AFS Janus - May 2009

MAY 2009: DAVID V. UIHLEIN: A PASSION FOR VOLUNTEERING 5 THE ENDURING LEGACY OF THE AFS ARCHIVES: JOCK COBB’S AFS ANTI-WAR PHOTOGRAPHS, 1942–44 6 JACQUELINE BROWN HONORED WITH THE FIRST AFS PRESIDENT’S AWARD 8 ALSO IN THIS EDITION: WWII LAST POST 2008–2009 10 IN MEMORIAM: C. B. “CHICK” SQUIRE (1920-2009) 10

CHARLES FERNLEY FAWCETT:

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Dear AFS Friend, Welcome to the May 2009 issue of the AFS Janus.

This has been a busy spring at AFS. Our president, Francisco (Tachi) Cazal, recently returned from the second Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations, where he was an invited speaker, held in Istanbul this past April.The Alliance, a UN initiative, works to promote understanding and collaborative relations across cultures and religions. Tachi actively worked to place education and youth as a top priority in areas of action for the Alliance and we will continue to work with them in the future to achieve our shared objectives. In our next issue, we will describe this work in more detail as part of our effort to inform you of our increasingly significant international outreach efforts.

Our feature article “Charles Fernley Fawcett: Saluting an AFS Hero” is about an AFS driver and humanitarian involved in an unprecedented underground rescue of prominent Jewish and antiNazi intellectuals in France in 1940-41.

A story on Jackie Brown, recipient of the first AFS President’s award, celebrates Jackie’s contributions and achievements as a lifelong volunteer and honors her dedication and commitment. We also offer you a look at an important WWII photographic collection

by AFS driver Jock Cobb, held at the AFS Archives and an article about one of our more passionate supporters, David V. Uihlein.

Thank you for your continuous support. We hope that you enjoy this issue and we welcome your comments.

Eleanora Golobic eleanora.golobic@afs.org

AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc. 71 West 23rd Street, 17th Floor New York, NY 10010-4102 USA tel: +1.212.807.8686 fax: +1.212.807.1001 www.afs.org

On the cover: Charles Fawcett in an undated war photo (courtesy of April Fawcett).Artwork: AFS evacuation in France, 1940 by Paul Ullman.

AFS HERO “I thought we could make a difference. It’s a responsibility people have.”

– Charles Fawcett, United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Day, Cardiff, January 26, 2006

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ollowing the German conquest of France in June 1940 thousands of refugees, many of them Jews, fled to southern France to avoid capture by the Nazis, joining others who had fled to the area previously. On June 22, 1940, Marshal Petain’s Vichy regime signed the armistice agreement with the Nazis, agreeing to “surrender on demand” anyone whom the Germans were pursuing. Among the refugees threatened with extradition to Nazi Germany were some of the twentieth century’s most prominent intellectuals, writers, and artists, including Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, André Masson, Jacques Lipschitz, Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Hannah Arendt, and Andre Breton.

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Civilians fleeing the hostilities, France, 1940.

Inset: Charles Fawcett’s AFS enlistment photo, 1944.

At the outbreak of Franco-German hostilities in May of 1940, Charles Fawcett joined the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps in Paris. Ser ving France in her hour of need, Fawcett would soon witness the plight of Hitler’s Jewish victims and get involved in their rescue from the Nazis during 1940–1941.

Charles Fernley Fawcett (1915–2008) was a wrestler, trumpet player, AFS ambulance driver, French Legionnaire, movie star, socialite, ar tist, and expatriate. Fawcett, born in Waleska, Georgia on December 2, 1915, grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. He arrived in Paris in 1938 to study sculpture at L’Académie de l’Ar t Contemporain.

After the fall of France, Fawcett moved to Marseille, where he joined the humanitarian mission of the Varian Fr y American Rescue Center in August of 1940. Varian Fr y, an American scholar, operated an underground rescue operation of refugees in Marseille defying the State Depar tment policy of restricting immigration to the United States.

Fr y thought that Fawcett would make a valuable addition to his operation. During 1940–41, Fry and his staff procured false documents for the Jewish and anti-Nazi cultural figures caught in the Vichy zone and helped them escape from France. This rescue effort enabled as many as 2,000 Nazi victims to flee to safety.

