Word: work-camps
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First to embark will be members of work-camp projects heading for Italy and Austria, delegates to conferences, and those selected to assist at the Salaburg Summer Seminar. Later sailings will probably be open to individuals planning to study n Europe during the summer or fall, according to Francis D. Fisher '47, Chairman of the Student council International Activities Committee...
...Quakers alone now have 13 work camps in the U.S., three in Mexico, one in Puerto Rico. Colleges from Pennsylvania's Swarthmore to Kansas' Wichita give credits for theses based on camp projects, hashed out in camp seminars staffed with college teachers. The eight-week sessions cost the student $100 (but scholarships are available). Their Quaker sponsors expect to find plenty of work in postwar Europe for work-camp alumni...
...young Harvard graduate, Robert E. Lane, work-camp secretary of the International Student Service, arrived in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. last spring with an incredible proposal: a group of college boys & girls wanted the town to give them a tough job at manual labor-and they would pay for the privilege of doing it. Wilkes-Barre's puzzled citizens at first refused to bite. Eventually young Stanley Mesavage, industrial forester for the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce, who was worried about forest fires that annually ravage the nearby Poconos, persuaded State and U.S. forestry officials to accept the collegians...
...this second alternative that the Work-Camp movement has sought to bring into being. Borrowing an idea from William James, the Work-Camps have gathered young people together in cooperative communities for constructive work. At the end of each day the camp-members are faced with the reality of their own accomplishments. They see what they have made; they know what they have learned. They feel an identification with democracy and a share in the national life. They are acquiring skills to fit them for the happier bejobbed days that are to come, and they are conserving the resources...