'HUE OUT WEST'
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December 27, 2016
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January 6, 2014
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Publication Date:
June 19, 1966
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u.i..evelarid, wan .
19 June 1966
. e as pu is interns:,
jtional education theory into
4, practice with full force. , ?
HE HAS received help:
More than $4 million in,
, grants from MD.
With.:prospering__interna-',,
klial.PrOgramsaUlue-ancl:
4
MISS MARGUERITE Appel ,instructs Miss Bui Kim Nhienv a sec- .,
andary teacher, in businesipleducation,?:
4
Ohio University Photos
? I
Dr. Milton Ploghoit
$...aigon in Viet Nama_nd at?
.;
Kano and lbadan, in North-
'em
,4
ern anT-Wigiern Nigeria, .1
, has one of
Ihejnost..effectimprograW]
.in_the country.
G en. Maxwell ;Taylor, 1
John W. Gardner, secretary,
, of Health, Education ?andl
Welfarei? and former Com-','
ritissioner of Editcatian Fran);
'cis Keppell have praised the!
:Ohio University overseas
sions. ?
. The :university's interns-1
tional ' program is_
an_educational nature. Most;.
of the tnetitietiiii are from t
Ohio University's College of;
Education. Most spend two:
or three years on the Olijo.
'University campus before!
? assignment to an overseas''
project. ' ? .? ? '!?i
. Alden and Ploghoft intend.
?
Plain Dealer Special
ATHENS, 0.?The over-
seas educational missions
:Of Ohio University are di-
rected by a Center for Inter-
national Programs. ,
rector is -Dr. 'Milton Plog-
hoft, a College. of Education
professor formerly stationed
in Nigeria. ?
, Development of such an
, all - out international pro-
'gram, shaped from the hills
'of remote southeastern
Ohio, is an extension of Ohio
' University's original mis-
sion?to bring education into ?
the Northwest Territory in ,
?
1787. Ohio University was,.
,
the first college west of the
Allegheny Mountains.
To university President
,.Vernon II. Alden, education-
()al responsibility extends be-
yond tile geographical limits
:imposed by mountains,
,oceans, or jungles. Alden is
a quiet, effective person .%
' who prides, himself on get..DR. DORIS McGINTY, William Sell, and an
ling things done. Be became ,' ? Ani dean soldier :assemble a. I4Wina:mechine..,
president at...38,in January;,
.
,
-to strengthen and enlargel
both missions as rapidly as;
,possible. ? .
?
Ohio University's highly'
'respected College of Educa-
tion has, in the course of:
six years,. been transformed,
Into a'world-Wide .. task'
force., ' . ?
',AS DR, THOMAS Smith,
'vice
'AS,
for academic
' affairs says ?
Conti nu citi
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0 JUN 1 9 1966
"Our mission goes way, Suddenly'
Hue out west." ? there's a riot there. There's':i
Dr. Ploghoft interviewed', '
mere; was asked if the Ohio
niversity operation is, had
een or could be a cover for
the Central Intelligence
lie 'replied: ? 1
Agency (CIA).
"All right, let's face it.
Michigan State had a good
criminology' 'd epartm cnt
and g o t involved in the
rough stuff. ?We teach.)
T:E-A-C-H. N o of our
people entild do(C1A.,.work.
A:home cebnomics 'teacher
doesn't know abom lady
spy ganics, right?"
y it became pub-
lic knowledge that Michigan
State University, with ? an:
AID contract f o r police'
training in Viet 'Nam in the
late 1950s, was used a
cover operation by th>tCIA
at a time, when the ,t
states was supposed to be
neutral under the Geneva
agreements.)
loghoft does most of the; ,
detailed planning for the
in-
ternational ,programs. He
also ,gets most of the split-
:ling
.
headaches.l He re-
turned from ?a ? Viet Nam
!.;
inspectiont early in June.
"HUE IS IN the headlines
'Valt the time. Riots, demon- :
strations and you .wonder is
^ this guy alright and is this
'guy "' ? Dr. .,,Ploghoft wkinV
:
a nasty situation in Kanoi)
and people are killed within-,!
a few blocks of our mission.1
-"This is a tremendously.1
moving,' a tremendously4
pulsating, and alive proj-1'
ect," .he says. "Of course.
I worry."
?
BRANCHES of Ohio Uni-.1
versity: arc'e at Saigon' and
,s?,1
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