Fawcett’s AFS section in Herxheim, Germany, March 28, 1945. (photo by Loftus Cuddy)

Fawcett risked his life for the sake of others and did everything possible to save refugees. His duties as doorman at the American Rescue Center included controlling the refugee crowds. He also managed clandestine contacts and smuggled refugees across the border, leading them over the Pyrenees into Spain. He married six Jewish women on paper to save them from the Vichy internment camps and to entitle them to leave France. Fawcett played a great role in the Center’s dangerous rescue activities until he was forewarned of his impending arrest and escaped to Great Britain with rescue documents in his trumpet.

Fawcett returned to France in 1944–45 as an AFS ambulance driver. His AFS application in August of 1944 was supported by Robert A. Uihlein, president of Schlitz Brewery in Milwaukee. Fawcett traveled with the AFS French 4 Unit to Naples and later to Marseille.

Following the Unit’s arrival at AFS French headquarters in Besançon in December of 1944, Fawcett was attached to AFS Section II with the First French Army.

He was assigned to the 431 Medical Battalion with the 3rd Algerian Infantry Division in the Vosges.

Ned Kelley, a driver with the AFS French Section 4, remembered him, “I first met Charlie in November 1944 on the train from New York City to Norfolk, Virginia, to pick up our boat to Naples, Italy, carrying about 85 AFS volunteers. Later we were on that American AFS JANUS • MAY 2009

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Fawcett as General Taylor in “Old Shatterhand,” 1964. (photo courtesy of April Fawcett)

hospital ship, the Santa Rosa. I lost track of Charlie at Christmastime 1944 in Besançon. My recollection tells me he became sick and found a U.S. Army medical unit stationed nearby to nurse him back to health. I recollect that it was Charlie who “engineered” a gift of several turkeys from a U.S. Army hospital near Besançon for our Christmas dinner in 1944, and we were invited over to their HQ for a dance with the nurses. Charlie had an innate charm about him one associates with a Southern upbringing that instantly put him on friendly footing when meeting someone for the first time. He certainly was a swashbuckler and a charmer!”

Fawcett evacuated casualties under sniper fire during the liberation of Colmar, Alsace, in January of 1945.

In March 1945, as Section II was assigned for a major Rhine offensive at Bischweiler, Fawcett’s tuberculosis flared up. He was evacuated to Paris and released from AFS on March 18, 1945. After his recuperation from tuberculosis at the American Hospital of Paris, Fawcett joined the French Foreign Legion for the remainder of the war.

In the post-war years, Fawcett returned to Paris and embarked on a 25-year acting career. He acted in more than 100 films from the 1940s to 1975. In his last film, “Up the Ancient Stairs” (1975), he starred with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Living in Rome in the 1950s and 1960s, he befriended Federico Fellini,

Sophia Loren, Margaret Stahl, Alan Ladd, Charles Fawcett in “Boy on a Dolphin,” 1957. (photo courtesy of April Fawcett)

Luchino Visconti, and Michelangelo Antonioni and was known as “the honorary mayor of the Via Veneto.”

In 1956 Fawcett spent three months helping to rescue refugees from the Hungarian uprising. Following riots in the Belgian Congo in 1959, he joined a friend with a private plane in missions to rescue those who were unable to escape the fighting.

Fawcett went to Afghanistan shortly after the 1979 Soviet invasion and made a film entitled “Courage Is Their Weapon,” documenting the plight of the Mujahideen.

The film helped persuade the United States to secretly arm and support the Afghan resistance fighters.

For his outstanding heroism, Fawcett was honored by many governments. His awards included the EuropeanAfrican-Middle Eastern Campaign Ribbon, the French Croix de Guerre, and the Dwight D. Eisenhower medal.

Fawcett was honored by Prime Minister Tony Blair at the 2006 Holocaust commemoration in Cardiff, Wales, for his role in rescuing so many lives. Fawcett died in London on February 3, 2008, at age 92 and is survived by his wife, April Fawcett.

Charles Fawcett achieved immortality acting as the hero he never set out to be. He proved that actions of one individual can help change the world. He is an inspiration for future generations and will long be remembered for his humanity and moral courage.

