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Daily Times August 15, 1968
ON THE BEACH. Shown on the beach at Ocean City this week were, from left to right, Raul Tettamant, 16, of Argentina; Lynn Shockley, 19, Whiton; Carina de Beaufort of Holland; and Louis Shockley Jr., 16, also of Whiton. Raul is the new exchange student living with Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Shockley of Whiton. His American brother will be Louis Jr. at the Snow Hill High School. Lynn was the American sister three years ago to Carina, who was the exchange student from Holland. They were vacationing in Ocean City this week. (Times Photo)
Worcester Family Opens Its Heart To Students
By MEL TOADVINE Of The Times Staff
OCEAN CITY - A young man from Argentina, who arrived in this country this week under the auspices of the American Field Service, is spending a few days in Ocean City with his American parents.
Raul Tettamant, 16, whose home is in Rafaela, Santa Fe, Argentina, arrived Tuesday by air in Washington where he was met by Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Shockley of Whiton, about nine miles from Snow Hill.
Foreign exchange students are no strangers to the Shockleys. During the school year, 1964-65, they hosted a young girl from Holland ... and one of their daughters, 17 - year- old Lee, is spending a year under the AFS program in Brazil due to arrive back in this county next January.
You don't meet people like the Schokleys every day, says Mrs. Ralph Mason Jr. of Snow Hill who is president of the Snow Hill AFS Chapter.
"THEY are a special breed of people," she said, "they open their homes and hearts to stranger for about a year... but often forever." Mr. and Mrs. Shockley are the parents of six. But according to Mrs. Shockley, "I guess you might say we have eight children now counting Carina, who stayed with us three years ago... and now Raul, who already seems like part of the family."
Their Dutch daughter, who is attending a special school in Holland to study kindergarten education, is now in Ocean City with the rest of the family. All are there except Lee, who is in Brazil.
Mr. Shockley is the owner of J. W. Shockley Inc. of near Snow Hill, a poultry business. Mrs. Shockley, for the summer months, lives in Ocean City managing the family's Six Chix Apartments on Baltimore Ave. and Eleventh St.
Carina deBeauford, who is from Bussum, Holland, graduated from the Snow Hill High School in 1965. With her during her summer visit is a friend from Holland. Carina arrived here July 3 and will return to Holland in three weeks.
Raul will be attending the Snow Hill High School as the first male exchange student in the seven years that Snow Hill
has been a part of the AFS program. He'll be going to school with his American brother, Louis Jr., who is 16 and will be in the 11th grade. Raul, who pronouces his name by rolling the "ul", will be a senior come (See FAMILY, Page D-5)
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RAUL says that the hardest thing to get used to so far is hearing English spoken all around.
"I go down the boardwalk my ears hear English all around me. It sounds funny," he said. As expected, Raul will be thinking in his native Spanish for a while. Each time he speaks, he will be translating his Spanish thoughts into English words.
Raul's home city in Argentina is about 600 miles inland from the Atlantic ocean. He loves swimming but had never been in the Atlantic until this week in Ocean City.
"In my city, everyone who wants to go swimming goes to a pool. we hardly get to visit the coast," he said.
There will be quite a switch at the school in Snow Hill for Raul as in Argentina, he was a student in an all-male military school.
"I don't like military school," he said, "it's no fun."
Raul has a 19 year old sister who was an exchange student in 1965-66 to Arkansas. He is the youngest of three children. Mr. Tettamant is a lawyer and his mother is a retired school teacher. His oldest brother is an engineer and probably has influenced Raul, who also wants to become an engineer in the atomic field.
THIS I will mean that he'll have eight more years of schooling in Argentina after he completes high school.
On the way to Ocean City from Washington earlier in the week while driving through Salisbury, young Raul noticed the city signs and remembered that Salisbury was known as the tennis capital of the world.
He loves to play tennis and go horseback riding. He's look- ing forward to next February's National Indoor Tennis Tournament and hopes that his native. Argentina will send a few entrant.
In Argentina now, it is winter, but accodring to Raul, the temperatures are in the low 70's. It never gets below 40 degrees, he says, and he said he's never seen snow.
His American family assured him that he needn't worry about that as they were sure he would see enough this winter on the Eastern Shore to last him for the rest of his life.