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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 5. 1965
VISTA Provides Relief to U.S. Poor
The Volunteers in Service to America, VISTA, provides an opportunity for young adults to serve in a program to aid the nearly forty million people of the United States who live in poverty conditions.
Making this statement at a VISTA seminar yesterday, Mrs. Mary Ann Wolfe, in charge of evaluating applications for volunteers for VISTA, stressed on the dire need for more volunteers.
REVEALING some facts about poverty in this country, Mrs. Wolfe said, "The main cause of these unfortunate people's misery is ignorance; ignorance about the facilities that could be made available to them. Here is where the role of the volunteer comes in."
VISTA is one of the major anti-poverty programs administered by the President's Office of Economic Opportunity, headquarters for the nationwide war against poverty.
VISTA provides trained volunteers to work with people in poverty areas to help break the cycle of poverty.
"Working in rural and urban areas across the nation, these volunteers use a wide variety of abilities; from general leadership and organizational abilities to specific skills in education, home management, recreation, neighborhood organization and other fields," Mrs. Wolfe said.
MRS. WOLFE worked for more than two years selecting Peace Corps volunteers. Her interest in the problems of poverty was first demonstrated in the Los Angeles Public Housing Authority, where she did slum clearance and interviewing, and later on in volunteer work with hospitalized and underprivileged children in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She was also the secretary of the Massachusetts Committee on Migrant Workers. Her husband, Dr. Gregory B. Wolfe is Chief of the Office of American Republics in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State.
Speaking on the training program for volunteers, Mrs. Wolfe said, "VISTA volunteers train for 4-6
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Catholic Mass, 5:00 p.m. St. Lawrence
and during Mass; Saturdays, 4:30 a.m. and 7:30
Mass; Sat. 4:30 a.m. and 7:30
Ph.D. Examination, Marlin E. Schech,
March 5. 3:00 p.m., Child Research Laboratories, 1043 Indiana. Major in speech and drama.
Psychology Colloquium 4:00 p.m.
Psychology Colloquium Dr. Bidault Bijou
*Consent, Formation*, by Dr. Bennett
Children's Theatre, "Johnson Moonbream
Silver Arrow," 4:30 p.m. p.M.
Mary Hall.
Wesley Foundation Evensong, 5:00 p.m.
Methodist Center. 1314 Oread,
Hillel Friday Night Services, 7:30 p.m.
Highway Community Center, 917 Highland Drive
Rock Chalk Revue, 8:30 p.m. Hoch Auditorium.
TOMORROW
Teaching Candidates Interview sched-
ing institution, Township, High School, secondary.
Education Lecture, 9:00 a.m. Dr. H. Alan Robinson, University of Chicago. "A New Concept in Remedial Instruction." Bailey Auditorium.
Children's Theatre, "Johnny Moonbeam
the Silver Arrow," 2:00 p.m. Murphy
Hall.
Confessions, 4-5:00 p.m., 7-8:00 p.m. St.
Lawrence Chapel.
Rock Chalk Revue, 8:30 p.m. Hoch Auditorium.
Catholic Masses: 8:00 a.m. St. Lawren
a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Friar Hall, Theatre
a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
United Campus Christian Fellowship,
9:15 a.m. Study Seminar; 10:45 a.m.
Study Seminar; 5:15 p.m. Evening
Fellowship, UCCF (Westminster) Center,
1204 Oread
Quaker Meeting, 10:30 a.m. Danforth
Congress Friends Meeting welcomes
visitors.
KU Intramural College Bowl, 2:30, 3:15.
4:00 d. m. Kansas Union.
Joint Concerti: 3:30 p.m. Sigma Alpha
Joint Concerti: 3:30 p.m. Phi Mu Alpha.
Swarthout Renaissance Hall.
Hiliel Cost Supper, 5:00 p.m. Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive. Dr. William R. Reardon, professor of speech and drama, will speak on Rolph Hochhuth's controversial play. "The Deptty."
Sports Speakers, "Venture for Victory."
7:30 p.m., Free Methodist Church, 802
Derr. Tenn., Lawrence. Speakers: Don
Odell, Kenny Scholz, Nolen Ellison, former KU basketball
player, now asst. coach, Summer high
school, Kansas City; and Jeff Simons.
Kansas State basketball player (spon-
sor) interdenominational Youth for
Christ)
Newman Forum Lecture, 8:00 p.m. A Bret Waller, curator of KU art museum 'The Meaning of Contemporary Art.' Forum Room, Kansas Union.
weeks, and then spend the rest of a year living and working in low income communities to help provide economic opportunity.
A VISTA volunteer is provided with a living allowance that will be enough to get by in the community where he serves. A sum of $50 for every month of service is set aside by VISTA to be paid the volunteer at the end of his assignment.
"THE MAJOR consideration in selecting volunteers are: matching skills of the applicant with the job to be done; and determining if the applicant has shown the qualities of character and personality which equip him to stay with a job," Mrs. Wolfe said.
KU students who are interested in this program should contact VISTA Publicity Chairman Miss Carol Borg, Manhattan junior, or Peace Corps Chairman Miss Donna Hanneman, Junction City junior. Both of them are working to coordinate the efforts of KU-Y, which acts as the information office of VISTA.
One of France's leading existentialist philosophers will deliver a lecture at the University of Kansas at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fraser Auditorium.
Existentialist Plans Talk on Myth of God
He is M. Gabriel Marcel, who will discuss "The Myth and Death of God in Contemporary Thought."
Prof. Marcel has had a long career as teacher, public servant, dramatist, and philosopher. In 1949 he was awarded the Grand Prize for Literature of the French Academy, and in 1955 he received the National Grand Prize of Letters.
He was elected a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science in 1952, and holds the rank of Officer in the French Legion of Honor. In 1949 and 1950 he delivered the Lord Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, then in 1961 the William James Lectures at Harvard University.
Several of his best known philosophical works have been translated into English. They include "Metaphysical Journal," "Homo Viator," "The Mystery of Being," and most recently "The Existential Background of Human Dignity."
Corporation Lawyer To Join Law School
A new law professor will join the KU law school faculty next semester.
He is Arthur H. Travers Jr., who is currently practicing in Chicago with the Meyer, Friedlich, Spiess, Tierney, Brown and Platt firm which is considered to be one of the biggest law firms in Chicago.
Travers received his A.B. degree from Grinnell College in Iowa in 1957. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and also served as president of the student body. He obtained his L.L.B. degree from Harvard in 1962, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He also served as editor of the Harvard Law Review for two years.
Travers has been employed by the Chicago firm since his graduation from Harvard and has specialized in corporate law. Travers will remain employed in Chicago until this summer, when he and his wife plan to move to Lawrence.
James K. Logan, Dean of the Law School, said that Travers will teach agency and partnership, corporations and other courses in the business law field which have not yet been determined. Logan said, "The KU law school is very pleased to attract a man such as Travers, who has had various offers from other schools. He has intellectual and personal qualities which promise greatness as a professor."
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