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A letter for former members of International House, 500 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10027
POPULATION GROWTH AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE The
American in
population
problem
world
perspective
by George
Varky
’60
No one talks about population these days without devoting a lot of attention to the accelerating rate of growth of world population and the inevitable doom of Standing Room Only in the not too distant future. I don’t believe that we will reach anywhere near the condition of Standing Room Only because, if nothing else, the earth will have been much too
hot to bear well before that stage, but | would
like to review the pattern of growth
of world population and identify two distinct and dissimilar components
in it.
From an estimated 250 million people about the time of Christ, the world’s population has grown about 14 times in the last 2,000 years to its present size of nearly 3,500,000,000 people.
For the first
1650 years A.D. the average
time need-
ed
for
a
1%
rise
in population
was
20
years, and for the next 200 years, just 21% years. For the period 1850 to 1930, a 1% increase in the population took only 14 months to achieve, from
1930 to 1960
about 8 months, and currently about 6 months. The trend may accelerate further before, hopefully, it begins to slow down. The scientist and the entrepeneur must
share the blame or credit for this fantastic phenomenon, While the preventive and curative branches of scientific medicine weakened the forces of death, the business entrepreneur, by vastly expanding the quantity and variety of goods and services, and by organizing better methods of delivering them to the consumers, greatly augmented the forces of life. Within this general overall picture,
growth. The less developed countries had only an artificial and truncated demo-
to 90%
graphic change, of a reduced death rate
family planning and the population increases every year at about 2.6 or 2.7%,
developed countries of the world display a major difference. The developed countries have reduced both birth and death
through borrowed medical technology unaccompanied by corresponding decline in the birth rate. This has brought about insupportable rates of growth to populations who have never been able to rise from low levels of health and productivity. Thus, developed nations have substantially brought population growth under control while the less developed nations are faced with a dangerous popula-
9 per 1,000, the rate of natural increase is 8 per 1,000 population which is four-
rates
tion explosion.
fifths of one percent per year.
however,
the
developed
to provide
and
a moderate
the
under-
rate of net
For a country such as India where 80 of the families do not practice
the very survival of the nation depends on how quickly runaway population
growth is brought under check. In the United States 80 to 90% of the families practice family planning tional birth rate is a low
population.
and the na17 per 1,000
With a death rate of about This rate
trialization and rising incomes require
of growth is no strain on the national economy, and with one of the lowest densities of population among all developed countries, the nation’s overall population size or growth rate is not alarming.
this, since industries which are tradition-
ally located in and around cities draw labor from farm areas, where, to earn a
rising level of income, the farmer needs to cultivate more and more land with the
However, for a fifth of the families who
either do not practice family planning or must be satisfied with ineffective methods, this is a matter of grave concern. For the poor, the absence of effective family planning is a serious obstacle to the amelioration of their poverty. In the world’s most affluent nation the existence of poverty, and self-perpetuating poverty at that, materially affects both the quality of its social life and the quantity of the gross national product. Population thus constitutes a critical survival problem for the less developed countries,
but
for America
it is not a
“survival,” but a “quality” problem. It is incorrect indeed to speak of a world population problem. Until big international differences in living standards are bridged and free movement of people between continents will be possible, there will be a great many different population problems to contend with around the globe. The American Population Problem It is well. known that the poor have more children on the average than the rich. Census statistics show that the percentage of all U.S, families in 1966 who were poor increased uniformly with the number of children, from 14.1% for onechild families to 58.1% for families with
6 or more children. It is obvious that a larger family size would mean a lower per capita income for any family since more children are not likely to raise anybody’s earning capacity unless it stimulates
moonshining.
On
the
contrary,
more children frequently mean a lower family earning capacity since, in most cases, early childbearing would affect the parents’ education and by excessive childbearing the mother is kept from the labor force that much longer. This I say is the major population problem
in the United
States, one that
calls for the universal extension of effective family planning services to all who need it, but cannot assure the exit from
help of better and more complex machines, thereby aiding and abetting the movement of people to the cities. In fact, one half of all counties in the
United
States
1950 and 1960.
