Communism Conference To Open Summer Series

President Emeritus James Bryant Conant will return to the University Monday evening to open the Summer School's first conference, "Teaching the Nature of Communism in the American School Curriculum."

The former United States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany will speak "On Understanding Communism" at the 8:30 p.m. meeting in Sanders Theatre.

The whole series of talks will be made unusually timely by the Supreme Court decision last month in the Watkins case, although this will not be the direct topic of the discussions.

In the second public evening session on Tuesday, John H. Fischer, superintendent of schools in Baltimore, and George S. Counts, professor emeritus of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, will speak on "The Situation in the United States Related to the Challenge of Totalitarian Education."

President Conant will conclude the series Wednesday evening with a discussion of "Education in Europe and the United States."

Merrill F. Hartshorn, Executive Secretary of the National Council for the Social Studies, will be chairman of Tuesday's morning session on "Current Status of Education about Communism in the United States." Participants in a special panel discussion at the meeting will be Henry W. Bragdon, of Phillips Exeter Academy; the Rev. Robert J. Henle, S.J., Dean of the Graduate School of St Louis University; and Donald W. Oliver, Instructor in Education at the University.

Wednesday morning's closed session, which will discuss "The American Philosophy of Education and the Problem of Dealing with the Nature of Communism in the Curriculum" will be cared for by chairman Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education at the University, and panelists.