March 12, 1969

Mr. Lewis Jones
Department of State
Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Mr. Jones:

Nothing could please me more than that you are
satisfied with the list of proposed reading I sent
you for the seminar. I feel somewhat hippie about
it, but on the other hand there seems to be little
point in trying to reproduce an orthodox undergradu-
ate survey of recent American literature.

Do by all means disseminate the list in any way you
see fit. If it were actually to be printed I would
probably like to tidy up my note, but the informali-
ty is perhaps organically keyed to the spirit with
which it was drawn up. I leave on the 13th for a few
days in Lisbon and Madrid before going on to Switzer-
land for business there. I shall however be back in
my office on April 1st.

NHP/wh

May 13, 1969

Mr. Lewis Jones
Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy
Department of State
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Mr. Jones:

As may advances I am reminded of my visit to Washington for the
Senior Seminar on May 28th at 9:30 a.m. I still look forward very
much to meeting you and to be with the members of the Seminar for
the morning.

In an earlier letter you spoke of the possibility of reserving a
room for me and suggested a Holiday Inn which is close to the
Seminar. I should think this makes very good sense indeed and if
you could arrange for a reservation for me for the night of May 27th
I should be most grateful. In your letter of last January 24th you
spoke of the possibility of our lunching together afterwards, and
this would be very pleasant. I shall take a mid-afternoon shuttle
plane back to Laguardia. On the night of May 27th I shall probably
arrange to dine with one or another of my Washington friends.

Sincerely,

NHP/wh

Professor of English
and American Studies

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

# SENIOR SEMINAR IN FOREIGN POLICY

FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE
WASHINGTON

January 24, 1969

Professor Norman H. Pearson
2731 Hall of Graduate Studies
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Dear Professor Pearson:

This refers to our telephone conversation of January 22 in the course of which you agreed to talk informally to the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy, 9:30 a.m.-noon, on May 28, 1969. We did not discuss the rubric to be used: how about "Trends in American Literature Since the Mid-Forties"?

I enclose biographies of the 24 Members of the Seminar, basic information for speakers, an outline of the course and an illustrated brochure.

The Seminar is extremely informal. Our guest sits at the end of our conference table and talks for as long as he wishes to--usually about an hour. Thereafter, a lively question period begins.

Because the Members will be moving on to positions of greater responsibility both at home and abroad, I would like them to be updated regarding American literature just as they have been updated with regard to the latest in American painting, architecture and music. They should buy and carry to the field a small library, representative of recent American literature. I would like the Members (and their wives) to read as many of these books as they can between now and May 28.

I hope you will supply me in the near future an appropriate reading list, this showing the names of the publishers, prices, etc. Paperbacks are the easiest to ship and carry on trips.

If your bookstore at Yale handles mail orders and stocks the books on your list, the Members could place direct orders.

I hope you will include some poetry, or anthologies of poetry, on your list.

Foreign Service Institute

Department of State

1968-1969 Session
August 19, 1968 - June 13, 1969

## DESCRIPTION AND OUTLINE

### Objective and Scope

The Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy is the most advanced educational program in the field of international relations and foreign policy offered by the Department of State. Its purpose is to assist in the preparation of officers for positions of high responsibility. The Seminar provides an intellectual framework for a free and vigorous inquiry into some of the complexities of foreign policy and US domestic problems. It aims to broaden and deepen the thinking of its Members with regard to domestic and foreign affairs. It seeks to stimulate their creative powers and to enhance their capacity to make thoughtful judgments.

The Senior Seminar is a select group of about 25 officers from the principal agencies of the Government concerned with the conduct of US foreign relations. In the Seminar of 1967-68, thirteen were Foreign Service Officers of Classes 1 and 2. The remainder came from the following agencies: two from AID, two from USIA and one each from CIA, Commerce, Agriculture, Defense, USAF, USN, USA and the Marine Corps.

The Seminar requires the full time of its Members and lasts ten months.

### Plan of Study

The Seminar relies heavily on reading and research by the Members, stimulated by discussions with outstanding authorities in relevant fields. Guest speakers in the past have included Members of Congress, officials of the federal executive and of local governments, university professors, military leaders and experts in business, education, industry, labor, religion, arts, sciences and public affairs.

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Discussions, reading, documentary films, and oral and written reports are supplemented by individual and group attendance at meetings of professional associations and research organizations; by visits to the United Nations and to military and industrial installations. Field trips in the United States give the Members first-hand knowledge regarding some of the political, economic and social problems of various regions of the country. The Seminar of 1967-68 performed over 22,000 miles of group travel within the United States.

## Course Content

Because the average age of the Members is about 46 and their average length of government service is 22 years, the Seminar is able to range fast and far in its studies. It assumes, particularly in the field of foreign relations, that the Members already possess a considerable body of first-hand knowledge.

The Seminar begins with a series of organizational and introductory meetings. This is followed by a full week devoted to the history of the American people--social, economic, ethnic, political and diplomatic. This important series lays the foundation for studies to follow.

The Seminar attempts to expose its Members to the latest developments world-wide in science, arts, communications, space, atomic energy, industry, commerce, agriculture, labor, education, transportation, the communist threat and counterinsurgency, the poverty program, the Peace Corps, race relations, city-state-federal relationships, automation, computers, and systems and functional analysis. In doing so, it reminds the Members of much knowledge acquired in the past but about which they had not thought seriously for some time. The Seminar encourages copious reading and give-and-take discussion in both large and small groups. In the true Seminar tradition, Members are expected to impart knowledge as well as to acquire it.

To the extent possible speakers appearing at the Seminar are keyed to the Seminar's travel plans: thus the Seminar concentrates before visiting the United Nations on "International Relations: Institutions and Concepts." Before visiting military and naval establishments and before visiting industrial installations, the Members will have heard presentations by the Chiefs of Staff of the armed services, manpower experts, and distinguished economists in a position to deal with the military and economic power of the United States.

Experience has shown the desirability of avoiding overcompartmentalization of the study program.

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## Individual Travel and Case Studies

Approximately three weeks are provided-during February and March for Members to perform individual field travel in connection with research on foreign policy topics, or domestic issues, selected by them in consultation with the Seminar's Coordinator. Members are given considerable scope with regard to the subject of their Case Studies and the countries or places they wish to visit, but Members are counseled to explore topics and areas of the world wholly new to them. On returning from individual travel, Members are required to make a formal oral presentation to the Seminar and to lead a round-table discussion of their topic. The Coordinator on these occasions usually invites special guests and alumni. The 1967-68 Seminar confined its travel to the USA because of the balance of payments problem.

## The Seminar's Corporate Character

Past Seminars have demonstrated that individual Members can contribute greatly to the Seminar's activities through personal contacts and specialized knowledge: thus an effort is made to avoid rigidity in scheduling events.

## Ambassador-of-the-Week Program

When the Seminar is in Washington, certain American Ambassadors returning for consultation and/or leave are invited to speak; certain Ambassadors of foreign countries located in Washington are similarly invited to make presentations, when their areas are being studies. In each instance, time is provided for Members' questions.

THE SENIOR SEMINAR IN FOREIGN POLICY
1968-69 Session

Study Trip IX

May 18-25, 1969

Sunday, May 18

8:00 a.m. - Depart FSI in chartered bus for Dulles Airport

9:15 a.m. - Depart Dulles - AA 77.

11:34 a.m. - Arrive Los Angeles. Proceed by chartered bus (Embree Buses, Inc.) to Sheraton-West Hotel, 2961 Wilshire Blvd. at Commonwealth Avenue. Telephone: 213-382-7171. Rates: $12 single, $17 twin.

- Afternoon and evening free.

Monday, May 19

8:40 a.m. - Board bus.

9:00 a.m. - Arrive office of Sheriff of Los Angeles County, Peter J. Pitchess. Briefings and discussion by Sheriff and staff. Project Officer: Inspector William J. Anthony.

about 11:40 a.m. - Board bus.

12:00 noon - Arrive Los Angeles County Jail for no-host lunch.

about 1:00 p.m. - Depart by chartered bus for *Los Angeles Times*.

1:30 p.m. - Arrive *Los Angeles Times*, Times-Mirror Square, for briefing by Mr. Nick B. Williams, Editor, and staff, including Otis Chandler, Publisher, who will welcome Members. Also present: Frank Haven, Managing Editor; James Bassett, Director of Editorial Pages; William Thomas, Metropolitan Editor; Harry Bernstein, Labor Editor; Jack Jones, Special Reporter of news from depressed areas.

