Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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Canada, Mexico, U S. Become Travel-Study Areas Opening new vistas to its students, Kent State this year sponsored study tours to Europe, Mexico, Canada and several parts of the United States. Europe, a new travel area for the Uni- versity, was visited on a seven-week trip which included seven countries on its itin- erary. Ohio ' s 150th anniversary as a state was the occasion for a special Ohio history travel tour, while the Mexican travelers used that country ' s capital city as a base for short trips to important localities near- by. Offered by the geography department to men students, the Canadian field trip covered a large portion of the country. The tour was made by private car to cut the cost to the students taking it. SR ' X: ' ' r v Viewing directly and vividly the evolution of Ohio from its earliest times to the present, the history of Ohio program included a travel study tour to 66 of the 88 counties. Geology students traveled in Colorado, studying the terrain in the western part of the United States. ' i ' S?- A seven-week trip to Eur- ope was sponsored by the history department. It pro- moted understanding of the various cultures by obser- vation and contact with contemporary society and the relics of the past. £S 5«i

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Studying at Cambridge Uni- versity in England was Pat Proctor, holder of the Kent chapter of AAUW scholarship for foreign study during 1 953. As part of their work in history of Ohio, students explored the partial reconstruction of the state ' s first townatSchoenbrunn. Europe, Mexico was the destination of one Kent State party, which traveled to view historically significant sites. Hoyden Plonotarium was but one of the educational sites visited by Kent Staters on the University- sponsored New York trip.

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