U.S. Judge, Art Authority, Recent appointments to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO include Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., U.S. District Judge for Boston; Henry R. Hope, chairman of the Fine Arts Department of Indiana University; William O. Walker, ownermanager of the Cleveland Call and Post, a weekly newspaper; and Robert W. Sullivan, senior at Wellesley High School, Wellesley, Mass. Judge Wyzanski has attended several international meetings of experts called by UNESCO to study copyright problems. A native of Boston, he began his law practice in that city after receiving his A.B. and LL.B. degrees from Harvard University. A former solicitor for the Department of Labor, Judge Wyzanski represented the United States at the 71st and 72d sessions of the governing body of the International Labor Organization in Geneva in 1945. He was later appointed special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General and assigned to the staff of the Solicitor General, Department of Justice. He participated in the U.S. Supreme Court in arguments on the constitutionality of the Social Security Act and the National Labor Relations Act, 1937. He is an overseer for Harvard University, a trustee for Phillips Exeter Academy, and has been a member of the International Labor Organization's committee on application of conventions since 1945. A New Englander, Mr. Hope attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and Columbia University before going to Paris, where he studied at the Ecole du Louvre and the Sorbonne. While abroad, he conducted study tours to the French and German centers of Romanesque and Gothic Art. Mr. Hope returned to the United States in 1938 and entered the Harvard Graduate School where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in fine arts. In 1948 he visisted England, France, Switzerland, and Italy for the purpose of compiling material for a catalog and arranging for a showing of the paintings of the French artist Braque for the New York Museum of Modern Art. He is president of the College Art Association of America, which post he has held since 1948. Robert Sullivan, right, is greeted by two other Commission members on the opening morning of the May meeting-Paul Green, playright, and Miss Myrna Loy, actress. Mr. Walker succeeds C. A. Scott as representative of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association on the National Commission. He is secretary and former president of the association. Born in Selma, Ala., Mr. Walker is a graduate of Wilberforce University and Oberlin Business College in Ohio. He was one of the founders of the Washington Tribune, Washington, D. C., and served as city editor of the Pittsburgh Courier and the Virginia Journal and Guide, before becoming owner of the Cleveland Call and Post in 1932. He is president of the Cleveland Urban League and served as a member of the Cleveland City Council for 3 consecutive 2-year terms. He also served as president of the Cleveland Board of Trade for two terms. In 1946 he was a member of a U.S. delegation to Europe to inspect conditions of Negro soldiers in England, Germany, France, Austria, and Italy. President of the National Association of Student Councils, Mr. Sullivan succeeds Keith Beery as that organization's representative on the National Commission. He is president of the Student Council at Wellesley High School, Wellesley, Mass., and is active in all forms of athletics, having been a member of his school's football, basketball, baseball, and track teams. He is a member of the National Honor Society. UNESCO TELLING THE UNESCO STORY THROUGH EDUCATION Stoddard Reelected Chairman of Unesco National Commission; Six Organizations Rotated George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois, was reelected Chairman of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO at the May meeting. The following were chosen as vice chairmen : Luther H. Evans, Librarian of Congress; Reinhold Niebuhr of the Union Theological Seminary of New York City; and Mrs. Henry Potter Russell, San Francisco civil leader, who was reelected; the other two vice chairmen succeed Detlev Bronk, president of Johns Hopkins University, and Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, whose terms of membership on the Commission have expired. In line with the policy of rotation of affiliated organizations, the following six organizations were voted membership on the Commission: American Political Science Association; Authors League of America; Department of Classroom Teachers of the National Education Association; General Federation of Women's Clubs; National University Extension Association; and Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Of these the General Federation of Women's Clubs is the only one that has previously had representation on the Commission. These organizations replace the American Association for Adult Education; American Association of University Professors; Modern Language Association of America; National Academy of Sciences; National Council for the Social Studies; and the National Grange. Twenty-one Members Retire From Commission Twenty-one members, most of whom have served on the Commission since it was established in 1946, have completed two terms of membership and hence will not be eligible for reappointment to the Commission in 1951. In announcing the termination of their membership, Mr. Stoddard referred to their "outstanding contributions" toward the furtherance of UNESCO's program in this country, and said A full set of Unesco Coupons, now an "international currency," is added to the money exhibit of over 75,000 specimens of old and new moneys of the world at Chase National Bank in New York City. Jacob Zuckerman of Paris, Deputy Director of Unesco's Rehabilitation Service, right, is shown presenting the 21 different kinds and denominations of Unesco coupons to Vernon L. Brown, curator of the bank's money exhibit. they would make a "distinguished" addition to the Commission's growing alumni. Those whose terms of membership have expired are Barclay Acheson, Miss Selma Borchardt, Chester Bowles, Detlev Bronk, Erwin D. Canham, Henry Grattan Doyle, Milton S. Eisenhower, David E. Finley, Robert M. Gates, Ross G. Harrison, Ralph E. Himstead, Mrs. Douglas Horton, Rees H. Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, Eric Johnston, Waldo G. Leland, Archibald MacLeish, James Marshall, J. T. Sanders, Harold C. Urey, and Howard E. Wilson. In addition, Herbert C. Hunsaker leaves the Commission because his organization, the American Association of Adult Education, was rotated off the Commission at this session. Under the Farm Youth Exchange program of the Department of Agriculture, 57 rural youths from 20 or more countries will come to the United States this summer to share the daily work and social life of American farm families. The same number of American boys and girls will visit overseas. Department of State publication 4232 The printing of this publication has been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget (June 26, 1950) For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Price $1.00 per year, domestic; $1.35 per year, foreign; single copy, 10 cents. Literacy Teaching is Combined With Practical Solutions For Daily Living at Mexican Training Center In Patzcuaro, a small town about 250 miles west of Mexico City, a Fundamental Education Center was established last spring for the purpose of training teachers to help combat illiteracy in Latin America. This is the first of six such training centers which UNESCO plans to set up in widely separated regions. (The possibility of establishing similar centers in the Middle East, India, the Far East, and Equatorial Africa will be considered at the UNESCO General Conference now in session in Paris.) Mr. Ortiz The Center in Patzcuaro was made possible through the cooperation of UNESCO, the Organization of American States, and the Mexican Government. The following description of the Center and its aims is taken from an article, "Patzcuaro, A School to Teach Survival," written for UNESCO by Daniel Behrman. The first center, opened by UNESCO at Patzcuaro, is very much a going concern. It runs on a yearly budget of 155 thousand dollars with 115 thousand dollars coming from UNESCO and 40 thousand dollars from the Organization of American States. Buildings and land, major items, were donated by the Mexican Government. The school's faculty, headed by Lucas Ortiz, former Director of Rural Patzcuaro educators believe that teaching adults to read often begins with children. Small pupils bring their books and their knowledge home, and it is then that their parents' interest is awakened. Education in Mexico, has been drawn from Colombia, Denmark, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the United States. The 52 post-graduate students at the Center-all experienced school teachers, nurses, home economists, agricultural engineers, or adult educators come from Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras. Peru, and Mexico. Mr. Ortiz and his faculty are not at all interested (Continued on page 16) U. S. NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Chairman: George D. Stoddard... Vice Chairman: Luther H. Evans, Reinhold Niebuhr, Mrs. Henry Potter Russell. Executive Committee: Jaime Benitez, William Benton, Homer S. Brown, Mrs. Harvey N. Davis, Frederick S. Dunn, Paul Green, Rensis Likert, Raymond F. McCoy, Earl J. McGrath, Stanley H. Ruttenberg, Mrs. Raymond F. Sayre, Paul H. Sheats, Elvin C. Stakman, A. J. Stoddard, George F. Zook. (Alternates: John T. Edsall, B. W. Huebsch, Frederick D. G. Ribble.) Other Members: Frank Altschul, Paul D. Bagwell, Karl W. Bigelow, Livingston L. Blair, Miss Helen D. Bragdon, Ben M. Cherrington, Gordon R. Clapp, Wayne Coy, George Harold Edgell, John Hope Franklin, Miss Rosamond Gilder, Willard E. Givens, Ralph L. Goetzenberger, Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein, Willard E. Goslin, Mrs. John E. Hayes, Lewis G. Hines, Henry R. Hope, Ernest M. Howell, L. C. Larson, Gunther R. Lessing, Milton E. Lord, Miss Myrna Loy, Mike Mansfield, Roscoe C. Martin, Richard P. McKeon, C. J. McLanahan, Justin Miller, Mrs. Grace L. McCann Morley, C. J. Nuesse, Charles E. Odegaard, Mrs. William Barclay Parsons, I. I. Rabi, Herbert H. Race, Rabbi William F. Rosenblum, Miss K. Frances Scott, Lawrence M. C. Smith, Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith, Harold Spivacke, P. G. Stromberg, Robert W. Sullivan, Davidson Taylor, Stanley D. Tylman, William O. Walker, Mrs. Pearl A. Wanamaker, Robert L. West, M. L. Wilson, Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. Executive Secretary: Max McCullough, Department of State, Washington 25, D. C. HOWLAND SARGEANT ELECTED PRESIDENT, UNESCO CONFERENCE IN PARIS, TRYGVE LIE ADDRESSES OPENING SESSION Howland H. Sargeant, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, was elected President of the Sixth Session of the General Conference of UNESCO, which opened in Paris on June 18. Mr. Sargeant, who is chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Conference, was the only candidate nominated after the French delegation declined the Mr. Nations, addressed the first plenary session. Lie said that due to the U.N. decision on June 25, 1950, to resist aggression in Korea "the development of collective security against war anywhere in the world has been greatly advanced." He paid tribute to the U.N. forces in Korea, saying that by repelling armed aggression they had already won "a great victory for the United Nations and for peace." Mr. Lie spoke of the needs for establishing "basic conditions for a rational world order," and declared the work of UNESCo to be important to this effort. "Through the nature of its (UNESCO's) work," he said "it has the possibility of influencing the minds of men and the ideas which motivate men's actions. It has a vital role to play in support of the total United Nations effort for peace, a role with many different aspects." (The above report on the opening session of the Paris Conference was received as the NEWS went to press. Further reports will be carried in subsequent issues.) |