3:00 p.m. - Leave *Los Angeles Times* building by bus for tour of problem areas of Los Angeles.

about 5:30 p.m. - Return to Sheraton-West Hotel.

8:00 p.m. - Midnight - Optional ride-alongs with Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies arranged by Sheriff Pitchess.

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Tuesday, May 20

8:00 a.m. - Check out of Hotel; load baggage in bus.

8:15 a.m. - Bus leaves Sheraton-West Hotel for UCLA.

9:00 a.m. - Arrive UCLA at city bus terminus in vicinity of Hilgard Avenue and Westholm Street, near Strathmore Drive. Mrs. Yolanda Hagelberg, Visitors Program Assistant, and Mrs. Maria Wrigley will meet and escort Seminar to Murphy Hall, Room 2138.

9:10 a.m. - Coffee reception and discussion. Chancellor Charles E. Young, host; Vice Chancellor Paul O. Proehl, presiding.

11:00 a.m. - Campus tour: Ethnic Art Gallery; Observation Deck; University Research Library; Sculpture Court.

11:40 a.m. - Bus tour and lunch at Reiber Residence Hall with students.

12:45 p.m. - Bus departs UCLA.

1:30 p.m. - Tour of Universal City Studios and discussion with motion picture technicians. This will supplement a presentation in Washington regarding the industry by Mr. Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America.

4:45 p.m. - Leave Universal City for Los Angeles International Airport.

5:45 p.m. - Arrive Airport.

6:15 p.m. - Depart for San Francisco - UA 530.

7:10 p.m. - Arrive San Francisco. Depart by chartered bus for Marines' Memorial Club, 609 Sutter Street, telephone: 415-673-6672. Bus arrangements made by Mr. Philip M. Creighton, Director, San Francisco Field Office, US Department of Commerce, with California Sightseeing Tours, Inc. (Mr. John Rix, Charter Manager).

about 8:30 p.m. - Check into Marines' Memorial. Rates: single $7 to $10 plus 10% for non-members; twins $10 to $15 plus 10% for non-members.

- Evening Free.

Suggested Reading List

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Nabokov, Vladimir *Pale Fire* (1962) Lancer (75-009) .95
An intellectual's detective story of himself. *Speak, Memory*, his highly readable volume of memoirs, (Pyramid N2305; .95), is recommended as background for *Pale Fire*. Russian born, naturalized American, who is generally regarded as one of the finest modern novelists and studied abroad as part of American literature.

Oates, Joyce Carol *Them* (1969). Fawcett Crest (P1467) 1.25
National Book Award. "I am concerned with only one thing," says Joyce Carol Oates, "the moral and social conditions of my generation."

Pynchon, Thomas *V* (1963) Bantam (QY 4203) 1.25
Important example of black humor.

Roth, Philip *Portnoy's Complaint* (1969) Bantam T4899 1.50
Prime example of ethnic writing, significant rather than salacious.

Updike, John *Rabbit, Run* (1960) M1430, Crest Fawcett World .95
The anti-hero who is also the seeker.

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. *Cat's Cradle* (1963). Dell 1149 .95
Science fiction and black humor by one of those most admired and read by the young.

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. *Slaughterhouse-Five*, or a *Children's Crusade* (1969) Delta 1.95
The war remembered. Stalking of a nation remembered.

## Non-fiction

Baldwin, James *The Fire Next Time* (1963). Dell (2542) .50
Powerful non-fiction on Black Power.

Brown, Claud *Manchild in the Promised Land* (1965) Signet (Q2938) .95
Much admired account of a boyhood in Harlem.

Lewis, Oscar *The Children of Sanchez* (1961). Vintage Giant (V 280) 2.95
Autobiography of a Mexican family.

McLuhan, Marshall *Understanding Media* (1964) Signet Q3039 .95
The "revolution" in communication.

Mailer, Norman *Armies of the Night* (1968) Signet (Y3712) 1.25
An example of novelistic journalism. The march on the Pentagon.

