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1966-06-14 The University of Iowa News Service: News Release Page 1

The University of Iowa News Service
3 E. Market, Iowa City 52240 Phone 353-3150

390.1

For Release
Wednesday P.M., June 15:            6/14/66

(Mississippi students to arrive at U of I Sunday)

Iowa City, Iowa-- Through the joint efforts of University of Iowa faculty and students and Iowa City townspeople, 35 Negro college students will have an opportunity to study at the University this summer.

The students, all undergraduates at Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss., will arrive here Sunday (June 19) under the auspices of a University-community sponsored program.

The program, which still needs $800 of the $5,000 goal, has three objectives: promoting cultural exchange between the people of Iowa City and the students of Rust College; helping the students enlarge their educational background; and increasing the effectiveness of these students as members of their community.

Initiated last summer, the program provides the students with intensive instruction in mathematics, reading, speech and composition. In addition, it gives them an opportunity to become part of a different community by arranging housing with individual Iowa City families, some part-time jobs here and participation in local social and cultural events. The director this summer is Harold Duerksen, assistant to the director of the School of Religion.

"To my knowledge, no other volunteer community program of this scope has been done anywhere else," said U of I Professor John Huntley, who was coordinator of the project last summer.

The project originated two years ago when Iowa students who served as summer volunteers in Mississippi returned with the suggestion that a follow-up be done on a town-to-town basis. The result was the Mississippi Support Program, which provided funds to rebuild a burned church, and shipped food, clothing, and toys to Holly Springs at Christmas, and set up the summer educational project.
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The University of Iowa News Service 3 E. Market, Iowa City 52240 Phone 353-3150 390.1 For Release Wednesday P.M., June 15: 6/14/66 (Mississippi students to arrive at U of I Sunday) Iowa City, Iowa-- Through the joint efforts of University of Iowa faculty and students and Iowa City townspeople, 35 Negro college students will have an opportunity to study at the University this summer. The students, all undergraduates at Rust College in Holly Springs, Miss., will arrive here Sunday (June 19) under the auspices of a University-community sponsored program. The program, which still needs $800 of the $5,000 goal, has three objectives: promoting cultural exchange between the people of Iowa City and the students of Rust College; helping the students enlarge their educational background; and increasing the effectiveness of these students as members of their community. Initiated last summer, the program provides the students with intensive instruction in mathematics, reading, speech and composition. In addition, it gives them an opportunity to become part of a different community by arranging housing with individual Iowa City families, some part-time jobs here and participation in local social and cultural events. The director this summer is Harold Duerksen, assistant to the director of the School of Religion. "To my knowledge, no other volunteer community program of this scope has been done anywhere else," said U of I Professor John Huntley, who was coordinator of the project last summer. The project originated two years ago when Iowa students who served as summer volunteers in Mississippi returned with the suggestion that a follow-up be done on a town-to-town basis. The result was the Mississippi Support Program, which provided funds to rebuild a burned church, and shipped food, clothing, and toys to Holly Springs at Christmas, and set up the summer educational project. (more)