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Show 4 on the part of the Institute's officers, maximum help and prompt action by the Institute's bank in Bombay, highly efficient cooperation on the part of the Institute's travel agency (Raymond and .ihitcomb, Philadelphia), and the invaluable coopera tion of Richard L, Park, formerly a member of the Institute's Executive Committee and since July, 1962 representative in India of the Asia Foundation, and of Holden Furber of the University of Pennsylvania, who is in Bombay setting up a chair of American Studies at the University of Bombay financed by the U. 3. Department of State under contract with the University of Pennsylvania and was going through the same procedure as the Institute in getting a bank account opened and operating. The only serious difficulty in arranging travel was for that of one of the Fellows who left on August 15 and had made all his travel arrangements with a hometown travel agency and had to be rescued at the last minute by the Institute's travel agency. Even he got off as he had planned. To manage the Institute's affairs in India the Executive Committee endeavored to find an American Resident Director. Tentative negotiations had been opened in February 1962 with a candidate, and a firm offer was made to him in June when the contract was signed, but in the end it became evident by July 20 that for various reasons he was not going to accept the position. The Executive Committee, however, had been considering- offering the position of Executive Officer of the Institute in Poona to Dr. D. D, ICarve, formerly Principal of the Ferguson College in Poona, well-knox-m personally and professionally to most of the members of the Executive Committee, a man of high prestige in educational circles in India, recommended for the position by the heads of all the institutions in Poona with which the Institute will be cooperating, and himself well acquainted with educational procedures and institutions in America, where he has visited several times, most recently under appointment at the University of California (Berkeley) for the spring semester 1962. The offer of a position to him had been held in abeyance to let the proposed Resident Director consider his appointment, ./hen the prospective Resident Director was found to be unavailable, the Executive Committee promptly (July 20, 1952) offered the position of Executive Officer in Poona to Dr. ICarve, who accepted it. He was appointed from August 1, 1962 and since then he has conducted all the Institute's business in India. At the start he was materially assisted by Richard L. Park, but for whose fortuitous presence in. New Delhi and willingness to spend a good deal of time and hard work on the Institute's affairs the Executive Committee would probably have had to send one of the Institute's officers to India, Since being appointed Dr. ICarve, working under the direction of the Executive Committee, has arranged for the reception of Fellows as they have |