The Janus - April 2005

Invited to Sound Leslie E. Bains is appointed President of AFS International and addresses the 2004 World Congress - October 5, Fujiyoshida, Japan

P

lease join

us in welcoming

AFS International of the international

Leslie E. Bains as

President.

A 38-year

veteran

finance

community,

having

most recently served as Senior Executive Vice President of HSBC North America,

Leslie plans to create a new

emphasis on increased collaboration public and nonprofit growth economic

dialogue and understanding.

interest in philanthropic

and nonprofit

arts. AFS International perspective

sectors to assist AFS in identifying

opportunities,

role as a facilitator

is optimistic

among the private,

new funding of global

sources,

cultural,

and its

political,

and

Leslie has always maintained

a strong

work in the fields of education

and the

about the experience,

expertise, and new

Leslie brings to the network.

A Message from Leslie First of all, I want to thank the AFS network for such a warm welcome. truly

privileged

to be part of this important

history of volunteerism world through and cultural diversity

with

such a rich

in service of our mission to create a more peaceful

intercultural discord

organization

I feel

exchange.

around

In a time of increased political

the world,

AFS plays a critical

tension

role in turning

into an asset instead of a source of conflict.

I made my initial address to the AFS network at the 2004 World Congress on October

5 in Fujiyoshida,

to Sound. According

Japan. The theme of my speech was an Invitation

to the Vietnamese

Buddhist teacher and poet, Tich Naht

Hahn, each day a group of monks in his monastery begin their meditation ringing a bell reminding of everything

them to focus their attention,

but the tone.

and clear their minds

The monks never say the bell has been "struck."

They say that the bell has been "invited The March 11, 2004 bombings November

by

to sound."

in Spain, the many bombings

15th and 21 st in Turkey, prove that educational,

exchange programs are every bit as important

in Indonesia,

cu Itural and student

as they were at the end of World

Arriving

fresh from the corporate

have worked

world,

where

I

for the past 38 years, I hope to bring

fresh new insight and a new perspective

as to how

AFS can better serve its mission. There are 5 areas in which

I would

like to concentrate

Branding,

Visibility,

Programs,

and Growth

to achieving We

have

initiative

Fund

financially begun

a new

our commitment

ambitious

fundraising

our case for support,

for philanthropic

today's environment, international

to fulfill

Recognition

viable growth with quality.

to strengthen

the potential

Raising,

on in 2005:

investment

study

in AFS in

and define a strategy for our

fundraising

initiative.

To better serve

our mission, we have already begun to reorganize War II. These terrorist attacks are painful blows, but

the staff structure

also an invitation

some strategic

to try even harder to root out the

sources of the misunderstandings brutality

possible. Education which

and appreciation

for our fellow

from all cultures

and traditions

overcome truly

that make such

the

philosopher

men and women is the only way to which

acts. As an 18th century

put it - /lNothing

to see ignorance

new

hires to establish

between AFS International

and make a balance

and our partners.

inspires respect

misunderstandings

desperate

of AFS International

inspire German

is more terrible than

in action./I

John

F. Kennedy

addressed

a group

exchange students on the White height of the Cold War in 1963.

of foreign

House lawn at the What he said to

them applies to the young people who take part in our exchanges today. He said: /lYou will be a friend of peace ... a friend

of all people ... and you will

stand for those principles

which

motivate

Today AFS is one of the largest community-based

all around the globe, a chance for everyone,

volunteer

chance for everyone,

organizations

international.

in the world.

We work

30,000 volunteers

We are truly

in 52 nations.

We have

people

each year.

We have

much to be proud of.

The invitation to answering

Just as no two bells have precisely no two AFS volunteers

the same tone,

have precisely

unique

visions,

the same

passions

and

ideas are our greatest strengths. Yet this diversity also creates a challenge.

Right now our partners

and chapters

the world

independent answering

throughout

and increasingly the invitation

and each is producing the harmonic individual one song?

I

2

in which we

have some hope for peace./I

coming year.

Our

a fair

and provide exchange programs

for close to 11,000

approach.

but also a world

us all,

are so very

fragmented.

Each is

to sound in its own way,

a tone that may not produce

we seek. So how do we take our

notes of the AFS organization

and create

has sounded, its call with

and I look forward

all of you together

this

From Ends to Beginnings The 2004 World Congress, October 3-9, Fujiyoshida Japan AFS Japan volunteer demonstrates how to wear a kimono with AFS Switzerland Director, Sandra BauerKeller

participants

gain: an advanced

the host language, the host culture, other

level of fluency

much greater knowledge greater ease around

cu Itures, far more

Asian

Thailand,

AFS

partners

Philipines,

and Indonesia)

about

people from

intercu Itura I friendships,

and a greater level of intercultural Our

in

competence."

(AFS

Malaysia,

Asia

Initiative:

Hong Kong, China,

put the spotlight

on developments

in Asia and spoke about their programs to enlighten he breaking of the sake barrel on the evening

T

of

the

opening

than just a significant

AFS. The tradition country's

symbolized

carried out by the host Bin Sato and Kimimasa

Life Trustee Edwin Masback,

- marked

more

event in the history of

- jointly

representatives,

Tarumizu, Bains

dinner

a celebrated

and Leslie

beginning

of

an

exceptional

event where for the first time since the

partnership

transition,

a country

of Sophia

and a former

University

Ambassador

Disarmament,

spoke

in Asia.

on the many possibi Iities for growth

Ebbe Skovdal,

Director

gave a snapshot of fundraising Partners focused Among

the

of Development,

and a panel of AFS

on best practices

presentations

for fundraising.

from

partners,

Mick

Petersmann from Germany and Eduardo Assed from Brazil gave a presentation

on their cooperation

tap into German company

support.

to

in Asia hosted the

World Congress. Keynote speaker, Professor Kuniko Inoguchi

the network

- an AFS returnee

to the Conference

passionately

on

how

experience

as an AFS exchange

student

her outlook

on life and fueled her determination

on her

changed to

The closing initiated

concluded

with

by Trustee Fatimah Mohammed

a total of $6,500 for a scholarship

an auction that raised

for a student to be

hosted in Japan. All in all, it was a very productive World

Congress

leadership reinforce

realize a path to global peace and understanding.

dinner

were

where

AFS staff, volunteers

able to connect

the bonds

that unite

in person

and and

the AFS network.

The end of the congress marked a new beginning Leslie

Bains

direction

inspired

a fresh

and confidence

organization

and addressed

as the need to promote

the need to position education

of making

AFS much

intercultural

more visible

as a leader in

learning and taking AFS to a new and

higher level.

as well

the benefits of exchange.

Tachi Cazal, Chief Operating

Officer,

updated the

on the State of the Network

promising

in the

of the entire network and

AFS as the leader in intercultural

Congress

awareness

news that program

numbers

with

the

were the

highest ever this year.

Betsy Hansel,

presented

of our three-year Impact

research project,

Study. "While

we already

know

the preliminary

there

findings

the Educational

is still

more

to do ,

from our research that the AFS THE JANUS/APRIL

AFS Partner Directors and Chairs convene to share ideas and best practices at the World Congress.

2005

AFS Japan Celebrates 50 Years Leslie E. Bains' Introductory Remarks AFS Japan's 50th Anniversary Celebration It is a great honor for me to be invited to address this celebration milestone.

It is important

use milestones a moment,

of 50 years of AFS in Japan, a true to pause at milestones.

To

as high points on which to stand for

to get an overview

and, most critically,

of our past, present

our future.

differences.

In this way, we might make a milestone into a turning point - a new era which different from everything now. Mydream

promises to be radically we've experienced

is thatourchildren

up until

and grandchildren

will look out over a safer, more compassionate, more creative

landscape

today's volunteers

because of the efforts of

them over our first 50 years working It is with great joy that I congratulate in this grand who

took

those

And,

of course,

I offer

first

steps

towards

greater

between the United States and Japan

by participating commitment

all of you on

and thanks to the early volunteers

understanding two nations

together.

of AFS in Japan, culminating

ceremony.

congratulations

and

and those who paved the way for

the 50th anniversary

in AFS just nine years after our

were at war. The exchange goes

beyond

The first group of Japanese students in 1954

merely

students' tolerating

AFS

It asks our exchange students to explore

not only their host nation, but their own assumptions and understanding unknown

of the world. Venturing

is always frightening,

into the

but only by leaving

the comfort of home do we discover new treasures.

Only with programs like AFS intercultural can we achieve

the type

allows every individual

exchanges

of understanding

that

to live up to his or her full

potential.

We sometimes use the word "war" with taking action.

interchangeably

We speak of a "war on drugs"

or a "war on terrorism."

Thus we think

as inaction-

of war, the absence of

conflict.

Minister

the absence

of peace

I do not subscribe to this view. As Prime Eisaku Sato reminded

us when he accepted

a Nobel Peace prize in 1974, peace is farfrom inaction,

or an absence.

being

Peace is a highly creative

state. It is only during times of peace, he said, that each individual

will

be able to devote himself

his own creative and constructive in the arts, culture, fulfilling which

religion

social aspirations.

"to

achievements

and other activities This is the peace

is essential for all individuals,

peoples,

nations, and thus for the whole of humanity."

So I

am pleased tosalute 50 years of bold individualsbold

enough

differences,

to

respect

using the differences

of us more complete, to humankind.

