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Show Scholarships go to PC people Peace Corps Volunteers applying ap-plying for scholarships from American colleges and universities univer-sities after two years overseas receive an average of nearly five responses each. Dr. Robert Calvert, Jr., director di-rector of the Peace Corps' Career Information Service, announced an-nounced 2,800 responses from educational institutions to requests re-quests of 600 Volunteers for financial fi-nancial assistance in 1965-66. Over half of the 3,500 Volunteers Volun-teers who have returned for i two year assignments overseas are enrolled in school, according accord-ing to Dr. Calvert. Peace Corps service helpj Volunteers with average undergraduate under-graduate records to be accepted accept-ed for graduate study. A Volunteer Vol-unteer in Columbia receivec this notice from Stanford Uni versity: "Your academic record of it self would have led to rejee tion of your application, bul your new-found motivation anc your record with the Peac Corps seem to make you i good bet." A thing of beauty sometime: proves to be an expense for ever. |