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There's just a tew more hours left for
last year's Golddiggers King: Poge
Two.

Vol. LVII, No. M

of Kentucky
UniversityTHURSDAY, JAN. 20,
KY.,

Eight Pages

19GG

LEXINGTON,

'La Soiree Dramatique' is comic satire
with shock appeal: Poge Three.
UK student exhibits art in showing at
the Student Center: Poge Three.

discusses President Johnson's
'Brain Trust': Poge Four.
Mike Horreld is UK's forgotten man
the manager: Poge Si.
Gov. Breathitt tops UK economist's

tditor

talents: Poge Seven.

2 UK Officials Embark

For Thailand Study Tour
To Consider Ag Program
"Wc will devote out month's
stay to the study of Kahon K
Kaen Province and to its problems in the area of agriculture,"
Dr. Jansen said. "The province
is set aside from the rest of the
country in that it has a different
climate and rainfall."
Dr. Jansen said that he heard
of the project at the first of
December, but final plans were

one-mon- th

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made by the U.S. government
less than two weeks ago.
"The study will include
mainly research to see if the area
can be aided by a sound agricultural program," he said.

plunging headlong into the study
for the Thailand government.

By GENE CLABES
Kernel Staff Writer
Two representatives from the
University left today for Bankok,
Thailand, beginning a
study that may lead to a UK
agricultural program for Kahon
K Kaen Province.
coDr. William Jansen,
ordinator for the Indonesian
exchange program and William
A. Seay, dean of the agriculture
flew to Honolulu,
college,
Hawaii, for a briefing before

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If the study proves favorable.
Dr. Jansen explained, UK would
not be the only school in the
running to rebuild the "poverty
area" through an agricultural
program.
This program will not affect

students in any way, according
to Dr. Jansen. He said that a
student exchange program is not
involved and not forscen with
Thailand.

ACLU Official Notes
New Rights Interest,

"This study is being requested
by the Thailand government and
the U.S. government is sending
us over for the project," he said.

Urges Participation

"After our findings are presented,
the Thailand government will
decide if the program would be

By CARL WEST
Kernel Staff Writer
John de J. Pemberton Jr., Executive Director of the American
Civil Liberties Union, yesterday urged University law students
to become active in civil liberty causes.
Pemberton. a 1947 Harvard
and rewarding
Law School graduate, was in be meaningful
work.
to address the Blue-graLexington
Pemberton said he has noticed
chapter of the Kentucky
an increasing student concern for
Civil Liberties Union. He spoke
civil liberties on college campuses
informally to a small group of
law students and faculty at a across the nation.
"They become involved in
"coffee hour" sponsored by the
civil rights movements because
Student Bar Association.
to persuade the larger
Pointing to the need for more they want
to volunteer for work in community to correct practicing
lawyers
civil liberties causes, he told the inequality," he said.
are
exercising
"Students
students that protecting individcan rights of protest and learning to
uals' constitutional rights
treasure those rights."
The group discussed the recent issue at Western Kentucky
State College where four students were suspended for publishing a magazine containing
an article college officials found

Johnson Goes Afile
Dr. Ollie E. Bfssmeyer, left, director of the University Instructional
Materials Preparation Center in the College of Education, looks
over a picture of President Johnson which Leonard Bowman,
student assistant, has clipped for
Clintwood, Va., a work-stud- y
materials file for center users.
a visual

worthwhile."
Dr. Jansen was asked if this
project would eventually replace
the Indonesian program, scheduled to end in June of this year.
"This has nothing whatsoever to
do with that program," he said.

ss

"In fact I'm more optimistic"

about the chances of continuing
the program than ever," he said.
Recently the Kernel reported
that Dr. Jansen was expressing
cautious optimism that an

may be granted.
Last March, it was reported
the UK programs, in agriculture
and in engineering, would be
terminated because of a deteriSouthorating U.S. position in
east Asia.
Dr. Jansen said the team
would return Feb. 22.