Leslie E. Bains {center} with AFS Japan returnees from 1957 Makiko Goshima and Yoshiharu Fujisawa who ar~ pictu~ed in the photograph to the right with Stephen Gaiotti in 1957 THE JANUS/APRIL

celebrate

our best

This is quite an achievement,

for your next 50 years.

our

to make each

and to contribute

we look forward to building

2005

and

and

a strong foundation

2004 Galatti Award Winners FS

A

a

announced

2004

Galatti

winners

Award

who

combined

dedicated

the

82

have

years

volunteer

of

service

to AFS: Jerene Thomas from USA, and Germany. for

Established

Outstanding

prestigious

Traudl

commendation

exceptional

China,

StUrmer

in 1983, the Galatti

Volunteer

honors community and

Oi Van from

volunteers dedication

from Award

Service

is the

granted

by AFS and

':~

most

Di Yon¡ Chino

whose commitment have

advanced

the

cultural

festivals and language immersion

activities

mission and goals of AFS. The award not only serves

with Elementary schools, she arranged holiday teas

to recognize

at her house to discuss holiday traditions.

to galvanize

outstanding the

spirit

volunteers,

but also seeks

of grassroots

program

community

participants

recruited through

action.

and

volunteers

have

been

her efforts.

Oi Van's 12 years of volunteer she returned

Countless

service began after

from the Teacher Program in Indiana

in 1993. Since then, she has arranged orientations and support for the Teachers Program. In 1997, AFS International

and CEAIE started the student program

in China. Oi was the only teacher who was invited to help select the students orientation

and took

part in the

for the first group of 29 students. Since

then, she has become an active volunteer her community

and Beijing, but also in other cities

in China, contributing

From 1960-1990, volunteer,

the last 45 years to AFS. From

she served as Northern

Virginia

world.

area

Liaison and Chapter President and found

time to host ten AFS students and countless students

on a temporary

basis from

She now has "grandmothered"

other

allover

the

over 1OOOAFS

1999-2000,

Coordinator Office.

upon

In 2001,

Coordinator,

her expertise

bus trips and orientation and student

and family

at coordinating

sessions, family interviews.

of the

National

started

the student

Oi became the first Hosting She visited all the

Oi became Hosting Coordinator

until 2002 when she

became Chair of the National Volunteer

to

THE JANUS/APRIL

2005

as well

person for the first group to China

from the USA and Germany

finding,

In addition

AFS China

Sending

sure the students were safe and happy. After this as the contact

she honed

the founding

as

host schools and most of the host families and made challenge,

where

volunteered

again as a volunteer.

the AFS Northern

Area Lead Coordinator

Oi

year hosting program.

students over the years. Starting in 1990, she became Virginia

to an essential reinforcement

to local awareness of AFS programs and goals.

Jerene Thomas - Northern Virginia, United States

Jerene has dedicated

not only in

Council.

Traudl

has

been

volunteer

for

Germany 25

for

years.

two

the She

children

on

AFS

and

to

the

a past

Chapter President along with Sandra Roster in 2002

sent

where she grew hosting numbers from 5 to 20 per

Dominican

Venezuelan Traudl StUrmer - Munich, Germany the National Volunteer continued

year. She is currently

and

soon

became

engaged in several conceptual

task forces producing knowledge

Republic, and hosted

chapter,

Chapter,

Germany's

U.S.

largest

in the Munich

AFS

abroad the

Traudl became a volunteer

hosting

handbooks

to share

with the younger volunteers.

a

student.

She has managed

to provide

excellent

language

tutoring for all students and has established monthly In

1983,

Conference.

as she volunteered

she

hosted

Her experience

meetings.

She runs these mainly

some former

in Frankonia where she

soon founded the Coburg chapter. Starting in 2001,

host parents,

former participants

with the help of

sending

parents,

or

that she was able to inspire with

her own spirit of volunteerism.

We All lived Together in a little, Crooked House

By Bill Cantrall (CM 92)

M

arch

salient

1945,

Monte

of Sikh-hood

Grande

maybe I'm in).

just

short

of

British

Eighth

This morning,

The

wounded

offering

had encountered tolerance.

warrior tribes

6

stars on their sides. I had never been inside one.

I asked the Sikhs if they had looked Nods. "Did

they look okay?

mines?"

for dangerous

check them out myself.

patrols -

sun on the

out their hair. Doesn't call for it is officially

I immediately them

a ritual.

before

But they and learned

did up their hair

the importance

from smoking

In

offended them

cigarettes.

AFS drivers

and beards, they explained

I

by the two Sherman tanks, right over there, with U. S.

of the Punjab, actively vied with one another

So as they painstakingly

soul of refraining

was transfixed

at the tanks.

Buono?"

Nods. "No

They shook their heads, and I was off to

support of the denunciations

I guess, though

by profanely

however, my attention

two of the

against each other.

search of information,

with Indians

Division,

I first found the Sikhs taking the morning privacy,

orderly, this and all other conversations

and a rare

took place in pidgin Italian, Urdu, and pantomime.

traditional

back stoop, combing

Except for the doctor

Indian

evacuating,

they directed

I have done all three, so

Tenth

Sikhs and Pathans I was

and for my unqualified

(ultimately,

Bologna, Army.

Bill Cantrall with his ambulance, Italy, 1944

hair and beard grow. That seemed to be the essence

to my

and of letting my

I should definitely

report on these tanks just sitting

in our side yard

here. Making

getting

and

it this far into Italy was not easy whereas

these were right at hand. block)

a new tank

I walked

to the first one, opened

inside, and was heading first shells landed.

