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Danforth Fellowships Open
For Prospective Teachers

Applications for Danforth Graduate
Fellowships, to be awarded in March,
1970, are now being accepted, according
to David B. Harned, Chairman of the
Department of Religious Studies.

The Fellowships, offered by the
Danforth Foundation of St. Louis,
Missouri, are open to men and women
who are seniors or recent graduates of
accredited colleges in the United States, who
have serious interest in college teaching as a
career, and who plan to study for a Ph.D. in a
field common to the undergraduate college.

Applicants may be single or married, must
be less than thirty years of age at the time of
application, and may not have undertaken any
graduate or professional study beyond the
baccalaureate.

Approximately 120 Fellowships will be
awarded next March. Candidates must be
nominated by Liaison Officers of their
undergraduate institutions by November 1,
1969. The Foundation does not accept direct
applications for the Fellowships.

Interested students are asked to contact Mrs.
Doris Mays of the Department of Religious

Danforth Graduate Fellows are eligible for
four years of financial assistance, with a
maximum annual living stipend of $2400 for
single Fellows and $2950 for married Fellows,
plus tuition and fees. Dependency allowances
are available. Financial need is not a condition
for consideration.

Danforth Fellows may hold certain other
fellowships such as Ford, Fulbright, National
Science, Rhodes, etc. concurrently and will be
Danforth Fellows without stipend until the
other awards lapse. Danforth Fellows also may
be designated Woodrow Wilson Fellows.

The Danforth Foundation, created by the
late Mr. and Mrs. William H. Danforth in 1927,
is a philanthropy concerned primarily with
people and values. Over the years the work of
the Foundation, while oriented toward these
concerns, has taken varied forms depending
upon changing circumstances and the presence
of promising opportunities for constructive
action. Presently the Foundation focuses its
activities in two major areas, education and
urban affairs.

As both an operating and grant-making agency
the Foundation makes grants to schools,
colleges, universities and other public and
private agencies, and also administers programs
of its own designed to reflect its central
emphases.