Dartmouth Men Aid Refugees

Among the sizable group of Dartmouth men working for the United Nations' International Refugee Organization in Europe are the three men pictured who are connected with IRO Headquarters in Geneva. Edward Marks '32 is deputy chief of the Voluntary Societies Division; William Shaughnessy '33 is chief of the Employment and Vocational Training Division; Michael de Sherbinin '42 is a Public Information Officer.

Other men who have been associated with Dartmouth and who are now working for IRO include Earle Simrell, Dean Chamberlin '26 and Frederick Hier '44. Simrell, who taught Public. Speaking in Hanover from 1927 to 1938, is Executive Assistant to IRO's Director-General. Chamberlin is a Rehabilitation Officer in the British Zone of Germany and Hier is a Public Information Officer at Bremen, Germany, where displaced persons embark for resettlement in the United States and Canada.

The IRO is engaged in caring for and re-establishing refugees and displaced persons- victims of World War II—through resettlement, repatriation or settlement where they are. In 25 months of operation, up to July 31, 1949, 570,429 persons had been resettled in new homes all over the world and 65,475 were repatriated. At that date, 681,657 men, women and children were still on IRO's rolls, and most of them hope to emigrate.

IRO is due to terminate on June 30, 1950. Meanwhile, it is carrying on comprehensive programs to train refugees in new jobs, to teach them the language of a resettlement country, and to rehabilitate those who are ill or handicapped so that they will have better chances of resettlement.

Left to right, Edward Marks '32, William Shaughnessy '33, and Michael de Sherbinin '42