PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FRENCH CLUB ABOARD TWA FLIGHT 800
BOB EDWARDS, Host: Sixteen students from a Northeast Pennsylvania high school, along with five adult chaperones, were apparently on the TWA flight to Paris. The students were members of the Montoursville High School French Club. David Black [sp] is the superintendent of the Montoursville School District. [interviewing] Good morning, sir.DAVID BLACK, Superintendent, Montoursville School District: Good morning.BOB EDWARDS: The 16 students were booked on the plane that crashed. Do you...
FRENCH CLUB PLANS TO TORCH MORTGAGE
BILOXI -- The French Club's gonna be hotter than usual Saturday night.The members will burn the mortgage they took out to make repairs after Hurricane Elena in 1985. Then they'll have a dance. The small club has struggled to make a $4,000 monthly payment. Now they can use that money for improvements. No big changes are planned. "We'd like to keep it nice for the members and guests," said Leon Balius, club president.The club,...
Putnam City French Club Hosts Mardi Gras Festival
If some Putnam City High School students found time to eat dinner one day earlier this month, it was a miracle.On that day _ Feb. 10 _ when New Orleans turned itself upside down for Mardi Gras, the French Club turned Putnam City's senior hall into a miniature Bourbon Street. From 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. students sold crepes, Belgian waffles, petits fours, gumbo, jambalaya and such an assortment of other French-type foods that we couldn't sample them all.But we...
French Club shares language and culture
The intellectual, heated conversations typical of European coffee shops are brought to life twice a month at meetings of the French Club in Solana Beach. American and French members contribute to the diversity of the conversations. Sharing an interest in French language and culture, they meet at 10 a.m. on the first and third Saturday of each month to speak the language while debating everything from politics to film and literature. The club is open to anyone. People with minimal...
Students' trip to France canceled,
Despite war, Sandpoint High School's French Club
may be out of luck getting refund from travel agency
Trevor Cole has a stay-at-home mom and three siblings.He didn't even consider asking his parents to send him to France for spring break with Sandpoint High School's French Club. It was his mother, Geri, who suggested he sign up. There had to be a way, she told him, that they could raise more than $2,000 for the trip.He worked nearly full time all summer long, saving for the trip. He joined other students in fund-raisers, washing cars and selling bottled water...
