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Show 3 arrived, had maintenance funds awaiting them at the port of arrival, dealt with the international airline companies at their offices in India, set up working procedures at the Institute's banks in Bombay and Poona, assembled a staff and organized an executive office, and made living arrangements for those Fellows who were proceeding to Poona. He has also completed the contract for the purchase of Dr. Deshmukh's house, obtained competitive bids for the remodelling of the Deccan College buildings which the Institute is to use, and has awarded some contracts (week of September 2, 1952). Further, he has been making scholarly contacts for some of the Institute's Fellows in Poona and elsewhere, and has also made contact in New Delhi with Government of India officers and U. S, Embassy officers, with whom the Institute has recurring business. Development^ of Institute Affairs in America The Executive Committee, mindful for the success of the Institute of the need to get Indian studies into undergraduate education in the United States, took advantage of the Interest of Oberlin College in the same problem, and accepted the generous offer of Oberlin to entertain a conference on its campus on April 13, 1962 to consider the part which the Institute could have in an attack upon this problem. Oberlin called the conference and Provost Thurston E, Manning presided. Afterwards Professor Ellsworth Carlson wrote a report which Oberlin circulated. Representing the Executive Committee were Milton Singer and J. Norman Brown. There were sixteen other participants in the conference representing 11 institutions, 2 associations of colleges (Great Lakes Association of Colleges, Associated Colleges of the Midwest), and the U. 3. Office of Education, all attending at their institutions' expense. Though the Institute has not been conducting a campaign to increase its membership, a number of inquiries have come to the officers, and there are a number of applications for membership to be considered at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees on October 27, 1952. It is evident that the Institute is now launched. It can look forward to putting into effect the program outlined In the Proposal and to advancing the purposes which its various activities are meant to support, /§./.. -••"-*. ^°rmap. l£gis* 3. Norman Brown President October 3, 1952 Philadelphia, Pa, |