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Expanding from a green circle of fertility, the tree---like AFS---draws upon many sources in its progress upward and outward. As dimensions grow, both the tree and its background are continually changing. New offshoots are born, and there is need for more nourishment. Exploding into thousands of individual yet interrelated silhouettes, the tree will flourish and reach fuller growth as long as it is maintained by constant life forces.

ISSUE NO. 1, 1969

EDWARD A. WEEKS
Chairman, Trustee Members

WARD B. CHAMBERLIN, JR.
Chairman, Board of Directors

ARTHUR HOWE, JR.
President

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 "To Strive, to Seek, to Find..." ---Arthur Howe, Jr.
    Editorial on AFS expansion

 The Two-Way Stretch-Up and Out ---William P. Orrick
    Groundwork for grow power

 A Chapter Grows Up
    Golden, Colorado

 Growth from the Grass Roots
    Norris, Tenn.; Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Joplin, Mo.

 Counterpoints One and Two
    Belgium and Burgdorf, Switzerland

 The Measure of a Man
    A tribute to George Edgell

 Talk-in Together: AFS Language Camps
     Americans Abroad break the language barrier

 Multi-National Programs? Stanley M. Smith
    An in-depth look at the big question

 Forward Face!
    Introducing the new Life and Term Trustee Members

 The "Now" Thinking for the Future ---Ann McCormick Scott
    Returnee panel sparks Annual Meeting

DEPARTMENTS

 Editor's Gleanings
 AFS Scene Around the World
 With the AFS Family