George Varky ’60 is a research economist with Planned-Parenthood-World Population. He came to International House from India and studied Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York.
poverty. There are 40 to 45 million Americans living in involuntary poverty and overall deprivation whose condition calls for massive social and economic measures to remedy. Family planning can materially assist those measures but cannot supersede them. The two programs are connected, since ultimately nothing makes family planning succeed as much as the dignity and self-reliance of its practitioners. Evils Charged to Overpopulation A whole host of evils have been charged to over-population in this country. These include the problems of crowding, congestion and crime in our cities, and the air, water and land pollution that seem to be increasing at an alarming rate. The problems are real enough, not the creation of anyone’s imagination, but let us see if they prove or suggest that overpopulation is the cause, Crowding Crowding in cities and fast-growing suburbs is a phenomenon closely tied to urbanization. Cities provide both jobs and material comforts of life and have traditionally attracted people aspiring for advancement. In fact, rising indus-
lost population
between
In addition, some of the
counties that lost population actually had more deaths than births, In the demographer’s jargon, these counties experienced natural decrease of population. During the last 10 years, about 250 of them experienced this phenomenon and it is estimated that another 250 to 300 counties are likely to join this group in the next five years. Both the depopulation in over 1,500 counties and the nat-
ural decrease in the 250 counties are directly or indirectly due to migration to urban
areas.
Thus we have a migration flow which hurts both ways, overcrowding the cities at one end and leaving desolate the countryside at the other. The way to handle the problem is for the people of the country through their administrative organs to plan and direct migration, and not to inveigh against those parents who badly want to have a third child. Crime in cities has multiplied rapidly, but the number of inhabitants has had little to do with it. Most of our population increase has occurred in the suburbs. The population of New York City has remained at the 8 million level for about 20 years but crime has multipled several fold. Crime represents deep-rooted social evils which should be studied for what they are and dealt with appropriately. Pollution
We are increasingly aware of the havoc worked on human beings by air, water, and land pollution. .Our modern economy is based on taking natural resources, converting them into consumer products, selling them to the consumer, and then forgetting about them. The “high consumption” society has made little or no
provision for the disposal of the ever-
Population and the Quality of Life
and the question arises: can a stationary
increasing
Comparing various indices on the quality of life in the United States with 10 other developed Western countries, we see that the U.S. has the largest population, the highest per capita income and one of the lowest densities of population. In spite of those advantages, the United States fares rather badly in almost all of
“old” population cope with the tempo of
wastes
that unfortunately
ac-
company the ever-increasing production. The result is the conversion of the atmosphere around a great many population centers into cesspools of obnoxious and
harmful gases, the contamination of beautiful rivers into disgraceful disease carriers, the destruction of natural life in
lakes
and
heated
rivers
water,
by
the discharge
of
harmful
chemicals
and
varieties of pesticides, and the conversion of increasing amounts of land into junkyards of disfigured automobiles. Millions of automobiles spit carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides into the air and are responsible for about 60% of existing air pollution in America. The oxygen supply in the earth’s atmosphere is beginning to be threatened, not because more men are
breathing it but because the pesticides, detergents and radioactive wastes that are constantly dumped into the oceans might kill the “diatoms,” the tiny onecelled plants in the sea which generate about 70% of the oxygen that is produced to replenish the consumption of this vital gas. Sheer noise is a mounting problem in our burgeoning megalopolises. The clatter, the honking, the jangling sounds on radio and television, ringing telephones, roaring diesels thundering down the highways, jets screaming overhead—all these combine into an incessant din in our cities which contributes to the stress,
frustration, hypertension and anxiety of modern living. These and other aspects of environmental pollution are the direct outcome of the volume of our economic activity and the manner in which that activity is directed. The 20 million people of California alone probably cause more pollution than all the 500 million people of India, simply because the industrial production of California exceeds that of all of India. Thus it is not man’s reproductive activity but his productive activity that is the primary culprit behind pollution. It has sometimes been argued that American population needs to be checked because allegedly 6% of the world’s population living here uses up something like 50%
of the world’s resources.
This
argument for population control is totally fallacious, for the very statement implies that it is not the number of people that counts. Using up of resources is related to the total amount of production that the population churns out.
these indices of welfare:
1)
Childhood
Deaths per 1000 population; 2) Per capita caloric consumption; 3) Percentage of deaths
due
to infectious
and
parasitic
diseases; 4) Average number of persons per room; 5) Pupil-teacher ratio at primary school level; 6) Unemployment. Thus population size, population density and per capita income are, within limits, often less important than the values which direct the allocation of natural resources for maintaining a high quality of life. In World Perspective If it is not a matter of urgency for America
to try to suppress
its current
moderate rate of population growth, let us briefly consider whether it would be a positive service to the world community to attempt to do so. In the first place, America’s inevitable and ascending position of leadership re- | quires wholly new understanding of the world and world problems to convert this leadership into a positive force for development and change. Add this to the increasing need for reform within America to cope with its own social problems,
needed
change?
