Bio: Clouse, Charlene (To Teach in England – 1973)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Clouse

----Source: Tribune/Record/Gleaner (Loyal, Wis.) 02 Aug 1973

Miss Charlene Clouse of Longmont, Colorado, has been selected by the Board of Foreign Scholarships to teach in England for the academic year 1973-74. The grant is authorized through the International Educational and Cultural Exchange program. Miss Clouse and a British teacher will be exchanging teaching positions, in which each will assume the assignment of the other in their respective host schools. While her British counterpart instructs kindergarten classes in Longmont, Miss Clouse will be involved in teaching at a County Primary school in Berinsfield, Oxfordshire, a small village community south of Oxford, England. The large school of 799 students is divided into three section, being Nursery (for 4 year olds), Infant (for 5-7 year olds), and Junior (7-11 year olds). Miss Clouse if one of approximately ten other British instructors working in the infant section.

Miss Clouse will be visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Clouse of Route 2, Loyal (Clark Co., Wis.0 before leaving August 17th for a Washington, D.C. workshop. She will be staying at the American University in Washington, D.C., room and board courtesy of the United States Government.

She graduated from Loyal High School in 1965 and received a B.A. degree in education from Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor, Michigan, in 1969. Additional educational study has been done through the University of Northern Colorado.