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18.   CDC AGENCY BACKS SISTER-CITIES IDEA

       A letter from Lexington Mayor Charles Wylie to city officials
of Guayaquil--the largest city in Ecuador--proposing that the two
cities become sister cities, was carried to Guayaquil by Greg
Daugherty of the University Human Relations Center who traveled under
the auspices of the Partners of the Americas and the Office of Inter-
national Programs in the Center for Developmental Change. Daugherty
was accompanied to Ecuador by two students, Jody Greene, Greensburg,
and Neal Cain, Somerset. The students were to spend six weeks
traveling to the three largest cities in Ecuador where they were to
look into the possibility of students in all Kentucky colleges and
universities going to Ecuador as exchange students. The main purpose
of Lexington and Guayaquil becoming sister cities is to exchange infor-
mation about one another and to become better acquainted. Kentucky is
a partner to the area of Ecuador where Guayaquil is located in the
interchange sponsored by the National Association of the Partners of
the Americas.



19.   ARCHITECTS NOTING THE YOUTH TREND

       Dean Charles Graves of the College of Architecture thinks that
architectural students not only have prodded the profession but are
instituting trends that gradually will seep into the architectural
establishment. "Schools have always been ahead of the professional
societies and that's the way it should be," he says. As examples of
the "visible change" that has taken place at the University, the dean
points to a number of off-campus studio activities that have tended to
replace the old practice of building-design: the mountain studies pro-
gram at Hyden, where students have broadened their interests to such
environmental issues as solid waste and recreation; a studio project
involving a Virginia commune; various neighborhood projects in Lexing-
ton, such as the one in Pralltown.

       Ray Love and David Eddrington are two of Graves' former students
who were engaged in the Pralltown project during their fifth year of
school. They became so involved in putting together an urban-renewal
proposal for the dilapidated 3 -block area and its 300 mostly black
residents in the shadow of the University that they stayed on after
graduation, working from modest quarters at 189 Prall Street. Their
aim: 300 units of new housing, a commercial center, and a recreational
area.



20.    WEIL GIVES 42,000 TO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

       A Fayette county farmer has given $2,000 to the College of
Agriculture. Herschel Weil specified the grant be used by the Depart-
ment of Agronomy for research on management and improvement of the
quality of forage grass. Dr. A. J. Hiatt, agronomy chairman, said
Weil has been active in local, state and national civic and service
clubs. Weil is a member of the board of directors of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews and the steering committee for
the University College of Medicine.