Newspaper clipping, “AFS Day Held in Snow Hill for International Students,” Mar. 17, 1977

Name/Title

Newspaper clipping, “AFS Day Held in Snow Hill for International Students,” Mar. 17, 1977

Entry/Object ID

84.382

Collection

WR 84: American Field Service Clubs Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Clipping, Newspaper

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Clipping

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Article

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Literary Works

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Publication Details

Publication Type

Newspaper

Date Published

Mar 17, 1977

Transcription

Messenger 3/17/77 Snow Hill's Mayor James Freeny is introduced to Cheryl Davis of Barbados by Paul Coombes of Australia. . .following AFS Day dinner. (Paul resides with the Wm. Kunsman family of Spence and Cherie lives with Mrs. Forrest Mooney and daughter of Pocomoke.) AFS Day Held In Snow Hill For International Students American Field Service Day at Snow Hill High School, Friday, March 11, included international participants from nine different countries. The students gathered from Delaware and Maryland as guests of the AFS Club and stayed over-night with the high school club members. Activities ranged from a tour of the school and an assembly program, a potluck dinner for students and adult hosts and friends, to a dance Friday evening with music by a popular local band, Crystal Ship. At the dinner Snow Hill's AFS'er, Paul Coombes of Australia, introduced representatives from Iceland, France, Sweden, W. Germany, Chile, Denmark, Scotland and Barbados. Also acknowledged were several host sisters accompanying the foreign students as well as Cathy Early of Snow Hill, '76 AFS returnee from Iceland, and Julie Windsor of Cambridge, '76 returnee from Scotland. School advisors, Mrs. Earl Taylor and Miss Barbara Moore, rated the annual event as quite successful. School club president, Keith Mariner, reminded the group that a host home is presently being sought for next year and urged interested families to contact chapter president Eloise Cropper as soon as possible.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Paul Leon Coombes, Mabel Eloise Parker Cropper, Cheryl Lynn Davis, Catherine Shields Early McJilton, James Freeny, William LeRoy Kunsman, Sr., Keith Mariner, Mrs. Forrest Mooney, Barbara J. Moore, Mrs. Earl Taylor, Julie Windsor

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history@worcesterlibrary.org

Create Date

11/14/2023

Updated By

history@worcesterlibrary.org

Update Date

12/10/2024