150 yards (short

the hatch to peer

for the second when the

Back uphill

where

were now all on their feet was suddenly

the Sikhs a world

away. But in two leaps I was down that open hatch.

And that's where I spent my first day with the Nabha Akal.

"Jerry" was understandably

testy about four

perfectly

good

Shermans

(two

more

farm) parked in their driveway,

at the next

marking

the high-

work?

I was shown that I had to blow all the air out

of my lungs, then suck on the jug as fast as I could.

water thrust of the fall campaign.

And what a sucker I was. One

All these babies needed was gas

drag,

and jumper

theirs, let me know that these

away.

cables to drive them

It hadn't occurred

that the Germans coordinates

of

finger tips.

Once

down,

the

wasting

"When I fi rst came upon the mountain men'sconclave in the front roon:, e,:erybo?y was grinning In welcome like the cat that ate the canary. "

had the exact each

at

their

I was pinned

Germans

shells.

to me

stopped

From time

to

time I heard voices and laughter.

Everybody

smiled

I returned

looking

at me when for

a long

warriors, care

supper,

"Mary

Jane,"

recognize

I first

conclave

came

upon

the

mountain

in the front room, everybody

in welcome wonderful

"hubbly-bubbly,"

daily.

superiority

At any

woozily

away,

up the strange, bitter They

loved

me after

that, and my dramatic

reactions to their continued

offers to share their

daily

delights

were

greatly

cherished.

I don't

in besides the

which they clustered

I was regularly

over a hand-held

but I remained

wary.

on its great

pipe such as mine,

Yet I did not want to seem to

play favorites, and finally interest in my welfare, make it in whatever

touted

succumbed

combined

milieu

to their keen

with my desire to

I found myself.

What they had was simply a two or three-gallon with a corn-cob

jug

stopper, but no tubes. How could it

I

made them ineffably happy just

benefits of smoking their homemade jug-

and-corncob around

and

was grinning

like the cat that ate the canary.

know what they might have believed

men's

away

rate, I was a social success.

smoke.

of various

little

I could

avoided.

by staggering

sorts, surely from joy at seeing me safe.

home.

which

a block

had always

and

When

from

And this wasn't innocent

coughing

wallahs

like

too, must be getting

packages

Sikhs, Pathans, a Parsee doctor, Hindu

inhalation

Tenth Indian Division Sikh troops with the Italian children, spring 1945

Editor's Note: "We All Lived Together in a Little Crooked House" has been excerpted from Looking for Trouble: An AFSVolunteer in Italy 1944-45 (2004), written by Bill Cantrall (CM 92). This forthcoming memoir draws on Cantrall's experiences in the Italian campaign with "0" Platoon 485 Coy and his intercultural encounters with the British, New Zealand, Polish, Indian, Gurkha, Italian, South African, and American soldiers. Cantrall served as Associate Editor of AFSVeterans Application (1988) to secure U.S. army discharges for AFS drivers. He was a guest speaker at AFS Colombia and Belgium Flanders volunteer events in2002 and 2005.

Drivers' News 2005 Ed Masback visitsAFS in Paraguay, Japan and China

Fred Balderston Honored at AFS-USA 2004 Gala Fred Balder-

AFS

ston,

celebrated

AFS

Life Trustee

the

and

achievements

Driver

(ME 37, 59-T)

Nations for tremendous has provided

teering with the American

driver, Fred has continued

fluential

role in AFS throughout

an AFS founder

sary event held July 2004.

Third he

Since volunto play an in-

the years. Fred is

the

anniver-

2004

who had a distinguished

business management

40th

at the Asuncion Yacht and Golf Club in Asuncion

Field Service as an am-

bulance

during

May at the A F S - USA

support and leadership

to AFS over the years.

tion

in

Celebrating the journey, at the United

Annual Gala,

significant

of the organiza-

IB was

honored Ezio Vergani, Fred Balderston and Bill Meserve at AFS USA Gala 2004

Paraguay

To help the AFS program anniversary,

in

in Paraguay mark its 40th

Ed Masback, AFS Life Trustee and Driv-

er (ME 37) journeyed

last July to Asuncion.

a guest speaker at the celebration

Ed was

and also spoke at

the opening of the photo gallery celebrating tant volunteers

impor-

of Paraguay.

career in Ed was also a guest speaker at the 2004 World Con-

and education.

gress in Japan and joined AFS high level delegation to China following

AFS Japan Association 50th Anniversary Celebration in New York

the World Congress.

Ed and Betsy Hansel, Head of Research and Evaluation

participat-

ed in the Federation of French Veterans commemorative

event

in

New York on May 2, 2004.

The commemorative Association's

50th

event to celebrate anniversary

was held on June

30 in New York at AFS International Chamberlin,

AFS Japan

office.

