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National Youth Administration Awards 76 Work ScholarshipsWill Work With Professors Under Eight General ClassificationsAwarding of 76 work scholarships to Union College undergraduates from National Youth Administration funds was announced today by Miss Frances Travis, director of Union’s student employment bureau and campus NYA director.Engaged under eight general classifications, the scholarship recipients will work with professors and administrative staff members to supplement their college education.One student, Richard W. Lent, will assist Codman Hislop of the English Department in research for a book to be published in the River Series of the Mohawk.Seven will be assistants to physical education professors in carrying out a special health program for all freshmen in addition to assist in swimming instruction and supervision of hygiene class attendance. They are William Sears, Bruno Schulze. Clifford Platt, Paul Myers, Walter Galuska, Abraham B. Dorsman, and Reginald Carroll. Professors J. Harold Wittner and Wilford Ketz will supervise these workers.Faculty AssistantsAnother group will receive office training with vaiious administrative offices and professors. Seymour Thickman will assist Dr. George H. Danton in the German department. Marvin Pelkonen will assist in the President’s office under Miss Lillian Applegarth. Seymour T. Pearlman will train under Miss Anna Mae Law in the student activities office while Richaid Buchanan and Robert McNulty will help in the admissions office unler Frederic A. Wyatt.Leon Levine will assist Dr. Ernest M. Ligon in psychological testing and scoring, Albert Kronick will work under Dr. David Morse in theh mathematics department and John Ford will do clerical woik for Dr. James Watt Mavor of the biology department. John Hockman and Sherwood Greiner will assist in the Dean’s Office under Mrs. Charlotte Rapalje.Mrs. Ernest Webster will continue training Stanley A. Davis in the Graduate Council while Donald R. Broekwell will assist social studies pi ofessors under the direction of Miss Anna Nardini. Edward Craig will assist Professor Bertrand Wainger and Herbert Bredemeiei will work with Professor Mortimer F. Sayre,Eleven youths will do shelving, marking and desk work in the college library and extend the special project if sorting little used books in the Old Chapel vault under the supervision of Kenneth C. Hayes, assistant librarian. They are: Robert D. Wortendyke, Richard K. Watanabe, Jason A. Tepper, James McNulty, John Lindeberg, Wilbur Lakin, William Kling, Leonard Genova, Harold Boroson, Kenneth Barnes and John J. Adamzevieh. Twenty-two boys will be engaged (Continued on Page 4)
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