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- PEL Snaec ehthetne, acne m.tidhih nic, oc AAR niadah iPad kotha “rand upon assurances from Trude, proceeded to mobilize their forces, =... ~~ “We decided to break off all relations with Student Service of America, Inc . | We knew it was not the group thet had built-us, had given so many of us the c. @irection we had been seeking throughout -our college days. We knew that os. the life of the old ISS ley elsewhere.*We were ready to strike out on © 7 Owns we wanted the voice thet hed so long ‘been deprived us. Ful! of cts oee enthusiasm, and realizing that the whole future of studen and youth "~~ - activities, the entire participation of American youth in the problems of .-- .,,,MBkeing the United Nations a going peace-time concern, all the students _~ pitched in, Those who had just finished college, those home on vacation, ..- “those in the area all showed up to move furniture, move files, lay rugs, . _- setup an office, -participate in meeting after meeting to plan out organization, staff, and program, Trude, Flossie, Irene, Irwin, Louise, Hildur all pitched - An with the students, determined that their orgenization would not perish, "|. ‘We had discussions on whether we should continue a student magazine, ISS =~ has flatly refused to grant the use of the Name, in spite of Irwin's | ~ ‘logical reasoning that if they discontinue the publication for more than .~- - . 6 months, ite name will disappeer and be forgotten, Cohn was very adamant L | / about it, We will use another name and contime with five issues a year plus 1 ire Dieweekly news letter which will go out to all our contacts and will — _ “serve as 8 clearing house bulletin, We decided on the following staff: “under temporary arrangements, since we have no one available for executive secretary, we decided that I would serve on the steff as therpresentative of _(. ‘the Executive Committee; Irene would be Acting General Secretary; ani '. “Irwin would be publications editor; ‘Flossie Office Manager; and Louise '_ conference secretary on leave during her tour, We want to have an advisory . ; _connittes, .and~have-alréady gotten Neinhold Neibuhr to serve on it. Others “2 710m it'will ber Dr, Frank Graham, Trude (whom we would like to be chairman, -and “~~. has really be a God-send and foster -saint),. Carl- Sandburg, Al Black, Mrs, “i Leach, Molly, Maurice, Hildur, Jane Seaver Russell, and Jane Plinpton, _ i. Jim Carey, Bernard Baruch, Dr. George Shuster, Clyde Eagleton, and possible Me Lerner. .; We would like you to serve on it if you can get stationed ', around here. Nonthless, Joe, we want your advice end contribution as an "elder statesman", elder to youth, but thank God not an old man like + phe--,,80me of our other former contemporeries, I can say myself that much of the "way I think is due to your training, “and hence, would like to get and will . . absolutely need every ‘bit of a dvice you can suster from your encampment, —~ a. Last week also saw student volunteers begin working in eernest, perhaps the ~ ““. first time since the old ASU. “Students came in to tabulate our wer service rill. . questionnaires, to help address envelope » 40 run off mimeogravh material, “to clean up, and to arrange everything in-order, And, by the end of this |... second week, I can truthfully and proudly tell you, Joe, that the United States Student Asseably is thriving organization, We are not going out. . - Ammediately to conquer new fields. ¥e will not be a top-down pressure ; losers: organization, But, we want to consolidate every single contact we already — "have, and make certain that he is behind us, with the orgeniz ation and support _ that individual can muster, We will work with farn youth and working youth, _ We will work with the youth in the high echools, -all in all, wewil} 832°, Sy o> hain 2 «.vement whose very heart and soul. is in each local community, and ve et tp Abas 7: