KU Peace Corps Plans State Meeting Saturday
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Approximately 400 students, Baison officers, and parents of Kansas Peace Corps volunteers are expected at the first Statewide Peace Corps Convention here Friday and Saturday.
A 1958 graduate of Harvard. Rockefereller majored in history and Far Eastern languages. He studied and taught for three years at the International Christian University near Tokyo, and has traveled extensively in Europe and southeast Asia.
John D. Rockefeller IV, chairman of the Peace Corps' Far East Region Philippine program, will be the main speaker at the convention. He will speak Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and again at 4 p.m.
ROCKEFELLER WAS a special assistant to Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver and a member of the National Advisory Council before taking charge of the Philippine program.
Bradshaw Mintener Jr., a Peace Corps specialist in African affairs, will also attend the convention. He
is a special assistant to the director of the College and University Division of the Office of Public Affairs. Registration will begin at 5 p.m. Friday.
A BANQUET HONORING the parents of Peace Corps volunteers will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom, George R. Wagoner, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will speak on "KU and the Peace Corps" after the dinner.
Rockefeller will open the Saturday session at 9:30 a.m. in the Big Eight Room. He will talk on "The Significance of the Peace Corps."
The remainder of the morning and most of the afternoon will be devoted to workshops in which delegates will learn of Peace Corps projects around the world and in which they may gain ideas for their own Peace Corps Committees.
Rockefeller will conclude the convention at the summary session at 4 p.m. with his talk on "The Future of the Peace Corps."
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