BAND LEADER, EDUCATOR HOLD UNESCO FELLOWSHIPS Maj. Antonino Buenaventura, right, UNESCO fellowship holder and director of the Philippine Army Band, presents a transcription of one of his compositions to Maj. William F. Santelmann, leader of the U.S. Marine Band. Two holders of UNESCO Reconstruction Fellowships visited Washington during the past monthMajor Antonino Buenaventura, conductor of the First Army Band of the Philippine Islands, and Oluf Carl Egerod, principal of the Bellahoj (Beautiful Hill) School of Copenhagen, Denmark. Both will study in their chosen fields for a period of six months. Major Buenaventura, who teaches composition at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Philippines, is studying the trends of music education in the United States. He has been invited to be a guest conductor at the Annual Convention of the American Band Masters Association in Charlotte, N.C., in March. Major Buenaventura reported that musicians in the Philippines are greatly handicapped in the wartime destruction of their two best music libraries-the Library of the Philippine Constabulary Band and the Library of the Conservatory of Music. Mr. Egerod's stay in this country will be devoted to the study and observation of education administration, following a schedule arranged for him by Teachers College, Columbia University. He will make a study of the public school systems in all sections of the United States and will also visit some colleges and private preparatory schools. Mr. Egerod. M.I.T. PLANS MID-CENTURY The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge, will hold an International Mid-Century Convocation on the Social Implications of Scientific Progress, March 31 and April 1. Principal addresses will be made by President Truman, who will speak on the evening of April 1, and Winston Churchill, whose talk is scheduled for the preceding evening. Climaxing the convocation will be the inauguration of James R. Killian, Jr., the Institute's tenth president, on Saturday morning, April 2. Two members of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Merle A. Tuve and Erwin D. Canham, will participate in one of six panels scheduled for the two-day meeting. "The Role of the Individual in a World of Institutions" is the title of the panel on which they will appear. New England Organizes A New England Committee for UNESCO was officially organized at a meeting in Boston on February 2. The Committee chose Seth T. Gano, of Boston, and William G. Saltonstall, of New Hampshire, as honorary chairmen. Members of the Executive Committee are: Wyman Holmes, manager of the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation of Boston, chairman; Robert S. Smith, member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, vice chairman; Miss Mary Morrison, of Boston, executive secretary: Miss Mabelle Blake, American Association of University Women, Boston; Bart J. Bok, Harvard Observatory, Cambridge, and chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on UNESCO; John J. Desmond, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Education; Raymond Dennett, director, World Peace Foundation, Boston; Henry Holmes, dean emeritus, Harvard School of Education; Mrs. Arthur G. Rotch, Joint Council for International Cooperation, Boston. Oregon UNESCO Group To Meet The Oregon Council for UNESCO will hold a State-wide meeting, April 8 and 9, on the campus of Reed College, Portland. UNESCO Launches World-Wide Radio Program One Saturday a few weeks ago, radio announcers in many countries holding identical scripts stepped to the microphones. Then, each in his own language, started to read: "Newspaper headlines may speak of rivalries and disputes, but the nations of the world are working together in many fields . . . in this collaboration lies the hope of peace, understanding and progress. For the next fifteen minutes we tell of the cooperation of nations. . . Here isthe UNESCO World Review." UNESCO's first international radio program was on the air. Prepared by UNESCO House in Paris, the first script of a radio news program about science, education, and culture had been forwarded around the world to the British Broadcasting Corporation in London, to the Radio Diffusion Français, to Oslo in Norway, to Benares in India, to Manila, to Anchorage, to Lima. In Washington, the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO undertook the job of sending the UNESCO World Review to over 500 of this country's leading radio stations. To provide simultaneous world-wide release each copy, whether Spanish, English, or Arabic, was marked: "For Saturday, February 19." This weekly radio program is the result of several months' research and testing by the UNESCO projects division. It was produced in answer to the thousands of requests that UNESCO has received from individuals asking that the Organization use radio to promote international understanding, to report constructive developments in science and education, to tell one section of the world what goes on in another, and to make people of all nations feel more united in their efforts to build a peace. The UNESCO World Review is a fifteen-minute program. The first five minutes consist of short news items such as: "Chile: The University of Chile's medical school, wiped out by fire, received an international helping hand almost before the embers stopped smoldering. Library associations in America and Great Britain have already pledged donations to help replace the school's losses. The libraries division of UNESCO also will assist in the rehabilitation "Africa: Within a month of the discovery of the new drug, antrycide, veterinary experts from six countries are meeting in London to study its use . . . one hundred tons of the chemical are enough to liberate Africa from the tyranny of the tsetse fly . . . immunization of cattle against the bite of this pest, would transform four and a half million square miles of bush and jungle into meat-producing pasture land for a hungry world." Then follow two 5-minute features, which allow the Review to explore some of the major developments in UNESCO's many fields of interest. These features will offer behind-the-scenes stories of scientific discoveries, thumbnail biographies of leaders in the fight for human rights, a newly published book reviewed for its contribution to interA national understanding, and similar material. typical introduction follows: "Announcer: Food and people is one of the commanding problems of the world. . . . While the number of people continues to grow our poor old globe doesn't expand to make more room for them. Total food-producing land area for the earth remains at approximately four billion acres (or 8 percent of the earth's land surface), which divides out as rather less than two acres per person. But that is not the whole story. Some great areas, like Eastern Asia, have, even on average, only a fifth of this land. What to do about this is a great world problem. It will be one of the topics discussed in this series." The early scripts for the UNESCO World Review are frankly experimental. The search to find common denominators for Cairo, Egypt, and Cairo, Illinois, still goes on. As the Commission here and the