December 14, 1960

The editors of The Miscellany News came out strongly for the proposed Youth Peace Corps service program, which would send young Americans into under-developed nations of the world as teachers, social workers, doctors and technical advisors, to fight poverty, illiteracy and disease. An alumna of the 1930s wrote a classmate: “Can it be that here at last is that something which will ‘engage’ this generation as settlements and suffrage moved Mother’s and ‘one third of a nation’ ours!”

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