Gerdmans, Gibraltar to host exchange student from Brazil from the May 11, 1978 Door County Advocate
By JANE SHEA
GLAUCIA DELGADO
Gerdmans, Gibraltar to host exchange student from Brazil
By JANE SHEA
Glaucia Maria Soares Delgado, a resident of Volta Redonda, Brazil, will be spending the 1978-79 school year at Gibraltar high school. Arriving in August under the American Field Service exchange program, she will be living with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gerdman, Ephraim.
Glaucia, the second of six daughters, is interested in music, reading and tennis. She has studied piano for seven years and guitar for one year. When she finishes high school she plans to major in biology and chemistry. Her native language is Portuguese but she has studied both English and French.
Glaucia’s father, Plinio Delgado, is assistant to the general of purchases for a major Brazilian steel plant and he also teaches college English. He has a master’s degree in American literature from the University of Virginia. Glaucia’s mother. Marlene Soares Delgado, teaches high school English.
Volta Redonda, Glaucia‘s home community, is an industrial town in the Paraiba valley located about 40 miles from Rio. It has a steel plant and other small industries.
The Gerdmans, who are looking forward to the arrival of their guest, have a longtime interest in the AFS program. When they lived in Waukesha their neighbors were active in the program and had a daughter who went to Turkey as an exchange student. The Gerdmans and their daughters, Shelley and Diane, who were then in grade school, shared the stories about Turkey and became interested themselves.
When the AFS chapter was activated last year at Gibraltar they indicated their support. Their decision to apply for an exchange student was prompted by a desire to learn more about another country, and willingness to participate in the local program. Glenn is a junior high school mathematics instructor. Joyce is active in church and community affairs. Their two daughters, now college students, are looking forward to the arrival of their temporary sister.
Although the Gerdmans are unfamiliar with Portugese they are counting on the advance information that Glaucia’s parents are both English teachers. Glaucia says she doesn’t speak English very well but her hosts here figure this background will be enough to start with and she should be speaking Gibraltareze within a very short time.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
Articles by Jane Shea