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relig io n s; a m usical program.- by'
m em bers of the House; folk dancing
; after noon tea I on
the United'Mf j ^ i dhs,
parks, m useum s, hospitals, and indus
t r i a l I p lan ts.
R One very th rilling experience fdrO.
^ ^ i e last October was joining m y In -
dian friends to help celebrate the
b irth d ay of M ahatm a G andhi. The
speaker was an In d ian scholar who is
,;Uni-
versity in W ashington, D.C»EiBl»3alBl
friend of G andhi and of the great In
dian poet Tagore, '-about whom he
spoke at a later m eeting.
The w om en’s wing overlooks the
Hudson
I no need to com pare the Palisades w ith
the C olum bia R iver Gorge. No scen
ery th a t I saw in the East can com
p are in proportions w ith the West. B H
every place has its own beauty.)
D uring the w in ter and spring m y
^ ^ e l l o w residents on our Spadf
-
she who m ost added td m y know ledge
and respect for If h e ?
India, for th eir ancient culture and
th eir plans for the future. 'Some- of the
m ost stim ulating and e ^ ^ S ^ ^ ^ S e r -
sations w ere w ith the m en .^ ^ g o 'm e n -
from countries such as India and KE^
rali, w hich are establishing th e ir new
s t a tus as indep endent mo dern '-t rfa- ‘
isfucm m sh'f
Indp-
nesia, A frica and Korea, w here in d e
pendence and unity are so earnestly
desired. T heir enthusiasm for 'th eir;'
new status, th eir sense of direct p a r
ticipation in the d l l a « g |n m te of th eir
countries, th eir condem nation of in
tern atio n al discrim ination b ro u g h t-m e:
closer in understanding and feeling to
forefathers th an all
m anner of passages in textbooks and
I rejoice th at there are such places
as In tern atio n al Houses and am glad
th at m ore are being b uilt all over the
^^M 'd . I am g ratefu l th a t I w as able
to h | -
x p e r ie ^ ^ K B iffte r -
1 ii^ S ^ g . F or 'the w orld tru ly
M f o m m an y d istan ces. My firs t ev en in g
lives un d er one roof at I. House (as
^ ^ n New York, w here I was a com
we call it). We had residents from
plete stranger, a young w om an from
every geographical area of the w orld
I
'tegO at hom e in her
except the Soviet U W ini T he largest
me pictures of h er
num bers from abroad came from C hi
handsom e h usband and little son at na, India and Canada.
home, and told me about her studies.
On m y w ay back to the West, I
S he had an exceptionally fine singingI
visited t h e Chicago In tern atio n al
voice. F our m onths before, w hen she
House. As soon as I h eard t h W B dians’
came to A m erica she could only say
accent around the halls and the rapid
“H ello”,
you,” “Yes” and
conversation of the Chfnesei^M f e l t
i n
t n
l 4 h all was
B ^ e i ffaBhome‘ T han I had felt since I
a Filipino - nu rse who had served in
>le w ere not
the
Ti
strangers
to
m
e
although
I did
the occupation and the bom bing of
know
No ;p artK |f the
M anila. I w onder w hat w ill be the ex
w orld can ever seem “rem ote” again
periences of a Chinese nurse who was
. . . m aybe I have a frien d there.
packing to re tu rn to h er hffi® || this
E ditor’s Note: Miss Dotson, form er
sum m er. Was she distu rbed about re
Editor of this m agazine and
turning? “I th in k it is best this w a y ,”
L i-
was h er answ er. T here w ere also girls |@ rm eri | ^ W p loB^M at
brary, has recently re tu rn ed from a
pn our floor from F in lan d /1 Chile, B u r-
y e a r’s studies at C olum bia U niversity
ma, Norw ay, C alifornia, New England,
Louisiana, Georgia and U tah. The ^ ^ d ^ ^ K ^ O b nck in- public service as
^ ^ m u n g 'H in d u ^ z b m a ^ K ^ ^ o^Bm ^feson t'eGr D irector of the School of the Air, OSC
E xtension Service at C orvallis. We
K | | o n t h e ^ ^ ^ S t council
feel s u re s f e R B etty ’s re tu rn -iy^ill ■ be
and adm ired by all of us. She was an
welcom ed by h er m any friends and
exceptional stu d en t and was alw ays
- inh j j S lov^U suK i^frof OSEA m em bers and th a t she w ill prove
to b
e
i
n
h er
gorgeous In d ian cloth. D uring late eve
ning discussions in our room s, it w as )hew lw sffiion.
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