American Field Service Exchange Program - Overseaer Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Eetti were thrown all over the deck as so UN Idlewild Airport saw many AFSers arrive on the morning of June 18, eager to be on their way to Europe. Others came by car, bus, and train, 2 A . i The horn blew, the engines came to life, nd we were on our way! Streamers of con- AFSers tried to get a last glimpse of Mom and Dad or of the New York skyline. ,ro 5, UOSOAOY The California AFSers landed at Idlewild at 6:30 a.m. and found there was a distinct shortage of eating space in the coffee shop. Result: Nancy Naftel and Beth Summers ate their breakfast off the top Of a trash can in the hallway. AFSers and their families began arriving at the pier soon after the meeting at the New Yorker Hotel was done. Con- fusion reigned as families, luggage, and AFSers were hustled onto the ship. u

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I say there, old chap, have you seen the nineteen Americans who have spent the past summer in merry old England? I was talking to one of them a fortnight ago and he told me about some of their experiences. They all arrived in London on june 29 and their first mistake was to look the wrong way before crossing the street, as he nearly got run down, one of the boys, Archie Duncanson, told the car's driver that he was driving on the wrong side of the road. Many of the stu- dents were met by their summer families in London, while others traveled to their new homes. The students were located all over England except for Mary Willis who stayed in North Ireland. Tom Seed became a teddy boy of Sheffield during the summer. Several of the Americans were able to go to Wales and Scotland which enabled them to contrast their surroundings. Others were able to attend school for a few weeks and they found many differences in the two systems. The biggest differ- ence was that here the schools aren't co-educational. The Yankees also found the food to be very different-and fattening! Fish 'n' chips, and roast beef and York- shire pudding were favorites. Of course, that daily afternoon spot of tea was en- joyed by all and all 19 were confirmed tea drinkers when they left. Other liquid refreshments were enjoyed by the boys at the pubs, which they haunted at all hours. The British Association of the American Field Service arranged a trip for our visitors during the last week of their stay. London was the first spot on the tour and the AFSers spent four days seeing the city from top to bottom ffrom the dome of St. Paul's to the London subwaysj. While in London the group attended a movie premiere of Blind Date and even had their picture taken with the star. The next day all were caught in a flash shower that flooded the Tube stations fthe subway, and everyone had to walk from the Tower of London to the Strand for dinner. That same night they attended a performance of the Festival Ballet- still dripping wet. There was some confusion that night when Sylvia Sykora got lost alone at 12:00 in the Tube station and missed the last train home. The rest of the end-of-summer stay was spent in Bristol and Bath where the AFSers stayed at Winterbourne, a girls' boarding school, the boys really liked that! Traveling back to London at the end of the week, all bade good-by to their English families for the last time. As the train pulled out of the London station many tears were shed, but all 19 vowed that they would some day return to Eng- land for a longer stay. My informers say that all had a wonderful time and a constant reminder of their English summer is their British accent which they all have a little troublelosingg all, that is, except Gayle Turner from Alabama, who never lost her Southern one. Well, it's four o'clock now and tea time so I must go. Cheerio!