national commissions in other countries are able to report listener reaction and to transmit suggestions to international headquarters, those in UNESCO House entrusted with the weekly preparation of the Review hope to find ways of improving their product. Radio stations in the United States desiring to receive the UNESCO World Review may request copies of scripts from the UNESCO Relations Staff if they are not now receiving them. Sample copies are also available to organizations. Interested organizations and individuals can get information on local use of the program from radio stations in their own communities. The keynote address, "UNESCo-Experiment in Peace," was given by Archibald MacLeish, member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Other speakers included R. G. Gustavson, chancellor of the university, who was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Second General Conference of UNESCO in Mexico City, 1947, and whose active interest in UNESCO inspired the student conference; Richard P. McKeon, of the University of Chicago, who attended the recent Beirut conference as a member of the U.S. Delegation; Miss Constance Roach, of the UNESCO Relations Staff; and Albert H. Rosenthal, of the University of Denver, former member of the UNESCO Relations Staff. Mr. Rosenthal, who attended the first two General Conferences of UNESCO, served as consultant to the planning committee for the Nebraska meeting. During the period of preparation, the sorority and fraternity houses on the campus were designated as UNESCO member countries, and the residents of each house studied the history and cultural developments of their particular country in order to give it effective representation at the conference. A colorful feature of the three-day gathering was an international pageant staged by 275 students of the school's fine arts depart ment. An Orchid for UNESCO Receipt of a set of the U.S. National Commission's posters on the UNESCO program brought the following note from a member of the Canadian Council for Reconstruction: "I thought you might be interested in the comment of the customs official who handed them (the posters) over to me free of duty. It was: 'I wish a lot more of these posters would come through to Canada for distribution and prominent display to Canadians; UNESCO is doing a great job.'" Washington UNESCO Group Plans State-Wide Meeting The Washington Coordinating Council for UNESCO will hold a State-wide meeting in Seattle, April 10-12. The Council has invited UNESCO groups in Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Alaska, and British Columbia to send delegates to the meeting, which, it is anticipated, may develop into a regional UNESCO conference. Lloyd Schramm, of the University of Washington, is in charge of arrangements for the meeting. UNESCO Courier Is To Be Made The UNESCO Courier, the monthly publication of UNESCO House in Paris, now is being reprinted by the Columbia University Press in New York City. All future issues will be available to readers in the United States on a subscription basis. Orders may be placed with the Columbia University Press, New York 27, N. Y. The annual rate is $1. The Columbia Press also handles requests for other publications originating at UNESCO House. U.S. School Plans Session in Europe The New School of Social Research, in New York City, has announced that it will sponsor a six-week summer session in Europe in cooperation with the Columbia University Travel Service. Bryn J. Hovde, president of the school, states that the course is planned "to afford American students the opportunity to study political and economic conditions at first hand and to advance the cause of international understanding through the free mingling with people of other lands." Three groups of about 70 students each will study in Paris and other cities in Europe under American and European professors. Cornell Establishes Sixteen Sixteen undergraduate scholarships for students from abroad have been established by Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y. Edmund E. Day, president of Cornell, has announced that five of the scholarships will be awarded in agriculture, four each in veterinary medicine and industrial and labor relations, and three in home economics. Needs of children in war-devastated countries are poignantly portrayed in a photographic exhibition supplied for the Cleveland conferences by UNESCO. Taken from the collection are, left, young Greek refugess singing before receiving milk supplied by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund; center, a Viennese schoolgirl awaiting her hot midday meal; and right, children playing before a ruined orphanage in Cassino. Cleveland Has Long Record in International Affairs (Continued from page 2) For its radio-discussion groups the council this year scheduled three broadcasts per week. Two of these are half-hour panel discussions held during evening hours. A Sunday afternoon program of 25 minutes features the music representative of various foreign countries, with three- to fiveminute travelogues on the countries. Time for the programs was contributed as a public service by the radio stations, and preparation of the programs is by council staff members, trainees, and volunteers. A council trainee program has a continuous "reservoir" of approximately 150 volunteers who are available for public and group appearances, for research, and for other council work. In the Junior Council program, more than 30 high schools-public, private, and parochialhave World Affairs Clubs that conduct their own studies and discussions throughout the year and are climaxed by a mock "international conference" each spring. The clubs do their own planning, under council guidance, according to Mr. Witman, and each has a faculty member as adviser. Each club is responsible for at least one assembly program in the school year. Recently 24 Junior Council members were taken to New York City to sit in at United Nations assemblies. Program-planning clinics also are an important means by which the council spreads its message and directs its efforts. An example of its clinics was one held this year in which an all-day "workshop" on UNESCO was conducted for publicschool teachers. The council furnished all materials, leaders, and agenda for this clinic, which had as its primary purpose explaining UNESCO. So many and varied are the activities of the council that a brief résumé of its work is virtually impossible, but a record of its meeting schedule may serve to indicate the diligence of its staff. Meetings, broadcasts, and various other organic activities of the council occur at the average rate of two per day for a 365-day year, and notwithstanding a "skeletonized" midsummer program. At council headquarters approximately five meetings a week are scheduled throughout the year. The Cleveland Council, through its persistent efforts, has demonstrated the feasibility of enlisting interest in volunteer service and promoting mass civic consciousness of the role open to any community in the promotion of peace and understanding. U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1949 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. |