此内容暂无简体中文译文，以下为英文原文。
Historical November–December 2014 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
This issue of News of Neighbors we are going to do things a little bit differently.
This time, we are going to take a look at some of our younger neighbors and find out what has been keeping them busy.
It turns out that our neighborhood youth are well traveled, studying in amazing places, and sharing their talents with the world! For starters, summer was clearly a great time for traveling for many of young residents. Gretchen Boxdorfer participated in a Humanities class at Nerinx Hall High School.
The course included three weeks of classroom work in June and then two weeks in Italy, France, and England in July.
The travelers visited Rome, Florence, Assisi, Paris, and London, allowing the girls to sample the local flavors and visit the monuments and historic places they had been studying and reporting on. Needless to say, it was enough to give Gretchen a taste for traveling and she looks forward to doing much more of that in the future. Gretchen is the oldest child of Matt and Rachel Boxdorfer (yes she belongs to me!) of the 6100 block of Kingsbury. Dylan Voss, the oldest child of Tim and Pattie Voss of the 6100 block of McPherson, is spending a semester abroad attending the Webster University campus in Geneva, Switzerland.
He left August 18th and is scheduled to return December 21. He’s majoring in Audio Production.
While studying abroad Dylan has been able to visit Paris, the Burgundy region in France, the town of Les Brenets, Switzerland, and the Chateau de Chillon in Switzerland.
The highlight so far according to Dylan has been hiking through the mountains around Les Brenets. And Dylan advises that anyone who has the opportunity to study abroad should definitely do it…sounds like very good advice!
In August, Molly Hart traveled to Rome, Italy to take part in a Brown University Summer PreCollege Global Program.
She was selected for participation through a competitive application process that focused on academic achievement, intellectual curiosity, and a readiness for participation in an independent academic and living environment. Upon arrival, Molly joined students from all of the United States (and several from abroad) moving into a boarding school in the beautiful Avantine Hill neighborhood located next door to the Circus Maximus and a short walk to the Colosseum and the Roman Forum.
She took three classes while there including conversational Italian. Molly is the youngest child of David Hart and Mary Zabriskie of the 6000 block of McPherson.
On June 17th, four of the McGroarty children traveled to Madrid Spain with Sean and Cristina McGroarty, of the 6100 block of McPherson, for the wedding of Arturo Benito. Arturo is the youngest of five siblings-four of whom have lived in St. Louis and attended at St. Roch. Pictured in the St. Roch t-shirts is Arturo Benito and his brother Javier. Arturo lived with the Genung family, of the 6300 block of Washington, and attended St. Roch in 1996-97. Javier lived with the Genungs and attended St. Roch in 1993-1994.
The Genungs also attended the wedding.
The McGroartys arrived in Spain the day before the Coronation of the new King of Spain and walked the parade route that afternoon. Spanish flags were everywhere, a truly amazing sight. Brendan and Joe McGroarty stayed in Spain while the rest of the family departed after a week.
The boys were there for three weeks with Javier and Arturo’s oldest sister, Currita Benito Lopez and her four children. Brendan went backpacking with in the mountains of Spain near Avila where he tent camped with a Jesuit youth group for a week.
While there he was with Claudio Olalla (who stayed with both the Gudiswitz and Voss families in summers past) Claudio was a counselor at Brendans camp.
After camping Brendan was in Madrid and the Benito family summer house in Avila for the rest of the time to work on his Spanish! Joe McGroarty was with Currita’s family as well and stayed in Avila.
While working on his Spanish he also worked on catching frogs and meeting the family rabbits.
He also went to the attraction Park in Madrid and rode horses (as did Brendan). Michael Noble of the 5700 block of McPherson reports that his son, Mike Jr, a photojournalist, is currently working on a six month internship for the Hawkeys Newspaper, in Burlington, Iowa, Mike Junior is pictured here at a University of Iowa football game. You can see some of Mike’s work on his blog at http://www.michaelnoblejr. com/blog/the-hawk-eye.
He is a very talented photographer, so please, make the time to take a look! Do you have news to share?
Please send your submissions via email with the subject line News of Neighbors to rachelb@sdtimes.org or drop off a note to the attention of Rachel Boxdorfer at the Skinker DeBaliviere office. Be sure to mark it “News of Neighbors.”
Original photograph caption
Gretchen Boxdorfer in Paris. Descriptive caption supplied.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, November–December 2014.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Archival transcription note: Printed Hawkeys Newspaper variant retained; exact employer spelling not silently supplied.
Original source: SD_Times2014_11.pdf, printed page(s) 3; PDF page(s) 3.
