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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 11/4/05
Greenville College Freshman Travels to Iceland for International Jamboree
GREENVILLE,
ILL. - Danielle Waterman, a freshman at Greenville College, recently
traveled to Iceland for the Boy and Girl Scouts International
Jamboree. Waterman left her hometown of Stronghurst, Illinois in
mid-July to join an elite group of sixteen Scouts from the United
States.
The International Jamboree involved over
3,000 Scouts from more than 20 different countries who came together
for two weeks of activities including horse back riding, water rafting,
snowmobiling, camping, and hiking.
While
Waterman enjoyed all of the events taking place at the Jamboree, she
especially enjoyed the horseback ride through a dried lava field and a
visit to an active geothermal energy plant. After spending the first
week camping by a lake at the foot of a mountain, the participants then
ventured to the nations capital of Reykjavik where they stayed at a
Salvation Army guest house for the remainder of the time. Such an
opportunity undoubtedly made a lasting impression. “It was an amazing
experience. The people I met, the places I visited, these are things I
will never forget” commented Waterman.
Three
thousand miles later, Waterman is back in the United States and ready
for her freshman year of college. Currently an Early Childhood
Education major, Waterman chose Greenville not only for its top-notch
education program, but also for the passionate educators themselves.
She is very comfortable in the rural setting and, after experiences
such as traveling to a foreign country with thousands of strangers, she
is having no trouble making new friends.
Greenville
College is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with
more than 1300 traditional undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree
completion students. Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free
Methodist Church, the college is located in Greenville, Illinois, 45
miles east of St. Louis.
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Assistant Director of Public Relations
Greenville College
(618) 664-6515
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