OGCP Creates London Office To Advise Students on Leaves

The Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (formerly the OGCP) will open a London office next year, Francis D. Fisher '47, the OCGP's director, announced yesterday.

Loraine Chickering-Clay '72, an assistant director of the OGCP, will advise students traveling in Europe--particularly in finding jobs with the 1826 alumni of the University who live in England, Fisher said. This year. Chickering-Clay concentrated on helping students taking time off from school find jobs and organizing the OGCP's new alumni referral service.

"We haven't really looked at the international side of things before this." Fisher explained. "A lot of students have been traveling on their own and finding jobs on their own, and we're trying to find out how much help we could be to them."

Last year 500 students took leaves from Harvard, and another 750 took a year off between college and graduate school--"an off-campus living experience greater than Antioch's." Fisher said, with a "substantial number" of them traveling to Europe.

"Till I get there I don't know what the possibilities are," Chickering-Clay said yesterday, "so a lot of what I'm doing will be research." Chickering-Clay has worked with disadvantaged children in a suburb of London, and she said she had "made some contacts" that way.

Because Chickering-Clay's husband. Jason W. Clay '73, has a Knox Fellowship to study in England next year, the London office will cost the University less than $5000. Fisher said.

Fisher asked that students who expect to be in England next year let the OGCP know, so that they can be sent the London office's address when it is established.