AFS Life Trustee and Driver

IB 59-T), Ed Masback,

Ward (ME 37,

AFS Life Trustee and Driver

One-Man Show In Hollywood Shirl Hendryx show "4F -

(IB 5) wrote and stars in one-man A Short History Of A Not-Quite-

(ME 37) and Blaikie Worth (former AFS staff) joined

Adequate Warrior"

in Studio City's Laurel Grove

Hideo Uenishi

and a group of twenty Japanese re-

Theater in Los Angeles. The show runs through

turnees living

in the U.S. for the event. The guests

April 24, 2005 and is based on Hendryx's

experi-

were welcomed

by Leslie Bains, AFS President and

ences as an AFS driver in India Burma in 1943-44.

Ebbe Skovdal,

Director

Hendryx

and Communications

I

8

Development

and AFS staff.

Marketing

is a noted Hollywood

screenwriter.

playwright

and

Mini-Reunion in North Carolina for AFS Drivers

AFS Driver Receives Delaware Governor's Heritage Award Lewis M. "Skip-

On

per"

Chuck

Purnell

(ME

39)

honored

was

2005

the

Governor

Cole,

20, 2004 Chick

North

Squire,

Carolina

Charley

Bernie Raphael gathered for a Mini Weaverville

in Jan-

uary

November

Drivers

Johnson

and

Reunion at the

home of Chick Squire. The drivers en-

joyed Charley Johnson's music and songs - he sang

by

(a capella) "Lily Marlene"

in four languages.

of Delaware for his work to pre-

Alan

serve the State's

joined the group. Plans are in the works for an AFS

heritage.

drivers' reunion for the Carolinas.

Purnell

of the founders

East and Italy.

Archives and he has been a principal Heritage Commission.

Governor

Ruth Ann Minner

collector

Com-

Purnell was one

of Friends of the Delaware

Delaware

and Ron Poteat, a WWI

joined

AFS in 1942 and served with 485 Ambulance pany in the Middle

Albright

Public

member of the

presented Purnell with

the second annual Governor's

Heritage Award.

Chuck Cole, Chick Squire, Bernie Raphael.

Charley

Johnson

and

Many Voices, One Story - A New History DVD Many Voices, One Story includes excerpts of the interviews with the AFS ~

DVD VI

P

founders-the

r"

World War II drivers and early staff of the AFS Scholarship

program-collected The DVD

by the AFS Archives.

is the first rendering

of the AFS Legacy Project,

to preserve the history of the AFS founders. The personal accounts

of the AFS WWII

volunteers

which

memories

who served in the Middle

North Africa, Italy, France, Germany, and India Burma are illustrated archival

footage and photos. The DVD highlights

Stephen Galatti - founder of the AFS Intercultural from a corps of ambulance

and East, with

the role and vision of

Programs - and helps us understand the evolution

drivers carrying wounded

aims

of AFS

soldiers in two World Wars to a global intercultural

learning network.

Many Voices, One Story was made possible through the generous contributions and Carson Gleberman.

There are two versions of this inspirational

48 minute feature and an abbreviated

of Eduardo Enmanuel

and educational

DVD, the original

8 minute version. To receive either version for $25.00 plus $8.00

shipping fee (regular air mail), please e-mail:

Eleanora.Golobic@afs.org

or fax (212) 807-1001.

Citizens

Honoring Life Trustee Sachiye Kuwamoto

League, but continues

to support AFS as a

Life Trustee.

Sachi visited for

the

AFS International

AFS Legacy

been working Founders'

Project.

AFS Archives

for some time on capturing

legacy

ambulance

to be interviewed

through

taping

has

the AFS

the AFS WWII

drivers and a few of the first AFS staff

members.

Present at the luncheon were AFS Drivers

and Pioneers - Chick Squire, Bayard Clarkson (with his wife),

Kirk Browning

Member

of AFS-USA.

together

other

and Karin Eisele, Board

The luncheon

Life Trustees

also brought

-- Arthur

Howe,

(former AFS President) and Ed Masback

Jr.

(with their

wives), and Norman Eddy. Former AFS Trustees Ezio Vergani

and Marianne

Meyer, Jackie Brown

and

Liz Bauer (former AFS-USA Trustees) were also in attendance.

Ebbe

AFS International

Skovdal,

Development, presented n May 2004,

I

1965-1971,

AFS

Arthur and

Chief

Sachi's

valued contributions 14, 2004.

Jr., AFS President

Francisco

International

acknowledged

Howe

"Tachi/l

Operating

lifelong

Officer,

commitment

to AFS at a luncheon

Tachi presented

her lifetime dedication

Sachi

Stephen

secretary

as

Galatti's

and

International

Director

Sachi chaperoned

trip in 1951 and the following

Trustee,

Trustee Carson

Eduardo Gleberman

of thanks for their support of the

AFS Legacy Project.

and

on May to AFS.

permanent

her first bus

year accompanied

a group of Summer Program students to Germany.

She traveled extensively U.S. and abroad Associate Director Program

with Stephen Galatti in the

since 1952.

Sachi became

and

the Americans

Abroad

summer program and later Assistant Treasurer. was elected In January

to AFS Board of Directors 1969 Arthur

serve as a Life Trustee.

