Wont Try to Indoctrinate Anybody,
Bryn Mawr's Marxist Lecturer Says

By FORREST L. BLACK
Of The Bulletin Staff

Herbert Aptheker, a leading
American Communist, says he
won’t try to “indoctrinate” any-
body when he goes to Bryn
Mawr College as a lecturer this
fall.

“I’m teaching Afro-American
history and that’s it,” Aptheker
said in an interview in his of-
fice at 20 E. 30th st., just off
Fifth av., in New York City.

Aptheker is director of the
American Institute for Marxist-
Studies and his office is the
headquarters of the group.

“I will do my best not to let
the college down. They’re act-
ing with integrity in upholding
the best standards of scholar-
ship and academic inquiry, and
I would do nothing in any way
to harm this,” he said.

Montgomery County’s Repub-
lican congressman, Rep. R.
Lawrence Coughlin, says he
doesn’t agree with the college’s
choice of Aptheker as a lectur-
er to its young women under-
graduates. “Intellectual exhibi-
tionism, ’ he called it.

Mail For and Against

But a spokesman for the
Quaker-founded college said his
appointment was recommended
by the appointments committee
and approved by the trustees.
The spokesman said a great
deal of mail has been received,
for and against the move.

Aptheker, a 53-year-old native
of Brooklyn who will commute
from his home there to Bryn
Mawr for the once-a-week lec-
ture, is considered a top Marx-
ist theoretician in this country,
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