NSA Question To Arise
Tonight In SC Meeting

Student Congress will meet tonight to consider withdrawing
from the U.S. National Student Association.
NSA is an association of stu
condemnation of the House
dent governments, established in their
on
Committee
1964 to provide an interchange
for and Activities, the Bay of Pigs epiof ideas and information
and U.S. resumption of
between members. UK has been sode,
for the past nuclear testing.
an NSA member
year.
The withdrawal resolution,
framed by SC Rep. Oscar
Westcrfield, is based on the contention that Student Congress is
not "getting its money's worth"
from membership, the political
nature of NSA, and NSA's ocstance.
casional
anti-fraterni-

"The study will last one
Westerfield says that NSA
month to the day," he said. information service "has been too
Dean Seay was unavailable slow for effective use, and too
for comment Wednesday. He was often of little value."
the political
Concerning
still taking shots at the medical
to Dr. Jansen. nature of NSA, Westerfield cited
center, according

objectionable.
Russell-vill- e
J. Granville Clark, a
who offered to reattorney

present the students, obtained
a court restraining order which
allowed the boys to return to
school pending a decision from
the college's board of regents.
Eugene F. Mooney, UK law
instructor and director of the
Legal Aid program, said this
pointed to the need for students
By GARY WEST
to have some kind of represenKernel Staff Writer
tation when college administraNo action was taken in last night's special
tors possibly abuse their consticalled meeting of the Interfraternity Council to
tutional rights through discipline
discuss alleged rush violations.
measures.
It had been reported to Acting Dean of Men
to ad"They need someone
Jack Hall that 14 men had been given pledge pins
vise and represent them on
inside the by the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity since the
matters
After the accusation
opening of formal rush period.
university," he said.
had been verified by a member of Tau Kappa
said it is important
Pemberton
been issued, the
Epsilon that the pledge pins had
that students not give up freeMen s
and press complaint was filed with the Dean of
doms of free speech
Office.
under the threat of discipline
The IFC rule states that a pledge pin can not
from college administrators.
be given until Jan. 29, the date for official pledging.
"The power of the univerTau Kappa Epsilon President Jerry Freitag
of students
sity over the careers
stated that the number of boys reported to have
nmht not be employed to pen
He
of rights other pledge pins was no where near that number.
alize the exercise
admit that pledge pins were given
did, however,
citizens enjoy under the probeen returned.
tection of the constitution," he out but since have
have about three boys in our frater"We only
said.
cards and the
nity who have the power to give bid
Last night, Pemberton adat pins that leaked out were given only to three or
dressed KCLU members
four boys," offered Freitag.
Transylvania College.

Westerfield emphasized that
the major fraternity complaint is

"an open course of opposition by
NSA to

the American fraternity

system."
Student Congress President
Winston Miller and Vice President John O'Brien have both
said they back the withdrawal.
d
administration-supporteall
Since
bills previously introduced this year have passed the
Congress with little difficulty, it
is expected that the withdrawal
proposal will pass easily.

IFC Bares Rush Irregularities

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JOHN DE PEMBERTON

Freitair said that he would file a written report
of the action to each fraternity. The IFC rush committee will decide at a later date as to whether or
not any discipline will be handed out.
It was also brought out in the meeting at the
Student Center that other fraternities also might
be guilty of issuing pledge pins before the ap-

pointed date.
Dean Hall said that this is a serious offense
and that it would be in the best interest of each
fraternity to abide by the rush rules set up by the
IFC.
Also brought out were the complaints which
had been filed with the dean of men that several
of the fraternities were not abiding by the rush
rules concerning girls. It was believed that the
ruling, established Jan. 10, had not been properly
interpreted.
Most of the complaints stemmed from the use
of too many girls during rush functions at several
fraternity houses.
Continued on Paje 7

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-- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL,
Thursday, Jan. 20, 1966

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date, plan the evening, and then pay
it.
Another interesting aspect of the evening
will be the corsage contest. ..incidently, the
flowers aren't the kind that can be bought
at the neighborhood flower shop.

