Stockton High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Stockton, IL)

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S Stony The underlying belief of the American Field Service pro- gram which was started in 1947 is: to know is to understand. To know and understand a country and its people at 16, 17, or 18 years of age is to remember for the rest of one's life. These young ambassadors of good will live in their homes away from home as members of the family with the same re- sponsibilities and rights as other children in the family. They are chosen for qualities of character, leadership, personality, and adaptability. Responsibility for the student is shared by the host family, the local AFS chapter, and AFS N.Y. The program is planned and supervised by the local chapter and the New York office. It is a community-wide project, reaching and benefiting as many students and local groups as are interested. All AFS local activities are carried out on a volunteer basis as is the case with a great deal of the work done at AFS N.Y. and abroad. A three-week bus tour at the end of the school year gives the student a broader picture of America, although the foundation of his impressions will be the thorough knowledge of his host community.

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 Snow is about the most ex- citing thing Pve known......... Tobogganing is great, but I'd never sit any place but in the out the blankets when it gets near our low of 60............. The snow always seems to fall apart when I try to make a snow- relationships of teachers and students in American schools . . I was never anything like Home- coming attendant before......... We use a lot more spices in cooking.........I don’t miss rice and fish, I like meat better . . . . I liked fresh milk right from the first . . . .Boys and girls at home don’t usually date without chaperones until after high school age . . . .Young Filipino boys frequently serenade girls, sing- ing and strumming a guitar .... Most of our formal schooling is in English . . .Your slang phrases like “hit the hay’’ and “two- faced” confused me . . .About the only TV program I watch regularly is GE True . . .Mt. Morris was a real riot . . .I went to sleep at the slumber party ... I was shocked to be chosen for the AFS scholarship . . . .Girls talk about boys everywhere. Bobbi Curry - AFS Student Representative Mrs. Thomas-AFS Publicity Chairman middle .At home we get man I like the informal 3 Mr. Bretl - AFS School Coordinator

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rfs ?S Sfoc tott The idea of bringing a foreign student to Stockton originated in the 1961 -62 SHS Student Council of which Terry Neeble was president. Representatives from all organizations in Stockton were invited to a meeting in the high school cafeteria on December 29, 1961. Twenty- nine interested people responded and the first local AFS chapter was formed. Dr. Lyle Rachuy was chosen as president; Mr. Orrin Arnold, Member for Finance; Mrs. Harold Nagel, Member for Homes; Mr. Alden Bretl, School Coordinator; Mrs. Edmund Thomas, Publicity Chairman; Mrs. Omer Neebel, Ameri- cans Abroad Coordinator, and Ann Borsdorf, student member. The latter two were replaced later in the year when the Borsdorf home was chosen by AFS N.Y. for the host home and when the younger Neebel son, Dick, applied for the opportunity to go abroad under the Americans Abroad program. Mrs. Robert Taylor replaced Mrs. Neebel and Bobbi Curry replaced Ann Borsdorf. These people read pamphlets — there's a pamphlet for every procedure; AFS leaves no pamphlets unwritten — , struggled to meet dead- lines, missed them and asked for deadline ex- tensions, filled out pink, blue, and yellow forms in triplicate . . . .and early in June their frantic efforts were rewarded: the Borsdorfs were to be the family; the student was to be a girl from the Philippines. Thus, AFS was born in Stockton. Top to bottom: Dr. Rachuy Mr. Arnold Mrs. Nagel 5