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Show Exchange Students Looking for Homes Over twenty-five hundred foreign students will come to the U.S. in September for the "79-'80 I school year, or for 3 to 6-month periods under the sponsorship of International Fellowship, Inc. This non-profit organization is now in its 27th year and is the largest exchange student program in Latin America. I.F.I, also maintains chapters in Europe and in the Orient. ' These youngsters, scheduled to arrive between September 1 and January 1, will need host homes. They want to live with U.S. families for 3, 6 or 9 months, ana attend the high school to which the children of the neighborhood go. High schools, as a rule, are anxious to participate in exchange programs when there is no cost involved The students range from 14 to 18. They are recommended by their own schools, screened by the foreign chapter of I.F.I. and for the most part, speak English. They come, not as guests but as members of the family, sharing in the tasks, and the family hosting them may claim them for income tax purposes. Students have their own I money for personal expenses and are insured against accidents, illness, prescriptions. The receiving family agrees to provide a bed, three meals daily, transportation to school and church, and laundry. Students may share a room. For each foreign student attending a U.S. High School, that school is eligible to send a student abroad. The scholarship fee includes transportation both ways, rooms, board, tuition, insurance and the services of the I.F.I, chapter in the foreign country. Families willing to host a student may call collect to the Western Office of International Fellowship, Inc., Post Office Box 1212, Sedona, Arizona 86336, or call Alden Black, at Panguitch High School. In an era when peaceful international relations depends more and more on one nation's sympathetic understanding of another's culture and problems, such programs can be valuable. The foreign student who gets a chance to sample family and school life here will return to his own country with a better understanding of our nation. And it is from their ranks that the foreign leaders of tomorrow may come. So in addition to broadening the horizons of the .visiting student and the people he or she meets, the Student Exchange Program, in a small way, may further the cause of international peace. |