A
stationary
popula-
tion will have as many people over 60 as there will be under 15, and a median age of about 37 years. Currently, the median age is 27.7 years.
Secondly, I see no reason why in a world population which is increasing at better than 2% a year, the American component representing
one of the most
educated, healthy and innovative of all should be forced to become a declining percentage, thereby depressing the average quality of all the world’s population. Finally, for some time to come, the less
developed world will need not only America’s capital but also technical know-how for its own development, which is an imperative need for world peace. Should we therefore try hard, or at all, to decrease the number of skilled
people available for this mammoth task? Summing up, it is imperative that ‘everything be done to give competent family planning help to approximately a fifth of the U.S. population, who, from
being a drain on the national resources and quality of life of the rest of the population, could become a net contributor to
the country as a whole. What America needs is not restrictive population control but universal family planning in combination with bold and imaginative measures to obliterate the disgrace of involuntary poverty. This is the first of a series of articles by alumni on major U.S, and world problems.
What's Going On Here?
ted to the lively spirit of the House this fall.) On October 24th and 25th, 353
Participation
House residents 71% turnout.
Monday.
Sports, Week-ends at Timber Hill and the
Oct. 13.
Main Lounge.
Ap-
proximately 250 students (give or take a hundred
who
come
and
go
during
evening)
are
taking
part
in
a spontan-
the
eous three-hour sing-in. National folksongs. International peace songs. Country and Western songs. We Shall Overcome. Music Fellow Jim White is instigator and director. The House rocks. Home Room. Same evening. Students in the field of Education hold their first Professional Interest Group meeting, with Program Assistant Don Cuneo ’69 helping them outline programs for the
fall term. Mural Room. Same time. African students are meeting with Program Fellow Ibrahim Gambari of Nigeria to plan special African activities for the year. Dr.
James
and
Program
House,
L.
is an
Davis
’64,
Director invited
Vice-President
of International guest—but,
to his
great satisfaction, not in charge.
Choices Orientation of
the
House
are
important
Community
and
October
two
residents,
Maev
O’Col-
lins of Australia and Doris Mosley of Missouri, U.S.A., organize a series of meetings designed to introduce students to the pecularities of education in the United States, Planned as open discussions,
cover
such
topics
as the uses of the library
the
meetings
and
its re-
sources, test taking (with special concentration on multiple-choice exams, which few other nations use), the arduous process of registration, and anything else the students might be curious to know. Doris and Maev emphasize the universality of all problems that arise, and the discussions are not only informative but fun. The Floor Hosts, whose job it is to see that early contact is established with new
residents
answer whatever pressing questions are not covered by the Orientation series. October 20-25. An enormous red and
and
two
I.
films
are
shown
on
each
floor,
are
ready
to
House
student-made
twice.
There are the President’s Recep-
white placard in the Main Lounge reads:
tion and four Special Coffee Hours and new very popular Sherry Hours every other Friday afternoon. Tours of the
“ELECT A STRONG COUNCIL!” Thirty-seven candidates run for election to twenty-three places: nine delegates-atlarge and fourteen regional representa-
neighborhood and trips to places of interest in New York City are conducted regularly. On the social level, Folk Dance meets on Thursday nights, and every Fri-
day evening there’s the Discoteque. Action, homes,
tives. (There are also separate elections for two non-resident representatives. ) Last year’s restructuring of executive (staff)
committees
to
include
student
But there’s also English-in-
members must have helped to stimulate
Hospitality visits to American Professional Interest Groups,
this new concern for student council elec-
Enough?
Traditions
ternational, Showcase Assemblies and (would you believe?) the Sakura Park Beautification Project. With luck, you find some time to study. Orientation is for that too. In September
in September
offered,
tions.
(It has unquestionably contribu-
On October 10th, the Thai students of International House sponsored a reception and dinner in honor of His Excel-
lency Phya Vidura Tharmabinet of Thailand, followed by a program of Thai dances and songs. Again, it was student initiative that made so memorable the welcome for this distinguished guest, who is Alumni Council Member for Thailand.
Plans are in progress for additional nationality dinners and receptions in the coming months. At the annual fall picnic on the estate of Honorary lrustee Cleveland E. Dodge and Mrs. Dodge, Sami Ural ’65, Associate Program Director of International House, presented to the host and hostess the
following
letter,
signed
ae
Thé Dodge
Picnic.’ Congratulations: nate : .
by
350
I.
