Students Explore Diplomacy at the United Nations

Holy Family students taking an upper-level history course in American foreign policy traveled by train to the United Nationss in New York City for a tour on Friday, Oct. 25. The students who traveled to New York were Jelle Bing, Michael Birkhimer, Allison Gagne, Michael Rubino, Rianna Shields, and Dylan Weir. Dr. Mary Carroll Johansen, professor of history, and Prince Adnan El Hashemite, the executive director for Global Initiatives, arranged the trip.

Prince Adnan provided lunch for the students and gave them a tour of the sculptures on the grounds of the United Nations, including “Nonviolence,” and the “Ark of Return,” which is a monument to honor the persons who were victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Inside the United Nations, a professional tour guide brought the students into the rooms where the Security Council, General Assembly, and UN committees meet when the UN is in session, and they saw additional works of art and displays. All around them, students listened to people speaking in multiple languages and wearing the native dress and military uniforms of many nations.

As students travelled to and from Penn Station, they saw the Kuwaiti consulate, the Turkish embassy and the United States Mission to the UN, along with famous New York City landmarks including the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Grand Central Station, the New York Public Library, and the Pepsi sign along the Brooklyn waterfront.