QUAKER SCHOOL IN GREECE
SIR,—In 1945, a Quaker relief team started a small domestic training school in Salonica for Greek girls from villages near by. Every year since then, twenty girls have started a two-year course in running a home, baby care and farming. They have learnt how best to manage homes on available resources and to ensure the fullest possible lives for their future families and for themselves. A Quaker couple act as principals of the school, but the rest of the staff is Greek. There is no attempt to convert the pupils: on the contrary, they are warmly encouraged in the practice of their own Greek Orthodox faith.
For thirteen years the school has done its work and housed the girls and staff in two draughty, German army huts. But today these huts cannot be guaranteed to withstand the rain and gales of another winter. Either a new permanent building must be put up or the school must close.
We believe that the gift of such a building would be a timely gesture of goodwill to the people of Greece; and that the school, which has established a high reputation among Greeks, must be helped to continue its excellent work. .
The cost will be 124,000. The Quakers have already begun to build in the faith that somehow this sum will be raised. We ask all Christians of other de- nominations and all friends of Greece who share our admiration for the Quakers' project to send as generous a. donation as they can to : St. Martin-in- the-Fields Vicarage, 5 St. 'Martin's Place, WC2. Cheques should be made payable to 'F.S.C. Greek School.'—Yours faithfully, MAURICE BOWRA, KINROSS, OSBERT LANCASTER, R. W. LIVINGSTONE, FRANCIS NOEL-BAKER, NOEL F. NORTON, D1LYS POWELL, STEVEN RUNCIMAN, B1CKHAM SWEET-ESCOTT, J. F. WOLFENDEN, AUSTEN WILLIAMS
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