------------------------------------ _Secretary of sponsoring organization._ ------------------------------------ _Chairman of sponsoring organization._ Mr. TAVENNER. I would like to read into the record one or two sentences from this advertisement: Every child coming to the camp must be O. K.’d by some such organization, so that we are sure that the children at the camp are worthwhile elements to work with. What was meant by that? Mr. DENNETT. Well, I cannot recall exactly at this time except to say that it was our purpose then to find young people who would have at least enough knowledge and understanding to be possible leadership material. It was our hope and purpose to develop more leaders. We needed them very much. Mr. TAVENNER. To develop them for leadership in the Communist Party? Mr. DENNETT. True. Mr. TAVENNER. Did you conduct any courses at the camp yourself? Mr. DENNETT. Yes; I did. Mr. TAVENNER. We find among the documents that you turned over to us what apparently is a questionnaire submitted to a number of members of the class, with their names appearing on them and with questions relating to their plans for the future, what they consider about class struggle, surplus value, materialist conception of history, and so forth. I do not want you to mention in the testimony the names of any of these individuals at this moment, but I would like you to examine the questionnaire. Mr. DENNETT. I have my own copy. Mr. TAVENNER. Will you examine the group and state whether any child attending these classes was as young as 15 years of age? Mr. DENNETT. I have one 19, I have one 16. Yes; here is one 15. Mr. TAVENNER. In fact, there are several as young as 15 years of age, are there not? Mr. DENNETT. 21, 20, 15, 17, 17. Yes; 18, 17, 17. Mr. TAVENNER. Am I correct in stating that this is in the form of a questionnaire to determine the success of the training at this camp? Mr. DENNETT. Well it must be remembered that I was just fresh from teaching, and one of the things that a teacher has to learn is whether or not their teaching is successful. The way you determine that is to devise a test. So I devised a test to determine whether or not my efforts had been successful. So this is in the form of a test. Mr. TAVENNER. Will you tell the committee, please, what reaction you get from reading the test papers of some of the younger of the group? Say, 15, 16, and 17 years of age. Mr. DENNETT. I have picked out those 2 that were 15 years of age. I had something here in which I asked this kind of question: What organizations they belonged to. I asked them to list them. And this one said: “YPA,” which was the Young Pioneers of America. And a workers’ youth club.