By Cassie Ferguson

Gazette Staff

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Office of Career Services has announced four winners of Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships, which provide an opportunity to spend next year traveling to other countries.

This year's winners, chosen from a group of 31 candidates, are seniors Mary Allison Arwady of Leverett House, Susannah Hills of Cabot House, Mehana Blaich of Leverett House, and Sandy Chung of Dudley House.

"It's a great opportunity," said Paul Bohlmann, director of fellowships and associate director of the Office of Career Services. "It envisions people at a crossroads and gives them a chance to do something personally meaningful."

Arwady, a history and literature concentrator from Kalamazoo, Mich., plans to spend the year in Australia. "I'm interested in unique challenges," she said. She plans to visit remote parts of the country to do educational work.

Hills, a social anthropology concentrator from Hingham, Mass. said, "It's a really exciting opportunity. I've wanted to do this for a long time." She will travel to Latin America, most likely Guatemala, to examine women's organizations and the changing economic situation of Latina women.

Spending the year working with low-income people and learning about unions in South Korea is the goal of Chung, a social studies concentrator from Portland, Ore. "I've been interested in these issues academically and personally," she said.

Blaich, a sociology concentrator from Honolulu, who is also interested in education, plans to spend the year working with rural community development organizations in Zimbabwe.

The fellowships, established in memory of Michael C. Rockefeller '60, provide an unmarried undergraduate with a $12,000 stipend to travel abroad, pursuing a project that personally involves the winner with a foreign culture.