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Thursday, March 26. 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Peace Corps Called Germ of Great Idea
John F. Kennedy recognized the "germ of a great idea" in the Peace Corps, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe told guests at the Peace Corps Recognition banquet last night.
UNSOELD AND WESCOE—William Unsoeld, member of the U.S. team that reached the summit of Mount Everest in May 1963, chats with Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe following the Peace Corps Recognition Banquet last night. Unsoeld, a Washington representative from the Peace Corps, spoke to the Peace Corps Committee at the banquet. He has been participating in the KU Peace Corps Week as a recruiter, and lecturer. Unsoeld returned in Oct. 1963 from Nepal, where he was a member of the Peace Corps staff. (Photo by Charles Corcoran.)
The banquet was the highlight of KU Peace Corps week which ends today, following intensive recruiting by Washington representatives, lectures in class by the representatives and returned volunteers, and numerous sessions of Peace Corps testing.
By Bobbie Bartelt
"Little has proved more valuable to the people of the United States and to the cause of the world than the Peace Corps," Chancellor Wescoe said.
FOLLOWING CHANCELLOR Wescoe, Bob Swan, Topeka senior, and Peace Corps advisor, reminisced about the activities of the KU Peace Corps Committee since its founding two years ago.
Swan highlighted the KU Costa Rica project, and cited the national survey of campus interest in the Peace Corps.
"During the 1961-62 semester, we had one meeting and attracted two people," Swan said.
Also making some brief comments was William Unsoeld, Peace Corps representative from Washington, D.C., who scaled Mount Everest in May. 1963.
"I HADN'T EVEN heard of the KU Peace Corps Committee before I came to the campus," Unsoeld said. "Therefore you can be sure that I wasn't briefed on any comments I will make.
"The committee here at KU seems to have the far-sighted, visionary approach that the Peace Corps needs," Unsoeld said.
A coffee hour followed the banquet, when both Unsoeld and Janet Hanneman, a Peace Corps volunteer who recently returned from Pakistan, answered informal questions.
MISS HANNEMAN wore the Pakistani punjabi dress that has made her stand out among the representatives in the Peace Corps information booth in the Kansas Union lobby this week.
Miss Hanneman was featured in the new Peace Corps film, "Mission in Discovery," shown at the general meeting yesterday. The film showed Miss Hanneman, and other Peace Corps volunteers as they worked and lived in various countries, doing everything from teaching to planting crops.
INFORMAL QUESTIONS, answered by Miss Hanneman and Don Smith, a volunteer who recently returned from the Philippines, brought out interesting anecdotes from the Peace Corps workers.
Countries featured in the film were Pakistan, where Miss Hanneman served as a psychiatric nurse, Peru, Venezuela, and Turkey.
"Teaching sanitation presented a major problem in the Philippines," Smith said. "It wasn't teaching them how to build the facilities that was hard, it was persuading them the necessity of using them to prevent disease."
Smith taught English at the sixth grade level in the Philippines. He was graduated with a degree in political science, and was not instructed in teaching until he took the Peace Corps training program.
WHEN QUESTIONED about the amount of time that a volunteer spends on his job, Smith replied:
"You're on the job whether you are actually teaching or whether you are answering questions on your back porch. It's all a part of the job."
Digging Thieves Stealing Pages Of Early Italy
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ROME—(UPI)—The soil of Italy, fabulously rich in the ruins of dead civilizations, is being plundered to the tune of more than a million dollars a day, according to a leading archeologist.
Prof. Dino Adamesteanu, who is making a study of the subject for the Superintendency of Fine Arts, says a growing army of clandestine diggers operate in violation of the law to find a ready market for antiquities both within the country and abroad.
Not only that, he says, they are making it impossible for bona fide archeologists to study in any comprehensive way many of the ancient cultures that once flourished in Italy.
THE THEFT OF archeological treasures from the ground has been going on for years, but only recently has it developed on a large scale. archeologists say.
They attribute this to the fact that ownership of ancient relicles has become "fashionable" just in the past three or four years.
They aren't quite sure how to account for this phenomenon. It may have something to do with the increasing affluence of Europeans and with an improvement in cultural standards. It has also been suggested that mankind, as it leaps into the uncertainties of the space age, feels a need to get a more secure grip on its own past.
Italian authorities say the center of the international archeological market is in Switzerland, where powerful business organizations maintain contacts with clandestine diggers all over Europe, but particularly in Italy.
Most of them, of course, are smalltime operators, but there is no calculating how much of the archeological treasure they plunder in a year, say the archeologists.
IT ISNT HARD to find the illegal diggers. Anyone visiting almost any archeological site in Italy that is outside a major city can see them.
Removing "hot" merchandise of this sort from Italy is no problem, since customs inspectors rarely look into suitcases of travelers. Once a treasure is gone, there is no international law which permits its recovery.
Archeologists say one of the major centers of illicit activity in recent years has been the island of Sicily.
For a long time it was believed the ancient Greek colonies along Sicily's southern coast were the only major sources of archeological material on the island.
Easter Customs are Colorful
Easter is this Sunday and all over the land children are looking forward to dyeing eggs and a visit from the Easter bunny.
No one knows just how the practice of coloring eggs first began, but the pagan Norsemen dyed them red in honor of Thor and yellow for Eostre (who lent her name to Easter).
The early Christians also favored red because to them it signified the blood of Christ. Medieval Englishmen enjoyed red, blue and violet dyes.
The Persians and the Russians created elaborate works of art using blown eggshells intact. The Russians finally began to make egg-shaped jewels of precious metals, enamels and gems. The jewels usually contained a tiny, exquisite icon.
In China, little egg-shaped baubles were intricately nested together. When they were opened a tiny carved chick was revealed in the center.
There are some strange superstitions about eggshells. Ancient Dalmatians were careful to throw eggshells as far from the house as possible—to create a boundary line which snakes could not cross.
The Germans always burned them because they believed that witches, who ordinarily could not cross water, were able to sail over in eggshell boats.
Birthdays
ST. LOUIS —(UPI) — William J. McGoagan, David Lipman and Robert Posen, sports writers on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, celebrate birthdays on the same day—February 13.
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