INFORMATION MEETING SET FOR MARCH TRIP TO PARIS

An information session will be held Friday for persons interested in spending spring break in Paris, France, and western Europe.

The session will be from 3-4 p.m. in the Presidents' Room of the University Center.

Southeast Missouri State University history professors Charles Sharp and Frank Nickell will lead the 12-day educational trip. It will focus on World War II sites. Participants will fly to London and follow the route of the U.S. military across France to Germany.

The group will visit Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters in Portsmouth, take a ferry across the English Channel, walk along the Normandy beaches and spend three nights in Paris, touring the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Versailles, and other historic sites. From Paris, the tour will move to the Reims Cathedral where the German surrender came in May of 1945, and then visit Bastogne and Battle of the Bulge sites in the Ardennes Forest.

The tour will conclude with four nights in the city of Maastricht, in the Netherlands, with excursions to the American military cemeteries, Eben-Emael Fortress, the Roman Caves, Aachen, and Cologne in western Germany. The return home will be from Brussels, Belgium.

The dates of the trip are March 7-18. Total cost is less than $2,000 per person. This includes airfare, guides, double-occupancy lodging, two meals each day, ground transportation and program admission fees.

For further information, contact Nickell at (314) 651-2555 or Sharp at (314) 651-2713.