“I learned that with the right leadership, a good idea, and a volunteer spirit, you could accomplish wonders, and those are the principles we applied to the AFS exchange programs.” –Ward B. Chamberlin, Jr.
Arthur “Art” Howe, Jr. was an individual who dedicated much of his life to AFS: first as a volunteer ambulance…
In 1915, Harvard graduate Waldo Peirce volunteered as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France. After the…
AFSers around the world had a lot to be proud of on International Volunteer Day, especially since they are part…
The American Field Service (AFS) relied on donations from Americans in the United States to purchase ambulances during World War…
AFS has been awarded the 2016 C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award for The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I, 1914-1919 Curriculum. …
My first contact with Arthur Howe, Jr. was two years ago, when I was an intern in the AFS Archives,…
This issue of the AFS Janus features the fascinating story of Julian Allen and his long involvement with AFS, from…
AFS Participants simulated the 1968 U.S. presidential elections aboard the S.S. Waterman on their way back to Europe after spending…