Howe

Director

She

in 1963.

nominated

her to

In 1969 Sachi left AFS and

came back to Fresno, California, as Regional

AFS

of Programs in charge of School

placement

where she served

for the Japanese-American

Citizens League, Central California

District Council.

Francisco "Tachi" Cazal, Chief Operating Officer AFS International presents Sachiye Kuwamoto with an award for her years of service to AFS.

Sachi has since retired from the Japanese-American

I

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THE JANUS/APRIL

2005

of

Communications,

temporary

in July of 1948 and became

soon afterwards.

Marketing

and former

with a certificate

International

Sachi with a certificate

of service honoring began

Cazal,

Enmanuel

AFS

AFS

staff also attended.

1953/54

Reunion in Hamburg of enthusiastic had been who 310

- but then - this group

part of the active

found

American

applause host-families

for

summer-program

in 1956,

German large

numbers

for example.

and communication

impressive

achievement.

Considering

A member

of the 1955 and long-time

for AFS USA, Katherine Wilson,

the meeting en route to the celebration birthday

housing

in those days, an

summer program group to Germany

Barbel Helmers (fifth from left) with an AFS bus #8 group in Carson City, NY, July 19, 1954

of

students: 335 in 1955,

conditions

volunteer

volunteers

attended

of the 70th

of her German host sister.

Current volunteers and staff reacted with amusement, hirty-two

T

German and one Finnish returnees,

and a 1953

US summer

to Germany,

who

program

was a classmate

of the group fifty years ago, gathered Germany

office

in Hamburg

The participants Director

Annette

Lehmann.

Domhan

Hamburg's

chattering

of one

was the most frequently

at the AFS

on September

were welcomed

17th.

by AFS Germany

and Vice

US General

Chair

Consul

C. Butcher held a short speech afterwards

asthese elderly ladies and gentlemen became eagerly

student

Jarn

Duane

appointed appointment

US

remember"

asked question. The newly General

who addressed the

- introduction

- and

to the duties of his

office.

unanimous

with

you

and was "We

reception

"Do

received a most lively, informal

not quite typical

participants

a

US Consul

again.

group (in fluent German) on his very first Hamburg

presented with a photo which showed the 1953/54at

teenagers

President

should

meet again soon"

- was the almost

opinion.

Eisenhower.

Barbel Helmers (USA 1953/54 and former National Director of AFS Germany), who initiated the reunion wrote the following Many fifty

had not seen each other for most of those years since the AFS-experience.

had experienced 1954.

some important

For the first time,

Eisenhower White

about the reunion:

"first"

US President

events in Dwight

D.

received a group of AFS students at the

House

photograph

The group

in Washington

- when

the famous

was passed around, there were shrieks

of delight as participants

recognized

themselves

or

their friends.

Current numbers of countries the variety

of programs

were

and participants met with

and

a round

1953-54 Returnees Michael Muller and Traute Muller (Koriath) hold the the AFS Hamburg Committee Eagle sign, Hamburg, September 2004.

Photo by Sebastian Engel.

111

AFS leaders of Today

A

"I, for one, without AFS and without the Peace Corps wou Id not have made it onto the world stage."

s a young studen~ in Nakhon 51

Dr.

Thammarat,

Surin

Pitsuwan

was

taught Engl ish as a second language

by

two

Corps volunteers in

southern

high

Peace working

Thailand.

school,

he traveled

to the US with year where

In

AFS for a

he eventually

graduated cum laude from Dr. Surin Pitsuwan speaks at the 2004 Peace Corps Convention

Claremont

Men's

College

in Claremont,

California,

and

a

received

master's

degree and a doctorate political

in

science from Harvard.

Since then,

Dr. Pitsuwan

career as the first Muslim to achieve high diplomatic in Thailand

and former

foreign

minister,

he has

served as speaker of the House of Representatives, assistant secretary to the minister of Interior and as deputy minister of foreign affairs.

In

April

2004,

corporate

over

50

from

diplomats, Ministries

of

Foreign Affairs and Culture, attended an

AFS Thailand

Board sponsored Walk Together Talk

Together Thank You Dinner to show appreciation the cooperation

communities

opportunities

for

Dinner

hosted by AFS Thailand

to Thailand.

the Ambassador

saying

fits today's

panelist

2004,

Dr. Pitsuwan

at the 25th Anniversary

Peace Corps Association

"AFS Thailand

today

for a session entitled

students from

Bangkok

the

country

discussed the prospects of Middle looking

civilization

I

12

not

select

I

just

the

but opens the opportunity if they

can

and have an opportunity

American

families

good will

and fond

and bring back memories

and friends in Thailand."

in Chicago He

Eastern Muslims

to Southeast Asian Muslims

AFS is

the Peace Corps

benefit from going abroad live within

world

Islam."

people.

to many boys and girls from the small communities

of the National

"Understanding

have benefited

and the fond generosity

does

was the featured

Conference

toasted

not have made it onto the world stage."

situation.

