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

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Our Holland is a flat little country with green pastures and gentle, spotted cowsg cobble-streeted villages with square-towered churches, plain and Calvin- isticg small canals and great sea dikesg homes on polders beside, below, the sea. Our Holland has Amsterdam: crooked, narrow houses on winding, narrow streets . . . tidy street cafes . . . the noise of massive hurdy-gurdies and of different foreign tongues, has Rotterdam: not quaint, but new . . . strong, sharp, modern buildings rise where once was wartime rubble, rise beside a famous harbor amidst a crane-marked skyline, has Den Haag: sophisticated, regal, with its green- grassed parks and beige-gray stone state houses . . . Dutch cheese sliced thin on buttered bread, cold, creamy yogurt dressed with sweetened fruit, little, puffy hot cakes, poffertjes, in melting butter and pow- dered sugarg light pastry cakes and warm, rich chocolate . . . Pretty blond meisjes with unbelievable complexions, who ride swift bicycles and wear short skirts and many petticoats . . . tall, straight, dignified, ruddy- faced sailors, doctors, engineers, businessmen, farmers . . . When we go back, we will want to see people shaking hands with friends met on the street. We will want to buy flowers from a stall, climb a church tower to see the steep and pointed red-tiled roofs. We'll want to talk with Holland's people, exceptionally well-educated people, industrious, courageous people, they have fought the sea and other nations for self-preservation, fervent individualists, they have acquired the title of stubborn Dutchmenng tidy and economical, they live simply and without ostentation, making the most out of the small area of land bequeathed and made by them, being trad- ers, they are less patriotic than internationally minded and can leave their too densely populated homeland to emigrateg proud, kindly, cheerful, Nederlanders . . . these are the people with whom we want to talk again. Talk of Holland's gardens and carillons and its motor bikes . . . Talk of Delft's old university and of Limburgh's ancient churches and the North's blue waters made for sailing in the wind . . . Talk in Dutch again, the language of a small nation which calls those things it loves the very best by the suffix tje, to mean a little something' '... To say, not Bye nor See you later, but Dag, tot ziensf'

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MARK BLACKMAN Fargo, North Dakota JUDY BONDUS Wayzata, Minnesota BARBARA CAMPBELL Red Hook, New York NANCY CHESTER Woodland, Washington BETSY CLAPP Washington, D.C. SALLY DUFF IN Carlsbad, New Mexico SHARON AMUNDSON Plymouth, Wisconsin NANCY ARMBRUSTER Petaluma, California KATHY BALLENTHIN Owatonna, Minnesota JOHN BARRETT Homewood, Illinois BONNIE BAUER Batavia, New York KAREN BAXTER Charlotte, North Carolina g -la'-WWWNfwfw2f -Mwwfwwwfvea ffm emwmrf 'K ' 'V M- 'H '