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Overseas Experiment

June 1961
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Overseas Experiment
June 1961

an experimental Overseas Fellowship A Program will be inaugurated by Dartmouth College this summer, Prof. Laurence I. Radway, chairman of the Government Department and director of the program, has announced.

Two Dartmouth juniors will serve abroad under the program from mid-June to mid-December this year. Peter T. Knight of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, will go to Cairo and Henry L. Clarke of Charleston, S. C., to Istanbul.

Knight, who is majoring in government, has been assigned to the Cairo office of the American Friends of the Middle East, a private organization founded to further understanding between the United States and the Middle Eastern countries. He will prepare reports on demographic problems and the student movement of the United Arab Republic. Knight's duties may also require him to visit branches of the organization in other Middle Eastern countries.

Clarke, who is majoring in international relations, will prepare special reports on the Turkish economy for the Turkish Development Bank. He will also work at Mobil Oil Turk in Istanbul in connection with his research on Turkey's petroleum , industry. While there he will be associated with two Dartmouth alumni who are executives of the Mobil International Oil Co., William S. Hughes '26 and Robert W. Kerwin '43.

Living accommodations with Turkish and Egyptian families have been arranged for the overseas fellows through the Experiment in International Living. They will receive full academic credit for their work abroad. After returning to Dartmouth each will write a thesis based on his experience.