My Greek Odyssey – George B. Salimbene – Greece 1965
It starts out with my Fulbright voyage to Greece where I am scheduled to teach ESL at the University of Athens, and then the adventurous years that follow. Including years later a meeting with Senator Fulbright in Athens. George B. Salimbene – Fulbright to Greece 1965
A Fulbright Legacy – John Rosenwald – Germany 1965 and China 1996, 1997, 2001
The Fulbright Commission has provided me with extraordinary opportunities to explore the world beyond the United States and to attempt to build bridges between other countries and our own. As a graduate student at the Universität Tübingen in Germany in 1965-6, I learned much from seeing the intensity of activism against the Vietnam War even […]
An International Fulbright Family – Thora Qaddumi – India 1965
The Fulbright program has had huge impacts on my life and the lives of my husband, Maher Qaddumi, and our entire family. We live in Texas but the Fulbright program has given us all opportunities we would not otherwise gained. Both my husband and I, and two of our children, Halla and Tammer, are Fulbright […]
Fulbright Students Aboard SS. United States – Diana Kurz – France 1965
The photograph above was taken at a special dinner for Fulbright students on their way to France aboard the SS.United States ship. Although I do not remember the names or the field of interest of the students in the photo, we became very good friends during the trip. Diana Kurz – Fulbright to France 1965
A House Warming in Bogota – Sam Owens – Colombia 1965
Our group of twenty secondary teachers spent the last four weeks of the summer in Bogota, Colombia’s lofty capital. The most used expression I heard in my sponsor’s home was, “Ay que frio!” It so happened that my charming host family had recently purchased a new home. In accordance with local custom, they planned a […]
Lasting Personal Connections – Patricia Moore – Belgium 1965
Mons, Belgium is in the old province of Wallonia and is French speaking. I was assigned to two secondary schools in Mons to more or less aid the teachers of English. Once I arrived, the Belgian Ministry of Education said I hadn’t gone through their system so I would not be versed in the requirement […]