Students Garry World Issues to Town Groups
THE inauguration of a "speakers bureau" made up of Dartmouth undergraduates able to address community groups in the college area has proved a successful experiment this year. Organized undgr the direction of George Kalbfleisch, graduate secretary of the Dartmouth Christian Union, students have been invited to address audiences on subjects varying from the new state of Israel to the problems of the U.S. Negro.
Drawing upon the cosmopolitan nature of its student body, Dartmouth has instigated a program which is of value to the qualified student who wishes contact with communities, as well as to the groups desiring a variety of speakers and subjects.
Typical of these undergraduate speakers is Samuel C. Chu, a junior who was born and raised in China. He discusses his homeland from its political, cultural and religious aspects.
Clifford H. Spotholz, a senior from Hackensack, N. J., spent last summer in Mexico and gives informal talks on his experiences there.
Edward C. Coolidge of South Hamilton, Mass., speaks on the labor-management problem based on his work in a Friends' industrial relations project in Chicago.
Robert S. Wilkinson Jr., a senior from New York City, is one of Dartmouth's Negro students and he discusses some of the problems and challenges of race prejudice.
A member of the Dartmouth chapter of the United World Federalists, William M. Scott '51 of Bryn Mawr, Pa., presents the program of this organization for world peace.
Some of the beliefs and customs of the Jewish religion are explained by a member of this faith, David H. Neiditz, a sophomore from West Hartford, Conn., while Jerome W. Bogdan of Cincinnati, Ohio, has an illustrated talk on his experiences in Israel.
Peter R. Dallman, a junior from Brooklyn, N. Y., gives an account of his work as a tourist guide in Guatemala, and Abdul G. Sheikh of Nairobi, Kenya, a student movement organizer for the United Nations, explains the aims of that world governing body.
It is expected that the program will be continued and expanded in the future. Among the towns which have been visited by student speakers are Claremont, Cornish, Enfield, Etna, Laconia, Lebanon, and Orford in New Hampshire, and Hartland, North Pomfret, and Woodstock in Vermont.