In August

all

AFS and without

the AFS slogan initiated drivers

on

of stories of achievement.

and students. Keynote speaker Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, by the AFS ambulance

Pitsuwan

of the American

a collection

for one without

Dr. "We

from our AFS experience

and assistance given AFS programs

focused on how important

and educational

22 for H. E. Mr. Darryl Norman Johnson

Ambassador

certainly

for

for Muslims.

At a Farewell November

development

Dr.

for moderate

in Asia as a champion

sustainable economic

throughout

Embassy

leaders and officials

Education,

Islamic

would

memberofparliament

coexist with democracy.

Pitsuwan has become a spokesperson

and compassion

has led a distinguished

office in his nativeThailand.A

Islam that peacefully

AFS Thai students 1966

for models of THE JANUS/APRIL

2005

with

qualify,

to

the American to live with and share the their families

was another new experience

Future AFS leaders

never had a brother before. I didn't time, but by accepting

ivakaran

D

Vasudevan,

is an

AFS student from

Malaysia,

hosted

by the

Lopatka family in Oregon, USA. He spoke at his Post Return Orientation audience

that

to an included

representatives

from

the

US Embassy in Malaysia, Divakaran Vasudevan speaks at the YES student return orientation in Malaysia

Ministry

for me because I had

of Education,

Prime

Minister's

AFS

Malaysia

the

Office, board

realize it at the

this scholarship,

agreeing to act as an ambassador

I was in fact

for my country.

It gave me great sense of pride and honor to tell people all about Malaysia.

Perhaps the most important

impact that came out

of this fantastic

was the relationships

experience

that were made. I had a great relationship host family.

with my

I made lots of great friendships.

all the turmoil

in the world today, relationships

these are probably of combating

With

one of the most effective

feelings

of ill will

like ways

and animosity.

I

felt that by merely talking to people and explaining what we believe in and stand for was a great way to show them that on the inside, we really are all the same.

"Being

an exchange

student

is not all fun

games. It takes a lot of effort, important

of all, flexibility

a memorable

one.

entire experience that I could What

patience

and

and most

to make the experience

But what

I gained

is more valuable

from

this

than anything

and its culture to the United

of the US was

pretty much molded by what I saw on TV. There was so much

more to the US than just big cities, tall

skyscrapers, surprised

and meat and potatoes.

There were so many different ethnicities

I was really

to see how diverse the US actually and backgrounds,

support

and guidance

thanks to the us with the

that we needed throughout

This program

was indeed

a great

chance for us to not only interact with Americans,

country

than by living there? Before leaving States, my perception

AFS for selecting us as well as providing this program.

have learned from a class at school.

better way to learn about a foreign

We would like to express our profound

was.

people from varying

but also with Muslim

students from

countries.

other

predominantly

Most of us left with heavy hearts,

after creating strong, loving relationships

with those

who were around us.

It is not our differences

that divide

us; it is our

i nabi Iity to recogn ize and celebrate those differences that do. "

all coming together to

form this melting pot of cultures.

Being an exchange about the country

student

not only teaches you

and culture

that you are living

in, but you also get the chance

to find out, who

you really are and what you are made of. You find yourself

doing

things that you would

never have

thought of doing before. As an exchange student, you start developing

characteristics

that you previously

might not have had. I for one, started to develop lot more tolerance

and patience,

a

because I had a

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Gaiotti's Piggy Bank "I remember

that Mr. Galatti

had a huge piggy

bank in his office. Whenever

he had a visitor, he

would

to AFS by "feeding

ask them to contribute

the piggy". bution

And if he considered

wasn't quite enough,

that the contri-

he thought

nothing

of asking for just a little more - and no one ever refused!"

-Wynona

Ellis

AFS staff, 2000

"On Stephen Galatti's desk is an oversized,

entic-

ing piggy bank which urges all to please feed it; it is somewhat

akin to the operation

Field Service, drawing

of the American

and growing

on outside

funds".

-Article Galatti",

Leslie E. Bains carries on the tradition with the new Galatti Piggy Bank

ur mission

O

peaceful

of building

world

through

on Stephen Galatti ("In View: Stephen Overseas, November

1963)

a more just and intercultural

ex-

change has never been more relevant and

important.

Finding substantially

more funds to continue

ing on this mission is, today, more critically

buildurgent

than ever before in our history. We continue to build on our past success, but we must combine with

the creation

sustain financially Fundraising its work.

of new fundraising

strategies to

viable growth with quality.

has always been important Nobody

this work

to AFS and

knew

this better than Stephen

Galatti. So to underscore

the constant need to raise

more funds for AFS, we have decided to restore the Galatti

Piggy Bank. Your contributions

deeply appreciated.

I

14

to AFS are AFS President Arthur Howe and Ward Chamberlin sign the piggy bank in 1970

WWII Last Post 2004-2005 Clifford J. Bissler, IB 31 Charles de Limur (1923-2004) AFS is sad to report the death of Charles de Limur (ME 32, FFC), who passed away at 81 on March 12, 2004 in San Francisco. Charles de Limur was a banker, winemaker and a member of one of the oldest California families.

