IUHPFL Alumni Association

IUHPFL is updating its alumni email database, and we’d love to make sure we have yours! We send out 2-3 emails a year updating alumni about the program through our newsletter. If you are an IUHPFL alum and don’t receive emails from IUHPFL, please fill out this form - https://iuhpfl.indiana.edu/machform/view.php?id=75080 - letting us know your current email address (you are welcome to provide additional updates as well!).

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Applications are in! Take a look at this map—each pin represents an Indiana city from which we received at least one application. Wow! We can’t wait to welcome students from all over the state into our Summer 2024 programs!!

Please help us support these students’ participation in IUHPFL through a donation to our General Fund (https://give.myiu.org/university-initiatives/I320002011.html), which we use for scholarships for students with financial need.

My IUHPFL Story - Noah Roberts (Ciudad Real, 2014 Alumni)

Alumni on the IU Bloomington Campus: Are you dreading finals week? Needing a special snack for dead week motivation? Stop by the GISB this Friday from 3-6 for some international snacks! The IUHPFL Alumni Association will be offering an array of foods from the program's target cultures, as well as information on how you can get involved with the association! There will also be information on studying abroad in college with materials from the Office of Overseas Studies.

We look forward to seeing you there!

This Friday, December 8 there will be an IUHPFL Alumni Association meeting at 2:00 in the Leo Dowling International Center for alumni on the IU Bloomington campus. Light refreshments will be provided. We hope to see you there!

The following is a letter we received from a host brother of the Krefeld 1965 program site:

It was 1965, US vs USSR and all that, and we reckoned we were on the eve of destruction, and an upcoming poet preached, that the times were a changing…

And we, the 49ers cold war generation in West Germany, 20 years after WWII, were listening to these phrases we adored so much these days…

And I, 15 years old, had decided to learn how to play these great songs on the guitar…

America was a dream far beyond reach!

And then, there was an elderly lady, Mrs. Marianne Gatzke - God bless her for her foresight and engagement - who brought this program on the way:

Sommerakademie Indiana/Krefeld!

We heard about it in school.

So my sister and I convinced our mother to be a host family for one of those students, and so it came to pass, that we welcomed Scott Arrowsmith from Munster, Indiana in our home.

And the greatest thing of all : he was a gifted guitar-player, 12 string Gibson, and he, after a couple of days in our house, started to teach me how to play the music I had wanted to play.

It was an extraordinary time we shared.

His favorite dishes were “Leberwurst” and “Apfelpfannekuchen” —my mother was a Master cook!

All too fast, they returned to America for their Junior year, but they left one seed:

All I wanted to do, was to get to the US, too.

One year later, on August 8th 1966, I boarded the old liberty ship “Seven Seas” in Rotterdam, Netherlands, together with 1100 teenage ambassadors to cross the ocean to disembark in New York City ten days later, thanks to a foreign exchange scholarship, granted by the American Field Service.

Your program certainly changed my life!!

Dr.med. Herbert M. Specht
Neuss, Germany

Language program celebrates anniversary, launches new site The IU Honors Program in Foreign Languages is celebrating 55 years of operation and the launch of its newest French language site in Quebec City.

IUHPFL Interactive Presentation