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Local Youth Leading Goodwill Delegation

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12
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June
Year
1968
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Local Youth Leading Goodwill Delegation

Jay Oakley of 1501 Pine Valley Blvd. will lead a delegation of Boy Scouts and other young people to British Honduras as goodwill ambassadors for the Michigan Partners of the Alliance for Progress.

The delegation will fly to Merida, Maxico, June 29 and arrive in British Honduras by bus July 2. Oakley will be in charge of the special crafts training program for the national scout camp Aug. 1 to 9 in British Honduras.

Oakley’s appointment is based on his outstanding record in scouting. He is president of the local explorer scout post.

Alfredo Martinez, the British Honduras high school student who won a British Honduras essay contest, will be a house guest of the Oakleys beginning Monday. Both Martinez and Oakley will appear in television documentaries for the Alliance for Progress that will be shown in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

A television documentary of the Musical Youth International band and choir concert tour Mexico and the U.S. also will be made this summer. When the group gives concerts in Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, it will represent Iowa, with which Yucatan is affiliated through the Alliance for Progress, and Michigan, as a delegation from British Honduras will be there during the tour.

Father F. J. Castillo, a Mayan priest in British Honduras, will come here July 22 and a man Latin combo will be here in October, under the program.

Man fried Moehrenschlager and Miss Michelene Molin, both from Ann Arbor’s German sister-city, Tuebingen, will arrive here before the end of June. Miss Molin will work for a local doctor and Moehrenschlager will enter the U-M Law School.

Short visits will be made in August by a small delegation from Tuebingen. Recently, Prof. Norman C. Utech and 20 of his students from Concordia Lutheran Junior College visited Tuebingen. 

The Ann Arbor Chapter of People to People has started town affiliation programs in cities in several states in the Great Lakes area and has arranged a second U.S. concert tour in August for a Heidelberg choir.