EXCHANGE SYSTEM WITH AMERICA

Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 10, 19 March 1952, Page 5

EXCHANGE SYSTEM WITH AMERICA

All over the United States thousands of farm boys and girls who belong to rural youth groups called 4-H Clubs have given a penny for each year of their age. They call this fund "Pennies for Peace." The pennies are used to help pay the expenses of American farm youths who visit New Zealand and other countries under the International Farm Youth Exchange programme (IFYE). The United States has sent 165 farm youths to other countries since the IFYE programme began in 1947. The programme is sponsored by the National 4-H Club Foundation with the help of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, agricultural colleges, and the U.S. Department of State. Young Americans between the ages of 18 and 26 have spent summer months living and working with farm families, of these nations: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Engiand, Finland, France, Germany, lndia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico the Netherland s, New Zealand, North Ireland, Norway, Scotland. Sweden, ISwitzerland, Syria, Turkey, and Uruguay. Four young New Zealand exchangees under the 1952 programme were scheduled to leave for the U.S. on the Aorangi, on March 18th. Four others who participated in the programme last year are now back in New Zealand. Travel expenses to the U.S. are defrayed by the New Zealand Dairy Board, while selections are made through the eo-operative efforts of the Young* Farmers Clubs of New Zealand, the New Zealand Agriculture Department and the Dairy Board. The 1952 exchangees are: — Russell Stalker, Rangiora. Fred Jackson, Inglewood. Edmund J . White, Putaruru. Russell Gaston, Te Awamutu. Two young Americans who have been in New Zealand for the past seven months under the programme will i eturn to the United Stat°s with four 1952 New Zealand exchangees. They are Jean Willard of California, and Glenn Klein of Oregon. Two other Americans under the programme arrived in New Zealand eaily this year and will be here until May. They are Betty Zmolek of Toledo, Iowa and Bruce Ketch of Bath, New York.