Ernest Seaholm High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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AFS student exchanges promote understanding Much is said about promoting understanding be tween nations but few people ever really do anything about it The American Field Service program is a notable exception to this rule furthering international relations in the best possible way through exchanges of students from different countries all over the world Seaholm was somewhat unique in the manner in which it sent representatives abroad last summer and fall Emily Watson summered in Fml md while an un precedented four students studied abroad on the winter program Natalie Gmgell studied in Tromso, Norway Eleanor Sims in Namur Belgium Jane Thompson in Rotterdam, Holland and Dan Rodgers in Bern, Swit zerland But the European peoples did not glean all the bene tits of this people to people program Although sending five students Seaholm was fortunate enough to get Glo Mendozo of the Philippines and Jeanne Pierre Gontard of France school put up and decorated by those students on the service s committee Glo Mendoza Paul Robertson Carol Shuler Jane Griffith and Don Van Doren add their ornaments as the project nears completion Welcome Home read a great banner in the lobby It was home in time to begin the second semester Talking over the trip are Paul Robertson Carol Shuler Eleanor Sims Natalie Gmgell Don Van Doren Jane Thompson Dan Rodgers and Emily Watson .2 5 gsm' I 5 3 g . . . 2 , . - l . . . . Q , S 5 - 7 4The AFS lobby Christmas tree is a familiar tradition in the a great day indeed ,when our winter exchange students arrived . 4 I . ? ' I? I, Q lv rl H .1 A . I 21