By CAROLYN WILLIAMS

Kernel Feature Editor
It will be a heyday for the guys AND
gals tomorrow night when the curtain rises
on the ninth annual Cold Digger's Hall.
Patterned after another namesake, Sadie
Hawkins Day, UK's version means it's the
coal's turn to take the initiative if she's
got her eye on a certain guy.
According to Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary, a gold digger is a female who
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for positions on Women's Adthe judicial
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branch of Associated Women Students. Forms may be obtained
in the Dean of Women's Office,
Administration Building, Room
202, and must be returned by
Feb. 11. All applicants must have
a 2.5 standing, and be of sophomore classification.

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summer jobs may pick up an
application from the Student
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service in the Student Congress
office in the Student Center.
Jobs are being lined up in most
towns throughout the state, and
in many
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is planning the event, says a prize will be
given to the man with the most original
looking corsage. So don't let your date feel
left out.
Voting for the new king to replace last
year's king, Bob Hostick, sponsored by Alpha
Xi Delta sorority, will take place at the
door. He will be crowned at 10:30 p.m.
Tickets are $2 a couple and are on sale
in the TV Lounge of the Student Center.

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If you are a drama enthusiast
with a relish for comic satire
with shock appeal, then by all
means
see
Soiree
"La
Dramatique" to be presented
Jan. 23 and 26 at 8:30 p.m. Student Center Theater.
The program, directed by
Roger Iknsky, visiting lecturer
in the Modern Foreign Language
Dept., will be presented entirely
in French and is free to the pub-

John Henry,;

UK student artist, works in his studio on paintings
for his current show at the Student Center Art Gallery. The show
opened last Sunday and will remain open until Jan. 23. The

paintings and ink drawings in the show represent Henry's abstract
cxprcssionistic style and are built around a symbolic form variation.

"La Soiree Dramatique" consists of two parts. First, there
will be a play, "La Societc
Apollon", by Jean Tardieu, a conavant-gard- e
playtemporary
wright. After the play there will
be a public discussion of the
presentation, in which the audience can fire questions at the
cast concerning the play.
Although the play will be
done in French, there is much
more than a verbal interest,
Bensky says. "We would like to
give UK a taste of the 'Theatre
of the Absurd.' Originated in
France, this style of acting is
here is
many times
a chance to present it in its
true form."
The play, a savage parody on
modern art snobs, centers around

Mademoiselle Q. and the activities of the AM)llon Society.
Theoretically, this group is dedicated to the search lor perfection
and beauty. Actually, Mademoiselle Q. and her disciples are
grotesques of various people
riding on the"arty" bandwagon.
and
Tardieu, a
French playwright,
shows how these enthusiasts behave when confronted with a
work of futuristic sculptor. A
satirical note is struck when the
"divinity" in question turns out
to be a prototype for a carrot-cuttin- g
machine.
The cast consists mostly of
graduate students in the Modern
Foreign Language department.
It
includes
Charles
Shue,
Carolyn Kauth, Hoy Dupuy,
A.
Richard
Schwab,
Mary
Hachand, Harold Proske, Mary
Joseph, Karen Dydo, and Bensky.
Bensky organized the group
last semester in what he hopes
will be a "stepping stone" to
a permanent group of French
dramatic expression on the UK
campus.
"Our goal is to present a
strong acting style", says Harold
Proske, a member of the cast.
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Theatre of the Absurd is highly
stvlizcd and
and
the violence of the st)le is im-

pressionistic."
"This kind of theatre doesn't
do away with language, but
transcends it," says Hensky. "It
is not entirely an intellectual
piece as there is much interest
in the action.
"We are expecting a lively
discussion following the play.
This is so different from anything
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UK Student Exhibits Art At SC
By DICK KIMMINS

Kernel Arts Writer
"I don't paint to live, I live to
paint," said UK student John
Henry Tuesday at his art show
which opened in the Student Center Art Gallery last Sunday.
Henry's exhibit will continue
through next Sunday and is
drawing large crowds and a wide
variety of public interest.

