Peace Corps on Campus

Volunteers Trained for Service in Guinea

THE COLLEGE has been praised for running one of the Peace Corps' best summer training programs in French language instruction. On their final tests the 33 young men and women volunteering to serve as teachers in the African Republic of Guinea on the average scored three points higher than the average of U.S. high school teachers of French taking the same tests. And many of the volunteers had had no previous training in French before beginning the eight-week Dartmouth course! The volunteers' day consisted of informal sessions with students from Guinea, indoors and outdoors (photo above shows class on Dartmouth Hall lawn); instruction in the language laboratory (left center photo); or in the classroom (right below) with one of five instructors; and two hours of physical education each day in programs conducted by swimming coach Karl Michael (left below) and his staff. The Peace Corps group also went off into the New Hampshire mountains for two three-day campouts and two one-day hikes.