Malcolm X *Autobiography of Malcolm X* (1964) Grove (B 146) 1.25
A classic account of Black experience.

Thomas, Piri *Down These Mean Streets* (1967) Signet Y 4532 1.25
An autobiographical account of Spanish Harlem.

Wolfe, Tom *The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test* (1968) Bantam (Q4717) 1.25
An account of Ken Keysey and his California drug-hippy culture.

To be read with *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*.

October 5, 1971

Ambassador Elbert G. Mathews, Coordinator
Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy
Foreign Service Institute
Washington, D. C. 20520

Dear Ambassador Mathews:

I ought long since to have acknowledged your kind
note about the Seminar meeting in Washington, and
now I have the extra gratitude to you for sending
me this year's Seminar photograph. I must say, we
all seem to be in good spirits and I hope the same
was as true after the meeting as before it. I
have enjoyed immensely the chance to meet with the
members of the Seminar, including yourself, and am
thankful for the honor of having been asked.

With all best wishes as always,

Sincerely,

NHP/wh

## "American Writing in the Sixties"

### Suggested Reading List

#### Drama

Albee, E. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962) PB (75149) .75
The most influential American drama of the 1960's.

#### Poetry

Berryman, John Dream Songs Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN-0-374-62925-0 2.95
Sequence of free-wheeling sonnets in modern mode.

Jones, LeRoi Black Magic: Poetry 1961-1967 (1969) Bobbs Merrill, paperback 3.95

Lowell, Robert Notebook 1967-68 (1969) Noonday 402 2.25
Poems on the year of the Pentagon. To be read in conjunction with Mailer.

Pearson, Norman Holmes, ed. Decade (1969) Wesleyan paperback. Poetry/607 2.45
A collection of poems from the first ten years of the Wesleyan Poetry Program.

Snyder, Gary The Back Country (1968) NDP249 1.25
Poems of the American Far West and of the Asian Far East, much in vogue with younger generations.

#### Fiction

Barth, John The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) Bantam 04692 1.25
Highly regarded by intellectuals as a black humorist.

Bellow, Saul Herzog (1964) Crest (M868) .95
One of the admired and prize-winning novels by the present champion prize-winner.

Brautigan, Richard Trout Fishing in America (1967) Delta 440-09126 1.95
A light-heartedly serious dream of a new America.

Burroughs, William Naked Lunch (1959) Grove BC-115 1.25
The Soft Machine (1961,1966) Grove BC-131 .95
Nova Express (1964) Grove BC-102 .95
Influentially experimental in form. A trilogy combining the horrors of addiction with science fiction.

Heinlein, Robert Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) Berkeley Medallion Z1756 1.25
Science fiction of a Utopian nature, on which Manson based his infamous commune.

Heller, Joseph Catch-22 (1961) Dell (1120) .95
A contemporary "bible" for the young, and black humor approach to war.

Herbert, Frank Dune (1965) Ace 17261 1.25
Science fiction of a high order.

Keysey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) Signet .95
The most recent "bible", and perhaps the funniest among black humor.

Knowles, John A Separate Peace (1960) Bantam 3210 .75
Much read novel of youthful estrangement.

Marshall, Paule Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) Avon N 315 .95
A novel by perhaps the best of Black women writers.

Miller, Henry. The Tropic of Cancer (N.Y. 1961) Grove BD-10 .95
Subject of censorship trials, and a "philosophical" romp with sex.

Momaday, N. Scott House Made of Dawn Signet Q4065 .95
Pulitzer prize-winning novel on the Indian.

Suggested Reading List

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Nabokov, Vladimir Pale Fire (1962) Lancer (75-009) .95

An intellectual's detective story of himself. Speak Memory, his highly readable volume of memoirs, (Pyramid N2305; .95), is recommended as background for Pale Fire. Russian born, naturalized American, who is generally regarded as one of the finest modern novelists and studied abroad as part of American literature.

Oates, Joyce Carol Them (1969). Fawcett Crest (P1467) 1.25

Pynchon, Thomas V (1963) Bantam (QY 4203) 1.25

Roth, Philip Portnoy's Complaint (1969) Bantam T4899 1.50

Updike, John Rabbit, Run (1960) M1430, Crest Fawcett World .95

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Cat's Cradle (1963). Dell 1149 .95

Vonnegut, Kurt. Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five, or a Children's Crusade (1969) Delta 1.95
The war remembered.

Non-fiction

Baldwin, James The Fire Next Time (1963). Dell (2542) .50

Brown, Claud Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) Signet (Q2938) .95

Lewis, Oscar The Children of Sanchez (1961). Vintage Giant (V 280) 2.95
Autobiography of a Mexican family.

McLuhan, Marshall Understanding Media (1964) Signet Q3039 .95

Mailer, Norman The Armies of the Night (1968) Signet (Y3712) 1.25

Malcolm X Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964) Grove (B 146) 1.25

Thomas, Piri Down These Mean Streets (1967) Signet Y 4532 1.25

Wolfe, Tom The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) Bantam (Q4717) 1.25

To be read with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

A PRACTICAL LIST OF SUGGESTED READING

(All books are paperback unless noted)

Poetry

Ginsberg, Allen Howl 1956, City Lights
Ginsberg, Allen Kaddish 1961, City Lights
Lowell, Robert Life Studies 1960, Noonday
Snyder, Gary Earth House Hold 1969, New Directions
Warren, Robert Penn Audubon: a Vision 1969, Random House - hardcover -
Wilbur, Richard Walking to Sleep 1969, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich
- hardcover -

General Fiction

Barth, John The Sot-Weed Factor 1960, 1967, Grosset & Dunlap
Hawkes, John The Lime Twig 1961, New Directions
Kerouac, Jack On the Road 1959, Signet NAL
Kerouac, Jack The Dharma Bums 1958, Signet NAL
Keysey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1962, Signet NAL
Keysey, Ken Sometimes a Great Notion 1964, Bantam
Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita 1957, Berkeley
Nabokov, Vladimir Pale Fire 1967, Berkeley
Oates, Joyce Carol Them 1969, Fawcett Crest
Olson, Tillie Tell Me a Riddle 1961, Delta-Seymour Lawrence (1971)
Wilder, Thornton Theophilus North 1973, Harper & Row hardcover

New Journalism

Brown, Claude Manchild in the Promised Land 1965, Signet
Mailer, Norman The Armies of the Night 1968, Signet
Wolfe, Tom The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 1968, Bantam

Science Fiction

Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land 1961, Berkeley Medallion
Herbert, Frank Dune 1965, Ace Book
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five 1969, Delta
Vonnegut, Kurt Cat's Cradle 1963, Dell

Ethnic Writing

Jewish

Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March 1953, Compass
Bellow, Saul Herzog 1964, Viking
Malamud, Bernard The Assistant 1957, Signet
Roth, Philip Portnoy's Complaint 1962, Bantam Books

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## Ethnic Writing, cont'd

### Black

Ellison, Ralph

Kelley, Wm Melvin

Marshall, Paule

Reed, Ishmael

Invisible Man 1952, Signet

A Different Drummer

Brown Girl, Brownstones

Mumbo, Jumbo

1962, Doubleday Anchor

1959, Avon

Bantam

### Japanese-American

Mori, Toshio

Okada, John

Yokahama, California

No-No Boy

1949, Caxton Printers- hardcover -

1957, Tokyo, Rutland Vt. C. E. Tuttle Co.

### American Indian

Deloria, Vine, Jr.

Momaday, N. Scott

Custer Died for Your Sins: an Indian Manifesto

House Made of Dawn

1968, New American Library

1969, Avon

## Critical Surveys

Olderman, Raymond

Tanner, Tony

Beyond the Waste Land: The American Novel in the
Nineteen-Sixties 1972, Yale Press

City of Words: American Fiction

1971, Harper & Row,

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Office of the Chairman

The Board of Foreign
Scholarships

DEPARTMENT OF STATE · WASHINGTON D. C.

August 2, 1966

Dr. Norman H. Pearson
Chairman, American Studies
231 Hall of Graduate Studies
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Dear Dr. Pearson:

I was personally pleased to learn that you will be able to attend the symposium at Columbia, September 8-10, remembering with fondness our meetings in Tokyo. As Lewis Carroll once put it, things get "curiouser and curiouser" in this country. While I find that I can make air reservations from New Haven to New York here in Washington, I am having insurmountable difficulties making rail reservations. I see two alternatives. Either to provide you with air tickets, or--probably better-- ask you to purchase your own rail tickets and to drop me a note giving me the cost. On your arrival at Columbia, you will be presented with an envelope containing the rail fare and taxi fare as reimbursement. Please do drop me a note telling me your preference.

I look forward to seeing you at Columbia. Meantime, I am enclosing an information sheet outlining the program and some of the administrative details.

Enclosure:
Information Sheet

Office of the Chairman

# The Board of Foreign Scholarships

DEPARTMENT OF STATE · WASHINGTON D.C.

The schedule for the symposium on international education at Columbia University and the events surrounding it will be as follows:

<table><thead><tr><th>TIME</th><th>ACTIVITY</th><th>PLACE</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><strong>Thursday, September 8</strong></td></tr><tr><td>12:00 noon-5:00 p.m.</td><td>Arrival of participants and registration</td><td>Carman Hall</td></tr><tr><td>6:00 p.m.--7:00 p.m.</td><td>Reception</td><td>Hewitt Lounge</td></tr><tr><td>7:00 p.m.</td><td>Dinner</td><td>Wollman Auditorium</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><strong>Friday, September 9</strong></td></tr><tr><td>7:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m.</td><td>Breakfast</td><td>Lion's Den</td></tr><tr><td>9:00-10:15</td><td>First Session<br>1st Speaker: Dr. Charles Frankel<br>2nd Speaker: Dr. Oscar Handlin</td><td>Wollman Auditorium</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><strong>DISCUSSION</strong></td></tr><tr><td>10:15-10:30</td><td>Coffee Break</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>10:30-12:00</td><td>DISCUSSION cont'd</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>12:30</td><td>Luncheon</td><td>Lion's Den</td></tr><tr><td>2:00-3:15</td><td>Second Session<br>1st Speaker: Dr. Caryl P. Haskins<br>2nd Speaker: Mr. Howard Taubman</td><td>Wollman Auditorium</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><strong>DISCUSSION</strong></td></tr><tr><td>3:15-3:30</td><td>Refreshment</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>3:30-5:00</td><td>DISCUSSION cont'd</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>6:00</td><td>Cocktails</td><td>Dodge Lounge</td></tr><tr><td>7:00</td><td>Dinner</td><td>Lion's Den</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><strong>Saturday, September 10</strong></td></tr><tr><td>7:30-8:45</td><td>Breakfast</td><td>Lion's Den</td></tr><tr><td>9:00-10:15</td><td>Third Session<br>Speaker: Dr. Frederick P. Harbison</td><td>Wollman Auditorium</td></tr><tr><td>10:15-10:30</td><td>Coffee Break</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>10:30-Noon</td><td>Summary Discussions</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

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It will be noted that the above schedule is tight. Accordingly, it is
utterly important that participants be at the various places on time.

## TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS

### For Out-of-Towners

Participants who are traveling to New York for the symposium are being provided with travel tickets by air, rail, or bus, in accordance with their preferences as indicated earlier. Those traveling from out-of-town will be provided with taxi fares on arrival at Carman Hall on September 8. When traveling by taxi to Columbia University, please advise the taxi driver to take you to West 114th Street and Broadway. The entrance to Carman Hall is easily identified. It is just inside the first gate on the left as you proceed up 114th Street from Broadway. (114th Street is a one-way street; the taxi can only go in one direction.) Bell boys will be available at the gate to help you to the reception desk inside Carman Hall and to your room.

Travelers are being ticketed to arrive in New York as close as possible to 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 8. Return travel is being ticketed for departure as close as possible to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 10. Should you, for personal reasons, wish either to arrive in New York earlier or leave New York later, please make your own changes of reservation. The staff at the reception desk will not have the facilities for making travel arrangements for participants. It is urgent that the tickets for travel be returned as soon as possible in the event of cancellation.

### For New Yorkers

New Yorkers traveling by subway or taxi should plan to register between 4:00 and 5:00 at the Carman Hall reception desk. New Yorkers who desire to have breakfast with the other participants are welcome, provided they notify me prior to September 1. It will be assumed otherwise that New Yorkers will attend only the lunches and dinners provided.