Alexander Charles de Limur was born on February 23, 1923, in Paris, France. He was a son of the French diplomat Count Andre Marie de Limur and great grandson of Charles Crocker, one of the founders of modern California. He was educated in England, France and Switzerland. In 1938-40 de Limur attended Phillips Andover Academy, graduating in 1940. De Limur was nineteen and a student at Amherst College (Class of 1944) when he joined the American Field Service in September of 1942.

De Limur was sent overseas with the Unit ME 32 on November 23, 1942 and served as an ambulance driver in the Middle Eastand North Africa. He served with the AFS Free French Section attached to the British Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

He was released from AFS in October of 1943 and returned to the United States via Algiers.

After his return, he worked as a pipe fitter in a shipyard in the San Francisco Bay Area building Liberty Ships. When the war was over, he joined Chase Bank in New York and then returned to San Francisco in 1949 to take an executive position with Crocker National Bank. He served as a Senior Vice President and Director. De Limur also was the Paris representative for Bankers Trust in 1960 - 1968 and the President of Provident Securities, the Crocker family's holding company from 1979-86.

Howard A. Brooke, ME 26, CM 55 William H. Browning II, ME 37, FR 8 John Clement, FR 40 Robert W. Creeley, IB 48 Charles de Limur, ME 32, FFC Herbert S. Duncombe III, IB 36 William K. Du Val, IB 1, IB 39 Arthur G. Ecclestone, ME 26, CM 76 Scott Gilmore, ME 1 Frank P. Lichtensteiger, CM 52 Stephen I. Munger IV, CM 61 Julian P. O'Leary,

ME 4, FFC

George H. Railsback, ME 26 John F. Reynolds III, ME 37 Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr., IB 11, CM 95-T Konrad F. Schreier,

IB 54

George A. Sears, CM 87, CM 100 William L. Sheafer, 1 B 47 Tom Stix, ME 1 Alexander T. Stumpf, CM 74 H. Stephen Tilton, ME 32, FFC, CM 94, IB 60-T James A. Worden, FR 40

In 1986, de Limur established the Limur Winery in St. Helena, California. De Limur supported the AFS student exchange program. He was president of the board of St. Francis Hospital, treasurer of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Red Cross and chairman of the board of Lighthouse for the Blind.

A

n

archives

photographic exhibit

of 43

photos of AFS' past and present recently traveled

to

several

Partners' anniversary events.

The exhibit

features photographs

of the AFS volunteer

ambulance

historical

drivers service in

WWI and WWII and the student program photographs

from the

first bus trip in 1948 until present.

The exhibit

has been exhibited

at the 50th Anniversary

programs in 1997, the AFS reception celebration recently

of the 50th anniversary

of AFS

at the United Nations, the of AFSNSF in France. More

it was featured at the AFS Norway, Switzerland,

and Paraguay anniversary celebrations. at the AFS Japan 50th anniversary

The exhibit was displayed

celebration

AFS Costa Rica will display the exhibit celebration

Spain

in October th

at the 50

2004.

anniversary

in April 2005.

Witness AFS's evolution from

If you are interested in borrowing the exhibit, please e-mail your request to Eleanora Golobic, Archivist (eleanora.golobic@afs.orgl.

Its

origins

as a volunteer ambulance corps In 1914 to what we Bf'Gtoday, the world'S mo9:t

ell:pertenced Intercultural exchange organization ....

.

with

programs In over 50

.

countnes and 30,000 active volunteers

Incontri Che Cambiano II Mondo (Meetings That Changed The World) "Incontri

INCONTRI CHE CAMBIANO ILMONDO

Che Cambiano

Mondo"

II

by Roberto Ruffino,

tei, Mietta Rodeschini, and Marianella

Carlo Secchi, Roberto Toscano

Sclavi and the ministers of foreign af-

Marta Bellini and Paolo Maz-

fairs and of education

zanti

De Masi, Giuseppe De Rita, Cardinal Martini of Milan,

was published

in No-

vember 2004 by Sperling &

Vittorio

Kupfer in Milan on the 50th

and Jewish communities.

anniversary of Intercultura.

troduction

This book

and it concludes

exchange

on

international

programs features

interviews with an AFS WWII

Merloni,

-- Giuliano

Amato,

Domenico

and representatives from the Muslim The book begins with an in-

by Carlo Fusaro, Chairman with an interview

of Intercultura,

with Roberto Ruf-

fino, Secretary General. It also includes a few chapters about the history of AFS and numerous photographs.

Driver -- William Weaver (ME 37), former AFSers -- Claudio Allais,

Luca Barilla,

Piero Bassetti, Gabriella

Beccari,

Franco Bernabe, Emanuele Comi, Enrico Cucchiani, rio Frazzica, Teresa Gennari Santoro, Giovanni Jacopo La Sala, Carlo Marcelletti,

Ma-

Giudici,

Maria Concetta Mat-

The book is available

at book stores at the price of

15 euros and it was introduced

in Italy during

last months

information

e-mail

of 2004.

For more

segreteria@intercultura.it

900001 .001 .

or call

the

please

+39 0577