KU senior active internationally
By RUTH ROHRER
Dale Sprague is quite often thrown into the company of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Walt Disney and other well-known persons through his work in international programs.
Sprague is a member of the Board of Trustees for the international People-to-People organization which is composed of these and other leaders in industry, labor, science, education, religion government, communications and the arts.
AMONG OTHER persons on the Board of Trustees are Mrs. Hubert Humphrey, Walter Cronkite, Lowell Thomas and Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker.
Sprague, McPherson senior and past president of KU People-to-People, is a member of the national Executive Committee for People-to-People. The committee, composed of 12 men and women prominent in fields related to international relations, formulates policy for People-to-People.
Sprague was elected president of the National Council of College Chapters of People-to-People by representatives of university People-to-People chapters at its national convention held this fall in Kansas City, Mo. The National Council works with organizations in all American universities that deal with any type of international programs.
"The organization is entirely student-run." Sprague said. "It will soon be incorporated into an international, non-profit corporation with permanent offices."
ANOTHER ORGANIZATION completely unrelated to People-to-People of which Sprague is a member is the National Association of Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA).
NAFSA, composed of professional people working in international programming, works in close cooperation with other nations dealing with anything that has to do with visitors coming into this country.
NAFSA was recently granted $500,000 by the federal government to further its programs in foreign student relations.
A MEMBER of NAFSA's committee on foreign student relations. Sprague meets with the four-member body several times a year in New York City. Laurence Smith, dean of students at the University of New York at Buffalo, N.Y., is chairman.
Sprague, who is 21, toured the Far East and the Orient during the summer of 1959 and Southeast Asia the summer of 1963. He went to Europe in 1964 as a student ambassador for People-to-People.
Last summer, he studied at L'academie de Droit International, the Hague Academy for International Law. While there, he worked as a coordinator for People-to-People programs to Greece.
In September, 1967, he will leave for the University of Liege in Belgium to study European conflictive laws jurisprudence and the European philosophy of law.
—Photo by John Kiely
UPON RETURNING to the United States in 1968, he plans to attend Columbia University School of Law in New York City.
AMERICAN-FOREIGN STUDENT RELATIONS
Dale Sprague discusses Saudi Arabia's economic system with George Tannous, Lebanon graduate student, and Abdul Said, Saudi Arabia senior.
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Sprague has been active in many campus organizations including KU-Y, Vox Populi, Student Union Executive Board, and the Kansas State Student Leadership Committee.
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He is a member of Delta Tau Delta social fraternity and Arnold Air Society. Last year he was a member of the Student Union Activities (SUA) board and chairman of Public Relations. He originated the SUA flight to Europe which has grown into a booming program with two flights scheduled for this year.
MAJORING IN Western European history and international relations, Sprague is a member of Collegiate Young Republicans and served as a congressional intern in Washington, D.C., during the summer of 1965.
Sprague, who seems completely unaffected by his success as a national figure in foreign student relations, says his main interest is in international affairs.
"This interest, of course, includes foreign students," he said. "I seem to have always been interested in foreign students. However, I'm sure a great deal of my interest stems from my travels to foreign countries, for one can never really appreciate the problems of foreign students until he has been out of the United States.
"FOREIGN STUDENTS face a great many problems," Sprague noted. "Besides the language barrier, the assimilation into this culture is often extremely difficult for them."
"Having been a foreign student myself, I look at it from the point of view that I will be one again next year. The problems foreign students face here will be mine again soon and I would like to
help them in any way I can," he said.
Sprague said his philosophy is that "one can do anything he wants to if he puts his mind to it."
"Over and above all," he added, "a man must be honest with himself and believe in himself. He must make the best of what he has and put all of his resources toward his highest ideal.
"And be adventuresome," he advised.
Daily Kansan
Thursday, December 15, 1966
PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE NEEDS YOU TO FURTHER INTERNATIONAL GOOD WILL
American students who would be interested in taking a foreign student home for Christmas vacation—
Contact the People-to-People Office
immediately
or
Call Steve Ridgeway VI 3-5950