Funds Short for Project Tanganyika; PBH Hunts Rich Foundation, Donors

With $4500 received so far, Project Tanganyika is still far short of the $30,000 needed by this summer to send ten undergraduates to Africa next year. Project director Walter W. Harp '64 is confident that the goal will be reached, however.

A grant of $10,000 is expected from a major foundation, but has not yet been cleared. "We are also waiting on a couple of people who may contribute a total of $7500," Harp said.

The rest of the money will probably come from smaller private donations, as has the money already received. "It will be very close," Harp said. "What we really hope for is a kind philanthropist who can solve it all." Last year the Project received a large hunk of their total the day before the plane left for Africa.

"If we don't get the money," Harp said, "we will have to reduce the number of people who go. This will leave a couple of jobs in Tanganyika unfilled."

Undergraduates are selected for the project by those who have just returned from a year in Tanganyika. Those selected are responsible for raising the money, and obtain their jobs on their own through the students who are now working in Africa.

The ten undergraduates selected for the project have been studying Swahili and the "direct method" of English teaching developed by Miss Christine M. Gibson, lecturer on Education, and I.A. Richards, University Professor, Emeritus, at the University's Language Research Institute.

They have also taken a medical orientation course conducted by the University Health Center.