ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY Antigonrsh, Nova Scotia, Canada

DIRECTOR VISITS ASIA The Director, Dr. D. Hugh Gillis, made an extensive visit to the Pacific Islands and South Asia between October 17 and December 6. During the tour, which was intended to survey training needs, he visited Hawaii, the U. N. Trust Territory of the Pacific, Hong Kong, the Philip-pines, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, the U. N. Trust Territory of Papua and New Guinea, and Ceylon. He returned via Europe where he visited a number of international organizations.

Detailed observations are impossible in this newsletter because of space limita-tions but a few impressions are recorded.

-> In Hong Kong, Coady graduates are exercising a positive social influence. The massive resettlement projects pro-vide a challenge to traditional develop-ment procedures and Coady graduates are making a significant contribution to meeting this challenge.

•> The Philippines Rural Reconstruction Movement has several former students on its staff. PRRM is concerned with rural development and its staff appeared to be committed, down-to-earth and very well organized but operating with mini-mum resources. The Agricultural Pro-ductivity Commission, a government body under the Office of the President, is also involved in rural development. Dr. Gillis was a guest at the University of the Philippines and addressed staff and students in the Department of Com-munity Development.

•> Malaysia has a well developed co-operative sector. In addition to a visit to Kuala Lumpur, the capital, Dr. Gillis toured a number of multi-purpose co-ops in the Melaka District; and was a

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International Institute STAFF MEMBER TO BANGLADESH

Harris R. Amit, a staff member of the Institute, has been given leave of absence to head a major relief and rehabilitation project in Bangladesh, sponsored by the World Council of Churches. An agency known as the Bangladesh Ecumenical Relief and Rehabilitation Service is be-ing set up by WCC in Dacca. It is expected to provide $5 million in relief supplies and self-help programs during the next 12 months. Mr. Amit is widely experienced in development work in his native Ceylon. He has been lecturing on rural modernization at the Institute.

BRIEF ITEMS "School for Evolutionaries" was the title of an article in the August issue of the Nova Scotia Magazine describing the work of the Institute and featuring color photos of Coady students. The magazine is published by the Nova Sco-tia Government and is distributed to Canadian missions abroad.

CBC INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

Six participants in the Latin American summer course 1971 were featured in a CBC international short wave radio pro-gram beamed to Latin America. The Institute portions were recorded at Ra-dio Station CJFX in Spanish with Emilio Garza of the Institute staff as interpreter.

Rev. M. MacDonell, President of St. Francis Xavier University, announced on February 7th that Monsignor F. J. Smyth, founding Director of the Insti-tute, was to be Special Assistant to the President for University Development.

NEWS

LETTER

HONORARY DOCTORATE

Sister Marie Michael MacKinnon, former Institute librarian, was awarded an hon-orary doctorate of laws at the Univer-sity's Fall Convocation, November 7th. As an editorial in the Maritime Coopera-tor stated, "People who know Sister Marie Michael do not categorize her as librarian, social worker or even coop-erative educator (she is that, too). She is more generally known as a greeter and welcomer of people. She is famed for her memory of names and faces . . . As for her brand new honorary doctorate, it couldn't happen to a nicer or more worthy person."

1972 PROGRAMS

Beginning dates for the 1972 programs in Social Leadership and Social Develop-ment will be May 5. The programs will end on December 12.

FEB., 1972 VOL. 4 NO. 4

NEWS OF GRADS

Daryl Nicholas (SLC '65) has been ap-pointed executive director of TRIBE Inc., an Indian organization trying to curtail the school drop-out rate among Indians in the Maritime provinces and Maine.

Dick Lowe (S/S '70) is at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland assigned to credit union development under an AID grant.

Clement Mtenga (S/S '67) of Tanzania has been promoted to senior co-op inspector.

I. K. Adefeso (S/S '65) has been named Acting Manager of Ijesha Cooperative Produce Marketing Union, Nigeria.

Hassam Ramdin (S/S '64) has been ap-pointed Registrar of Cooperatives in Mauritius.

Sister Cecile Vigneault (S/S '70) was awarded the Order of the Eagle of Zam-bia by President Kaunda for her dis-tinguished service to the country.

John Schmiehuizen (SLC '66) was or-dained to the priesthood on February 2, 1972 by Bishop Martin Legarra T in Santiago de Veraguas. He is director of the Instituto Agropecuario "Jesus Naza-reno" in Atalaya, Panama.

The Cooperative Education Institute in Seoul, Korea commemorated the 10th Anniversary of its founding on Feb. 5, 1972. The Director is Hee Sup Park, SLC '60.

Zablon Kileo (SLC '71) is responsible for the evening courses program in the Six Lake Regions of Tanzania. He was married on November 6, 1971.

HezronOoro (SLC '68) is a full time field officer organizing savings and credit societies in the Western Region of Kenya.

Augustine Kang (SS '67) has been ap-pointed Managing Director of the Asian

Confederation of Credit Unions and will be guest speaker at the World Council of Credit Unions Board meeting in Halifax in March.

Hoichi Endo (SLC '71) was recently appointed Managing Director of the Credit Union League of Japan.

E. T. Ashiley (S/S '69) was elected Chairman of the Executive Board of the Trade Union Congress of Ghana.

Jose Pereira da Silva (SLC '70) is on the staff of the National Confederation of the Peasants' Union in Brazil.

Herbert Oparah (SLC '67) is now in Etiti Division of East Central Nigeria teaching and providing volunteer leader-ship in co-ops — four new co-ops in his station — all doing well.

Annakutty Roche (SLC '62) and her husband celebrated the first birthday of their daughter Elizabeth Josephine on September 24th. Annakutty is with CRS in New Delhi.

Sister Claramma Joseph of India (SLC '71) is headmistress of a school with 650 students but expects to go this year to Madras to teach in "Nava Nirmana Social Service Course" while Sister Ce-cilia (SLC '71) is doing a MA course in Bombay.

Sr. Irene Seneviratne (SLC '69) at the formal dedication of a housing project in Ceylon.

Rev. Werner Renneberg (SLC '70) be-sides being a pastor of two parishes near Muenster, Saskachewan, helps or-ganize a community development pro-gram. He claims he would not have tried it except for Coady training.

Sr. Denise Brabant (SLC '70) is assisting in the formation of social leaders at the Social Centre of Tiguisoti, Guatemala. Word from Father Hayden (S/S '65) who visited Liberia recently is that Father Dalieh (SLC '68) is working hard at credit unions with Christopher Madison (SLC '68) as his main technician. Not only are they active in credit unions but through their leadership in a community centre, a radio community station has been established, and they are working on an agricultural cooperative for rubber workers. Anthony Thomson (SLC '70) is treasurer of a credit union in Cape Palmas. Father Foley is pastor of a parish in Sasstown. Father Hayden is presently superior of a seminary in Washington and hopes to return to Liberia in June.

Peter Reardon (SLC '69) is working in Dacca with UNICEF.

Andre Legault (SLC '68) is on the staff of the Education Department of the Canadian Organization for Development and Peace in Montreal. He and his wife Evelyne (SLC '68) had spent several years in Peru.

Gabriel Emoto Ebu (SLC '65) is now a" member of parliament for Busia North, Kenya.

DEATHS Malcolm F. MacNeil, originator of the Coady International Associates in the United States and benefactor of the Institute, died in Florida, November 28. MacNeil Hall, now occupied by women students, is named after Dr. MacNeil.

The Coady Community was saddened to learn of the sudden death in September of Rev. Peter Thurairetnam (SLC, 1971). He was enroute home to his diocese in Ceylon, after completing the Coady program, and died in Malta when he was visiting friends.

Evelyn Pugh, formerly with the St. F. X. Extension Department and later in de-velopment work in Ghana and Nigeria, died in New York, January 22.

Peter White (S/S '64) died of a cerebral haemorrhage while en route to hospital in Halifax.

DIRECTOR (cont'd.) NOTICIAS RILEY IN CARIBBEAN guest of former students at a dinner in Kuala Lumpur.

* Dr. Gillis saw Indonesia as a nation confidently and realistically facing its many problems with optimism, a sense of purpose and vitality. One striking example was BUTSI, the Indonesian volunteer corps organized to meet the needs of unemployed university gradu-ates and, at the same time, promote social change.

•> Of India the Director noted "As I saw only part of New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Bombay, and the massiveness and complexity of India were omni-present, general reactions were impossi-ble." Coady graduates are active in many places in India. The Director and Assistant Director of the Extension De-partment of the Indian Social Institute and the Assistant Manager of the Co-operative Super Bazaar were met in New Delhi.

* In Ceylon, both the Regional De-velopment Division and the Department of Rural Development are engaged in projects which are directly in line with the program emphasis of the Institute. One project visited is described in detail in this newsletter.

