Show N 1 i X - r Ww & w VI k Xvsi- J 4rfv ?n w '”t£$i iv tour to Great Salt Lake the photographer caught this Hock ot seaguns invading Relieve ’'floating” since the lake is 27 percent saline content) of this tourist just off Antelope y°u Island A road has been constructed to the island so that tourists can visit the site and view the scenery (if seeing total desolation is their thing) (Photo by Ted G Hansen) —mgJr 3 uniyeirsitysp°nsored (wou Twenty young men and women most of them from rural backgrounds in the Midwest and Northwest are in the first month of an intensive Spanish language and technical training program in the mountains near Logan which will continue until September Six married couples and eight single men are preparing to serve in the Peace Corps program in Bolivia The program is being administered by Utah State for the sixth year Trainees for Bolivia have come to Logan for four years said Craig Hale administrative assistant The program is being directed this year by Dr Gordon Porter of the Language Department Inti seminar on Hydrology Vo be field Twenty corpsmen learn To help teach Bolivians Peace Corpsmen working in Bolivia are concerned mainly with range management and how it relates to the production of sheep The trainees for this particular program therefore from farm come often backgrounds and have some aptitude for the work they will be doing for the next two years Beaver Mountain a winter recreation area 35 miles Northeast of Logan serves as both lodge and classroom to the Plans have oeen finalized for an International Seminar for Hydrology Professors to be held here for the next two weeks according to Dr J Paul Riley Associate Professor Utah Water and Research Laboratory of seminar the director The 1970 seminar will emphasize the systems approach as of applied to the science of will consist It hydrology lectures and workshop sessions and detailed case studies will be made Fifty-fiv- e participants from 25 corpsmen It provides the isolation necessary for the men and women to master a foreign language in 11 weeks and aLo to serve as a kind of midway point between the United States and Bolivia said Hale For the first two weeks in- structors all native South Americans will strive to give the corpsmen a grasp of conversational Spanish They will spend a total of 350 hours on ianguage training and are ex- - Engineers Inc Walnut Creek Frank E Perkins Calif Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jaime Amorocho University of California at Davis VM Yevjevich Colorado State University Yacov Y Haimes Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio WJ Morris City University London England and visiting professor at USU DF Peterson Dean USU College of Engineering G Duane G and Calvin Clyde W Roland Jeppson Chadwick and J Paul Riley all of the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University Sponsors of the seminar are the National Science Foundation and UnESCO in cooperation with US National Committee for the International Hydrologic Decade Universities Council on Water countries and states have been selected to attend Participants except for certain specialists from government planning agencies and research institutes were selected from university faculty members actively engaged in hydrologic ResourcesUnionAmerican American Geophysical teaching and research Civil Engineers and Lecturers will include: Ven T Society of Show University of Illinois the Department of Agricultural Crawford and Irrigation Engineering H Norman Palo Department of Civil Engineering International Hydrocomp Research Water Hall Utah Warren A Alto Calif and Conference and Laboratory Office of Science and Technology Utah all at Division T Institute DC Gerald Washington Resources State Water Orlob nine foreign pected to pick up Indian dialects after they arrive in Bolivia One of the 10 instructors was brought to Logan directly from the area in Bolivia in which the corpsmen will serve He speaks no English The others have been in the US long enough to learn English American either attending universities and colleges or working The study of sheep physiology disease reproduction docking prevention shearing and nutrition and range and management will occupy another hours The technical staff includes 150 Darrell Matthews livestock specialist Gordon Van Epps agronomu WC Foote zoology Karl G and animal science Parker range science Spencer Daines agriculture and Milton ir ’gation engineering Madsen and C Elmer Clark animal science and Jay W Call veterinary science Most have served in USU’s programs in Bolivia or other Latin American countries Veterans-retur- n attendance card The Veteran’s Administration has advised veterans attending college this summer under the GI Bill not to forget to return the certification of attendance cards which they received last week The “cert” card is needed before checks can be paid the VA explained Veterans who have still not returned their cards for the end of the spring or early Xammer quarters should do so at once They will then be paid for their last month as training and start receiving their checks automatically when they return to school in September the VA advised s |