Peace Corps Returning

The Peace Corps will once again be represented among the many summer programs planned on the Dartmouth campus this year, but it will be a Peace Corps program with a new wrinkle - and will be three times or more larger than last summer's. Dartmouth is one of several college centers participating in the newly-established Peace Corps "senior year program," a summer training session for volunteers between their junior and senior years.

The program is designed for college students who are looking ahead to postgraduate Peace Corps service. After the summer training the senior returns to his or her campus for the final undergraduate year. Upon graduation the volunteers will be put through a final training period before assignment. The approximately 100 volunteers in Dartmouth's program will be training for Peace Corps service in French West Africa.

Last summer a group of 35 graduates underwent intensive language study on campus for service in Guinea.

Dartmouth's Peace Corps program for 1964 is again under the general super-vision of Dean of Summer Programs Waldo Chamberlin, with Director of Student Counseling Henry M. Helgen once again the administrative director. He will be assisted by Wilbur E. Volz, former backfield football coach and now Assistant Director of Physical Education.

The participants in the June 30 to August 24 program will study French under the eye (and ear) of language coordinator John Rassias, a Professor of French from the University of Bridge-port. William MacNaughton, former Assistant Freshman Dean and now engaged in graduate studies at Harvard, will be the guidance officer. Prof. John C. Adams will teach a history course. Swimming coach Karl B. Michael will supervise the physical fitness portion of a summer day's activities while John Rand '3B and James E. Schwedland '48 of the Dartmouth Outing Club will put the volunteers through a hiking and camping schedule.