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Welcome Dinner -- 6 September 2007
Nearly 60 persons attended the welcome dinner for Arizona
Fulbrighters held at the UA Student Memorial Union on
Thursday, September 6. This year, UA has 60 visiting
Fulbright students and three Visiting Fulbright scholars.
Most were in attendance, along with American Fulbright
Alumni.
Joanne Lagasse-Long, UA Director of International Students,
led the group in an exercise designed to acquaint Fulbrighters
with one another. Each person told a story about him/herself
and then each table nominated one person to share his/her
story with the group. Included in the stories was one
about how UA Fulbright student Mohammed Nasar met his
American wife Jennifer. Mohammed was Jennifer's Arabic
teacher. Jennifer knew from the first time she met Mohammed
that she would marry him. She joked with her friends
that she would offer his father, who is Jordanian, 30
camels for him. When the time came, she made her offer,
and Mohammed's father counter offered saying that five
camels were enough.
Following this exercise and dinner, Carol Bender, Chapter
President made some brief remarks on the importance
of Senator Fulbright's original vision of cultivating
global understanding through cultural and educational
exchange. She then shared information about the activities
the Chapter will offer this year with support from the
Enrichment Grant we have received from the State Department.
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