Evening star., 1943-03-28
Bonnie Farber Efficient in Important Post
With Mter:American Affairs Co-ordinator
Associate Field
Program Officer
Has Rare Charm,
By Frances Kuhn

Combine the words beauty,
charm and intelligence and you
will have only a vague idea Of
what Miss Bonnie Farber really
is. She is one of the most out
standing young people to have
come to the Capital to do a war
Job.
Miss Farber is one of the new
est additions to the Office of the
Co-ordinator of Inter-American
Affairs, and her job is no small
one by any means.
She's an associate field program
officer. With her background and
her intense interest In tho cotm.
tries Of South America, she Il
well equipped to handle the work
thoroughly. Argentina, Chile,
Uruguay and Paraguay are 'cher
countries" and she has at her
finger tips q knowledge of the
general problems concerned with
her field Of economics and soci-
ology. She has q complete under
standing Of the needs of those
countries, and her specific task Is
to know, and consequently to be
able to coordinate the sociologi-
cal and other technical projects
that have been instituted by all
United States Government agen-
cies in those four countries.
For example, II an agency
wants to know what Is being done
toward the education Of Indians
in Paraguay, she's right there
with the answer and knows wIaat
must be done.
Her ability was recognised some
time ago, when she was awarded
a Government internship by the
National Institute of Public AZ
fairs. The award, which Is given
only to a limited number of out
standing students, consists Of a
training period of eight months
In Government administration in
the various Washington offlces,
which Is combined with post
graduate work at American Uni
versity. 1t is easily seen that
Miss Farber has a sound basis for
the work she is doing now. After
receiving the internship, she was
associated with the Board of
Economic Warfare In the Ameri-
can hemisphere division before
going over to the co-ordinator's
Office.
Miss Farber is a graduate of
Sarah Lawrence College and
while enrolled there she received
three successive scholarships for
meritorius work. She majored in
economics and languages and her
work included an intensive study
of Latin American history, poll
tics, economics and culture, an
other step toward complete un-
derstanding of the countries in
which she is so vitality interested.
One Of her projects at Sarah
Lawrence was to write thesis
on the industrialization of Ar
gentina, Brazil and Chile which
required a great deal of research
on her part. It's unnecessary to
say that it didn't come under the
heading of work for her.
Nor was her college career con-
fined to her studies. She was
president for two years Of the
Spanish Debate and Interna-
tional Relations Club and held
two editorships on the college
paper. Apparently all of this
wasn't enough, because she found
time to be the campus CORE
spondent for the Yonkers Herald
Statesman.
Aside from her research and
other studies, her life so far
she's in her 20s-has prepared
her for the work she's doing.
She has travelled widely abroad
with her mother and has lived in
Mexico, Spain and Italy. She is
quite linguist and has complete
command of Spanish and French
as well as knowing Portuguese,
italian and German. Her inter-
est in languages went even fur
ther than that because she stu
died Russian for six months.
Vivacious and having great
personality as we'll as beauty,
Miss Farber has a twinkle in her
eye that gives proof of a keen
sense of humor. She seems as
much South American as the
people In whom she is so inter-