Word: volendam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netherlands government has replaced the S. S. Volendam, formerly an all-student liner, with the S. S. Grote Beer and the S. S. Zuiderkrus, which sail from New York on June 30 and July 5 and from Rotterdam, September 3 and 4. Cabin space sells for $360 per round trip, while the less squeamish can obtain dormitory banking for $200. Since the pleasantly tarnished reputation of the Volendam is universal, accommodations will be hard to find. An attempt can be made, however, by writing to the Netherlands Office for Foreign Students Relations, 48 West 48 St., New York...
...ship, the SS Svalbard, will arrive in Rotterdam on July 2 and return from Europe on August 313. The Svalbard, like the Volendam currently being used by the NSA and other organizations, is a former troopship, and accommodations will be austere. Recreation and orientation facilities will be provided on board the ship...
...help the 600 students going abroad on the S. S. Volendam make the most of their summer, the National Students Association has set up an elaborate orientation program for the ten day trip...
Sailings for the Study, Seminar, and Workcamp Tours are scheduled for June 26 on the S.S. Volendam, leaving from Quebec and bound for Rotterdam. The groups will be back in New York September 15. Some students will fly across the ocean in charter planes operated by regularly scheduled airlines...
...after 18 months in Canada, are too homesick to stay in foreign lands. But while the twelve Lamers children were coming home, the 14 Branderhorst children, and others like them, were leaving Holland. Said Simon Eygenraam, en route with his wife and four children to "New Holland" on the Volendam: "There must be opportunities for people like us die niet bang zijn voor hard werk [who are not afraid to work hard], and at least we won't be crowded out of a living. Sure, it's a big risk to go off like this, but it would...