Word: afsc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charities, the American Friends Service Committee and Miles College, have been placed on the list tentatively and will be given final approval after full descriptions of their specific projects are submitted and studied The AFSC, which was dropped from last year's recommended list, has proposed to spend its money aiding refugees in Vietnam...
...grateful for support, this year, in past years and in future years from Harvard and Radcliffe students and faculty. Needless to say, we will be gratified if future decisions of the Combined Charities Drive include the endorsement of the AFSC. John A. Sullivan '38 Executive Secretary New England Office, AFSC...
...arrangement with Mr. Stapleton, the AFSC supplied all drive solicitors with a statement explaining the facts and I think it is appropriate to state them briefly here. It may be properly said that the AFSC spends all its money to promote peaceful conditions at home and abroad, although the programs are of diverse and manifold direction. In no sense do we concede that our work has "political overtones" as distinct from religious (which this year would have made us ineligible), humanitarian or educational overtones. We do not operate in politics, although, like every other human institution, we operate...
Nevertheless the AFSC has come to be rather widely accepted, as one of the charities to whom people give money because it is not controversial. And for such an organization not to be controversial is death to its spirit. Benjamin F. Stapleton and his committee reassure me: the American Friends Service Committee has not been conventional...
Therefore, I should like to suggest that any of you who are interested in supporting such unconventional organizations (but still tax-deductible and not considered subversive by the government, Mr. Stapleton to join me in increasing your support for the AFSC this year. I don't know the address of the office, but its on Brattle Street back of the Brattle Theater, and your check will find it--and help pay for part of the services the AFSC has traditionally offered to Harvard and Radcliffe students. Laurence Wylie C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France