To Train Veterans

A PROGRAM FOR THE rehabilitation of disabled war veterans through manual industry and handicrafts will be inaugurated in the student workshop at Dartmouth this month. The project is being sponsored by the American Craftsmen's Educational Council, with headquarters in New York, and in its experimental beginning at the college will be under the direction of Virgil Poling, workshop director, who is chairman of the Council's educational committee.

Mr. Poling will set up the first training unit here about October 15 and with a small group of selected veterans will work out a practical training course to be put into effect in the other New England states. Operation of the program in New England is expected to serve as a pattern for other training centers to be established throughout the country.

The veterans will be at Dartmouth for a period of only a few months, but when regular training units are organized under Mr. Poling's direction it is planned to have the initial period of training cover about six months., with instruction in not only the manufacture but also the marketing of hand-made products. A chief objective at the outset will be the training of men who can in turn serve as instructors in the various manual arts centers to be established by the American Craftsmen's Educational Council.

The Council's primary objective is to make the disabled veteran a self-supporting and respected member of his community. Training and later help in design and marketing will be highly individualized, Mr. Poling has stated. Some veterans will return to their homes and others are expected to become part of community groups specializing in some one form of manual art. Federal and state rehabilitation leaders are cooperating in the Council's program.

BACK IN THE STATES after more than two years of active duty in the Pacific, Lt. Col. William W. Stickney '26, USMCR, spent a few days in Hanover last month before taking over his new duties as head of athletics and recreation at Camp Lejeune, N. C. While at the College, Colonel Stickney addressed the Marine unit and described his experiences as battalion commander in the invasions of Guadalcanal, New Guinea, New Georgia, Tulagi, Bougainville, Florida, Gloucester, and the New Britain Islands.