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Operation Philippines The job seemed an immense one when first proposed to the campus by the Student Opportunities Service early in 1963, but enthusiasm soon animated nearly the whole student body toward acting for a cause-something a visiting lecturer had challenged college students to do. The task: to collect five.thousand books and five-thousand dollars to set up a library in a book-starved area of the world. After much research, the organization selected a small town in the Philippine Islands. The return from spring vacation brought cartons of books from home book- shelves, dusty attics, and damp basements: reference works, novels, children's classics, scientific journals. Some old, many new, books poured in and were stored temporarily in the bound-periodical room of the college library and in a garage on the farm of Dr. Earl Griswold, faculty advisor to the project. The next several weeks found over forty students busily selecting books for a versatile, basic library, and classifying, cataloguing, cleaning, and packing their choices. Two days before graduation they sighed in happy relief as the last book was crated.