Show I Industry Now Concerned With Scientist Shortage School teachers are now being given long needed support by I industry to help check the nations nation's nations nation's na na- naI I tion's shortage of scientists a Stanford University professor said as he announced the success and Expansion of a fellowship program for high school science nce and arid mathematics teachers Dr Paul DeH Dell Hurd professor o or of education at Stanford said that thata a program pioneered last summer summer sum sum- mer at the university was so successful successful successful suc suc- that a greatly expanded version of the same program will wUl willbe willbe b be presented next summer The program sponsored by Shell Companies Foundation Inc at both Stanford and Cornell universities universities universities uni uni- provided Shell Merit Fellowships for 60 high schoolteachers school schoolteachers schoolteachers teachers at seminars conducted by the two schools this past sum sum- mer Teachers received allowances allowances allowances allow allow- ances for travel costs to Stanford Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford or Cornell tuition fees living living living liv liv- ing expenses and In cash to offset loss of potential summer summer sum sum- mer earnings Attending both lecture lecture and laboratory sessions he the teachers felt the chance chanc to study recent developments in science and ed education ed- ed and the opportunity to become become become be be- be- be come acquainted with outstanding scientists in their fields made the seminars one of the most excitIng exciting exciting ing experiences in their careers saU sail Dr Hurd Such fellowships as these provida pro pro- vida recognition and stimulus needed Lon lon needed by our nations nation's teachers teach teach- ers he said M. M E. E president o of the Shell Foundation and executive vice president of Shell Oil Company Company Com Com- pany said the number of 1957 fellowships will be announced later Teachers living west of the Mississippi should apply directly I I to the School of Education Stanford Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford university Stanford California Cali Cali- fornia Mathematics physics or chemistry teachers with five years experience and known leadership ability will wUl be for the fellowships u |