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Show Model United Nations Lure Students of S. L. High Schools Fourteen Salt Lake area high schools will represent twenty-five twenty-five different nations in the Seventh Sev-enth Annual Model United Nations Na-tions Assembly to be held on the University of Utah campus April 14-15, 1961, according to Dr. Ray R. Canning, Director of Summer School, and Chairman of the U.N. Assembly. Bingham High will represent Haiti and Mali Federation; Cyprus Cyp-rus High, Poland; East High, Greece,' Cyprus, and West Germany; Ger-many; Granger High, Colombia and Costa Rica; Granite High, and Indian and Cameroun; Highland High-land High, Turkey and Central African Republic; Jordan High, Dominican Republic; Judge Memorial, Me-morial, Hungary and Senegal; Murray High, Iceland; Olympus High, France and Malaya; Rowland Row-land Hall School for Girls, Argentina; Ar-gentina; South High, Sudan and Yugoslavia; St. Marys of the Wasatch, Iran and Gabon; and West High, Burma and Malagasy Republic. All 99 member nations of the U.N. and four non-member nations na-tions will be represented by the 76 high schools participating in the assembly to be sponsored by tWe Utah Association for the United Nations and the Extension Exten-sion Division of the University of Utah. Final country assignments were made Friday, November 18, by Dr. Canning, who pointed out that many schools have been working for several months in preparation for the huge affairl One thousand high school students stu-dents and their faculty advisors participate each year. In addition addi-tion to careful study of their "adopted" nations, student delegates dele-gates must be thoroughly trained in organization and procedure of the United Nations. resentatives, and one student to study the Specialized Agencies of the U.N. and to participate in a colloquium on "other paths to peace." The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to lose time in order to gain it. Rousseau. i By January 10, 1961 each school will have submitted resolutions reso-lutions from which the April agenda will be framed. In plenary plen-ary sessions and committee meetings meet-ings during the two-day. assembly, assem-bly, student delegates will debate de-bate and vote upon vital world issues as they see them. In addition addi-tion to Assembly delegates, each school will send two press rep- |