Evening star., 1961-09-17
Area Colleges
See $1,000
Enrolment
BY DAVID BREASTED
Star staff Writer

euTOllm6QG at Is universities
and colleges in the Washington
area.
Registrars and deans, casting
about for places to put every
body, report openings all filled
and an expected student popu-
lation of more than $4,000.
This foreseeable high pres
ages the huge expected influx
from the postwar baby boom
which college officials are brac-
ing themselves for in the next
few years.
No Empty Benches
II can guarantee you one
thing-there'll be no empty
benches" said a spokesman for
Georgetown University, where
6.700 students are expected, and
classes begin tomorrow.
They're practically falling out
the windows" joked an official
at American University, where
housing aides have been calling
up neighbors to find room for
students.
To help ease the housing
pinch, Georgetown has an
apartment house in Arlington
for $50 men, and another, Hayl-
con House. near the university
has apartments for 54 women
students.
New DOrmit0rieS Built
George Washington Univer-
sity, another entry in the apart
ment house field, has an eight
floor unit that will house $50 to
200 men.
The University of Maryland
and Catholic University this
year will have available the
most extensive. and expensive
efforts of the past year to meet
demands for housing and class
rooms.
At Maryland. a 4,755, 900
high-rise dormitory and din
ing hall complex called Center
VILE" is designed to accomo-
date 500 men and women stu
dents.
Gus 81 Million Program
The building group includes
four dormitories, including one
five-floor unit for women. The
university will also have use
of a new $440, 900 foreign Ian
guage center. Even with the
new dorms, however, the hous-
ing headache remains and trail
er dormitories are still in use,
according to a university
spokesman.
A 81 million construction pro-
gram at Catholic University has
put six new buildings on the
campus map this year. Major
unit is a SIS million engineer
ing and architecture center,
partially opened last Spring,
which will help meet a sharp
increase Ill students in all fields
Of engineering.
Five other students modern
design units include a biology
center, a building for expanded
nursing teaching, two residence
halls for women and one for
men.
Among new programs in the
area is American University's
center for diplomacy and for
eign policy. headed by retired
Undersecretary Of State 10y
Henderson.
Howard University, where
Secretary of Labor Goldberg
will address the official opening
ceremonies tomorrow, has a new
course in foreign mission work
in the School of Religion. The
course is intended to mesh with
Peace Corps efforts, a spokes-
man said.
Junior College Enrolment Up
One significant trend in en-
rollment figures is a large Jump
in admissions at Prince Georges
Community College and Mont
gomery County Junior College.
The Prince Georges Junior
College, which is shopping for
a site to replace it's present
quarters at Suitland High
School, has 498 students, 143
above last years figures.
President Robert T. Novak
the school is getting
more and more June high
school graduates instead of
adults. High school seniors are
beginning to realize that while
a future without a college edu-
cation is not exactly bleak,
they won't be getting where
they want to CO."
He said that the junior COL
leges are transferring to four
year schools students who
would have never gone to COL
lege if they had not tried jun
ior college.
The Montgomery County
school reported enrolment up
25 per cent which an official
termed mot altogether fore
SEEN"
Gallaudet College is showing
off a $1,127,00O replacement for
its Kendall School, which will
include housing, dining and
classroom facilities. The college
for the deaf also has a new
s775,000 auditorium especially
designed for deaf actors and
audiences.
George Washington Univer-
Sity will offer for the first time