Versailles Summit partners solidly support Initiative; during his official visit to the White House Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone talked about his daughter who had been an exchange student in Michigan City, Indiana. As he spoke, the Prime Minister had tears in his eyes. Senator Percy mentioned this during Director Wick's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in March 1983. President Reagan praised the youth exchange idea during his remarks at EPCOT Center on March 8, 1983. The President said then, "This is just the kind of approach that we're encouraging. through the President's International Youth Exchange Initiative which I announced last May at the White House. ....let me say I'm convinced that people-to-people programs like World Showcase and the International Youth Initiative are one of the best ways to build real understanding in the world." During his April 1983 visit to Japan, Director Wick held talks with Japanese officials on ways to expand the President's International Youth Exchange Initiative. The Director presented a letter from President Reagan to the Prime Minister announcing a U.S. Senate-sponsored plan to send American youth to Japan as a counterpart to the Japanese Diet's program to send young Japanese to the United States. During his June 1983 trip to Germany, Director Wick discussed the International Youth Exchange Initiative and growing support for it from the private sector. Chancellor Kohl, in his speech at the Tricentennial ceremony in Krefeld, devoted four paragraphs to the subject of youth exchanges, promised an expanded FRG effort and specifically recognized Director Wick's part in fostering youth exchanges. President Carstens also called for increased youth exchanges with the U.S. 1983 Economic Summit: 7 students from Summit nations met with heads of state or government at Williamsburg in May 1983. Designed to increase dramatically the number of youth exchanges between the U.S. and the U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan. Three year commitment: U.S. Government to put in $10 million, to be matched by $15 million in private U.S. contributions. Private sector has pledged 3.8 million dollars as of Oct. 31, 1983 and $1,729,000 has been received. First $1 million pledge came from the President's Inaugural Trust. Johnson & Since September 1, 1983, $90,000 in pledges have come from the following corporations: Fluor, Getty Oil, McGraw Hill, Johnson, and Colgate-Palmolive. The first of the fund raising luncheons was held in Los Angeles on June 8, 1983 and was hosted by ARCO. - A strong effort is being made to gain the support of the Contribution Directors of ma jor corporations for the President's Initiative. Chairman Coy Eklund and Mr. Kenneth Albrecht have met with the Contribution Directors of Time, Inc., Exxon, AT&T and CBS. Over the next three years, President's Initiative will rek to increase youth exchanges by 15,000. The U.S. emphasis will be on one-year academic homestay programs for young people, 15 to 19 years old. We will need 15,000 American families to host these young people. Private exchange organizations in the U.S. will administer the programs. Examples of our private partners are AFS, the Experiment in International Living, and Youth for Understanding. The Initiative will also include short-term programs for young political leaders, and young people in the labor and agricultural sectors. Also will be developing business internship programs. The first groups to be exchanged under the Initiative arrived in their host countries in mid-July, 1983. - Ad Six American Indian youths to West Germany for a three-week exchange program organized by Arrow, Inc., a private organization devoted to the advancement and preservation of American Indian culture. - 32 Italian. students to Washington, D.C. for six weeks of - 34 young members of Red Cross societies in Canada, France, Council campaign approved September 24, 1982 by the board. National campaign will give national visibility to the Initiative. The promotion will be worth $30 million in services and advertising. Ad Council campaign was introduced to members of the business press on Sept. 21, 1983 in New York City. Public service announcements developed for the campaign stress the importance of youth exchange to world peace and understanding. The ads which are being carried by television, radio and the print media encourage young people to go abroad on exchange programs and others to serve as "host families" to young foreign students. - Time magazine carried a full-page ad for youth exchange in a number of regional editions on Oct. 17, 1983. The governors of all 50 states proclaimed October 1983 "International Youth Exchange Month." The U.S. program will emphasizes the contribution of the private sector. President Reagan asked Director Wick to create the President's Council for International Youth Exchange. The Council, whose role is to raise funds, involve American business in the program, and advise on direction of the Initiative, includes over 90 chief executive officers of America's top firms: Jack Wrather Robert 0. Anderson William F. Ballhaus Robert Bendheim John S. Bowen Thornton F. Bradshaw Robert Charpie John R. Eastman John A. Fibiger Alec Flamm James M. Furman Edward C. Gendron Mrs. Thayer Gilpatric Robert Gray Thomas F. Grojean Raymond A. Hay Richard L. Heffner chairman, Wrather Corporation director, education abroad program, University of California chairman, Atlantic Richfield Company chairman and CEO, NCR Corporation chairman and president, Scovill Inc. chairman, president and CEO, Gencial Host CEO and vice chairman, Beckman Instruments chairman of the board, National Distillers and chairman and CEO, M. Lowenstein Corporation president and CEO, Beech Aircraft Corporation president and chief executive officer, Benton and Bowles, Inc. chairman of the board and CEO, RCA Corporation president, Hollins College chairman of the board and CEO, Allegheny International, Inc. president, Cabot Corporation president and CEO, Household International chairman, Cole National Corporation chairman, executive committee, Dart and Jerome H. Holland Wayne Horst J. Robert Killpack Eugene P. Kopp M. Joseph Lapensky Sherman R. Lewis Jr. Worth Loomis Howard M. Love Leon Machiz Kenneth A. Macke Jacques G. Maisonrouge Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Richard G. Neuheisel J. Mason Reynolds Lewis Rudin Elton H. Rule Donald Rumsfeld Glen L. Ryland Robert M. Schaeberle Sam F. Segnar John D. Selby Barton W. Shackelford Nicholas A. Sica Roger B. Smith Sherwood H. Smith, Jr. chairman and CEO, McGraw-Hill, Inc. United Parcel Service (retired president) chairman, University of Pennsylvania Foundation regional executive, United Press International president and CEO, G. D. Searle and Company chairman and president, Consumers Power Company president, European American Bank and Trust Co. president, New York Board of Trade chairman of the board, General Motors chairman and president, Carolina Power and Light Co. |