In 118 days, I'll be back on campus at my alma-mater at an extra special homecoming as Lebanon Valley College continues celebrating its 150th birthday. In honor of that countdown, here's memory #118: making plans to spend my third college semester ... OVERSEAS!
Due to a generous study-abroad program, and a flight stipend that was a few hundred dollars more than the flight I found, it was actually *cheaper* for that semester (every single item in my financial aid package applied to this time abroad) than any other. Plus, we had pre-arranged host-families, and so there were no additional extra costs.
By the end of the summer, I was on my way to what was then still West Germany with two other students from LVC ... and a dozen more from Gettysburg and Allegheny (as all three schools were in the consortium). In so doing, I got to use a passport for the first time, and I started down the path that would lead to my decision to get two degrees for the price of one (ish). But I'm getting ahead of myself, because in May 1990, it was all about the welcome letter from program overseer Arthur McCardle.
[No offense to LVC ... but I wouldn't mind going back to *Germany* in 118 days. Just sayin'!]
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