Word: leopoldskron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48, and Scott B. Elledge, and English instructor, a group of undergraduates developed the idea of school where student's of all nationalities could come together and establish international friendship and understanding. With the sponsorship of the Students Council, they rented an eighteenth century castle, Leopoldskron, outside the Austrian city of Salzburg from the widow of producer Max Rinehardt. They convinced several well-known American teachers of the soundness of their idea, among whom were Professors Wassily Leontief, F. O. Matthiesen, and Benjamin F. Wright of Harvard and Margaret Mead of the American Museum of Natural...
Florence R. Kluckhohn, lecturer in Sociology, will complete the University faculty delegation at the Student Concil sponsored Seminar, which will be held for the third summer in a row at Schloss Leopoldskron. It will extend from July 17 to August 27 and will have 12 instructors in all from the United States...
...budget increased this year because the Seminar has taken over the Leopoldskron Student Rest Center, which operates a four week rest and rehabilitation program, and may this year have a partial study program...
...Leopoldskron Center, run by Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45, gets 45,000 Swiss francs (about $11,000) from the World Student Relief Organization, and used to count on private persons to supply the rest. Now, the Seminar has assumed control, and the extra expenses...
Both the Rest Center and the Seminar use the castle Schloss Leopoldskron, situated in landscaped gardens about a mile outside Salzburg in the American occupation zone...