Hanover College - Revonah Yearbook (Hanover, IN)

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The Hanover Institute on Middle Africa .. . Africa, the Dark Continent — or is it? . . . Unpredictable early March weather . . . Long Gym filled with people, snow, and hot coffee . . . Keynote speaker G. Mennon Wilhams, Undersecretary of State for African Affairs . . . Mrs. David Wiley, a Hanover graduate who, with her husband, has served in Africa as a missionary ... a program full of other resource people — all determined to present a view of an Africa which is more than wild savagery. Prof. Robert Trimble taking over the Institute for the ailing Dr. Robert Bowers . . . Student Director Larry Helmer and his assistants Sid Furst and Bob Paulus wondering if they’ll make it through the week ... a secretarial crew which had summaries of the sessions out almost before the sessions were over . . . the occasional flash of a camera as a speaker made a particularly emphatic ' point . . . “Would you mind telhng me, sir, why you think the United States should give unre¬ stricted aid to African nations when there’s danger of a detailed, blow-by-blow description of the Congo situation ... an Insti¬ tute play which went over well despite the cultural barriers involved. Africa . . . dark in tribal traditions ... in its inability to adopt programs of economic and social modernity ... in the enigmatic knowledge of it possessed by those outside it . . . perhaps not quite as dark as it was before March, 1965 . . . “Have you heard that next year, it’ll be . . .” 24

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Hanover branches out . . England . . . cold, rainy, no central heating —but no one really cares; you don’t notice the weather when you’re marching in the Shakespeare Birthday Parade, or ex¬ ploring London shops, or listening to a noted Shakes¬ pearean scholar. For sixteen Hanover students, the trip was a chance to see, to hear, to learn; for the trip, plan¬ ned by Dr. Dorothy Bucks, included classes on Shakes¬ peare and other Ehzabethans, visits to .famous British landmarks, and professional performances of four of the plays being studied. Of course, there was also time for private discovery of not-so-famous spots that became your own. Members of the class spent free weekends in various parts of the British Isles, following their own interests. Still others toured other European countries after the official close of the five-week course. But somehow, pervading all, was the unaccountable, inexpressible magic of Stratford. Half-timbered Old English houses . . . part of the charm of discovery