YOUNG GREEKS WANT PENFRIENDS

Chronicle (Levin), 24 June 1946, Page 3

YOUNG GREEKS WANT PENFRIENDS

Corso liL'iidquurler.s in Wellington Jiuve a. list. o±" oi youug Groek uion aud women who seek ]>en-fnemls in Now Zpalaud. The list was forwarded by M r. (J. II. Gilling, lcader of f'orso's ndief refugee team, who is stationed at Kavalla aear Kaionica. Agos of tliosis young Greeks vary t'roiu 15 to -9 years and 13 of tliem eoniprise a group uf "Unrra otfiee stall' employees at Kavalla and Saionica. Many went to tlie Auierican College iu Saionica before the wai- and all sjtcak Knglish with varyjng degrees of proliciency and arc nnxious to improve their written Fnglish. Their hobbies range froin lunguages to sports, nmsic aml daucing and, adds J\1 r. Gilling, "many of tlie girls arc most attracti ve. '' Twentv-one studenls at Kavalla Training- School arc also seeking Kew Zoaland pcn-friends. Their intore.st ni Kew Zealatul has beou stiniulated l>v English classes given in his spare timo by Mr. .T. T. McDevitt, who is interpreter with the Corso unit. KI r. McDevitt, an ex-Kiwi. saw service in Greece in 1941 and was hidden on Crete for nearlv two years froni the Gerruaus by a Greek family. Details of the names. addresses and interests of tlicse prospective penfriends may bo had froin Corso, Box 11, tiovernnieiit Buildings Pos.t Oflire.