Foreign Exchange Students “D-Day” at C.W. Post
Tuesday, July 28, 2005

More than 800 Teens to Leave U.S. after Year-long Stay

June 24, 2005- Brookville, NY – More than 800 students from 40 countries around the world, who have been studying and living with families across America for the past year, will be leaving after saying their final good-byes to the Unites States at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

The students, participants in the AFS International Program, will use the C.W. Post Campus for their “Departure Day” activities on Tuesday, July 28, 2005 from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The students will assemble in the Hillwood Commons’ parking lot at C.W. Post beginning at 5 a.m. to meet fellow students from their home countries and continue on to airports for their flights home.

SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT
Francisco “Tachi” Cazal, newly-announced president of AFS International and former AFS exchange student, will attend D-Day with his former AFS host parents from Minnesota. Cazal knows exactly what AFS Exchange Students will be feeling as they prepare to leave. Thirty years ago, Tachi was an AFS Exchange Student from Paraguay to the United States. The son of a factory worker who believed in the transformative power of education, Tachi was recently named president of AFS International. He will be present at D-Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will be joined by two people who helped to make his exchange possible 30 years ago—his host parents from Luverne, Minnesota.

AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS/USA
AFS Intercultural Programs/USA (formerly the American Field Service) is a nonprofit, volunteer-based organization dedicated to international exchange and intercultural education. AFS’s international exchange program was founded in 1947 by volunteer ambulance drivers from World Wars I and II who believed the way to build a more just and peaceful world begins when people from different countries meet, learn about each other, and begin to understand each other. Today, AFS exchanges more than 11,000 students each year among a partnership of more than 50 AFS partner countries.

The C.W. Post Campus is located on Route 25A (Northern Boulevard) in Brookville. For more information, call the C.W. Post Public Relations Office at (516) 299-2332 or AFS International at (212) 479-1152.