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METU is the result of high dreams and hard work. At dinner one night in Ankara five years ago, Charles Abrams, a U.S. housing expert on a United Nations mission, commiserated with Vecdi Diker, at that time Turkey's highway director, over the state of Turkish education. Both agreed that what Turkey needed most was a technical college. While Diker sold the idea to his government, Abrams sold it to the U.N. The U.N. chipped in $1.500,000, its largest contribution to date to any educational institution, to help start the school, and by the fall...
...outgoing members of the Executive Board are: President, Cliff F. Thompson '56 of Fairway, Kans, and Lowell House; Managing Editor, John J. Isclin '56 of Greenville, S.C. and Eliot House; Business Manager, Charles M. Diker '56 of New York and Everett Street, Cambridge; Editorial Chairman, William W. Bartley, III '56 of Pittsburgh and Eliot House; Photographic Chairman, Stephen S. Shohet '56 of Willard Road, Brookline and Leverett House; Associate Managing Editor, Jack Rosenthal '56 of Portland, Ore, and Dunster House; Sports Editor, Steven C. Swett '56 of Baltimore and Winthrop House; and Advertising Manager, Burton A. Schwalb '56 of Child...