Peace Corps Members Training at the College

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE this summer will train a group of 35 Peace Corps members who are going to Guinea. The group, at the College from July 12 to August 30, will be the first Peace Corps project to go to Guinea, and also the first group to be trained at Dartmouth.

Under Dean Waldo Chamberlin, project director and Dean of Summer Programs at Dartmouth, Henry M. Helgen Jr., Assistant Dean of the College, is serving as deputy project director, and Michel J. Benamou, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, is language coordinator. William Wellstead '63 is administrative assistant to the program.

The Dartmouth trainees will be teaching English to students in Guinea who now speak French. Therefore, a major part of the summer training program will be intensive language instruction. In addition, the trainees will have physical training and cultural indoctrination. French instructors will be living in Little Hall with the trainees, and French will be spoken at meals.