Council Presents $12,000 Check as University's Part in Aiding Europe

With the presentation yesterday of a check for $12,000 to Mrs. Priscilla Greenhalge, agent of the Unitarian Service Committee, the University gave its answer to President Truman's plea for aid to Europe's starving millions.

In accepting the donation, Mrs. Greenhalge, wife of an undergraduate at the College, said that Harvard was the first in the nation to do anything for famine relief on so large a scale, though Bryn Mawr, Oberlin, Swarthmore, and Vassar made a start in that direction. Top contributions at other institutions ranged somewhat under $1,000, she affirmed.

Eighteen hundred dollars of the total represent savings on the desserts, cereals, and bread, voted by University students last spring, while the remaining $10,200 came from the drive for contributions by the Student Council Food Relief Committee headed by Richard A. Campbell, Jr. '48.

Actual presentation of the check was a mere formality, according to Campbell. "The money has already been spent by the Unitarians," he said, "and our committee has received its first letter of thanks from the beneficiaries."

Adressed to Miss Elsi Haus, the Unitarian Committee's representative in Vienna, a group of Czech students wrote, "Your action brings real relief to those who need it most: survivors of concentration camps, members of the resistance movement and the politically persecuted."

Council President Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48 made a point of complimenting the committee chairman on the University's showing, calling the Food Relief Committee one of the most efficient in the Council's history.