55 Students Will Spend Summer 'Experimenting' in Homes Abroad

Students from Harvard and Radcliffe will outnumber those from any other college traveling abroad with the Experiment in International Living this summer, Robert D. Gamble '60, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Experimenters, announced yesterday.

The 14 Harvard and 24 Radcliffe partcipants and the 11 group leaders from the graduate schools will travel to 17 of the 30 countries in which the Experiment operates, Gamble said. They will spend the first half of the summer living with families, and then travel around the country in the company of their foreign "brothers" and "sisters."

France leads the list of countries to be visited, with eight Experimenters and four leaders from Harvard and Radcliffe. Six Experimenters and three leaders will go to Germany and 11 Experimenters will be in other Western European countries.

Students 'Pioneer'

Almost a third of the University's Experimenters will go to the Experiment's "pioneer" countries. Four students will be in the Yugoslavian group, led by a Harvard-Radcliffe couple, Stephen Anderson 3G and Margaret Bennet Anderson '59. Four others will travel to Japan.

Only one Harvard student, Robert H. Socolow '59, will be in this year's group to the Soviet Union, but Gamble noted that the Experiment had consciously tried to limit the proportion of Harvard men in the group. Like most of the other members of this summer's group, Socolow is able to speak good Russian.

In its negotiations with the Soviets, the Experiment has been unable to win approval for a family stay, the heart of its program in all other countries. However, this year, the substitute, a stay in a student sports camp, has been greatly expanded.

Among other Experimenters to "pioneer" countries, Michael A. Curran '60 will be a member of the Experiment's first group to Cracow, Poland, and Thankful D. Bailey '61 will be the first Radcliffe Experimenter to travel to Nigeria. The Experiment awarded a Stettenheim scholarship to John Cherubini '60 for his trip to Italy.