Milford chronicle., 1961-06-02
University News


Residents of the city of Newark
have a rare opportunity TO demon
strate to students and visitors the
ideals for which our country stands
Foreign nationals are frequent
visitors to the campus of the Uni
versity of Delaware and in the
past year alone. students from 80
countries were year-round resi-
dents of the community. Many of
these young people will return to
their homelands 10 become leaders
in education, business and govern
ment. Some OF them already are
important persons. having been sell
ected for advanced education on
the basis of unusual capabilities,
and demonstrated performance.
Their experiences in the COM
munity in stores and barber shops
and eating places may be more inn
pOrtant in moulding their opinions
of America and Americans than the
formal instruction they receive in
the classroom.
Every citizen has a stake in pre-
senting the American image TO
these foreign visitors. Their prob
lens in adapting TO our academic
traditions, while frequently very
great, are not nearly so difficult
as personal adjustment TO an en-
tirely new way of life in a coun-
try different from their own.
Statistics compiled by the In
stitute for International Education
for the year 1959-60 reveal that
there were 4S.4S6 foreign students
from 141 countries and political
areas enrolled in LIP colleges and
universities in the United States.
BY far the greatest number of these
students came from the Far East.
Next came Latin America, Europe.
the Middle East, North America and
Africa. The greatest number of
foreign students came from Canada
China, India, Iran and Korea
Although the number of foreign
students in the undergraduate and
graduate ranks at the University
OF Delaware is less than 20, the
geographic representation is extre-
mely diversified. There are on cam
pus at present nationals from Bel
GUM, Canada, Ceylon, Chile, China,
Colombia, Cuba, Denmark. Domini-
can Republic. Egypt, Germany.
Great Britain, Greece, Hungary.
Iceland, India. IndOnesia, Iran, Ire
land. Israel, Italy. Japan. Korea,
Latvia, Malaga, Mexico, Morocco,
The Netherlands. Nicaragua, Peru,
Sweden, South Africa, Thailand,
Venezuela and Vietnam.
One of the most interesting of
the foreign student programs at the
University of Delaware is sponsor
ed by the Brittingham family of
Centerville, which brings students
principally from Scandinavian eou-
ntries to Delaware as Brittingham
International Scholars. This year
there are four: Jens Eriksen, Den
mark; Eidur GudnasOn, Iceland;
Marianne Sandels, Sweden; and,
Friedrich Schilly, Germany.
The positive effects of bringing
these students to America are i'm
possible to measure. Recently. Carl
Olaf Homen, a young man from
Finland who spent a year at Del
aware wrote to his friends at the !
university:
The Christmas vacation. like the
whole year / spent i'm your won
derful country, made a deep and
lasting impression upon me. A very
nice duty during the fall has been 4
to talk to all kinds of groups and 1
TO write TO different magazines /
and newspapers about my Impress
ions of America. In this way !
hope to contribute to one of the |
aims of the Birmingham Scholar |
ship Program, TO spread knowledge
of America in all parts of Scan
dinavia."
The entire Newark community
can share in the satisfaction of. |
helping to favOrably influence this |
young man as a foreign ambassa- |
dor for our country. But all of the J
young people who come to Della !
ware from abroad do not have the |
same advantages. Some of them do !
not speak English we'll, although /,
they may read it fluently. Some |
have different customs, manners or
ways of dress which clearly diff /
erentiate them from American stu |
dents. others may look like the boy |
or girl next door.
The university is making every |
effort to provide adequate COUNSEL
ing, proper instruction and a happy I
home for its foreign students. Resi- l
dents of the Newark community /
can help in this important job in /
international relations.
How does the placement office
at the University of Delaware train /
its students in the proper manner
TO conduct themselves during in /
terviews" a Delaware senior was 1
recently asked by prospective /
Considered as group" the en-
ployer continued, the students
from your small university stand
head and shoulders above any 9th
er college or university seniors /
whom we have invited here in this
respect"
University officials believe that,
the success of Delaware students
in placement interviews reflects not
only the wise counsel of Mrs. Ger
aldine NJ Wyatt, director of the
placement office. but the well roun-
ded education which students re-
ceive during their four years at
the university.
President John A. Perkins recen-
tly described the objectives of the
university for it's students as three
fold: to have them grow in know