Show Exchange student from Iran spends time at Gilbert farm in is village worker in home country Mohamad Taghi his American nickname is from the Community arrived at the Thomas M. Gilbert home in the first day of 1960 and remained as a member of the Gilbert family until September His family in Iran consists of his mother and a seventeen-year old He is 25 years of Persian is his native language but he also speaks Turkish and some He is learning to converse in the English language remarkably well is a village worker in his native employed by the Village Development He supervises the development and improvement of cotton and rice poultry and animal husbandly among the tribesmen in the Gorgan area east of the Caspian He is employed by the government of Iran in a new program of rural development known as the Block Development He functions as a multipurpose sub-professional worker known as a trans- MOHAMAD TAGHI Iranian exchange student into English as moaning of the village has supervision over three each of which has a population of approximately 1000 He was selected as an International Farm Youth known as because he had achieved a superior work record with the village people during the past year and had Shown unusual evidence of and good The is sponsored by governments of participating nations and the Ford It Is part of the national Club's Program In the host country participants live on share in the family work and social life of the anil do their part in contributing to a better of the life and culture OA home The host patience and may help to overcome the language barrier and encourage good feeding and friendliness in the family and For the Gilbert il lias been a privilege and a pleasure to have this young man its a family Participating in has remarkable- development in learning to converse with them in has been most They conclude that he is very intelligent and quick to observe everything that goes on in the home n in all farm and dairy They agree that ins stay was loo short an I sincerely wish him success and much happiness with the new-family In Davis County w h i will be his next was a speaker at Union High School on September |