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[1982?]-2000 (Creation)
- Creator
- Friends of International Students
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Physical description
78 cm of textual records and other materials
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Administrative history
The Friends of International Students was founded by Lenore Mencher and began as the Host Family Association in 1982. It was created in order to bring together interested families in the Halifax-Dartmouth area with international students attending local universities in an effort to establish meaningful, cross cultural connections with the community. Participation in the program was voluntary and students did not reside with or receive monetary support from the host family.
Internally the association was run by an advisory board made up of university staff, international students, host representatives, and members-at-large. The advisory board was responsible for policy and the general philosophy of the organization, the committees made recommendations to enact decisions made by the advisory board.
The group was formed in conjunction with various Halifax area institutions (Saint Mary's University, Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, the former Technical University of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Institute of Technology, and the International Education Centre). The group was disbanded in 1998.
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of documents relating to the administration and activities of the Association of Friends of International Students. Includes administrative documents (annual reports, financial materials), scrapbooks, slides, and audio recordings.
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Immediate source of acquisition
The fonds was donated by Mary Topshee from Student Services who received the materials from Stephen Davidson, a member of AFIS.
Scrapbooks donated by Alana Robb on June 17, 2003. (Accession number 2003.014.1)
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The fonds is arranged by type of material. Some of the records were received with no apparent order. Arrangement imposed by archivist
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Physical description
Includes ca. 320 slides, 2 scrapbooks (ca. 118 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm.), 2 audio cassette tapes, and 3 computer disks ; 14 x 14 cm.
Audio cassettes and computer disks have been removed from collection and moved to Audiovisual and Electronic Media collections respectively.