Australian exchange program announced
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A
colorful year of international living
“down under” is available to
American high school students this
winter. Registration for this year’s
Australian excbange'program was
announced this week by Youth for
Understanding.
Students chosen for the program
will start classes in January when
the Australian school year begins
and will return to the United States
in time for Christmas.
They will live as members of
Australian families, attend school,
and ezpenence Australia’s richly
varied culture first hand.
Approximately 125 students will
be selected for the program on the
basis of academic achievement
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and personal interviews. Ap
plicants must have birthdates
between October 1, 1963 and
December 31, 1967,-and a grade
point average of 3.0.
To apply, students should call
the YFU Regional Office at (215)
646-5266. The program fee of $3965
includes round trip-air fare from
San Francisco. will pay
their own way to and from the
departure point. A limited number
of partial scholarships are
available, with awards ranging
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“Learning through international
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Greene, YFU’s Director of U.S.
Programs. Youngsters chosen for
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the -Australia experience will be
far more than tourists, Greene
emphasized. “They will be active
participants in everyday
Australian life, especially family
life.’
YFU’s extensive support ser
vices will make the transition to
Australian culture easier for
participants. Students will receive
four carefully designed orien
tations: one before departure, one
right after arrival, another three
months later, and a fourth before
coming home.
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process. materials which you accept in your
Recycling organizations and recycling operation.
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. “ ‘Orientation’ may sound a little
dull,” commemed Michael Mercil,
head of YFU’s Orientation
Department, “but we’ve planned
some exciting group activities that
make the students feel right at
home.’’.Previous orientations have finest swimming, surfing, tennis,
been combined with field trips to * and golf in the world.
the Outback and tours of cities like
Sydney and Canberra.
Another factor that makes ad
justment easy is the Australians’
legendary hospitably. As one
former YFU exchange student put
it, “I was surprised at how friendly
Broiler placements down
HARRISBURG Placements of
broiler chicks in the Com
monwealth during the week ending
May 9 were 2,433,000, according to
the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service.
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percent below the corresponding
week a year earlier and two per
cent below the previous week.
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past nine weeks were two percent
above a year ago.
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This new system is available for deep pit houses and houses
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the people were. You sit in a
restaurant or public place and
people talk to you, even in big
cities.” Participants are also sure
to relish Australia's active outdoor
life, which boasts some of the
This year, YFU celebrates the
exchange of more than 80,000
students during its 30-year history.
Youngsters from the U.S., Latin
America, Europe, Asia, and
Australia have participated.
Placements m the 21 key poultry
producing states were 86,273,000,
one percent above the previous
week and five percent above the
same week a year earlier. Average
placements in the 21 key states
during the past nine weeks were
four percent above a year ago.
Broiler-fryers slaughtered in
Pennsylvania under federal in
spection during the week ending
April 29 totaled 1,984,000, with an
average liveweight of 4.01 pounds.
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