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...Real Nigeria...
...recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...
...Harvard "youth corps," would send 12 to 25 seniors to teach in Nigeria soon after their graduation. Proposed by a Faculty committee, it would last for two years, and probably allow deferment--but no official exemption--from the draft...
...corps sponsor) has said, need "teachers, not doers," and this is precisely what the University's program would provide--as the individual nation wants them and is willing to pay their salaries. The University's financial participation would probably be limited to indoctrination and travel expenses. Representatives of Western Nigeria and Kenya have expressed interest in the plan on this basis...
...expressed the hope that Harvard would "do something useful" with the proposal currently under consideration. Government officials from Nigeria, Kenya, and other African nations have shown interest in employing American college graduates as secondary school teachers. The University, however, has not yet "officially looked at" the proposal to send 20 to 25 seniors to western Nigeria next fall...