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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Albany 1, N.Y.
FOR RELEASE IN AFTERNOON NEWSPAPERS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19,
FROM: HUGH J. TUOHEY, JR., Public Relations Officer : eee ad at yee
PHONE: HE 4-6154
Albany, July 19 -~ State University President Thomas H. Hamilton will
leave Idlewild Airport, New York City, tomorrow evening (Thursday, July 20)
on the first leg of an eight-day trip to Israel where he will inspect
progress of the University’s technical assistance mission to that country.
Dr. Hamilton also will discuss development of educational resources
at the university level with the country's leading educators and meet with
various officials of the Israeli Government.
Since 1954 the State University mission has been providing technical
and professional assistance to Israel under a contract with the International
Cooperation Administration, an agency of the Federal government.
Dr. Hamilton said the present University technical assistance team
will complete its ICA-assigned task by June 30, 1962.
Accompanying the president will be Paul B. Orvis, State University's
executive dean for institutes and community colleges, who was project chief
of the University technical assistance team in 1955 and 1956.
This will be President Hamilton's first visit to Israel, although he
has traveled extensively in the Far East.
Highlights of President Hamilton's tours:
A visit to the Israel Institute of Technology at Haifa to meet with
General Yakov Dori, president of IIT and the first chief of staff of the.
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Israel Army.
Guest of honor at two receptions in Tel-Aviv. The first will be
sponsored by State University's Israel Project team and the second by the
United States Operations Mission, field arm of ICA.
A trip to Jerusalem for a conference with the president of Hebrew
University, Professor Giulio Raccah. The former Hebrew University presi-
dent, Benjamin Mazar, visited President Hamilton in Albany last year.
In Jerusalem President Hamilton also will meet with officials of the
Israel Prime Minister's office and representatives of the Ministry of
Agriculture, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A concluding tour at Rehovoth, site of the Weitzman Institute, where
he will confer with the Institute's president, Abba Evan, Israel's Minister
of Education and former Israeli ambassador to the United States. While at
Rehovoth President Hamilton also will participate in a general conference |
with the heads of all institutions of higher education in Israel.
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