Both are graduates of the Washburn District High School, members of the First Baptist Church of Perham, and are Students at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina.
Bob is a Junior majoring in business administration and Barry is a Senior majoring in the Bible.
On June 7 [1972] they left Presque Isle by plane for Australia, where they will serve under the United Aborigine Mission Board for two months. When they arrived in Melburne, Victoria they spent the first week serving as counselors at a youth retreat on the mountains. They left Melbourne by train for Adelaide, then continued to Kalgooelie in Western Australia. By car they went to Cosmo Newberry, a million acre cattle station, where they will undergo a week of orientation before traveling inland to the Warburton Range Mission Station in the Aboriginal Reserve.
At this station, known to be the most remote in the world, they will be working with the primitive tribes.
This trip was planned by the young men with the assistance of the Bob Jones University. A special offering was given by the Perham Church to help with their expenses. They are due home Aug. 14 before returning to college.