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I I I Bd-J/~2/6 0 -p 6 4 . The proposal requesting $55 . 000 ror the Document ation Canter has been recommended by the Field Representative of the Foundation . 5. Our proposal tor the Language Training Program for $1)2 , 000 has not yet been acted on. Proposals haTe been reoeived from a number ot other organizations along this same 11ne . Ford Suggests a cooperat1Y8 program on a larger basis . This 1s being considered. See Statement on Improvement of English Competency at A. U. C. (Ap­pendix G) Dr . McLain reported t hat Dr ~ Harbison has questioned whether the Social Rtsearch Center has achieved what had been hoped and planned for it. He suggested that a surveyor appraisal be made of what has been accom­plished . and of the n geds of Egypt which may be served by the S . R.C. Two or three trained sociologists and economists could make the study . and could then make recommendations a8 to f'rogram . staffing , relationships . eta . Dro Harbison fel t. that the Ford Foundation might be wl1ling to finance I. he study. Dr . McLain recoe;nized the value of thin survey and reoommende that if the Ford Foundation does not provide the cost . that it be pnid by the American University at Cairo . at a cost ot $3 . 000 to $4.000. Rockefeller Foundation has extended the grant f o r demo­graphic studiee to Hant\a Rlzk t o February 1 . 1961 . Ap_ proximately $5 . 000 remEins in this fund . Rockefeller Foundation lias also 8:!(tended the grant t o Dr . Christine Kessler t( continue as Dr . Creswell's understudy for the present . then to move into the prime posit ion in Moslem Art and Arohitecture ($5600) . They have also indicated that they are ready to receive requests for larger grant a in the humaniti es (music and other arts) and pe rhaps in journalism . Hazen Foundation has paid the first half of the $10 , 000 grant for soholarships fO ,R graduate study i n the United States or elsewhere . The l'6ma1ning $5000 will be paid when needed . The program 1.88 been delayed somewhat be­c ause of diffioulty at th e pr e s ent time in s eouring permi s s i on frOM the Egyptian go vernment for s t udent s to come t o America for graduat, study