## HOUSING

In the earlier communication, participants were offered the option of staying at the Columbia dormitories or making their own arrangements. In view of the tightness of the schedule, it is strongly recommended that the dormitories be used. Participants also may wish to retire to their rooms before meals. If you elected to make your own lodging arrangements and wish now to change, please let me know as soon as possible. In any case, available funds will only permit an allowance of $10 per night for those who do not use the Columbia dormitories.

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DRESS

There will be no occasion for formal dress. Business suits or cocktail dresses will be appropriate for receptions and dinners.

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS

As presently envisaged, the symposium will open at 9:00 a.m. on September 9 in Wollman auditorium with the presentation by Dr. Charles Frankel, both as Assistant Secretary of State and as a philosopher. His presentation will be followed immediately by that of Dr. Oscar Handlin, as Chairman of the Board of Foreign Scholarships and as a historian. The remainder of the morning will be devoted to a free exchange of ideas between the discussants and the panelists. After lunch, the same procedures will be used for the presentations by Dr. Haskins and Mr. Taubman, with discussion continuing through to the close of the first day. On the morning of September 10, Dr. Harbison will make his presentation, following the same format, with the discussions lasting until the coffee break at 10:15. After the coffee break, summary discussions will be held until noon and adjournment.

The proceedings will be recorded and published subsequently. Discussants, therefore, may be well advised to prepare statements in advance. In view of the shortage of time, however, the moderator may find it necessary to limit discussion. Accordingly, provisions are being made for written presentations by the discussants to be submitted for the record, if they so desire.

Useful in preparing for these discussions is INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM, 1966, published by Education and World Affairs. Supplementary documents are: H. R. 14643, 89th Congress 2d Session (The International Education Act, June 7, 1966) and the Report on the International Education Act, House Report No. 1539 of May 17, 1966. Copies are enclosed for your information.

If you have any questions or special requests, please don't hesitate to write me.

Sincerely yours,

Leon Picon
Symposium Coordinator

From: The Board of Foreign Scholarships
Department of State
Washington, D. C.

Mr. Oscar Handlin, Chairman

Professor Norman Holmes Pearson

Chairman of American Studies Program

231 Hall of Graduate Studies, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut 06520

July 11, 1966

To: Leon Picon, Symposium Coordinator

1. I shall be able to attend the symposium at Columbia University September 8 - 10, 1966

A. I shall require transportation (rail) from New Haven, Conn.

1. I shall make my own lodging arrangements.

/s/ NHP

Office of the Chairman

Dear Mr. Pearson:

June 14, 1966

The Board of Foreign Scholarships takes pleasure in inviting you to partic-
ipate as a discussant in the major event of this year marking the Twentieth
Anniversary of the world-wide programs of educational and cultural exchange
begun under the Fulbright Act of 1946.

The Board has felt that these two decades of constantly accelerated involvement in international education have contributed substantially to understanding among the nations of the world. Coupled with the incidence of this anniversary, the positive new initiatives in international education that have been proposed by the President to the Congress make this year one of signal importance to the cultural and educational community. These events and the dynamics of our times make this a most appropriate time for a thoughtful and penetrating analysis of the implications of this expansion. Such an analysis will require the best forward thinking of American and foreign educational and cultural leaders. To this end, the Board, with the assistance of the Hazen and Johnson Foundations and Education and World Affairs, has decided to hold a symposium on the subject of "Diversity and Interdependence Through International Education" at Columbia University, September 8-10, 1966, to explore the future directions that international educational programs should take.

The Board hopes that this symposium, and the publications that will ensue from it, can contribute to a wider and deeper understanding of the significance international educational exchange has assumed in the last two decades. For that reason, we would value the insights and experience which you would bring to these discussions. I urge you to attend.

As a discussant at the symposium your expenses for travel, meals, and lodging will be provided. Details regarding the substance and administration of the symposium will be sent to you later. At this juncture, however, it is urgent that we know whether or not you will be able to attend. For your further information, panelists who have accepted to join with me in leading the discussions are: Dr. Caryl P. Haskins, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Dr. Charles Frankel, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs; Dr. Frederick P. Harbison, Director, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University; and Mr. Howard Taubman of the NEW YORK TIMES.