House residents, Dear Mr. and Mrs. Dodge: Please accept our sincere congratula-
tions on your 50th wedding anniversary. Thousands of students from all over the world who have visited you during the last half century join us in celebrating this special occasion. International House
g
commendable
Ac-
tivities: Harlem Tutorial, Classrooms In-
Frequent tours
is stressed
and October programs.
increasingly
vote—a
has
been
very
fortunate to have you as friends. Today, October 5, 1969, we are visiting you for the 49th time. This picnic, which had been started by Harry Edmonds even before he founded International House, is a tradition, a symbol which signals not only the beginning of a new academic year for us, but also your continuing love, understanding and interest in the young people of the world. With all our affection and good wishes. (signed)
Building and Remodeling Buzzing drills and plaster dust greeted I. House residents this fall as our new cafeteria, to open in gala fashion in December, is built within the stripped shell of the old cafeteria on “C” Floor, Meanwhile, emergency food service has been provided in the auditorium. Other building innovations include a new telephone system with vast and complex workings on “C” Floor, a modernized Language Laboratory (in the old Offset Room), an enlarged Offset Room (in the old Language Lab), a genuine English Pub (in the old Art Room), a new Art Room (in the old New York Alumni office), and a new Volunteer Office (in the remodeled Alumni-Development area).
The only casualty is this needed program to modernize and expand our student services is the New York Alumni
group, which must now seek its office space outside the House. Their student service committees will continue to operate here, working out of the Volunteers Office headed by Director of Volunteers Mrs.
Flora Roberts.
Juilliard opened this fall in its magnificent new building at Lincon Center. Except for the scattered complaints of “coldness” inevitably leveled at new buildings, Juilliard’s lavish new facilities—considered the best in the world today for students in music, drama and dance — were hailed as nothing less than thrilling by everyone concerned. Meanwhile, Manhattan School of
Music
is remodeling
the old
Juilliard
buildings on Claremont Avenue for its new location, and Teachers College has announced a five-year building plan for
the 121st to 122nd Street block, giving careful
consideration
to
precent
resi-
dents’ needs and wishes in the process.
(Photos above)
Fiesta!
Under the direction and all-seeing eye of Herman Rottenberg, Director of Cultural Activities, more than 75 participants from over thirty countries performed songs and dances from their native lands
in a brilliant Fall Fiesta Song. Included in the proceed eratic arias by Akiko Ikuo
«
Dance and %s were opof Japan and
Omega Milbourne of New Jersey, U.S.A., interpretive dances by Richard Ornellias of Hawaii and Miss Hasna Jasimuddin of Pakistan, and a charming Welsh Clog Dance by Maldwyn Pate, whose excellent
singing voice was heard later in folksongs accompanied
tive New
by John
Yorker.
Bainbridge,
a na-
Group performances
by ensembles from Czechoslovakia, India, Latin America and Israel provided
more highlights to a program that rarely, if ever, lost touch with the huge crowd.
6
Alumni...
Publications anyone? cerely
institutions
today,
I. House
searching for new relevance.
is
With the
see this conference as an opportunity to
more is definitely needed.
overdue)
Alumni
Publications
the
Room
library.
East
In Memory
examine both our past and our future and, with your help, to explore the posat a time
of
shelf in
Articles
too!
New York, for proper acknowledgement as a tax-deductible gift.
eth Anniversary coming up in 1974, we
more
copies
Please send literary contributions to the Alumni Office, International House —
special mandate of the U.N. International Education Year, and with a Fifti-
sibility of doing
We would sin-
receiving
books by alumni authors for a new (long
The Kyoto Conference takes shape as a major event. Along with most other student
appreciate
of
Mrs. Celestine Goddard Mott died in Torrington, Conn., on October 16, 1969. She was
when
We hope you
have read the Conference brochure sent
to you recently, along with an important “world citizens” questionnaire. If you
Sir Harold Wyndham,
C.B.E.
the wife of John L. Mott, Director of International House- New York from 1935 to 1954. For three years, when Mr. Mott was in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, she replaced him as director
whether or not you can attend in person,
Council Member for Australia Sir Harold Wyndham ’33 and Lady Wynd-
of the House. Mrs. Mott was born in New York, December 17, 1901, attended the Brearly School,
do RETURN YOUR QUESTIONNAIRE TODAY.
ham visited International House in September, while en route home from a trip
This is your opportunity to contribute personally to the International Education Year, as well as to the Kyoto Discus-
to Hong
and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1923. She was an activist in the labor movement in the early nineteen-twenties, and in one turbulent year was several times arrested and jailed. She was married to Mr. Mott, the son of John R. Mott, evangelist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1926. Mr. and Mrs. Mott then spent five years in India, working
can possibly
join the tour, come!
