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Show New Zealand Student Visit Here Sunday A group of 31 students from I New Zealand will be in Moab ' for several hours Sunday, Aug. 29, visiting here under ' he sponsorship of the Utah Student Cultural Exchange. Welcoming host will be Shawn Meador, who spent a year in New Zealand as a Rotary Exchange Student. Lunch will be served at Southeast Elementary by the Grand County High F.H.A. Club under the direction of Marsha Chapman, president, and Marion Holyoak, advisor. After lunch the group will make a short tour of Arches National Park with Mayor W. D. McDougald aboard the bus as tour guide. The Utah Student Cultural Exchange was organized to aid ethnic minority students of high school age in understanding understand-ing other ethnic minority groups in Utah and in other countries. To this end, 21 Utah ethnic minority students and their chaperones spent 3 weeks as guests of the Maoris in New Zealand in February 1975. The group was made up of Navajo students from Blanding, Ute students from Fort Duchesne, and Black, Spanish-American and White students from other parts of the state. The trip enabled them to associate closely with each other by traveling, eating and sleeping in a heterogeneous group. They were also exposed to the Maori culture and the problems the Maoris face in New Zealand as a minority group dominated by an implanted im-planted foreign culture. The exchange now completes complet-es its first cycle with the Maori and white students visiting California, Nevada and Utah, 10 days of their 3-week visit to be spent in Utah. |