1954 news clippings

              
Section 2
.Education.
NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14,	1954
Fulbright Scholarships: A Gateway to Adventure
Fulbrigliter Betsy Swigart, graduate of the University of Kansas, puts the finishing touch on a "rug at Institut Siiperieur d’Archaeologie et des Arts Decoratifs La Camhre, in Brussels. These grants cover the entire range of the arts and sciences.
Sheikh Ahmed Abd el Wahhah Zaki, professor of Oriental studies at the American University, Cairo, assists American Fulbrighters Dorothy Goodwin and John McClel* Ian in their Arabic lessons. To date 3,618 American Fulbright students went abroad.
1,000 Americans Study Abroad in 8th Year of Program
By Fred M. Hechinger least and west, there still lie Another group of American opportunities for the bold and
graduate students is currently being selected for a year’s study abroad under the Fulbright Program. By now the scheme is almost a routine part of American education. But routine or not, the program remains the largest foreign scholarship plan ever established. And the idea remains a rare legislative flight of the imagination. This is its backgroimd:
In 1945, with the war only Just ended. Sen. J. William Fulbright, D., Ark., proposed that America’s surplus war materials abroad be converted into "local” foreign currency, and the resulting fimds used for a continuing scholarship program. American graduate students, teachers *and scholars would get their travel and subsistence paid out of the fund; foreign students, eligible for study in the United States, would at least get free passage. (Eventually the Smith-Mundt act also covered the expenses of some in this country.)
Late in 1946 the proposal became law as the Fulbright act. It was estimated that within
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twenty years it would have at its disposal about $140,000,000. Now in its eighth year, it has thirteen years to go.
New Frontiers
The surplus materials were scattered across the world— from. Burma to Great Britain *nd from New Zealand to Norway. Anything from chewing gum to bulldozers and airplane hangars—in twenty-two countries—^was turned into study grants. Recently Germany and Austria were added.
Sen. Fulbright’s background explains his Interests. An honor student and football star at the University of Arkansas (of which he later became president), he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and distinguished himself in modem history and on the lacrosse team.
When the Institute of International Education recently reviewed some of the Fulbright students’ careers. Sir Hugh Taylor, graduate dean of Princeton University and early member of the Fulbright selection committees, said: "A thousand young Americans have ventured this yeaf (1953) on their voyage of education and discovery. Within the coimtry there is no longer a frontier to beckon to hem. But beyond the gateways.
adventurous spirit.”
’The reports on this page, and the pictures of Fulbrighters at work, show some of the adventure. (All the material and pictures were provided by the Institute of International Education and its “News Bulletin.” The iflstitute is the selection agency for students. ’The Department of State, the Board of Foreign Scholarships and the tjnited States Office of Education deal with teachers.)
Fulbrighters have ranged from the study of art to animal husbandry. They have helped fight epidemics in the tropics and they have performed in Italian opera (see article by Judith Crist). One Greek doctor who, on a reverse Fulbright grant to the United States studied at the Mayo Clinic, went back home and opened a seventy-bed hospital where he serves 40,000 people a year.
One American student went to New Zealand and worked on experiments to control the breeding of the wapiti, an elk The wapiti had been brought to New Zealand as a gift of Teddy Roosevelt, but multiplied so as to become a menace. Another Fulbrighter in New Zealand explained the Communist danger in Korea so effectively that his lectures, improvised when the North, Koreans attacked, became part of the New Zealand Air Force training manual. Fittingly, the student held a master’s degree in United Nations Affairs.
The Students Talk
But listen to the students themselves:
Richard J. Coughlin, now a member of the sociology faculty at Yale, was the flrst Fulbright researcher to go to Thailand. He reports: "I found that living or working with the Chinese in Bangkok became after a time a continuous mental exercise, like playing chess without pause . . . They often saw in my behavior certain ulterior motives which I did not have. • . . Rapport was difficult to achieve. Yet, once won, it endured and led to stillother close friendships. . . .'
David T. Billlngton, who stud led construction engineering in
Belgium, says: "Most Americans make pilgrimages to Europe to see the old stone..., I went and stayed two years among the great Gothic towers, to study man’s artifical stone, concrete In northern France, where Gothic architecture had its birth, the newest concept in construction (white, pre-stressed concrete) also has sprung up. . . .
To Belgian practicing engineers I was a curiosity. That America—creator of Boulder Dam, the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge— should come to Belgium to learn seemed remarkable.
Past and Future
"I came away stimulated not only by my glimpse at the roots of our own civilization,” he concluded, “but also by the new ideas and designs for the future.” Helen Glenn went to Pakistan two years ago. At the end of her Fulbright year she stayed there to teach at the University of Dacca.
And so the list goes.
By now 13,905 Fulbrighters, from graduate students to professors, have benefited from the plan. Of these 6,080 were Americans going abroad; 7,825 foreigners coming to America. Of the Americans, 3,618 were graduate students; 1,433 were lecturers and researchers; 1,029 were teachers.
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Nancy Lee Brown, a VSssar jtraduate, is restoring a panel at tlie Central Laboratory, Bel|ian Museums, Brussels.
How Fulbright Grants Help the loung Artist
By Judith Crist
For young American singers, opportunity for invaluable train-actors and artists, Fulbright Ing abroad” and at the same
grants for study abroad have put into practical terms the funda-
time “the peoples of other countries also have the opportunity
mental concept of the arts as to meet rising American artists
the language of international understanding.