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DAVID V. UIHLEIN: A PASSION FOR VOLUNTEERING

David Uihlein in his ambulance, Italy, May of 1945. (photo by Irving Penn)

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avid Uihlein wanted to do his part in World War II, but was unable to enlist in the army because of a medical disability. Uihlein found out about AFS from Alexander Eschweiler III, a fellow Milwaukee ambulance driver and classmate at the Hill School. Choosing to volunteer for AFS as an ambulance driver, Uihlein went overseas with the Unit CM 97, arriving in Naples on March 28, 1945. Upon arrival he was attached to “C” Platoon of 485 COY in Italy and Austria. He participated in the battles of the Senio and Po in April, serving with the Royal West Kents and 8th Indian Division. His knowledge of auto mechanics proved indispensable as he helped repair AFS battle-torn ambulances hit by bombs and machine guns in May of 1945. Uihlein’s “C” Platoon was stationed in Udine near Trieste on May 8 when Churchill announced on the radio that the WWII hostilities in Europe would cease at midnight.

Uihlein continued as an AFS volunteer after the end of the war in Europe. He was among 150 ambulance drivers of 485 Company (Unit IB 59-T) transferred from Taranto, Italy, to India on July 15, 1945. The group, led

by Major Ward Chamberlin, landed in Bombay, India, on July 30, 1945, and proceeded to the Kalyan Transit Camp and later Secunderabad. The drivers were scheduled to serve with the British 14th Army in the invasion of Malaya, but were demobilized earlier due to the termination of the war with Japan. Uihlein was repatriated by air from Madras to England on October 21, 1945. After a stop in South Wales, England, Uihlein embarked on the Queen Elizabeth troopship on November 15, 1945, arriving in Halifax five days later. Uihlein was discharged from AFS on November 22, 1945, and his service awards included the Italy Star, the 1939–45 Star, and the War Medal 1939–45.

Uihlein with a restored Dodge ambulance, 2003. (photo courtesy of Richard Nelson)

A well-known philanthropist and benefactor of education, David Vogel Uihlein was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920. He was educated at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Wisconsin.

Uihlein is a grandson of the founder of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.

Uihlein and his wife, Margery, funded the Uihlein/Spitzer Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship in the Rader School of Business at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1999.

Uihlein is known as one of the greatest of all post-war American classic car collectors whose lifelong interest and passion for vintage and Miller Indy cars began early.

He founded the David V. Uihlein Antique Racing Car Museum in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and his collection includes many early racing models going back to World War I. He also restored a Dodge WWII ambulance, painting it with an insignia of AFS 485, the ambulance company he served with in Italy.

The AFS WWII service was a life-changing experience for Uihlein and he is proud to have served with AFS. The AFS values of giving back to society were reinforced when he came back from the war. He has kept his AFS WWII British issue uniform as a memento of his service.

“American Field Service performed a great service for the Allied Forces during World War II and I support the AFS today for that reason,” said Uihlein.

Uihlein has been a major donor for many years supporting the legacy of AFS volunteers.

AFS deeply appreciates David Uihlein’s steadfast support throughout so many years.

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THE ENDURING LEGACY OF THE AFS ARCHIVES: JOCK COBB’S AFS ANTI-WAR PHOTOGRAPHS, 1942–44

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he AFS Archives are a rich resource for the AFS Network. AFS Intercultural Programs is committed to the Archives mission of preserving and making available the enduring legacy of the AFS volunteer drivers who chose to serve in WWI and WWII. There are many stories that yet have to be told that represent the courage and talent of so many of our AFS volunteer ambulance drivers. One such story is the story of “Jock” Cobb.

Dr. John C. (Jock) Cobb was born in Boston in 1919. As a child, Jock spent time in England, France, and Germany.

His experience with intercultural exchange programs included participation in the 1936 summer program to Besançon, France, sponsored by the Experiment for International Living. After graduating from Harvard in 1941 with an astronomy degree, Jock joined AFS as a conscientious objector to war in June of 1942. Jock explained his motivation in a 2002 interview, “I didn’t want to be engaged in anything that would involve the destruction of human life, because I would like to work helping to save human life.”

