First English JFK Fellow Arrives Without Fanfare to Study for M.A.T.

No red carpet at Logan, no official welcoming committee, no exploding flash-bulbs greeted a thin 31-year-old Scotsman named Hugh Hunter when he came to Harvard from Cambridge University ten days ago as the first recipient of the John F. Kennedy Fellowship.

Everything to do with Hunter's arrival--for a year's study under the Master of Arts in Teaching program--sounds like a rush job. The fellowship which brought him here is in effect a forerunner of the much more widely publicized Kennedy Fellowships which will bring ten British students a year to Harvard, Radcliffe, and M.I.T. beginning next fall.

The money for Hunter's scholarship was contributed by British university students to the National Union of Students. The two thousand pounds collected will be enough to send one more student to Harvard next year.

The national Kennedy Fellowship fund drive, however, is still in progress under the direction of the Lord Mayor of London. Money is being collected throughout Britain and, once established, the fund will continue to provide ten scholarships a year indefinitely.

Applications for the National Union of Students scholarship were due last February. The scholarship had been announced only a few weeks before the deadline and "most people had already made their plans for this year by then," Hunter speculated this week.

Hunter had no definite plans beyond his graduation from Cambridge in June with a B.A. in history. "The scholarship sounded perfect," he said. "I'd been wanting to get to the States for years." He did not learn until recently that he was the only applicant.

Hunter seems relieved by the absence of publicity about his arrival. He will supplement the M.A.T. work with some government courses and hopes to start teaching in a British secondary school next year.

He will travel extensively during vacations, with one definite stop in Washington on invitation from Robert Kennedy. "Everything is wonderful so far," Hunter said last night in the tiny room he found after "prowling the streets" for an apartment the night of his arrival. "I'm just glad I'm here."