Summer Programs Attain New Peak

SUMMER PROGRAMS at Dartmouth, steadily growing in size and number, will reach a new peak this year. Not counting the Summer Term or the Congregation of the Arts, the two major operations around which nearly everything else revolves, 24 programs on campus and three away from Hanover but under College direction are scheduled for the period from June 19 to September 15.

Including an anticipated enrollment of 500 or more for the Summer Term, the grand total of participants this summer is estimated at 2820. Comparison with last summer's figure of 1897 and the 1964 total of 1485 gives some idea of the sharp increase in activities this year.

The expected enrollment of at least 500 students for the fourth term is the highest since the extra term began three summers ago. It compares with 439 men and women actually enrolled last summer. One feature this year will be an increase in the number of double courses offered - in chemistry, physics, music, and three foreign languages. Under this "immersion method" the student concentrates on one double course and covers a full year's work in a summer. In addition to the 500 undergraduates on campus for eight weeks, beginning June 26, 145 graduate students will be enrolled for ten weeks as science researchers.

Five Peace Corps programs involving 305 trainees will constitute one of the biggest Peace Corps operations in the country this summer. Two groups - college juniors preparing to teach in French West Africa and college seniors training to be health and welfare workers there - will be based on the campus. Fifty June graduates who were at Dartmouth last summer as juniors will have the second part of their teacher training in St. Anne, Quebec, and then in Bouke, Africa; 30 trainees going to Liberia will have three weeks in the Negro section of Providence, R. I.; and a group of sixty college graduates will learn poultry farming at Vershire, Vt., before going to India to teach and develop such farming there.

The African-American Institute will sponsor five weeks of study at Dartmouth by a group of African women social workers, and also a two-week study program for 40 African students visiting this country.

Project ABC, in its third year, will give 80 underprivileged boys, mostly Negroes, eight weeks of intensive academic training for preparatory school. Two groups of secondary school teachers of Russian and U.S. history will again be sponsored at Dartmouth for seven weeks by the NDEA, and a similar group of physics teachers will spend four weeks on campus as part of the National Science Foundation program.

Other summer institutes include groups of AT&T executives, savings bankers, piano teachers, engineers dealing with computers and with two-phase flow and heat transfer, the two-week Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management at Tuck School involving 250 executives, and the annual study sessions of Vermont and New Hampshire bankers.

The largest summer conference will bring 300 members of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers to Hanover in August. The National Council on Arts in Education will meet in late August, and in early September the Thayer School and Split Ball Bearing Co. will jointly sponsor a Bearing Conference for 150 persons. Other conferences will involve pathologists, pharmaceutical executives, English teachers, and a curriculum study group of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Dartmouth Alumni College, with 280 adults and 130 children, will come close to replacing the Summer Term student body for nearly two weeks in late August.