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--------t------- l;'V'l 'J2'ti)?t"r,St ' Th. Arabic program has produced tangible as well as intangible results. Last summer, ten pSC Arabic students won National Defense Foreign Language fellowships at Harvard and Michigan. The center is hopeful of winning a dozen or more NDFL grants for the summer of 1966. pSC ' has played a major part in the National Under- graduate Program of the Overseas Study of Arabic, administered by Princeton University. For the past four years, more than one third of : the NUPOSA grantees have been from portland State. Of four PSC students nominated this year, two, John Meynink and Cary Leiser, won these grants which provide a year of travel and study in Shemlan, Lebanon. , Through the center, Portland State is a sponsor- ing participant in the Summer lnstitute in Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo. To- gether with the Department of State, pSC aids in the administrative co-ordination of the insti- ' tute and the selection of candidates. ln 1965, five undergraduates and 24 graduate students from -16 universities attended the institute. The Middle East Center has become a supplier of students to graduate schools of Near Eastern Studies, one of the distinctive things for which PSC is known. lts graduates have won grants to such schools as Harvard, Princeton, the Ameri- can University in Cairo, and Johns Hopkins. Five years ago when PSC edged out princeton, among others, in winning federal money for the first Federally financed undergraduate Middle East program in the country, the reaction of public and college community was one of amazed incredulity. This year, when national , scholarships are announced in this field of study, no one will be surprised to see pSC gradu- ates and undergraduates high on the list. The annoulcement lras become a spring routine. 113