Jock landed in North Africa with ME 26 Unit on the day of the battle of El Alamein on October 31, 1942. Jock served as an AFS ambulance driver and photographer with “C” Platoon 567 Ambulance Company, attached to the British 8th Army. Following training at El Tahag camp, he was transferred to Syria. In Syria, Jock was assigned to the Hadfield Spears Mobile Clinic and lived for five months among Arabs in Selemiye. Jock’s duties involved

driving an Arab Druze doctor in the Syrian-Iraqi desert to hold medical clinics and vaccinate the population of local villages and Bedouin camps against smallpox. Jock made friends in Selemiye and learned Arabic.

AFS drivers who served as platoon or section photographers witnessed history and captured significant moments of the war on film. Jock’s black and white photographs record his AFS platoon experiences in Syria, North Africa, and Italy from November 1942 until April 1944. The photographs acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, depicting war’s devastation on the civilian population.

Jock’s collection of never-before-published photographs includes 108 original silver gelatin prints made in 1942– 44 with captions and commentary. Jock had permission to use his cameras in action and took hundreds of photos with his 35mm Voigtländer camera with a 50mm Tessar lens and a 35mm fixed focus Argus camera. Most of his 8 by 10 inch enlargements were made in Jock’s darkroom in Milton, Massachusetts, upon his return in the spring of 1944. Jock developed his negatives and made some small size prints with a Kodak portable enlarger in the back of his ambulance when off duty or at night (with blankets over the windows). He sent copies to AFS in New York for use in recruitment and fundraising.

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Jock Cobb’s hand-penned captions add another dimension to his artistic expression.

a Legacy Project interview in September of 2002, “Somewhere in North Africa when we were not busy, I decided that I wanted to be a doctor. It was something that I really wanted to do, but the thing that I decided was that I’m not going to be just an ordinary doctor. I’m going to be a public health physician and do preventive medicine.”

After receiving his medical degree from Harvard in 1948, Jock taught at Johns Hopkins. His public health career included working with the Indian Health Service in New Mexico, the Population Council in Pakistan, and the World Health Organization in Tunisia, Indonesia, the Western Pacific, the Philippines, and Fiji. After his retirement as professor and chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Colorado Medical School, he was an exchange professor of Preventive Medicine in China. He is now professor emeritus and an innovator in the use of solar energy for water pasteurization in Albuquerque.

As we approach the 100th anniversary of the founding of the AFS in 1914–15, we are beginning plans to make our AFS Archives holdings more widely available to the public, both in the United States and abroad. We welcome suggestions from our readers regarding your ideas about how we could more effectively showcase the remarkable history of the AFS and to locate sources of funding to support our efforts.

Please contact Carlos Porro, Manager of Development and Communications by mail at AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc. 71 West 23rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10010-4102; email at carlos.porro@afs.org; telephone (212) 807-8686.

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JACQUELINE BROWN HONORED WITH THE FIRST AFS PRESIDENT’S AWARD

Tachi Cazal, Jackie Brown, and Dan Hastings at the luncheon.

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he look of astonishment on Jackie Brown’s face when she walked in to a surprise luncheon organized in her honor quickly changed to an appreciative smile. Jackie thought she was coming to have lunch with Francisco “Tachi” Cazal, the AFS International president, but instead ended up having lunch with many of her friends and family at an event beautifully orchestrated by Dan Hastings on November 18, 2008. This AFS-sponsored event was held at the AFS International office in New York.

Karin Eisele and Blaikie Wor th, guests at the luncheon, spoke about Jackie’s extraordinary contribution to AFS. Tachi Cazal presented Jackie with the first President’s Award, honoring her dedication and her lifelong commitment to the mission and ideals of AFS. Both Karin and Blaikie commented on what the event meant to them. “It was a privilege to honor Jackie Brown,” said Karin, now executive director at the Institute of International Education West Coast Center in San Francisco, California. “During the early years of the student program, the staff of AFS were not unlike the ambulance drivers. We were primarily young risktakers with a shared passion for the mission of AFS. We gave tremendously of our time and talents to ensure the quality and the growth of the AFS programs.

And then we moved on to other callings. For all those many years since (almost 50 to be precise), Jackie has

been the epoxy that kept us together as a group and as lifelong supporters of the organization. We and AFS owe her our most profound thanks.”

