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...rare for two or three student groups to converge on New Delhi at once. To bring together organizations with student activities in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the Ford Foundation and other groups recently called a conference at the Experiment in International Living, at Putney, Vermont...
Nearly thirty groups sent representatives to Putney. Students from Minnesota's SPAN (Student Project for Amity among Nations) told of studying a special problem, like the refugee situation, in either India or Turkey, and then returning to their university to write a thesis and receive credit. A young farmer from Ohio described living with an Indian farm family for two months under the International Farm Youth Exchange. A Stanford student explained a program of "reverse exchange" by which foreign students take up undergraduate programs here and live in college derms...
...traveling student salesmen are not the best agents for exporting American techniques needed in these countries, then the effort must come from the Asians themselves. But many at Putney concluded that American students can play an important role by working with foreign students who are already in this country. Over 8,000 Asians and 4,600 Middle Easterners are now studying in the United States, and few of these students have much contact with American undergraduates. This is a task that requires not a trip across the Pacific, but one across Massachusetts Avenue to the Graduate Center...
...publicity. But, respected and liked in her Vermont community, Rugged Individualist Hinton attracted the children of some of the nation's top professional and amateur educators (e.g., High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant, former Ford Foundation President Paul G. Hoffman, Pundit Marquis Childs), and unendowed Putney prospered...
Last week, her once-blonde hair a crisp iron grey, Carmelita Hinton. 64, briskly announced that she would step down as head of Putney July 1. She added: "I hate to leave, but I have so many things before me that I'm boiling over." Founder Hinton's successor: Admissions Director Henry Benson Rockwell, a personable Princetonian ('37) who came to Putney from Connecticut's Pomfret School three years...