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Show U. of U. Exchange Students Tour Iron County Seven students from foreign lands who are studying at the University of Utah spent Monday Mon-day and Tuesday in Iron countv, visiting the schools and civic clubs ,of Cedar City and Parowan, Paro-wan, under the Exchange student stu-dent program. The seven students, stu-dents, three from Egypt, two from Lebanon, one from Germany Ger-many and one from Trans-Jordan, were brought to the county coun-ty by the school administration as a means of bringing local stu- ) dents and townspeople in direct contact with people of foreign lands, and to give them the opportunity op-portunity to hear from the foreign for-eign students reports of life and conditions in their countries. The group, Mostafa Ziado, a professor at the University of Utah, his wife and daughter, from Egypt; Ernst Raush, Germany; Ger-many; Nuri Shafig, Trans-Jordan; Miss Alaya Raad and Ahmed Ah-med Haffer, Lebanon, under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Mundell of Salt Lake City, made the visit. Monday noon they meet with the Cedar City Lions club, and on Tuesday were the guests of the Cedar City Rotary club. They spent Monday and Tuesday forenoon, fore-noon, visiting the schools in Ce-day Ce-day City, and spent Tuesday afternoon af-ternoon at the Parowan schools. They went In small groups from class to class In the schools and spent a short period in each tell-s ing of their contries and answering answer-ing questions of the students. The program proved highly interesting in-teresting to the students, and provided a rare opportunity to get first hand information from I people who have spent their lives in foreign lands that are very much in the news at the present time. |