Recruitment Through Education and Experience.

a period of years, endeavored to offset the low salary disadvantages of government employment by offering special training and educational opportunities. The student trainee program is initiated by announcements, followed by direct contacts with teachers and students. Selected groups of high school graduates and college students are brought in to work as technical aides for the summer period. Not all these trainees will return to the bureau for permanent employment upon completion of their college education, but it is felt that they will serve as emissaries to present the advantages of employment at the bureau, and that they may stimulate interest in science among their high school and undergraduate associates who are qualified. In the summer of 1952 the bureau had 160 student trainees from more than 100 colleges and universities, including 15 Westinghouse Scholarship and National Science Fair winners. The established pattern of advanced education in this country now embraces a widely accepted concept of dual employment and education. Most educators