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Show Gail Duncan Receives Fellowship Specialiazed Training at New York U V . J it, mjr" rrT;. J GAIL B. DUNCAN CHICAGO Gail B. Duncan, district supervisor of the Utah Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Rehabili-tation in Cedar City, has been awarded a fellowship for specialized spe-cialized training In work with the cerebral palsied and other severely handicapped persons, it is announced today by Lawrence J. Linck, executive director of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, the Easter Seal society. Duncan is one of 15 counselors, teachers and other professional persons awarded fellowships under un-der the Joint sponsorship of Alpha Al-pha Gamma Delta, international women's froternity, and the national na-tional society. The training program, which will be held June 22 to July 17, is to be conducted under the auspices of the school of education educa-tion of New York University Bellevue Medical center, and will be given at the Institute of Physical Phy-sical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York. The fellowship training, which includes tuition and maintenance, mainten-ance, will place emphasis on the needs of personnel working In the field of educational training, counseling and vocational guidance guid-ance who deal with problems of the handicapped. Instructors will be staff members of the institute insti-tute and the university's school of education and other specialists special-ists in the field. Those completing complet-ing the course satisfactorily will be granted six hours of graduate credit in education by the university. uni-versity. Duncan graduated from the Branch Agricultural college, and received his B. S. degree from the Agricultural college in Logan in 1916. The fellowships, the sixth in a series that began in 1949 with the assistance of Alpha Gamma Delta, are designed to encourage public and private agencies to increase their services for the severely handicapped. Upon completion com-pletion of the course, those receiving re-ceiving training will return to their respective places of employ-to employ-to apply specialized knowledge and techniques to counseling and employment of the crippled. |