Where is art going? "Well, I
see a sterile period, however a
radical period may evolve from

painting and said I meant it to
mean God. It's hard to define any
sort of esthetics by a set or rules.
My paintings are a reflection of
my everyday life. I live a full
life and paint from it."
Henry discussed his personal
philosophy as he remarked, "I
don't concern myself with symbols. I just satisfy myself; and if
you benefit yourself, you can't
help but benefit humanity."
"Art is learned by invole-meby the thirst for learning.
I use the abstract form because
that's the way I express myself

it."

"Any history professor will
turn to the art of a particular
period to reflect the mood ofthat
time. That's what my painting
does reflect my mood and what
I feel about life."

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Comments ranging from "It
looks like a keyhole," to speculations about religious symbolism
fly about the gallery and delight
the artist.

"I don't worry about conveying anything to the viewer,
that's his problem," said Henry.
T just paint what I feel and let
that mean whatever it can to the
viewer."
Henry was born in Lexington
and attended Lafayette High
School. He entered UK in 1961
but transferred to the University
of Washington in Seattle in 1962.
He returned to UK in 1963.
Henry's paintings are predominately composed of browns,
greens, reds, and stark .white
lines. They evoke a rebellious
mood with the warm tones of the
backgrounds being overpowered
by the boiling form that dominates each of the paintings in the
show.
"I don't use any recognized
subject matter other than the
feeling I have in my mind," Henry
said. "I, am. constantly besieged
with things to paint about. They
just pop into my mind con-

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painting 'Jimt'tweV Now that I
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"I like big canvasses because
they really test your ability. On
small canvasses you can coverup
your mistakes."
How do ' people react to
Henry's work? "Comments on my
vary tremendously.
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LBJ's Brain Trust
Though t lie Administrations of
Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
have been realms apart in tenns
of personal style of leadership, they
have shared an important similarityinvolvement of the nation's
outstanding brainpower in national
government.
President Kennedy's choice of
cabinet and other government officials brought for the first time
in many years a great intellectual
power to the nation's capital. Puffy-face- d
politicians found themselves
displaced by Harvard professors
and dynamic young intellectuals
drawn from private industry.
President Johnson, too, has
realized the need for the inteladministrators
lectually
in modern government. An example
of this awareness is his recent
choices for secretary and assistant
Ded
secretary in the
of Housing and Urban
partment
Development.
Both Drs. Weaver and Woods
have garnered an outstanding
scholarly reputation as well as a
record of public service. Woods,
especially, is recognized as an out
newly-create-

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standing researcher and writer in
the field of urban affairs.
In many of his other appointments, President Johnson also has
been on the lookout for nominees
with something more than a long
string of overdue political gratuities.
All this, we think, has great
meaning on the larger scope. Those
disenchanted with the calibre of
men in patronage appointments can
now see some improvement in
federal government. With the involvement of some intellectuals in
high government positions, the
national leader has recaptured some
of the waning attention of the
nation's intellectual leaders, who
had turned away in disgust from
the mediocre political hack so often1
holding the reins of important
federal agencies. The political
tactitian must be also a political
theorist if he is to survive in the
rising standards of Presidental
appointees.
Both Presidents have reached
out extensively to the nation's great
universities, callingon the men who
have devoted a major portion of
their lives to becoming experts in
a particular field. Thus, in recent
years, we are seeing more economists dealing with financial
matters, more sociologists dealing
with cultural enrichment programs,
and more political scientists in on
the formulation of major policies.
We applaud
the President's
choice for leaders in the new
cabinet post and hope he continually will stage "brainpower
raids" on the nation's colleges and
"Take a boy from Flat, Gap,
universities, giving the scholar and Ky. Give him a roommate from
truly original thinker the place in New York, and lie soon learns
government he deserves.
the world is larger than the Big
Sandy River and Lexington. "
Charles F. Elton

Flat Gap And Beyond

WEAVER AND JOHNSON

Smoke In Whose Eyes?
States
law requires a
Government by
warning on every pack: "Cigarette
smoking may be hazardous to your
At home, the United

health."
Abroad, the United States
Government subsidizes the promotion of cigarettes through advertising and a color film, "World
of Pleasure," which contains a
soft sell for cigarette smoking.
The Department of Agriculture
in 1963 contributed $106,000 in
foreign currencies to funds raised
by tobacco trade groups for the
film
production of the
showing young couples enjoying
cigarettes together. This fiscal year
the Department of Agriculture will
spend $210,000 to advertise in
Austria, Japan and Thailand
cigarettes made from American
tobacco.
te

While it is true that Congress
in Public Law 480 authorized such
expenditures as part of the effort
to expand tobacco and cigarette export, there is no compulsion on the
Department to engage abroad in
this promotional effort directly at
variance with governmental policy
at home.
Furthermore, the law requiring
the health warning specifically
exempts cigarettes sold abroad.
And Congress has several times
refused to eliminate Government
supports for the tobacco that, in
the form of cigarettes, "may be
hazardous to your health."
d
The present
policy
badly needs correction both in
Congress and in the Department.
two-face-

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THURSDAY, JAN.

Walter Grant,

20, 1966

Editor-in-Chi-

Linda Mills, Executive Editor

Terence Hunt, Managing Editor
John Zeh, News Editor
Kenneth Creen, Associate News Editor
Judy Ghjsham, Associate News Editor
Henry Rosenthal, Sports Editor
Marcaret BaIIey, Arts Editor
Carolyn Williams, Feature Editor
Business Staff

William Knapp,

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same Flat Gappians he has known
all his life.
For the student who plans to
transfer to another institution upon
graduation from a community college, the consequences are not so
serious. He will experience a change
of environment, a broadening of
scope, at a later date. His adjustment to the college academic
load within the security of his
familiar background may actually
prepare him more thoroughly for
the
experience.
But the student who plans to
terminate his education with a
community college degree is the
one most injured by lack of contact with others of different backgrounds within the community
colleges.
We suggest the University study
the possibility of encouraging a
and
limited number of
students to enroll in the
foreign
community colleges. Small residence units or perhaps cooperation
of community citizens in housing
a few students from other areas,
could make this possible.
We realize this is not entirely in
line with the currently-recognize- d
philosophy underlying the community college system, but we feel
such a program certainly merits
consideration within the range of
the current philosophy. The students from other areas would be
added merely as an enrichment and
certainly should not be responsible
for a major shift in interpretation
of the duties of tlie community

We think there was a great
kernel of wisdom contained in
Registrar Charles F. Elton's recent
comment to a Louisville Courier
Journal reporter, describing the
value of including a portion of
students in the University.
Perhaps his philosophy should
be considered more strongly in designing the University's Community College system.
We realize that admitting
students to the colleges
is not in line with their primary
goal. The colleges have been established to extend the opportunity
for a college education into various
communities within the state with
service to the individual community
a major point. Certainly this is
the first concern of the system.
This, however, limits the student mix within any one of the
colleges to residents of a single
community, blended with a few
commuters from nearby counties.
In this respect, they may well be
criticized on the basis that they
are a mere "extention of high
school." The student entering a
community college is remaining in
primarily the same environment in
which he has grown up-F- lat
Cap,
bounded by the Big Sandy River.
Also, he is associating with the
colleges.
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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Jan. 20,

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100 undergraduates

at Harvard
University are the winners in a
nationwide talent search, hut
none of them knows it.
Representing one of the largest
collective risks ever taken by a
college admissions office, they
.are the recipients of the

