Salzburg Gets Donation for Summer Cost

The Rockefeller Foundation has given $15,000 to the Salzburg Seminar towards this summer's expenses, Seminar Treasurer Richard B. Webster '48 said last night.

This money, together with $5,000 from the Mellon Foundation's Old Dominion Trust, and a number of private donations, constitutes over half of the Seminar's $60,000 budget for this summer's operation. A drive is now in progress all over the country to obtain the balance from individual donations.

This is the second year that the Rockefeller Foundation, through its fund for educational reconstruction in Germany and Austria, has given the Seminar financial help. Last year, when the Seminar's budget was $40,000, the Foundation gave $13,000.

Expanding

The budget increased this year because the Seminar has taken over the Leopoldskron Student Rest Center, which operates a four week rest and rehabilitation program, and may this year have a partial study program.

The Leopoldskron Center, run by Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45, gets 45,000 Swiss francs (about $11,000) from the World Student Relief Organization, and used to count on private persons to supply the rest. Now, the Seminar has assumed control, and the extra expenses.

Both the Rest Center and the Seminar use the castle Schloss Leopoldskron, situated in landscaped gardens about a mile outside Salzburg in the American occupation zone.

European students, mostly on the graduate level, are educated by an all-American faculty, in American history, literature, sociology, economics, and other fields. The whole project was organized three years ago by the Harvard Student Council and has been run here ever since, although the faculty of the Seminar comes from several colleges.

The Seminar, as first organized, was run almost entirely by Harvard men, but since then it has expanded greatly.