“What a huge pleasure it was to honor Jackie, who has done so much for AFS and AFSers for so many years and is a friend to all! And imagine that we managed to surprise her!” said Blaikie.

Tachi Cazal presented Jackie with the first AFS President’s Award, honoring her dedication, “In November, I received the President’s Award from AFS International,” said Jackie, “Receiving the Award came as a complete and wonderful surprise. So many AFS connected people who have been a part of my past and present were there. Since my summer as an AFS student to my 25-plus years as a staff member, AFS continues to be part of my life. Two ambulance drivers were my daughter’s godfathers and she herself was an AFS student to Italy. I count among my closest friends AFS former national representatives whom I see on quite a regular basis. I cannot adequately express the ways that AFS has enriched my life and continues to do so.”

Jackie began her AFS journey of 53 years as a student from the U.S. to Germany in the summer of 1955.

She started working for AFS in 1957, while still in college. Over the years Jackie served as vice-president, director of the Americans Abroad Program, director of AFS JANUS • MAY 2009

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Jackie at the event.

Karin Eisele and Annabel Sterns Stehli.

the School Program, special assistant to the Director General for Government Programs, director of the 1971 Convention, and director of Returnee Relations.

Jackie has been serving as Director of Alumni and Associate Director of Development at the AllenStevenson School in New York since 2002.

The luncheon brought together current and former Trustees – Ward Chamberlin and Arthur Howe (with his wife Peggy), Karin Eisele, Tsugiko Scullion, Blaikie Worth, Adele Taylor, and Hans-Gernot von-Albert (with wife Helmi). Sharing in the celebration were AFS former staff members and Returnees – Ilka Peck, Wynona Ellis, Dan Hastings (with Jim Power), Mary Annery, Martha Bigliani, Nancy Blanford, Dale Frehse, Joanne Hall, Holly Kennedy, Annabel Stehli, Nancy Solomon, Nancy Mahler, Martha Schwartz, Carole Huxley (with husband Michael), Cynthia Rigas, Susan Rizwani, Susan Tabor Wahman, Paula Wardynski and Susan Montgomery. Joining Jackie were her family and friends – daughter Amanda, Cynthia Bing, Susan Allabashi, Cornelia Ercklentz, Betsy and Jeff Ringel, and Jane and Charles Reed. AFS-USA was represented by Jorge Castro and Paula McGrath. AFS International staff Christine Vogel, Carlos Porro, Mary Ann Zaremba and Eleanora Golobic also attended.

Peggy Howe and Blaikie Worth.

At the luncheon Tachi Cazal presented Dan Hastings, Returnee (Turkey, 1974), AFS volunteer and longtime staff member, with the second AFS President’s Award, honoring his many years of service, dedication, and contributions to AFS. “It was a great pleasure to help bring together so many wonderful people to honor Jackie, who is a shining example of a lifelong commitment to AFS. My being given a President’s Award as well was a great surprise and will be a cherished honor always,” said Dan. “Both Jackie and Dan are outstanding examples of Returnees who became longtime staff members and dedicated volunteers,” said Tachi Cazal. “ Their dedication to the mission and values of AFS go well beyond the norm and this is why we honor them with the first two AFS President’s awards for their extraordinary service to this organization.”

This was an enjoyable and memorable event for all who attended. Many of the guests who got together to celebrate Jackie’s achievements were pleased to reconnect with their old friends. “We should meet again soon” was the unanimous opinion. AFS hopes to organize future gatherings to help volunteers, former staff members, and others interested in the work of AFS to reconnect and learn about the current work of the organization.

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AFS FOUNDERS IN MEMORIAM C. B. “Chick” Squire (1920–2009) WWII LAST POST 2008-2009 Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., CM 47 Joseph J. Desloge, Jr., ME 4, FFC, CM 94, IB 59-T H. Boyd France, ME 37, FR 1 Cyrus Gambrill, Jr., IB 42 R. Stockton Hopkins, ME 37, CM 99, IB 59-T A. Grima Johnson, FR 40, ME 16, FFC William C. Kahlo, ME 2 John W. Kaufmann, IB 36 Norman C. Kunkel, IB 5, CM 92-T Martin P. Knowlton, Syria FF James B. Lynch, Jr., ME 1 C.B. “Chick” Squire, ME 37, IB 57 Harold W. Trainor, CM 44 Guy O. Walser, Jr., IB 58 Arthur L. Wheeler, CM 90 Robert J. Winn, ME 37

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FS suffered a great loss in the passing of Chick Squire, an AFS WWII ambulance driver and one the founders of AFS, on January 4, 2009, in Asheville, North Carolina.

