CHRISTMAS IN RUSSIA FOR MCLEAN STUDENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300500009-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 16, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

Christm2es??3ftReRtwaa- ?'
By Jean 3loore
Globe Staff Writer
The crunch of the snow of
Moscow is what some
McLean High School seniors
will hear this Christmas.
Students of McLean's
senior Civilization course
are planning a two week trip
to Russia during Christmas
vacation. At least two
Russian cities, Moscow and
Leningrad-will be on the tour
schedule which will start
Dec. 19 and end with the
students return to
Washington on Jan. 4.
Organizer
The chief organizer of the
trip is Harry Maranian,
teacher of World Civilization
and a Vienna resident.
Helping him on the faculty,
level is Robert Graham, a
teacher of American
Civilization, who has been at
McLean for three years.
Maranian is in his eleventh
year of teaching at McLean.
Besides receiving en-
thusiastic support from his
students, Maranian has been
overwhelmed by parent
interest and cooperation.
Students and parents have
joined efforts to raise money
to finance , the trip, and
letters have already gone out
to civic oriented bodies and
individuals asking for
contributions ... no matter
how small.
Money-Minded
About 50 students expect to
go on the Russian trip and it.
STI TEMENT OF OWNERSHIP.
Christmas Day will be' a
day of leisure for the
Vienna Globe Thursday, October is, 1969 43
IT i-j wCan Students
students and they can visit
such places as Gorky Park
which has a number of
restaurants and an arena for
chess and checker games
and exhibitions of art and
machinery.
Leningrad
In Leningrad, Intourist
will show McLean students
such things as the Winter
Palace, Peter and Paul
Fortres, Decembrists
Square, and Hermitage
Gallery.
They will visit the
Leningrad Metro and the
Palace of Pioneers (for-
merly a palace of the Czar
Alexander), and Pushkin
Theatre.
New Year's Eve
New Year's
probably be spent in
Leningrad where Intourist
will arrange a student party
to welcome in the New Year.
The flight back to
Washington from Russia,
will no doubt be one filled
- - .Approved .For.
Release _2.004110/13 : C1A-RDP88-01315R000300500009-8
.will cost approximately $550
per student for the- ex-
cursion. Various money -
raising schemes have been
arranged by the students.
They have set up a candy
sale, car wash, bake sale,
folk festival, sock hop, used
book sale, and a greased -
pig contest. They have e..ven
been enterprising enough to
launch bank loans. The
enthusiasm knows no
bounds.
tour of Moscow, including
Red Square, St. Basil's
Cathedral, Spassky Tower,
Gorky Street, Central
Stadium, Bolshoi Theatre,
GUM Department Store,
new housing developments,
the Kremlin, Armory
Museum and Tretyakov
Gallery.
Meetings with students of
the Lam onbsor-University
and other Russian student
groups will be arranged. The
McLean students will stay in
hotels in the Russian cities
which they visit.
Intourist will also make
plans for a Christmas Eve
party for the McLean
students.
Naturally enough, the idea
for the trip came from the
subject material of the
seniors' Civilization course.
This particular course in the
Humanities is. broken down
into four ? areas: United
States, United Soviet
Socialist Republic, Red
China and Black Africa.
Each area studied is done
through analyzing the
particular society in such
things as dance, music, arts,
theater, philosophy, ar-
chitecture, etc.
Besides extensive use of
films and texts, original
source material from the
foreign countries is used.
Material actually printed in
Russia and China, translated
into English, is obtained
through outlets in New York
and San Francisco for
student used.
This is the first time that a
trip such as this has been
planned at McLean. It is an
ambitious endeavorand the
schedule tentatively planned
promises an exciting tour
studded with many visits to,
famous sites. Intourist, the
official Russian travel
organization, will arrange a
with conflicting desires to
remain in Russia. and see
more, and to get back home
and tell the family about the
experience and the attitudes
encountered, behind the iron
curtain.