Combined Charities Drops Salzburg Seminar from List

The Combined Charities Committee emphasized its policy of supporting only student organizations last night by dropping the Salzburg Seminar and Harvard Aid to Indonesia from its list of charities.

Simultaneously it renewed a bitter wrangle with the Student Council, which last year scratched the Experiment in International Living from the list, by including the Experiment under unallocated funds.

After last night's two hour meeting, Co-Chairmen Robert Terry '54 and Kirby von Kessler '54 publicly announced the decision to drop the Seminar--a permanent name on the charity card since Salzburg's inception in 1947.

"The Committee feels that the Seminar, in view of substantial support from foundations, no longer requires formalized committee endorsement," von Kessler said.

Private Dissatisfaction

Privately it is known that members of Combined Charities and part of the Student Council are dissatisfied with the job the Seminar is doing and feel it has drawn away from the College.

Terry explained he has written a letter to Dexter Perkins, head of the Salzburg Seminar, explaining the Committee's stand.

"We feel that the students attentions should be directed to the work of less well-known though equally worthy organizations which depend solely upon funds donated by students.

Debate over the Experiment in International Living arose last fall when the Student Council objected strongly to a card heavy with international charities. They knocked the Experiment off the list. The Charities Committee is still adamant that the Experiment get at least token recognition and have therefore decided to include it for unallocated funds.

German Exchange Off

Besides considering Salzburg and the Experiment, the Charities meeting covered the German Exchange which last year financed the education of six German students at Harvard. Funds from the High Commissioner's Office in Germany are not available to pay for their trip this fall and the Committee in effect has killed chances of raising money from students. It voted not to consider including the Exchange on its list.

In place of the Salzburg Seminar and Harvard Aid to Indonesia, the committee picked the Winant Volunteers--a group of American students who spend the summer working in London settlement houses.