PBH Collects Books, Clothing for Refugee Vietnamese Students

Books collected in the current PBH Book and Clothing Drive, extending through Friday, will go to refugee students in South Viet Nam, David C. Baum '56, co-chairman of the Phillips Brooks House Drive Committee, said yesterday.

Students of Hanoi University who have fled to Saigon will receive the textbooks given by students in the College and the graduate schools. "By giving books to those courageous people, opponents of both communism and colonialism, we are making a real contribution to international understanding," Baum added.

Besides textbooks, PBH is collecting magazines, records, and books of entertainment value for use in settlement houses and hospitals in Massachusetts. The clothing contributions will go to the Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham and to distributing stations in India, Indo-China, and Korea.

The campaign, organized on a House basis, is also conducted by the World Federalists, the Liberal Union, the Catholic Club, and the U.N. Council. "PBH will coordinate the drive and forward the books and clothing to their various destinations," Baum added.

Last spring the World University Service sent most of the books collected in a similar PBH drive to students of the University of Seoul and other Korean schools.