Fulbright grants to such yoxmg people, the Institute of Interna-
and to watch their performances.”
The experiences of even a few of the many who have had Ful-biight grants bear this out. They report in glowing terms the furthering not only of their careers during and after their year of fellowship but also of a mutual understanding of the peoples and cultmes of other '.ands.
Language of Art
In Italy, “and every country I visited subsequently,” Teresa otlch Randall reported enthu-iastically, "my stay was inval-lauie. 1 not only listened to their music and saw their art, but by (“ctually living with the people nd speaking their language, was Anally able to understand their culture as it is. That ac tually is the key to sincere interpretation.
Miss Stephanie Turasli and John Wiles, dressed for “La Boheme” in Italy.
tlonal Education believes, serve a dual purpose: “Young Americans who Intend to make their careers in the arts are given the
Around the Campuses
The First Man
The University of Cincinnati reports that for the first time in its history a man has enrolled as a major in kindergarten teaching. Thomas G. Salyers, the student, holds the highest rank of cadet colonel in the university’s Army Reserve Officers Training Corps and was judged top man in all-around efficiency among 1,500 cadets dm'ing last summer’s army exercises at Ft. Bliss, Tex.
pecially designed for instruction in basic research. The university, the flrst to own its airport, to be part owner of an air line and to offer a full curriculum in aviation, has worked on rocket and jet research since 1946.
The Jet Age
Purdue University, Lafayette Ind., announces the completion of a $100,000 rocket research laboratory, latest addition to extensive rocket and jet-propulsion research facilities on the campus. The new units are es-
Course Revised Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y., has revised its eight-year-old core curriculum of general education courses. Beginning next fall, entering students will take thirty three hours of core work Instead of the present thirty-eight.
History student Michael Moynihan and a native at work in Burma where he researched nationalisms.
Not Good Enough Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., has dropped thirty-three students for failure to meet academic standards. The committee on the standing of students also placed 201 on aca demic probation for the current semester.
Tuition Increase Clark University, Worcester, Mass., will Increase its tuition by $100, to an annual total of $600, effective September. Dormitory fees will also go up by $50.
Spanish Spoken The West Side School Community Centers, Inc., will sponsor a ten-week beginners’ course for adults, in conversational Spanish, beginning tomorrow from 3:30 to 5:30 p. m. and another on Feb. 18 from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. at Joan of Arc Community Center. P. S. 118, 154 West 93d St. The audio-visual method, used by the United States Air Force and developed by Language Research, Inc., at Harvard University, will be used. Parents, teachers and welfare workers have indicated an interest in learning Spanish, the language of their new Puerto Rican neighbors, while the Puerto Ricans study English.
young soprano, had received her early training at the Hartford School of Music and the (Jpera Workshop of Columbia University, was leading soprano in the New Lyric Stage Opera Company and sang in several full-length operas presented by Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony. But by 1950 she felt that she had reached the points “where I needed training more advanced and concentrated than I was able to procure in this country.”
Three Years Later
She won a Fulbright scholarship to study in Milan for 1951-'52 and distinguished herself from the start. In 1951 she won the International Competition at Lausanne and the International Competition at Geneva and appeared as soloist with many European symphony and chamber orchestras, at the International Festival in Salzburg and with the Basel State Opera.
She made her debut with the Vienna State Opera in October. 1952, and this year plans to appear in concert and operatic recitals in Milan, Zurich, Cologne, Brussels, Graz and Aix-en-Provence as well as Vienna.
Another Fulbright aliunna, Anne McKnight, known to Italian operagoers as Anne de Cava-lieri, distinguished herself before and after receiving a grant In 1949-’50. When in 1953, ’Tullio
Miss Stich Randall, a rUing Serafin, conductor of the San
Student Brushes Up
A friend reports meeting, in the elevator, the cleaning woman of the family upstairs. “The sister of Mr. B. is sure happy,” she reported. “She just got a Puller Brush scholarship to study in Europe next year.”
Carlo Opera Company, with which Miss McKnight had sung, was asked by the New York City Opera Company to recommend an Italian soprano for the company, he said the most suitable Italian soprano was Miss McKnight, a native of Aurora, 111. She is now a leading soprano with that group, returning for engagements abroad before and after its season.
Still a third yoimg singer, Nell Tangeman, had applied for a Fulbright scholarship to study opera and stage technique in Italy and, through performing, “to bring to more serious attention abroad.the works of contemporary American composers.” “Ip Europe,” she reported, “I sang as soloist with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome; also for the coronation of Prince Rainier III of Monaco in Monte Carlo, and as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic.”
A young actor matched the singers in their enthusiasm. David Mintz, a Californian, had
been to England in the summer of 1950 with members of the Putney Summer Theater in Vermont, where Be a&d worked summers while teacomg dramatics at the Putney Scnool.
“The summer's experience impressed me with how much I had to learn,” he recalled, “and ■ I began to think about returning to England for study. I wanted very much to further my interest in the classical theater and learn the style and discipline that is characteristic of the best of English acting.”
He received a Fulbright grant in the fall of 1951 for a year’s study at the Royal Academy in London, where he won Its award for “The Most Promising Male Performance.” He also took a screen test and is now under contract to Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, under the professional name of David Knight.
“One of the most valuable and cherished parts of the experience in England,” he said, “was the opportunity to live in London and attend its theaters and concert halls and learn to know some of its people. It was something of a special year, because of the coronation. . . . Some of the flnest acting in the English-speaking theaters is being done today in London and it was a privilege and an education to see it.”
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