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Lowenstein has never stayed in one place long. A native of Raleigh, he graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1949. He spent the next year in Washington as an assistant to Senator Frank Graham and the following year became president of the National Student Association. While NSA president, he earned a reputation as the best public speaker the Association has ever had, organizing and setting policy for the International Student Congress, which broke from the communist-dominated International Union of Students...
Funds are now being sought to finance the students' training and living expenses, and to purchase teaching materials. About $10,000 is needed to support six volunteers and the project director, Mary Varella, a former SNCC worker, according to Joel Sharkey, NSA National Affairs Vice President...
...withdrawal of the two "prestige" colleges was not a serious blow to the prestige of NSA, Sharkey said. "Dis-affiliations are common in the Fall, when each school is faced with the NSA membership dues...
...loss because "they have not had an active campus committee there for the past three or four years." But Sharkey added that the withdrawal of Yale was a "disappointment" to the national office, since there had been a small core of students there who had "worked very hard in NSA programs...
Marc J. Roberts '64, a past chairman of NSA's National Executive Committee, noted that the worth of the Yale and Dartmouth memberships in NSA could not be measured only by the visible accomplishments of the students from those schools...