December 14, 1960
The editors of The Miscellany News came out strongly for the proposed Youth Peace Corps service program, which would send young Americans into undereloped nations of the world as teachers, social workers, doctors and technical advisors, to fight poverty, illiteracy and disease. An alumna of the 1930s wrote a classmate: “Can it be that here at last is that something which will ‘engage’ this generation as settlements and suffrage moved Mother’s and ‘one third of a nation’ ours!” MS letter