But
around the world which included visits
sions. Your answers will affect the conference recommendations and will definitely influence future policies and aims of the House and the alumni program.
Director-General
Edmonds
under Talmi’s leadership. He is a young man who makes little show of temperament while on the podium. But he also is a conductor of sound musical instincts Minutes,” countries,
Niewsberichten,
FOR
Mrs.
Cura-
LISTINGS
for Thailand.
Lucia
Whitmarsh
’40,
Alumni
Council Member for Hawaii, represented her area at the Kyoto Conference Planning Meeting at the House on Oc-
cao, June 10, summed it up: “The whole program was such that it commanded admiration for these students of International House in New York. The show does honor to the producer, Herman Rottenberg .. .”
DEADLINE
Member
The indefatigable Harry Edmonds was again on hand, this time to hear himself congratulated by the distinguished guest who had attended the laying of the I. House cornerstone in 1923.
presentation,
pleased audiences in eleven cities last June. In Curacao, despite the disturbances of May 30, three Centro Pro Arte performances were well attended and enthusiastically received. A review Beurs-en
in New
who, with Mrs. Edmonds, hap-
net °23, Council
”
in the
of Education
pened to be visiting the House when the Wyndhams arrived. The first Nationality Dinner of the season (see What’s Going On Here?) honored visitor Phya Vidura Tharmabi-
ier-Journal: “. . . the players caught fire
the World in 90 students from ten
Sweden,
South Wales. Among his many accomplishments, Sir Harold led the Australian delegation to a 1945 meeting in London that resulted in the establishment of UNESCO. He is now Professional Fellow at Macquarie University in New South Wales. Back in New York, congratulations were forthcoming from old friend Harry
High praise greeted the Louisville debut of the Kentucky Chamber Orchestra in September, under the baton of Yoav Talmi ’68. To quote the Louisville Cour-
“Around with 22
Italy,
There, at Buck-
on the shoulder” and dubbed a Commander of the British Empire for his outstanding service to public education as
Elizabeth Morgen.
1969 Talent Tour
Athens,
ingham Palace in London on the Queen’s Birthday, he was, as he put it, “tapped
Performing I. House students and alumni continue to make news. For the second year in a row, an I. H. member, Marion Engle ’68, won the important Bach International Piano Competition. Last year’s winner was resident Mari-
The
Kong,
Holland and England.
tober 3rd.
Dr. Ramon Mellado ’47 has recently been appointed Alumni Council Member for Puerto Rico. Dr. Mellado is the Secretary of Education in Governor Fer-
re’s cabinet.
IN
THE
for
better
housing,
education
and
working
conditions of 5,000 untouchable employees of a cotton mill. She learned Hindi to keep the books of the union they started, the first in Nagpur. On their return, Mr. and Mrs. Mott became engrossed in the problems of foreign students.
After
World
War
Il,
when
the
flood of returning veterans and foreign students swamped the colleges, she initiated the Greater New York Council for Foreign Students and became its first executive secretary. Invalided in recent years, she lived in Litchfield, Conn., where she continued to be active in civic organizations. Surviving, besides her husband, are a son and two daughters.
Mrs. Marion L. McWilliams, one of the earliest residents of International House and an
active
alumna,
died
in
North
Adams.,
Mass., on September 28, 1969. Mrs. McWilliams was one of the first two persons to receive a doctoral degree from Columbia University in the field of health education, and was honored recently by Columbia as an outstanding person in her field. Under her maiden name of Marion O. Lerrigo, she was the author of many books in health education. Her most recent publication was “Caring for Your Disabled Child” written in 1965 in collaboration with Dr. Benjamin Spock. Mrs. McWilliams was a member of the National Board of YMCA. Her husband, William J. McWilliams, an attorney, died in 1957. Feodor
D.
Cekich
’21, who
arrived
at In-
William J. McWilliams, an attorney, died in November 1968. It was here that he met his wife, the former Irina Khrabroff, ’24 of the USSR. Mrs. Cekich now lives in Thetford, Vermont.
1970-72
“PASSPORT”
IS
JANUARY
15,
1969.
met Yoshinari Nagano ’34 an old friend from International House.
Dr. Paul E. Baker ’35 of Denton, Texas, retired in 1959 after a distinguished career as
a minister and teacher of religion. author of Forgotten
He is the
“Negro-White Adjustment,” Kutenai,” “The Nesquakie
“The Indi-
ans,” and many other publications. Aiyagari Rama Mohan °35 of Bombay wrote that she travelled extensively during the summer of °68, including a visit to I. attended
a
Cement
Technical
House.
She
Conference
in
St.
where
presented
a paper,
she
Industry
Louis, then
Mo.
returned
to India via Australia. She is presently a Senior Executive with Associated Cement, Bombay, India.
Alumni When
Chaplain
Notes Mary
Sun,
been Director of the I. House
in Taipei, Taiwan, was in New York last summer, she flew up-state to visit Harry Edmonds, bringing a souvenir (see photo above) of the old Skipper’s visit to Taiwan three years before. David H. Clark ’25 Rear Admiral, Retired, U.S. Navy, lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He wrote recently to recommend a student for admission to International House. Flemmie Kittrell °30 visited Ghana and Sierra Leone this summer to evaluate nutrition programs for two of her Home Economics Graduate Students at Howard University,
Washington, D. C. Daniel S. K. Chang ’32 of Honolulu traveled recently thru Japan, Taipei, Hong Kong, Sydney and Manila visiting with former students and meeting old friends. He wrote to Harry Edmonds: “Some of my former students told me at the dinner how some of my views taught them over thirty years ago still guide their conduct today. That to me is the greatest compliment that I ever received. “I found people in Japan, Korea, Taipei, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore and even in Manila are working hard for a new life. Competition for a high education is very keen. Only the best can get into the university through examination. The desire to learn and get ahead in life is so pervading that there is simply no time for the silly behavior so prevalent in American schools and colleges. I feel very strongly that the Far East will play a very important role in world affairs in the near future. The people have a goal, they have moral standards, they study hard and they work hard. I feel very hopeful about the Far East.” Elizabeth S. Engiar °32 retired in June after forty-five years of teaching in York, Pa. For the past thirty-five years she has taught “World History and World Culture” at Wm. Penn Senior High School. She wrote: “Living at International House was a Mountain Top experience.” Fina C, Ott ’32 of Clarmont, California, visited Tokyo International House last spring after spending four weeks traveling in Manila, Hong Kong and Taipei. Marguerite Quarles Schenkman ’34 writes from Richmond, Virginia that she has been married to Edgar Schenkman, Conductor of
Prescott
working
with
Laundrie
the
’36,
New
who
York
has
State
School for retarded children, has written to International House of his efforts to moti-
Warren R. Johnston ’42, a specialist in International Politics, is assistant chief of the Foreign
Affairs
Division,
Legislative
Refer-
ence Service, Library of Congress. This branch of the library does research for members and committees of congress. Since her retirement Nelle M. Brumelle *33 and
’44, a former teacher, has been trav-
eling through the United States. Norma Dickey ’45 is now Assistant partment York.
Head,
Chemical
Bank
of
DeNew
Dana W. Niswender °46 reports that his family has sold their Vermont home on Lake Eden and plan to spend the next year or two in travel. They have no definite itinerary but expect to travel throughout Europe and North Africa. Carlos Vaz-Ferriera ’47 is a Criminologist of the Supreme Court of Uruguay. He was appointed Delegate from Uruguay to the next World Congress of Criminology which will take place in Madrid in 1970, and will be visiting International House some time after the conference. Dolores S. Francisco ’48 will be in Washington, D.C. in November attending the meeting of the World Federation for Mental Health. She is National Executive Director of the Philippine Mental Health Association and Professor at the University of the East, Manila. Pearl Byrd Larsen ’48 is living in the Virgin Islands where she is the owner of a gift shop. She also gives college entrance examinations for several colleges in the U.S. mainland. Recently she visited with Marcelle Henry °44 in Paris. Kung-Lee Wang °48 is with the VU. S. Bureau
of Mines
as a senior economist
with
search & Service Organization of the Chinese
Orchestra,
for the
past thirty-five years.
She has continued her
career
and
as
a violinist,
has
five
visited In-
After teaching English at Tuskegee Institute for three years Lucia Wilson Simons °52 took a year off to live at Pendle Hill, a Quaker adult study center near Philadelphia,
W. that
1968, at Columbia University. Jordi Casals-Ariet ’39, is Professor of Epidemiology, Yale Medical School. A retired teacher, Florence Lyon ’39 is currently working as a Church Secretary.
°51 of Tokyo
schools.
where
children.
Symphony
Hisashi Kuranaga
ternational House during a trip to New York this fall. He was in the U.S. to research and study American Secondary School innovations, mainly team teaching and non-graded
mentally retarded. Fulbright Exchange Teacher, M. E. Tiffany Graham ’38 served on an Indoctrination Team for Exchange Teachers in August,
Recently, their oldest child toured Japan and
Richmond
South Hadley, Mass.
vate the church in its ministry to the handicapped and their families — especially the
the title of Research Coordinator—Quantitative Economics. He will be in Taiwan for four weeks this fall assisting the Mining Re-
the
Ministry of Economic Affairs in the design of a study and research program on mineral economics. He also plans to visit Hong Kong and Japan before returning to Washington, D.C. Frederic A. Praeger, Inc. publishers has appointed Richard C. Rowson °49 Director of Praeger Special Studies. Elizabeth Brothers ’51 has been promoted to Director of Public Information and Development Officer of Mt. Holyoke College,
she
studied
non-violent
direct
action,
among other things. S. Evans °53 of Darien, Conn., writes he’s “a _ typical commuter—always
broke!” Geraldine French Jennings °53 is co-chairman of the Foreign Student Hospitality Committee in Whitewater, Wisconsin. This community group arranges for host families to the foreign students at Wisconsin State University, where her husband is an Associate Professor of Music and she is a private music teacher. Thomas Cody ’54 is Chief Deputy United States Marshal for the District of New Hampshire, Concord, New Hampshire. As
of October,
1969,
Mary
Robinson
’54
will be Dean of Women at Western Washington State College, Bellingham, Washington. She was formerly Dean of Women at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Esther Globus Wahl °54 who lives in Rehovol, Israel, traveled to Minnesota and Iowa last year, accompanying her husband on his sabbatical. Joyce Z. Block ’55 wrote to say that she is living in Yokohama, Japan and would like to meet and help any International House members coming through Japan. Virginia E. Follin ’55 is an instructor of English and Journalism, St. Petersburg Junior College, Clearwater, Florida. Dickinson T. Guiler *55 has been elected to a second three year term on the Board of Directors of the National Education Association. He is a school administrator in Oxford, Ohio. Lorraine Mohrman Helper ’56 wrote that the latest addition to their family arrived without warning at their home in Orono, Maine. They now have four children. International House received a gift of two wall placques from Bombay, India, sent by Katie Shroff ’56. Marjorie E. Hickman °57 was married in January, 1969 to Col. C. R. Laroushe, U.S. Marine Corps. She is with the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and he is Director, Appellate Gov’t. Division, NAVARA. They live in Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Robert E. Meyer ’57 was elected to a three year term on the Board of Ill. Education Association as Chairman of the Teacher Welfare and Ethics Commission.
Dr. Concepcion Rodil Martires ’58 is Executive Director of the CEBU Psychological and Research Center in the Philippines. Choko
Tsukamoto
Arai ’59 of Tokyo
will
be traveling to the United States in November and hopes to visit International House then. Ruth Weiss Bullock ’60 wrote to tell us that she has been married for two years and is living in Newark, Delaware.
Tapio K. Holma ’61 is owner and President of an import California.
company
in Van
Nuys,
liance
Francais.
She
works
for
UNDP
in
Korea.
Thomas B. Trumpy ’63 was recently appointed Counsel of Amtel, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island.
The Art Gallery of Lord & Taylor, New York, recently exhibited oil paintings by Stephanie Wenner Highberg (Mrs. Peter A.) 64. Stephanie, who lives in New London, Conn., has had one-man shows in Mystic and Norwich, Conn., and has _ received
awards
for her work
1969 Country
at both the
Art Shows
in New
1968
and
London.
Julia Rose ’64 of Trinidad, W. I. attended the Fifth International Congress of Dietetics in Washington, D. C.
Gordon Adams ’65 will be teaching political
science
at Columbia
this
fall.
His
wife,
Glenda Felton Adams ’65 works in the Center for Economic and Social Information at the United Nations. David Parent ’65 wrote that “after three and one half years in Brussels, I will be returning to New York for approximately one year. Two partners and I have formed a
new travel agency specializing in package charter tours for U.S. ski clubs, in Switzerland, Austria, and France.”
A House The
Tenor
handsome
dog,
above,
belongs
to
Allan
Jones
and
Mrs.
Jones
(Esther
Villavicencio
’62),
who
sent
us
picture.
the
Esther, who dances and sings rather well herself, has appeared in the Broadway hit shows “My Fair Lady” and “110° in the Shade” as well as numerous City Center, summer stock and ballet company productions. Ghulam
Ahmed
Nanji
’62 wrote
“I recall
with nostalgia my International House stay.” He returned to Karachi in August of 1962 and
joined
the
“Agence
France-Press”
as
a
reporter. Since 1963 he has been a ‘stringer’ for “Time” and “The New York Times” in Karachi but rejoined “Agence France-Press” this
summer.
He
plans
to
and
International
House
next year with his
wife
Shakila
son,
and
visit
Suhail,
New who
York is now
five years old. Maud Heron Hart ’63 retired in 1967 as head of a Teachers College and is now helping at one of the oldest secondary schools for boys in Jamaica, West Indies. Jagannath Jayaswal ’63 is educational Director of Universal Systems Institute in New York. Songja Oh ’63 of Seoul, Korea was living in Paris this summer studying French at Al-
frequent
visitor
to
is
(Yitz)
Adizes
Ichau
training
contributed
$16,975
who
is
people
in administrative
positions in
organizations like Opera, Dance Companies, Theater,
Museums,
Galleries, etc.
In 1958 he lectured in Belgrade and the University of Stockholm, Sweden. During 1970, he will teach at Tel Aviv University and serve as a visiting lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He lives at present in Malibu, California. Richard F. Halverson ’66 sent news of his marriage to Helen Obenhaus ’66 in July, 1967. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Rouessac ’66 are
birth
of
a
daughter,
Martha
Ann,
to
Mrs.
Lucretia Markham Jones ’67 at the Bangkok Nursing Home, Thailand. Mr. Jones is Elementary Education Advisor, Rural Agency for
International
Development,
Thailand.
Michael Nagel ’67 is an Investment Advisor with Smith, Barney & Co., New York. Rhea
ings
M.
Doucette,
to friends
asks for more
Staff
'68
sends
greet-
House
and
at International news
of staff members.
Otto Haszpra ’68 has completed a oneyear Ford Foundation study tour and returned
to
Budapest,
Hungary.
Raul Miranda ’68 was married to Roberta Cohn ’68 this August. Mr. Miranda is from Lima, Peru and Miss Cohen is from the Bronx, New York. Robert L. Muckley ’68 writes he is still a regular professor at Inter American University,
Puerto
Rico.
During
the
summer
months he is director of a project for training outstanding high school graduates to be teacher aides in rural areas. Susana
J. Icaza ’69 of Guatemala
was
re-
cently appointed Director of the School of Nutrition of the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama. This is a Bachelor’s Degree Program for students from all the Central American Countries.
working together at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie, France. He is now Chair-
man of the Department of Chemistry. From Paris came a letter from Michel P. Arnal ’67 who writes: “I want this (contribution) to be a sign of my
gratitude to Inter-
national House for what it was to me when I was in New York. I did not stay a long time, but nowhere have I seen so well what could be understanding between people.” Michel studied merchandising and at present is working for a department store in Paris.
1968-69 alumni
’66,
presently an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Business at U.C.L.A. He was appointed Chairman of the U.C.L.A. Chancellor’s Committee on Arts Administration and he develops and directs a program for
ALUMNI
This past year set a new record in alumni giving. 1,389
International
William J. Cunningham ’67 is serving as First Secretary of the American Embassy in Tokyo and would like to hear from any International House alumni in Japan. James Fitzsimmons ’67 received his Master of Arts Degree in Political Science at the University of Hawaii in January. His thesis dealt with the unification of the islands into the Hawaiian Kingdom. Formal announcement was received of the
toward
the
In all, House
budget. Total giving last year from all sources was $204,080. One of the most encouraging alumni efforts has been collective gifts from area committees, spearheaded by Alumni Council members. Last year the New York Alumni, the Delegation Francais, the Finnish alumni and the Hong Kong alumni made such group gifts. This year, with expanded student facilities and _programs, and ever increasing costs, the House budget re-
FUND
ian and Dean of Women Students at Trinity Theological College in Singapore. She also teaches one course and is a member of the Worship Committee and the students Practical Work Committee.
REPORT
quires contributions of $220,000 in order to balance income against expenses. (The total operating budget for 1969-70 is estimated at $1,330,697) .
If you have not yet contributed this year, perhaps you would like to do so now—using the envelope enclosed. You can be sure that your gift will be well used in providing programs, services, and financial aid for stu-
dents. Most important, your contribution helps to keep the cost of living at International House within the means of graduate students, despite skyrocketing costs in New York City.