Word: tanganyikan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singled out several of the students from Africa who have achieved positions of leadership in their American colleges and universities. Christian Ohiri '64, a Nigerian, holds the Crimson career scoring record in soccer; a freshman from Nigeria was elected to the student senate of the University of Wisconsin; a Tanganyikan student at Geneva College, Pa., is working toward a pilot's license in his "spare time;" an undergraduate from Southern Rhodesia at Tufts University taught a summer college course on contemporary Africa; an ASPAU engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania and an ASPAU girl at Brooklyn School of Pharmacy...
...officers revealed that they had been investigating for two months the advisability of re-establishing the project this year. A highly enthusiastic response from prominent faculty members, from students who had gone on the project, and from the Tanganyikan government, finally convinced the investigating committee...
...million road-building program. Geologist Allen Tamura, 23, from Pasadena, Calif., has also become an honorary blood brother in the nomadic Wagogo tribe for saving the life of a pregnant tribeswoman by rushing her in his truck over pitted jungle roads to a doctor 30 miles away. Said Tanganyikan Gabriel Bakari, assistant to a surveying team: "I can mix with the Peace Corpsmen in a way I never could before with white men and Asians. The Americans do not consider themselves superior to the Africans. They are extraordinary people...
Goldmark, who was leader of last year's Project Tanganyika which sent 20 students to teach English in Africa, began to work toward installing Swahili in the catalogue in November. Goldmark said he had "guaranteed" 25-30 students, and had found an instructor, a Tanganyikan graduate student at Boston College who agreed to give the course...
Planting the Colors. All over the jubilant country, fireworks displays lit the skies. In the snows at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest (19,340 ft.) peak, a lieutenant of the new Tanganyikan Rifles planted the colors of the new nation and lit a symbolic torch of unity, fulfilling a longtime wish of Julius Nyerere. "We would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro," he once said. "It would shine beyond our borders, giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only...