"gamble fund" scholarships-gran- ts
that since 1937 have

brought at least 200 high schools'
seniors with
College
Hoard scores and difficult backgrounds to Harvard.
The students have come from
urban slums, unaccredited Southern high schools, and migrant
camps. Their parents, in most
cases, never finished high school
and may even have openly discouraged them from going to
college.
Only a few members of the
Harvard admissions department
know who arc receiving grants
from the fund. The students arc
told that they have normal
Harvard.
from
scholarships"Obviously you don't write a
boy and, 'say 'Congratulations,
you're a terrible risk,'" explains
Peter Briggs, the director of freshman scholarships.
In 1966, this type of program,
reaching out to the deprived students, is becoming almost
standard in many of the larger
universities.
Eight years ago
when the program was started
at Harvard there was almost no
systematic attempt to reach this
type of student.
It was then that Harvard approached the head of an eastern
foundation, who was personally
interested in helping disadvantaged students. The man agreed
to contribute $50,000 personally
for a limited time. He believed
that other sources of funds could
be easily secured once it was
proven that the students he
wanted to bring to Harvard could
survive there.
He was right. "There are now
at least twice as many members
of the freshman class who are
eligible for the program as are
on the actual list of gamble-fun- d
recipients," Briggs said. In
fact, the original donor has
gradually been reducing his payments and by 1970 will have
stopped them completely.
The Admissions Committee
has found that selecting boys
with a potential for greatness in
spite of their backgrounds is not
easy. However, the committee
has come up with some real
rock-botto-

graduating class, student body
president, and a debater.
The Sii me was I rut in the
case of a Negro boy from an
unaccredited,
segregated Mississippi high school. He was student body president and near t
of his class even while
working nightly as the janitor
in an office building. Vet, his
SAT scores scraied the 400 mark,
and his father, a $4,000-a-yea- r
laborer, cared little whether his
son went to college or not.
Finding students like these
wasn't easy. The admissions department figured that it would
get applications from a few
eligible students in the course
of a year but that the bulk of
those really eligible for the pro- he-to-

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alone
college,
Alumni were informed of the
program and asked to contact
as many high schools as possible.
Other groups, certain national
organizations and clubs, helped
in the search lor promising young
men from deprived backgrounds
and marginal high school educations.
One big problem was the complete lack of help from the parents,
Fred L. Climp, dean of admissions and financial aids, said.
"We'd put an application in a
boy's hand, but when he got
home his father would rip it up
and tell him he'd had a nightmare," Climp said.
Another problem the committee had to face was the big
like
someplace
jump from
Imperial Valley to Cambridge
and Harvard. To counter this,
ten percent of the fund was used
putting the students through a
New England prep school for a
year before they began college.
One student liked the smalltown
atmosphere so much after his
year at prep that he turned down
Harvard and arranged a scholarship for himself to Amherst.
Despite all of the handicaps,
the students are found and most
of them go to Harvard. Though
their grade average has lagged
behind the overall class average,
it has been far ahead of what it
was predicted to be. The gamble
fund has produced leaders in almost every campus activity; one
of the students is a Rhodes
scholar.

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Creat Society plans likely to
feel the pinch of the Vietnam
war effort, sources at the U.S.
Office of Education indicate.
The landmark laws for schools
and colleges that cleared the
first session of the 89th Congress
last year will not be cut back.
The pinch, sources say, will be
increases in curin hoped-fo- r
rent programs which very likely
will be postponed.
It had been hoped that the
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elemenfunds for the
tary and secondary school aid law
would be more than doubled for
the next fiscal year. Major in"winners".
creases were also sought for the
n
One student out of the first
program for higher
group of 20 (which graduated in education.
class of '61) had grown up in
These plans were made, howCalifornia's Imperial Valley, ever, before the Johnson Adminwhere his father made $4,500 istration revealed it would ask
a year icing railroad cars and for an additional $12 to $13
his Mexican moth