Born in Caldwell, New Jersey, on July 15, 1920, Chick attended Lincoln School of Teachers College, Columbia University, the University of Connecticut, and New York University. Chick was 22 years old when he volunteered for AFS in November of 1942. He was sent overseas in January of 1943 with Middle East 37 Unit, arriving in Cairo in March of 1943. Attached to Section Six “A” Platoon 567 Ambulance Company, Chick served with the British 8th Army in Syria, North Africa, and Italy in 1943–44. Back home on leave, Chick drove an AFS WWII ambulance in New York for public relations. He re-enlisted in AFS and was sent to India with IB 57 Unit in May of 1945. He ran the AFS mess in Secunderabad and closed the AFS camp there. For his service he was awarded various British and Allied armies’ campaign medals and ribbons.

Active with a great number of civic, political, human rights, and charitable organizations, Chick had a long career as an editor, author, correspondent, and consultant for national and international newspapers and oil industry publications.

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(1973); co-author of Oil Industry U.S.A. (1977); and editor of The Liz Reader (2002).

After the war, as AFS regional chairman inWilton, Connecticut, Chick oversaw high school placement and helped find host families for AFS German students in the 1950s. In the mid1980s Chick helped secure U.S. veterans’ benefits for AFS WWII ambulance drivers. Chick was a co-author of The Saga of Section Six (1994), based on his section’s experiences during the Italian campaign.

As a member of the Archives Advisory Committee, Chick has been a great supporter of the AFS Archives. Chick participated in AFS drivers reunions, world congresses, and volunteer events, and inspired many volunteers and participants around the world. He was honored by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Oscar Arias of Costa Rica in 1999, when he received the Oscar Arias Foundation Peace Award at the AFS World Congress in San Jose.

Chick was first and foremost a volunteer and AFS family member and AFS benefited from his efforts that spanned six decades. His dedication and contributions had a big impact on the development of AFS programs.

Upper left: Chick Squire in his AFS uniform, 1943.

Upper right: Chick Squire speaking at the unveiling of Stephen Galatti’s bust, Colle Val d’Elsa, Italy, October, 1994.

Lower right: Chick Squire with AFS students hosted in Rome, October of 2003.

Chick was predeceased by his wife, Elizabeth Daniels Squire.

He is survived by three sons, J. Hart Squire, of Weaverville, North Carolina, Mark M. Squire of Fairfax, California, and Worth P. Squire of College Grove, Tennessee, as well as seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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THANK YOU I n 2008, AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc. (AFS International) and AFS-USA once again reached out to you for your support to help us provide scholarships for deserving students, strengthen more than 50 AFS organizations around the world by providing training and support, help AFS expand into new countries, preserve the AFS legacy, and build stronger financial reserves.

And once again many of our WWII ambulance drivers and their families responded and sent us contributions that totaled over $21,500. The contributions are shared between AFS-USA and AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc. For more than six decades, AFS has been providing the kind of intercultural exchange that has had as its mission to promote a world where the kind of conflict in which the American Field Service ambulance drivers participated does not happen again. We do this by promoting intercultural understanding as a firsthand experience, by sending young people to live in cultures that are radically different from their own with host families and schools who welcome them.

for a Successful 2008 AFS Driver Campaign

Our roster of former AFS program participants, now nearly 400,000 strong, includes many political, diplomatic, business, cultural, and other leaders. It also includes many who are quietly, yet effectively, spreading the message of understanding and fellowship with their daily actions, right within their communities.

This is the kind of work you helped support, and it is good and wonderful work. It not only touches and changes our participants, but it has a multiplier effect that reaches out to millions, and those millions in their turn, may open their eyes to a different way of perceiving the globe’s myriad cultures.

Thank you for your support, which also helped us reach the AFS Intercultural Programs’ fundraising goal in 2008.

Francisco (Tachi) Cazal President and Chief Executive Officer, AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc.