NEW JERSEY COLLEGE STUDENTS
HOLD UNESCO DAY OBSERVANCE

Students of the New Jersey College for Women at New Brunswick held a UNESCO Day observance during the spring in recognition of the educational, scientific, and cultural phases of the United Nations. Features of the day were exhibits on the United Nations, an art exhibition of the work of contemporary painters of Europe, South America, and the Orient, and a display on atomic energy prepared by the Curie Science Club of the school. Sven Bjorklund, Chief of the U.N. Training Division, discussed "Training for International Civil Service."

Dagmar Michalova and Mary Olga Hak, students from Praha attending New Jersey College

The program featured the music of many for Women, present a Czecho- lands, including that of slovakian folk dance. the United States, and national dances executed by foreign students wearing native costume. Proceeds from the International Festival which climaxed the day's activities were applied toward the school's fund for overseas educational relief.

UNESCO Day brought to a close a series of lectures, exhibits, and discussions held at the school in observance of United Nations week. The week's activities included an address by James B. Orrick, U.N. Chief of the Section for Non-Governmental Organizations, and a debate between Rutgers University and New York University on the topic "Resolved: There should be Established a World Federal Government." A movie, "The People's Charter," an official U.N. film, was also shown at one of the meetings. Five students from the college participated in a radio program entitled, "United States Policy in Regard to the United Nations."

Denver Offers UNESCO Course

The Division of Social Sciences of the University of Denver is offering a wide range of

subjects in the field of international relations for the summer term, which includes a course on "UNESCO in World Affairs" by Ben Mark Cherrington, member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.

UNESCO Conference Held in Kent

Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio and Mrs. Esther Brunauer, Assistant Director for Policy Liaison, UNESCo Relations Staff, were speakers at the UNESCO Conference held in the late spring at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. In her talk Mrs. Brunauer defined UNESCO and explained its varied program, pointing out that "not all of the projects are of equal scope and equal value". She added: "The extent and variety of the program should not make us impatient. Rather it should be taken as an index of the great range of interests which people of different countries have in common".

NEWS FROM UNESCO HEADQUARTERS

School for Librarians Is Planned

The first International Summer School for Librarians sponsored by UNESCO will be held in England in September. Raymond Irwin, Director of the School of Librarianship, University College, London, will be in charge of the school, which is being planned in close cooperation with the International Federation of Library Associations. The school will be held successively in London and Manchester.

Some fifty working librarians, drawn especially from war-devasted countries, will attend the courses. Participants will be chosen by UNESCO national commissions or cooperating bodies in member states and by library associations.

Second "Book of Needs" is Planned

UNESCO has sent field workers to India, China, and Malta to study requirements in the field of educational, scientific, and cultural reconstruction as a result of war-devastation. The findings of these field workers will be combined with those of an earlier survey of Burma, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak, and the Philippines to form a second Book of Needs which will be published as a sequel to the first volume.

Panel on Educational Broadcasting

Mrs. Kathleen Lardie, Chairman of the National Commission's Panel on Educational Broadcasting, convened a working party to discuss the functions of the panel at the Annual Institute for Education by Radio at Columbus, Ohio, in May. Among those participating were Franklin Dunham, U.S. Office of Education; Kenneth Gapen, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Richard Hull, President, National Association of Educational Broadcasters; Don Lerch of the Columbia Broadcasting System; Allen Miller, Director of the Rocky Mountain Radio Council; Luke-Roberts. Director of Education, Station KOIN, Portland, Oreg.; and Judith Waller, Director of Public Affairs and Education, National Broadcasting Company.

I. Keith Tyler, Director of the Institute, and Lyman Bryson, Educational Director of CBS, assisted with plans for the meeting and conducted a general session of the Institute on international broadcasting and its relation to UNESCO. Luther H. Evans, Librarian of Congress, spoke at the general meeting on "The Challenge of UNESCO."

The working party made plans for a report to UNESCO on educational broadcasting in the United States and agreed on a number of projects to be undertaken in this country by local stations, networks, and university radio groups. Following the meeting in Columbus, Mrs. Lardie distributed a descriptive list of 14 projects which the National Commission Panel on Educational Broadcasting will sponsor. These include a series of reports on educational broadcasting with special emphasis on content, an investigation of fellowship opportunities for radio personnel from war-devastated areas, preparation of radio scripts on UNESCO subjects, spot broadcasts, and articles on UNESCO, etc. Working-party members have been asked to enlist active support for the projects in their respective areas and to report on developments to the chairman. Mrs. Lardie plans to enlarge her committee to include representation of all major geographic areas in the United States.

Fundamental Education

George Studebaker, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Education, called a meeting of a small committee to plan for the 1948 program in fundamental education. In addition to Mr. Studebaker, those present at the meeting included Ambrose Caliver, U.S. Office of Education; Willard Beatty, Office of Indian Service; Floyde Brooker, U.S. Office of Education; Monsignor Frederick Hochwalt, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Willfred Mauck, Institute of Inter-American Affairs; and Kendric Marshall, U.S. Office of Education. An advisory panel on fundamental education will be formed shortly to implement the work in this field. The U.S. Office of Education has appointed Albert Platt to its staff. Mr. Platt will act as secretary to the panel, and keep abreast of the literature on fundamental education, prepare reports, and get in touch with areas which are carrying on outstanding fundamental education. projects.

International Understanding

The small Subcommittee on Education for International Understanding which functioned last year under the chairmanship of George F. Zook, has been enlarged and will now be called the Advisory Panel on Education for International Understanding. Two meetings have been held to consider the recommendations made at the Mexico City conference. The panel, while agreeing that the program of teaching about the United Nations and the specialized agencies should be carried out as requested by the United Nations and by UNESCO, recommended that the United States make this project a part of a large effort to develop as broad a program of education for international understanding as is feasible. The advisory panel, which may be enlarged later, now includes the following members: Mr. Zook, chairman; Kendric Marshall, U.S. Office of Education: Lewis Paul Todd, National Education Association; Miss Selma Borchardt, American Federation of Teachers; Monsignor Frederick Hochwalt, National Catholic Welfare Conference;

Malcolm W. Davis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Miss Ruth E. McMurry, UNESCO Relations Staff, Department of State, secretary.

UNESCO Work With Universities

A preliminary conference of representatives of national organizations in education and others interested in higher education was convened in March by George F. Zook of the American Council on Education to discuss the development of work with universities through UNESCO, and to consider the organization of an international conference on higher education this year, as recommended by the General Conference of UNESCO. Francis J. Brown of the American Council on Education has been appointed as a temporary consultant to the UNESCO staff to develop this program. The International Conference on Higher Education plans to meet in the second week of August in Brussels.

Laves Visits Washington

Walter Laves, Deputy Director General of UNESCO, visited Washington during the last week of May to confer with members of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Relations Staff and other officers of the Department of State. He also met with the Program Committee of the National Commission.

Walter Laves

Mr. Laves' primary reason for the trip was to attend meetings of the United Nations Coordination Committee for its specialized agencies at Lake Success. In addressing the UNESCO Executive Board earlier this spring, Mr. Laves stressed the increasing need to orient UNESCO's program positively in order "to meet the requirements of the troubled world situation". He said: "It is . . . of the greatest urgency that

every element in UNESCO's program be completely justifiable as contributing to what will be recognized as the real needs of the world. While war is far from inevitable, there is no doubt of a rising sense of uneasiness".

CIER Reconstruction Total Passes 150 Million

Figures recently released by Harold E. Snyder, Director, Commission of International Educational Reconstruction, show that during 1947 contributions of American voluntary organizations for educational aid in war-devastated countries totaled over 88 million dollars. The money and sup plies were collected by approximately 350 national organizations.

This sum, added to the 62 million dollars collected in 1946, brings the total amount to over 150 million.

Supplies include not only books, educational materials, scientific and technical equipment, fellowships, scholarships and study grants, but also, in some instances, food and clothing when it was directed specifically toward educational institutions or professional workers or had a distinct training purpose.

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Leaving New York harbor aboard the S. S. Marine Jumper, this group of former 4-H Club members will spend the summer on farms in western Europe. Left to right-Raymond C. Dankenbring of lowa, Lois B. White of New York, Rodney C. Langseth of Minnesota, Ruth M. Akehurst of Maryland, Anna L. Hansen of Wyoming, Janice M. Fenske of Montana, Charles J. Larson of Connecticut, Alice R. Gilliaum of Arkansas, Ernest A. Hellwege of Oklahoma, Helen E. Ochsner of Nebraska, Armin Samuelson of Kansas, Roy Hranicky of Texas, and Paul C. Hoffman of Pennsylvania. (See story on page 5.)