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Officials Discuss NASA Programs for Educationb duration policies and program- of the NASA were then iin tonics of discussion at a '■•'cent me ting held at the t Hby the ngine*T; DepartmentAc in hose tttenxl 1 n#_ were ■ F V niler, dean of the C il er, 51 “‘ lt;' fcngmeering,Truce Stoughton, enpineer-r u pr u s r; Stuart H ( iarke. urector • industrial relations f.r the Manned SpacecraftC nter f NASA; Jack Lister, cirecti • f employee relations;aid otia-r -nmneering faculty members.The Sr ace Task Group of tne National Aeronautics andSpace Administration will useUH as their main co-op school. said Stoughton. I have just r e c e i v e d alerteriron: lister a c c e p t i n g Thomas Cobb, Darwin Lari Crawford, I. T. Fdee, William Charles Staggmid I'hou as nirman '■mancliff, Stoughto; said Thursday.bb, .'rnwti rd and Stagg are s 'ho res. Fdge is a junior. Staneliif is presently enrolled in I a ■ ar ' ec . will transfer to the nversit. at the beginning of the spring semester.All of these boys are electrical . . a. o ri g majors but the space t nter also wants m a j or s in i; e ham. a. engineering, chemi-al engineering, civil engineering, physics and mathematics, Stoughton said.The space center here will have ' o-opcrative work-study programs with schools such as Georgia Tech, Drexel Institute, Virginia Poly-tto hnical Instit rtt and Southern Vet! odist niversity bar will draw their balk of students from the diversity.I he students already accepted will begin working in February at the space center's temporary facilities.These five will require five additional partners in June and it is meiily probable that additional pa rs fromou- university also will be started then, said Stoughton.Students working at the center will perform1 a variety of duties s eh as working with designs and systems of aerospace technology.i^n the more glamorous side will be the association with such men as Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom John Glenn and a new class of astronauts currently being recruited.The pay schedule will increase with completion of each a*, aden.ie year.They will be eligible for group life and health insurance and the Civil Service Retirement Program.’ pon graduation, students will be offered positions in desig :., development and research m aerospace technology fields.Graduate study at an approved school will be available with all expenses, except books, covered by the Space Task Group.Graduate st .dents will be salaried durum their studies. Allstudc its wil 1 be hired thro .gh - lt;it *stu edu-eati u prograii and anyone interested should v o tai t n e, Stoughtonsaid. His extension is 453.I ------ -
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