Former Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary John W. Gardner is one of five new fellows for the 1968-69 academic year at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics.

The list of appointees includes Vernon J. Jordan Jr., director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council and a former Field Director of the NAACP. Jordan is the first black to be appointed a fellow in the three-year history of the Kennedy School Program.

Other Fellows

The other new fellows are Levin H. Campbell '48, Walter D. DeVries, and Leroy S. Wehrle. A sixth fellow, Alvin J. Bronstein, has been reappointed from last year.

The new appointments are for the 1968-1969 academic year. The Institute Program for Fellows is designed to allow participants to pursue individual projects without academic constraints. Appointees have no teaching responsibilities, but in the past have conducted informal non-credit seminars in their fields while continuing their writing or research.

Gardner is presently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Urban Coalition, based in Washington, D.C. Next year he will also be a visiting professor at M.I.T. where he will spend most of his time.

With the exception of Gardner, who will be at the Institute only periodically, the new fellows will be in Cambridge from five months to a year each.

Wehrle was Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisors from 1961-1962 and served as both Associate Director of the Agency for International Development Mission in Vietnam and Economic Counselor of the U.S. Embassy there from 1964-1967.

A former Special Assistant to Governor George Romney, DeVries campaigned with the Governor earlier this year before he withdrew from the Presidential race.

Campbell is First Assistant Attorney General for the State of Massachusetts, and a former state representative from Cambridge.