International Study & Travel
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Going to Mexico
I remember the Mexican Caravan trip.
Theodore O. Ousdigian
Traveling to Canada, Mexico and South Africa
I remember all of the planning for the Canadian American Conference and our great trips to Canada. We had a lot of fun dancing and traveling by car in the caravan to Mexico led by Professor Dassett. The best experience was the SPAN project to study censorship in South Africa and hitchhiking across Africa. Mac promoted the interest I still have today in travel and world events.
Rolland (Rollie) Billings
My dad flew those flags
I remember the U.S. and U.N. flags flown at Mac from a unique perspective!
My Dad was the janitor in the Old Science Hall and one of his
responsibilities was to raise these flags each day. Apparently working with
the two flags, especially on windy, ugly Minnesota days was a real
challenge. The flags couldn't touch the ground, the snaps were hard to get
a grip on and my Dad sure didn't want one to touch the ground or worse yet,
be raised upside down! Obviously he mentioned this more than once, for the
conversations about these two flags are deeply etched in my memory.
Audrey DeLong Benjamin
Mexican Caravan 1957
Señor Dassett and the Mexican Caravan in the summer of 1957 awakened a life long love of travel.
Marydell Larsen Gilmore
Keeping in touch with a SPAN friend
My experience with SPAN continues to reap rewards for me. I maintained contact with someone I met in Germany and finally was able to visit her in New Zealand. She had visited me in the United States, but the first real opportunity I had to visit her was once I was retired.
Edith Hansen Meints
SPAN mottos to travel by
Going on SPAN. To this day, this is one of the highlights of my life. Doris Simonson Koski ’58, Marilyn Joanne Lund Jensen ’58 and Al Caine ’58 were there from Macalester, too. Al and I traveled around Europe when we left Finland with the mottos, "You can't see it all," and "Have another sandwich."
Nancy Tripp Wilson
Memorable times with SPAN
My time with SPAN was most memorable... and Ms. Owen... and Summit Hall.
Marilyn Joanne Lund Jensen
Surprise guests in Acapulco
Some students at Mac chose to go on the Mexican Caravan. We had some great times. Most of us had never been out of the U.S. We saw Aztec artwork in ruins at Oaxaca, a gondola ride in floating gardens at Xochimilco serenaded by mariachis, picturesque Taxco (my favorite), Mexico City where we met Mexican students from the University, and, of course, beautiful Acapulco. Joyce Olin ’58 and I were roommates. In Acapulco, we had cockroaches crawling up the curtains. We moved our beds out from the walls and neither of us slept much that night. I guess bugs are to be expected in Acapulco; we, however, didn't expect them! I had some very wonderful experiences I will never forget.
Kathy Felland Sundall
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