MY SUMMER IN WASHINGTON

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ST ,Tarsi nn - Nev York. LONG ISLAND PRESS, 2 Oct 1966 1 STAT
If SUMMER IN W
LI Youth Worked in, Humphrey's Office
By PAUL TROOP .
"He will discuss the most
!complex matter in a relax-
ed. informal manner with-
out 2}rpearfng as if he's
trying to choose his words
or trying to hide something
from you."
This was one of the first
ohservations Steven S i to -
w.n~lwewswwrr
made about his hors last
summer . --- Vice President
Hubert: 1i}tn112l1rey, _.-.
Bhck home at 13 Welwyn
MI.. the I.9?year-old Simmons
talked about his summer
.rs one of four U.S. college
students selected to work
in the vice president's of-
fice.
Simmons said he didn't
Work directly with Humph-
rey, but with his top aide,
John Stewart, in the vice
president's office in the
New Senate Office Build-
ing.
* * r
"I, KNEW I Would have
responsibility but I didn't
,think I would be preparing
material that very well
could lead to the creation
of a program for 'getting
more college and high
schoni.students involved in
the War-On-Poverty," he
Simmons and another stu-
dent. Raid Feldman of
Washington, were told to
ptrpare a paper on Stu-
dent incolvernent for llum-
phi y, chairman of the
president's Youth Oppor
tunity Task Force.
After a summer oB inter-
viewing anti -poverty offi-
cials across the country
over the telephone and
through the mails the two
produced a 45-page. repot t.
"I became acquainted with
the vast extent of anti-
poverty work in this coun-
try and the tremendous
need to increase it," he said.
The involvement of college
t u d e in t s, we discovered,
i as not great and we made
our own recisnmendations
on how this could be
cha n ged."
. . *
'l'Uk' rVfEAT Neck youth
4irIn't want to ga intn the
.irtail.c of the proposals, ex-
Vice President Iiubert Humphrey discusses a report with Steven Simmons
of Great Neck Plaza, who worked as 'a summer intern ih the Vice President's,
plalning. t.ha I. this was up
to the vice president?: to" i.e.
lease.
Simmons' summer wasn't
just spent working on the
report. During his last
school year at Cornell Uni-
versity, as a sophomore, he
originated the Cornell Pub-
lic Affairs Summer Intern
Program that won the offi-
cial support of the univer-
sity.
lie arranged weekly meet.
ings with top Washington
figures for the 33 t?ornell
students working during the
sutfimer? In the capitol.
They spoilt hours* talking
with people like Sen. Lee
Metcalf of Montana, Selec-
tive Service Director Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, Sen.
Jacob Javits, House Minori-
ty Leader Gerald Ford, Su-
preme Court Justice Hugo
Black and CIA irector
Richard Hel
SIMMONS should feel at
home with these political
leaders because at Cornell
he held elective offices and
was active in political af-
fairs.
lie was freshman class
president. He,gainvd att~n-
Iioh when he formed the Ivy
Leagui Freshman Council
of freshman presidents atI
eight colleges. They met
periodically to discuss com-G
mon problems.
He,again was also elected 1,
president of his sophomore,
college.
Now entering his junior,
year, Simmon has "retired" i
from active campus life to;
devote his time to the sum-
mer intern program and.
his-grades. He intends to go'!
tot w School and eventual-i
.ly enter government serv.'
ice.
;HO !5. the .eon Mrs. Edith,
Sim;idoils, .,'tortner G-'eat
Veck School Board press!
dent.
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