follow-
up of her ‘‘Open End’’ contri-
bution last week--Ed. note.

The following extracts from a
letter to Margaret Levi from Rev-
erend James Robinson, Director
of Crossroads Africa, serve, I
think, to show the kind of harm the
CIA has done to organizations and
foundations which were implicated,
but innocent of CIA involvement,

**‘We have never at any time or
in any way been an agency or an
affiliate of the Central Intelligence
Agency, They have never even
approached, much less worked
through or with, any member of
our executive staff. The funds
which we received fromthe
Foundation for Youth and Student
Affairs, which was listed along
with a number of other worthy
organizations with a reputation for
integrity and doing good work with-
out any connection, direct or in-
direct, with the CIA, They, like
us, suffer by association,

‘*Further, at this point we donot

know whether the funds which came

to us through the Foundation for
Youth and Student Affairs were CIA
money or not, They do have other
funds from.legitimate sources and
they do make legitimate eontri-
butions, It is too bad that they
allowed themselves to be used, as
a number of other front founda-
tions have been used, in this way,
Furthermore, it would be illogical
for anyone to assume that for a
measly $3000 and $1000, out of a
budget of $500,000 a year -- two
thirds of which I have to raise
each year by blood, sweat and
tears on an average of four to five
hours’ sleep a night -- that CIA
could have, any influence on the
policy, objectives and direction of
Crossroads Africa,

*¢..e like a great many other

worthy organizations which have-

worked and continue to work in
integrity and honesty, we had no
idea that CIA was using certair
youth and student organizations
and funneling money through foun-
dations ... No one is more upset
about this than I myself, the mem-~
bers of our Board of Directors
and our staff, because we know how
this is going to hurt not only in
Asia and Latin America, but es-
pecially how it is going to hurt us
in Africa, because it is going to
raise a good many suspicions which
had died down, There were sus-
picions in the beginning on thepart
of African governments, with re-
gard to voluntary private organiz-
ations, because they are so far
outside the scope of anything of
this nature which is done in under-
developed countries, in terms of
voluntary support which is not

‘Innocent Receipt of CIA Funds
Cited as Harmful and Upsetting

under government control, Youare
correct ... when you say that the
greatest strength of Crossroads is
its private, voluntary nature of
organization, operation and sup-
port,

“I am sorry for the uncomfortable
position in which you have been
put; for that was done by anagency
of the United States government
and by a number of students and
young people who were willing to
lend themselves in this way, as
well as some foundations who have
destroyed, or at least seriously
damaged, the good name of the
thousands of foundations which have
not allowed themselves to be used
this way and which were never
approached by the CIA,

‘*Of one thing you can be absolutely
sure: Operation Crossroads Africa
is absolutely clear, I stake my
reputation, my life and my future
on this ...”’

Foundation Offers
Money to Essays |
By Anglophiles

The president of the Edward
L, Bernays Foundation has notified
President McBride of an award of
five thousand dollars now being
offered by the organization, The
contest seeks the submission of
ideas which will contribute to a
comprehensive program directed
at furthering understanding be-
tween the people of the United
Kingdom and of the United States.

Judges for this competition will
be drawn, six in number, and in
equal proportion, from the two
countries involved. The British
contingent is represented by Sir
Denis Brogan of Cambridge Uni-
versity, Sir Ifor Evans of the
University College of London, and
Mr. Donald Tyerman, a director
of the ECONOMIST, Judges from
America include the journalist Jo-
seph Harsch, Professor Seymour
Lipset of Harvard University, and
Dean Gerhart Wiebe of Boston Uni-
versity. Submission of manu-
scripts, which should not exceed
five thousand words, must be made
no later than midnight, June 30,
and addressed to the Foundation,
7 Lowell Street, Cambridge, Mass.,
02138. U.S.A. Entries, which are
not limited to any categories of
authorship, will be acknowledged

_by. mail, and the winning work will

be published in .a-pamphlet to be
distributed widely to group lead-
ers and national figures ‘in both
the United Kingdom and the United
States. 5