•> Stopovers in Rome, Aachen, Geneva and London permitted discussions with officials in international agencies. Dr. Gillis met with many Coady graduates during his tour and was impressed by their dedication and the quality of their work.

1972 CREDIT UNION COURSE

The 1972 Credit Union Course, co-sponsored by the Coady International Institute and the National Association of Canadian Credit Unions, will be held at the Institute.

The course is intended to provide students from overseas' countries with information and training on the forma-tion and operation of credit societies in their own countries. The seven-week course is scheduled from June 22 to August 10, 1972.

El Boletm de Coady se complace en enviar un cordial saludo a sus lectores de habla espanola . . . Segun evaluacion llevada a cabo por el Sr. Peter Tacon de la Agenda Canadiense para el Desarrollo International, el curso espe-cial dictado en el verano de 1971 fue todo un exito . . . El Sr. Tacon hizo una gira por America Latina entre-vistando a par t ic ipa tes de dicho curso despues de haberse incorporado estos a sus distintos trabajos. La informacion asi' recopilada hara posible un segundo curso este ano. Cambios y mejoras sugeridos por los egresados se han in-corporado a los actuales proyectos . . . El Padre Jose Luis Echeverria (1963) nos escribe que el Centro Gumilla de educacion cooperativa que el dirige, ha sido impulsor de la introduction de cooperatives de consumo al costo en Barquisimeto, Venezuela . . . Se da por hecho que el "ano escolar" de Coady sera de mayo a diciembre, lo que nos dice que los futuros estudiantes no tendran la nieve hasta la cintura per-turbandolos en sus estudios. Ademas, podran regresar a sus casa para la Navidad . . . El cambio mencionado es uno de los varios que han sido intro-ducidosporel Dr. D. Hugh Gillis como nueve director . . . Este ano, por segunda vez, se lleva a cabo la division del estudiantado en dos cursos: Desar-rollo Social y Liderazgo Social — otro de sus cambios . . . Mientras tanto, Monsenor Smyth ha sido designado asistente especial del presidente de la universidad, cargo que indudablemen-te desempenara con su acostumbrado vigor y dinamismo . . . Ha visitado el Instituto el Sr. Dr. Donald W. Munro, ex-embajador canadiense en Centro America con sede en San Jose, Costa Rica, quien ahora se encuentra desta-cado a la Universidad Dalhousie de Halifax donde participa en las investi-gaciones sobre la politica exterior del Canada. Durante su visita film6 una entrevista sobre sus experiencias e im-presiones en America Latina en nuestro nuevo estudio de television . . . Cada dia aumenta el interes canadiense en America Latina, se han formado aso-ciaciones de profesores universitarios para intercambiar ideas sobre el area . . . Pedro Quiroz (Verano 71) escribe

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Seven countries in the Caribbean were visited by Norman Riley during Novem-ber while on a CIDA sponsored survey of training needs in social development and social leadership. Consultations were held with government officials, coop-erative leaders and educational authori-ties in Jamaica, British Honduras, Guy-ana, Barbados, Antigua, Dominica and Trinidad. Credit unions and cooperatives of all types are making significant con-tributions to national development in each area. An expanded role is expected in the years ahead, particularly in Guy-ana, which has been designated by its government as a Cooperative Republic. Fishery cooperatives are firmly estab-lished in British Honduras and are de-veloping rapidly in Guyana. Credit un-ions are operating in all the areas visited. In Trinidad there is a Credit Union Bank in addition to the Credit Union League. Large credit unions are located HI Jamaica, British Honduras, Trinidad and Dominica with a variety of smaller units in the smaller towns and rural areas. One interesting project was the school savings program in Guyana which has been inaugurated in many schools. Cooperative housing has made significant strides in Kingston, Jamaica.

Meetings were held with Coady gradu-ates in British Honduras, Guyana, Trini-dad, Barbados and Dominica.

VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Gerstenberger who are active in co-ops and credit unions in Vermont, U. S. A. . . . David Freidricks, President, North American Students' Co-op Organization . . . Mrs. Allaire and Peter Tagon of Group Programs, CIDA . . . Mr. Donald Munro, Foreign Service Visitor of the Canadian Exter-nal Affairs and former ambassador to Costa Rica , . . George L'Abbe', Devel-opment Education and Animation Pro-gram, Canadian Council for Interna-tional Cooperation . . . Pierre Gelineau, former youth consultant to CCIC . . . Rev. F. VanderHoff, C. S. J., Institute of Mission Studies, St. Paul University, Ottawa.

