Student Tutors for A.B.C.

From 150 undergraduates who expressed an interest in being resident-tutors for Dartmouth's Project A.B.C. (for "A Better Chance"), a special screening committee selected eight for the summer posts. The student tutors will work closely with the A.B.C. faculty, made up of teachers from Dartmouth and from secondary schools, and each will have direct responsibility for six A.B.C. students. Students and tutors will live together in the dormitories.

The resident-tutors for the summer of 1964 are: William E. Dubocq III '64 of Andover, Mass.; Richard C. Goodin '65 of Corona, N. Y.; Richard A. Joseph '65 of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Victor N. Mansfield '63 of South Norwalk, Conn.; Thomas W. Mitchell '65 of Pittsfield, Mass.; Ronald J. Naso '64 of Jefferson, Ohio; Kenneth E. Sharpe '66 of West Orange, N. J.; and Leeman D. Thompson '65 of Seymour, Connr

Project A.B.C., under Associate Dean Charles F. Dey '52, will enroll some fifty students this summer. By early April a total of thirty students from thirteen states, spread from Maine to California, had been selected for admission. In the fall, if these students do well during the summer, they will enter one of the nineteen independent preparatory schools to which they have already received contingent admission and scholarships. Negotiations are underway for placement and selection of the remainder of the initial A.B.C. group of fifty.

The students, predominantly Negroes and all from deprived backgrounds, will be given intensive instruction, mostly in English and mathematics, to enable them to qualify eventually for college, something that would be unlikely for them in existing circumstances.