"World Student" Helps Promote U.N.

AMONG the men enrolled at Dartmouth this fall is a veritable student of the world—Abdul Ghafur Sheikh from Nairobi, capital of Kenya in eastern Africa. An organizer of the United Nations student movement, 19-year-old Abdul has circled the globe twice, studied in Kenya, at Oxford University and at New York University. He transferred from N.Y.U. this year because he wanted to attend a smaller liberal arts college.

"One World" is a completely practical reality to the young man who is preparing himself for international public service and the betterment of his own people. "I never feel that I am away from home no matter what part of the globe I happen to be in" Abdul says.

After a summer of organizing student chapters of the student movement for the United Nations in Hong Kong, Hawaii, and Pakistan, he was elected international vice president of this organization early in September. Shortly afterwards, he became collegiate representative to the U.N. from New Hampshire. In this country, the student group is known as the Collegiate Council for the U.N. and has 175 active college chapters.

As state chairman for New Hampshire, Abdul hopes to bring the concepts of the United Nations to the youth of the state and, through the youth, to the general public. A model U.N. within the state is one of the projects he is planning in an effort to promote understanding of other people and their problems. The setting up of chapters at Dartmouth, Colby Junior College, and the University of New Hampshire is his present concern.

Also figuring strongly in his plans for the future is Abdul's desire to help the people of his own land. To aid in the fulfillment of his son's ambition, his father, a Pakistanese merchant, has set aside a large sum of the family fortune for charitable work in Africa and the near East. The Sheikh Fazal Ilah Fund, as this trust is called, will be administered by Abdul, who intends to study business administration here to equip himself for his task.

ABDUL GHAFUR SHEIKH