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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 19, 1964
Consultant Arrives to Advise Peace Corps Week Planning
Planning for Peace Corps week reached the final stages yesterday with the arrival of Gregory Simms, Peace Corps consultant from Washington.
Simms, a KU graduate, met with the Peace Corps Week committee yesterday to complete plans for the upcoming week March 23-26.
"We want to share with the campus what the Peace Corps is and what it is doing abroad," Simms said after a planning session.
"I THINK Americans have been sheltered from some of the world's reality," Simms said. "It certainly isn't a popular sport to visit America's slums."
Simms entered the Peace Corps after working as a social worker in New York City. In New York he was director of the Mariboro Houses Community Center of the New York City Housing Authority.
"The Peace Corps offers a unique opportunity to people who wish to share the advantages of our society with others who are less privileged" Simms said. The Peace Corps volunteers also learn to appreciate the situations of the world's underprivi-
legged people, as they are required to live at the same standard as the people with whom they work, he said.
"THE ADVANTAGES to people with backgrounds in anthropology, languages, law, and architecture are obvious." Simms continued. "The service allows young people to practice their careers at a level of respect and challenge, without the competition that is always present here."
Simms was not a Peace Corps volunteer, but has always been a staff man. From September 1962- August 1963 he served as the Peace Corps Deputy Representative in the Dominican Republic.
At present, Simms works with the Peace Corps to aid college Peace Corps programs.
COLLEGE PROGRAMS, like the one at KU next week, serve as "bridges between under-developed societies." The under-developed societies are a) the masses of small under-developed nations; and b) the United States, which is under-developed in its consideration and understanding of the "poor" nations, he said.
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Assisting Simms are seven other Washington representatives from Peace Corps headquarters. Among the representatives to visit during the week will be a KU graduate, Janet Hanneman, who has served as a Peace Corps volunteer nurse.
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THE WASHINGTON representatives will answer students' questions in an information booth which the Peace Corps committee will set up in the Kansas Union lobby for the week.
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These representatives will also be visiting living groups and will be participating in various classes. Arrangements for classroom presentations were scheduled to be completed last night, John Fairhurst, Wichita junior and chairman of the committee, said.
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