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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...
...sponsors of the literacy project, however, do not expect a great deal of trouble. They will not work through the SNCC organization in Selma, but through a Catholic missionary group, Sharkey said. He noted that Miss Varella has visited Selma several times, and is attempting to enlist the support of white moderates for the project...
...summer project will not merely be a one-shot effort, Sharkey said. In addition to teaching literacy, the students will also instruct local people in the techniques of teaching. In this way, it is hoped, the project will become self-sustaining, and even spread beyond Dallas County, Sharkey said...
...conclusion of the pilot project this summer additional funds will be sought to maintain the campaign, Sharkey said...
...Sharkey said he did not consider Dartmouth a heavy 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...