Salesian High's First
Student Exchange Program
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Thursday, October 18, Salesian High School welcomed ten students and
three representatives from Salesian College of Farnborough, England, as
part of a ten-day international exchange program, announced Salesian
Principal John Flaherty. This is the first-ever international student exchange program at Salesian High School and the realization of a dream that began to germinate three year ago, said Fr. Patrick Angelucci, SDB, ’64, director/president. This program will demonstrate that despite great distances and different cultures, the two schools are part of one family, said Fr. Patrick. The families of the Salesian High School students selected to go to England in February are hosting the English students. I’m highly excited, said Farnborough student athlete Dominic Lion. America is so built up in our television and media, and this program will really show us what high school in the States is all about. Accompanying the students from England are the school’s headmaster Patrick Wilson, his wife Helen, and the dean of the upper sixth form, Richard Maher. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Flaherty have put together an educational experience that includes attending classes, trips to Philadelphia, West Point, Mystic Seaport, the Thomas Paine cottage, a private tour of New York City conducted by the New York Historical Society, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Museum of Natural History, and a Broadway show. The exchange students returned to England on October 28, and the Salesian H. S. students will depart for their experience on February 7, 2008. I can’t wait to go to England and see how Don Bosco’s message is interpreted and manifested in England, said Salesian senior Arton Djonbalaj '08. |
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arrival, Farnborough and Salesian High students in the exchange program
pose with Farnborough headmaster, Mr. Patrick Wilson, at the
Salesian
High main entrance. |
Farnborough
students and their headmaster pose with their guide on their trip to
historic Philadelphia with the Salesian High freshman class. |
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| Farnborough
students visited the Thomas Paine Cottage in New Rochelle and got to
try on Revolutionary War outfits. |
Farnborough
and
Salesian
High students involved in the exchange program spent one evening at New
Roc City's entertainments. |
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| Farnborough
students and their chaperones spent a day visiting lower Manhattan,
including the Statue of Liberty (above left), Ellis Island, Ground
Zero, St. Paul's Church, Trinity Church, Wall Street, Federal Hall, and
South Street Seaport (above right). |
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twenty students in the program pose with cadets on their visit to West
Point. Fr. Patrick Angelucci,
SDB, '64, Salesian High School Director/President |
Farnborough
students presented Fr. Patrick
and Student Council president Matthew
Trosa '08 with a plaque commemorating the historic exchange. |
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2007-2008 school year marks the beginning of the Salesian High School
student exchange program with Salesian College Farnborough in
England. In October, Headmaster Patrick
Wilson, his wife Helen,
staff member Richard Mahr, and
ten students visited Salesian High, roomed with their host families,
and traveled to historic sites in Philadelphia, Mystic, CT, New York
City, and New Hyde Park. In February, Director/President Fr. Patrick Angelucci, SDB '64, Mr. Arthur Schoenherr '81, and nine
of our seniors, Christopher Carlson,
Arton Djonbalaj, Michael LaSalle, Migjen Marku, Michael McCann, Ryan Swift, Matthew Trosa, David Werner, and Matthew Wickes, headed for England... Click
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| Windsor
Castle |
Hampton
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| The
Houses of Parliament and Big Ben |
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| London:
Trafalgar Square |
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| London: Irish Rugby |
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| St.
Thomas More Memorial in the Tower of London |
France:
Normandy Beach |
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| Utah
Beach, Normandy |
German
bunker, Pointe du Hoc, Normandy |
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| Normandy |
American
Cemetery Memorial, Normandy |
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| American
Cemetery, Normandy |
Restaurant
break in Normandy |