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...Harvard Chapter of the American Veterans Committee (AVC) quickly became the largest club on campus with 830 members at its peak--35 percent of the undergraduate population...
...AVC moved into the second floor of Phillip Brooks House, sharing it with the student council. The AVC ran seminars for veterans on how to use the G.I. Bill and navigate the ways of the College...
Fifty years ago today in The Crimson, an above-the-fold front-page story told of a meeting of the American Veterans Committee (AVC) on campus. The attendees were not to be old men plodding around with walking sticks, but students from colleges all over New England. Harvard's chapter of the AVC, acting out of that eternal University spirit that places this place at the center of it all, joined with the Boston University chapter to welcome 40 delegations to a conference entitled "Problems of the Student Veteran." The student veteran...
...AVC enlarged upon one of its earlier ideas in March, 1948, when it opened the first political action school for the education of the voter and the person interested in politics. In the fall of 1946 it had started a "make every vet a voter" program by setting up a booth in front of Widener and giving veterans information on candidates and outlining requirements for registration and voting in all the states...
...Dean Bender praised the AVC record and called the chapter "one of the most hopeful things to come out of the war," Dean Bender was right...