SISTER IRENE'S PROJECT The following article is condensed from "The Ceylon Observer", August 25, 1971. Sister Irene attended the Institute (SLC '69) and works with the Centre headed by Rev. J. Fernando, also a former St. F. X. student.

Just about ten miles out of Colombo, Ceylon, an amazing social experiment is being carried out. A whole village — a mixed community of 560 people — very poor, casually employed or unemployed — is being rebuilt literally from the ground up. Sister Irene Seneviratne (SLC '69) who joined SEDEC (Socio Econo-mic and Development Centre) has been actively associated with the Magulpoku-ria village project. First priority of the villagers was a school which was started in a reconditioned building. The people were asked to name their next need.

Housing, they said. It was a practical need. To build small housing units re-quired Rs 2500. The government pro-vided a grant of Rs 1100 with the re-mainder raised locally. Each family has been given small plots of land and by lots the new houses are replacing the old. The whole village gives free labour in the building of a neighbour's house. While that house is being built, the prospective owners must cultivate the plot of land around it with coconuts and vegetables and fruit trees. Unless the cultivation is underway, the house is not given to them. Altogether 140 hou-ses will be erected. Ten have been com-pleted on target. Fifty will be con-structed next year.

MORE NEWS OF GRADS

Joel Moitse (SL '63) is now Permanent Secretary of the Lesotho Ministry of Education.

Sr. Patrick (SLC '68) writes of an in-teresting co-op in Bo, Sierra Leone with three sections, the Gara Dyeing Co-op, a Co-op Sewing Centre and a Tea Room. Also tells of small co-op farms started by villagers to raise funds for school fees.

Elizabeth Nahas (SLC '69) is studying nursing in England and will return to work in the Sierra Leone health and nu-trition programs.

Sister Helen Piirito (SLC '68) is now Assistant General and Mistress of Novices of her congregation in Ghana.

Tom Read (SLC '64) resigned as Edu-cation Director of the Co-operative Union of Canada to become Publicity Director for Co-operative Insurance Services in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Georgia Barth (SS "71) is working with the Naujat Co-op Ltd. in Repulse Bay, North West Territories in Canada's North.

Alhaji Mamman Okikiri (SLC '70) was elected as First Vice President of the newly organized National Council for Adult Education in Nigeria.

The visits of Dr. Gillis, the Director, to Asia and Norman Riley to the Carribe-an area gave opportunities to meet many graduates. In a number of places - Hong Kong, Belize, B. H., Guyana, Malaysia, Barbados, Dominica and Tri-nidad, groups of graduates organized social gatherings during which they were able to exchange news of recent developments with staff members. Each year the grads in Dominica celebrate St. F. X. Day on December 3.

LEAGUE MOVES TO HALIFAX After being sited in Antigonish since its inception, the Nova Scotia Credit Union League moved its headquarters to Hali-fax in August. The new, four-storey League building was formally opened on November 12th. It will house, in addi-tion to the League operations, the League Savings and Mortgage Company, CUNA Mutual regional office, Coopera-tive Insurance Services, credit unions and trade unions.

The World Council of Credit Unions Board meeting is scheduled for Halifax on March 1 5 - 1 6 . The National Associa-tion of Canadian Credit Unions will also meet in the provincial capital on March 1 7 - 1 8 .

CONGRATULATIONS

To Father Aloysius Zwane (SLC '69) who has been appointed Vicar General for his Diocese, Manzini, Swaziland.

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del Peru indicando que estan en mar-cha los programas del equipo coopera-tivista de la Oficina Nacional de Pue-blos Jovenes . . . De Colombia llegan noticias de Hilda Suarez. De Honduras nos escriben Adalberto Tenorio y Joselina Coello . . . Joselina publico sus impresiones del Canada y de Coady en el Diario "El Di'a" de Tegucigalpa, muchas gracias por sus palabras . . . De Costa Rica llegan notas de Maria Aurelia Cavarna y de Claudio Orosco ambos recordando el buen tiempo que pasaron aqui' y "algunas" de las en-senanzas . . . Para el curso de verano programado para este aho regresa el profesor Kevin Le Morvan quien fue tan bien recibido por los estudiantes del aho pasado . . . Zacarias Vasquez nos escribe desde Puerto Rico donde ha sido contratado por la Universidad Rio Piedras para dictar unos cursos sobre desarrollo, piensa incluir una materia sobre el Movimiento de Anti-gonish.