1. Volunteer ambulance drivers from two world wars brought their foreign experience home to America with them and created what would become a worldwide network of international "student exchanges."

2. Student exchange is firmly rooted in family life with its ability to adopt "strangers"---from the newborn to the outsider.

3. Student exchanges were foreshadowed in the apprenticeships of the Middle Ages.

4. AFS student exchanges have their organizational roots in 19th century Europe: